Hello everyone,
I recently got the idea of making an effects pedal, since I play guitar.
The idea I had in mind was simple on paper: get two ,ain PCB's, with a couple of coplanar 180° PCB connectors on either side. On the first board I would have my input jack, the Arduino (preferably a Nano) and three potentiometers to control the different parameters. Then, if I have, say, a Distortion PCB with on either side a connector, I could just plug it in to the different connectors. On the last board I'd have the signal mixing, maybe a display and a 4-way switch to select the effect I want to use.
Here is a rough sketch I made in Paint.
The problems I currently run into are the following:
- How do I make sure that the three or four values of my potentiometers get "distributed" to the four different effects?
- How can I save different values for different effects?
- What kind of connector should I use? I would like it to be a straight connector, but I also want a connector that is sturdy enough that my connections don't get loose when I shake my pedal
If anyone has any ideas or remarks, please let me know!
Thanks in advance,
WalrusGumboot