DIY FootController: Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro Plus

Step 3 Make your panel

Making your own panel is easy. Use the same width as on the Fender panels together. In my case since I am mounting my two pedals together, I choosed to make my panel in one piece. This will help making the unit as a whole a bit sturdier. Notice that I only made seven holes in my panel in contrary to the two Fender pedals (which were fourway switches each = eight holes). The Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro Plus footcontroller got the same amount of switches, and this unit is aimed to be (functionally) a copy of the original. I had to shift the position of the holes a bit to make the holes become even and goodlooking in respect of each other. Some simple maths could be good here to calculate the new positions. When done, you mount your switches on the panel.

Next it is time to make your... ehrm... (nonprinted) PCB. I use a sloppy piece of wood which is great because it will not give you any electrical shortcut by itself. My wiring is made of non-insulated copperwire which wired around nails of copper. Every wiring around each nail is also soldered.
The basics around this simple circuit for this pedal is read from a site called loopers-delight.com. For your convenience, I qoute them here:

"The circuit for a switch connected to the Footpedal jack is very simple. It is just a resistor and a momentary switch connected in series between the tip and sleeve of the jack. Pressing the switch connects the tip and sleeve together through the resistor. The resistor values determine the function that the Echoplex executes. These switches can be in parallel, although if you press several at once you will get unpredictable results."

Since these values are not exact I just took the closest one from the resistor E-series. Can´t remember if it were E12 or E24 though. The table of the expected values is provided here aswell, so you can go figure it out.