Ryan H Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 A friend of mine (the very talented Mike "Smitty" Smyth of MJS Custom Pickups) noticed I was building guitar effects pedals, and he had a DS-1 that he wasn't quite happy with. As documentation of various mods are available all over the internet, I thought I'd take a shot at it. In this case, I'll be giving it the "K" type mods (you can probably guess what that is). I'll also be converting it to True Bypass, as he's using this pedal mainly to demo his pickups, and he doesn't want any buffers altering the tone in bypass. Here's the board after most of the to-be replaced components have been removed. Still need to remove the FET switching components and such. Since I'm going for true hardwire bypass, a 3PDT is a requirement. Bent the lugs slightly to help them clear the components on the board. Will it fit? Success. Note the customized "headless" footswitch. (This isn't a "Compact" variant, it's a full-sized 3PDT switch with the cap removed) More updates to come... -Ryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I have a similar mod with 3-way switch on my DS-1 and RAT pedals, done by http://www.pedalmods.com/ who are in U.K. I can really recommend it - turned the DS-1 into a very GOOD useable pedal and the RAT sounds even better than it did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan H Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 And it's done. True-Bypassed and Keeley'd. Also a super bright 5mm LED in place of the generic 3mm red diffused one. Love the "Up" switch position (Ultra Mod). Very Marshally. -Ryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Very cool, I have to work on a couple of my pedals that are giving me trouble, my own fault due to sloppy soldering. I did fix a 42" plasma a friend gave me for free, I changed two capacitors and the thing is back up running...like I need another TV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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