Anyone built a mid-cut pedal at all?

[victorludorum]

Hello all :-)

I see that Armstrong sell one, but I don't see any kits or circuits out there for a DIY build. Has anyone ever tried anything like this?

Cheers,
Gary.

[dlaroe]

Depending on what sound you are going for I've heard of a few options.
I haven't built any of these yet.

Paul Gilbert uses something similar to tame a cranked Marshall.

http://www.paulgilbert.com/DetoxEQ.html

http://www.homebrewelectronics.com/p...gilberts-detox

I wonder how close that HBE pedal is to Runoffgroove's Tonemender?

Maybe ROG's Mr. EQ would work too.

The simplest would be a Blackface style tone stack in a pedal, something like this. Likely need a gain stage to get it back to unity volume.
One of the projects I'll get around to eventually will be a pedal with a Fetzer Valve and a BF TMB tone stack, I'll call it the Fenderizer.

-Dale

[victorludorum]

Dale,

Thanks a lot! There's some great info there for me to chew over. I really appreciate it my man, thanks ;-)

Gary.

[limbe]

In Craig Andertons book,both the first and the second edition,there is a project called Super Tone Control ( "#17).I built it about 20 years ago.There are level controls for high pass,band pass and low pass.Also a Resonance control.(Q,how sharp the filter is.).If you want a midcut,turn the highpass and lowpass controls up and the bandpass control down.
Approximately what you would do with the Detox EQ.The IC is a 4136 low-noise op amp.The Super Tone Control is labeled beginner/intermediate.I had no trouble putting it together and it worked as it should.Highly recommendable IMO.
Here is a slightly modified version on veroboard.
http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.se/2...e-control.html

[limbe]

Here is the schematic for the STC:
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7...econtrozr1.gif
Here is a PCB layout from GGG.:
http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/diagrams/epfm17.gif

[victorludorum]

Lots of great info here chaps, thanks very much :-)

I've got a Baggs Para DI that I use for acoustic guitar, and this will probably work well for what I want, but I recently did my first pedal build (a Red Llama clone) and enjoyed it, and I want to take on another one.

Cheers again ;-)

Gary.

[TequilaCaster]

A Behringer Pickup Booster PB100 goes for $30-ish. It's a Baxandall tone stack (bass and treble), with some clean gain if you desire. By boosting the bass and treble, the mids get scooped. It is a worthy pedal.

[Mike Bruce]

Cool idea. I used to use an EQ pedal (usually a simple Boss one) for this. The guitar one was fine but I found the bass one had different and sometimes preferrable frequency centers.