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Here's how to add a pedal to your Strat to active overdrive with the stomp of your foot for under $20.
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Things you'll need to have:
1 x Rock Band Fender Stratocaster Guitar Controller (with it's warranty prepared for departure)
1 x Phillips screw driver. I'm sure Phillip won't mind.
1 x Wire cutters/Wire stripper
1 x Solder Gun with some solder
1 x strand of double wire, as in speaker wire, or really any decent small gauge wire you can find
1 x Hot glue gun with some glue sticks. (Some might consider this to be optional)
1 x Drill with drill bit. Or a Dremel. Or a round file. Or something else that will make a 1/4" hole in the side of your beloved axe.
1 x Patience. Yeeeeeeaaaah. Just a little patience.
Things you'll need to buy if you don't have.
1 x Radio Shack Part# 274-0252 1/4" Mono Phono Jack. Panel mount, open circuit. UPC# 040293131401 (is a two pack in case you need to do two guitars or manage to lose/melt the first one) This will set you back about $3.
1 x Best Buy Lo Duca Universal Sustain Pedal Model# 3781 UPC# 013148037814. Of course you don't HAVE to buy this pedal but for $12 I think it's a good deal. Especially sense it has a polarity switch that allows you to step activate or lift activate. Meaning you can stomp this thing or lift your foot off of it to activate the switch.
1 x Rock Band Fender Stratocaster Guitar Controller (with it's warranty prepared for departure)
1 x Phillips screw driver. I'm sure Phillip won't mind.
1 x Wire cutters/Wire stripper
1 x Solder Gun with some solder
1 x strand of double wire, as in speaker wire, or really any decent small gauge wire you can find
1 x Hot glue gun with some glue sticks. (Some might consider this to be optional)
1 x Drill with drill bit. Or a Dremel. Or a round file. Or something else that will make a 1/4" hole in the side of your beloved axe.
1 x Patience. Yeeeeeeaaaah. Just a little patience.
Things you'll need to buy if you don't have.
1 x Radio Shack Part# 274-0252 1/4" Mono Phono Jack. Panel mount, open circuit. UPC# 040293131401 (is a two pack in case you need to do two guitars or manage to lose/melt the first one) This will set you back about $3.
1 x Best Buy Lo Duca Universal Sustain Pedal Model# 3781 UPC# 013148037814. Of course you don't HAVE to buy this pedal but for $12 I think it's a good deal. Especially sense it has a polarity switch that allows you to step activate or lift activate. Meaning you can stomp this thing or lift your foot off of it to activate the switch.
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Nov 26, 2011. 12:33 AMFrozenIce
says:
wait, what do u do next??? AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IMM SOOO CONFUSSEEDD!!!
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May 7, 2009. 4:56 PMbobbyderf123
says:
thats really cool, but couldnt you technically just use a regular ps2 controller, put it in a box and and expose the select button?
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Jan 1, 2009. 8:44 AMMisterHay
says:
I've been thinking about a whammy pedal (like part of this or this), but I think you're right that adding an overdrive or star power stomp box to that would be fairly easy.
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Dec 29, 2008. 9:56 AMmoesboy
says:
this is awesome because the overdrive sensor on my controller broke im going to try this
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Nov 1, 2008. 11:06 PMsimon4145
says:
In Rock Band 2 you can just use the kick pedal for overdrive. Plug it into the little jack at the bottom of the guitar.
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