Cigar Box Stomp Box Wiring: How to Get Great Sound
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Every time I check how people find my site on the Internet I always check the most popular keywords.
And in most of the cases, the winner was this one: “wiring for cigar box guitar stomp box”.
Or something similar.
Funny, but looks like people are mostly interested in building the Cigar Box Stomp Box rather than cigar box guitars. 🙂
And after a small research, I’ve learned the following thing: mixed terminology.
Most of these visitors were actually looking for the EFFECTS stomp boxes.
And what I have on my site it’s FOOT DRUM stomp boxes!
Nevertheless, some of those visitors are REALLY looking for the DIY foot drum stomp boxes.
I have 2 items of this type:
- Piezo Stomp Box – my first Cigar Box Stomp Box ever.
- P-Bass Stomp Box – the stomp box equipped with the Precision Bass pickups.
And while the first one doesn’t have too much in terms of wiring the P-Bass one does.
I didn’t even do something special here.
As you can guess I’ve just found the wiring diagram for the p-Bass guitar on the Net.
For those of you who are not familiar with electronic diagrams I’ve got a very nice drawing at: buzzardsbass.com
Here you go:
The good thing about this drawing is that you just learn it carefully and solder the parts according to it.
You will need:
- capacitor – 0.047mF
- 2 potentiometers – 250Ko
- 1/4″ standard audio jack
- the wires to solder
That’s all that’s it.
As for the p-Bass pickups I’ve bought the pre-wired set on eBay for about 4$-5$.
Let me know if you have any questions about it.
And the best of luck!
For more details on the Cigar Box Stomp Box itself visit the P-Bass Stomp Box page itself.
