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Tonmann’s Paramix from GuitarPCB and no, I am not copying JeremyP! Actually I built it a while back but I was enjoying playing with it too much to stop and paint it. An amazing pedal in it’s most basic form but I just had to add the killswitch and the T-diddy Mod, even though I don’t really need them. I caught myself earlier thinking about building a mini version with mini toggles instead of footswitches...

Thanks are due to Tonmann, not only for designing this but also for his help troubleshooting it.

That's a great looking build! So much cleaner than mine.

Did you see the mods for the extra effects loop? Looks like you've got room still to put it in...

... or I could build another one. Or two...

Looks like a juicy pedal of cheese! Very nice!

Good point! Any excuse to build more is a good thing...

Dang! That's solid!

2 Paramix in the same day......, really need to get one now.....

Sweet. Love the shiny knobbage. I for one was so excited when I first found chrome tele style knobs, but for smooth shafts (with setscrews). Not easy to find, and not typically for less than $4 a pop!

Very good!! It's so rare to see a yellow pedal with three LED's these days......

Sweet looking ped. Like the layout of the knobs/switches and LED's.

It looks quite like processed cheese slices but it reminds me most of the colour they use for yellow "no parking" lines on the roads here. It's not subtle!



In fact these won't fit the smooth shafts, which caused a lot of frustration when I originally bought them.



Maybe I'll start a trend. It's vital that the LEDs are 3 different colours!

OOOHH man thats cool - each time I see someone post one of these it reminds me I need to have one!!

Great work!!!!

Thanks for all the kind comments.

I'm thinking that the second loop mod brings a load more possibilities for very little outlay/work. It allows 2 effects to be blended, rather than one effect with the clean. Hmmm...

Nice job, very partial to banana yellow myself.

Not exactly sure what these things do to be honest

That is one awesome decalwork Graham, I'm stunned!!

One mighty clean build of a mighty sweet pedal.

It allows you to blend a clean signal with whatever effect(s) you put in the loop. There are separate level controls for the clean and effected signals, which is more versatile than a one blend knob. The clean gain helps to adjust the overall balance. There as lots of possible uses - blend clean with overdrive, use as blend for for a modulation pedal without an effect level knob, delay with chorus in the loop...

The basic build is very useful but there are some handy extra mods:

The kill switch ("kill send") turns off the send to the loop but not the return, so you can bypass a delay in the loop without losing the tails.

The T-Diddy mod ("wet max") switches from the blend to the wet signal at 100%. With an OD in the loop you can swith between the full OD signal and the clean/OD mix.

The second loop, which mine doesn't have (yet) inserts an effect into the dry side, so that you are now blending 2 different effected signals. Now that I have my head around it I can see that this is actually more useful to me than the 2 footswitchable mods, which would be more useful for gigging. I can add it with a single switchable stereo jack and a splitter cable (or sell this one and build another, if anyone wants it ).

It may not be obvious but all of these mods are straightforward(ish) "wiring mods" rather than changes on the PCB.

Thanks Kunfuz. I originally thought that such a nice big box (it's a BBDD) would be great for a large graphic. Then I started adding all those text labels...



Thanks. It is indeed a sweet pedal - everyone should have one, it's so versatile.