Build your own multi-function stomp box / tambourine / cajon
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- If you are a musician, you might consider making your own stompbox. They are very easy to make with whatever tools and wood you can find. Assembling the electrical parts is a snap and they only cost a few dollars. I had fun jazzing up my version with tambourine cymbals and a snare, but just a simple box works great.
What you will need is a Piezo Transducer (an electronic pickup). There are various types available in many places such as Amazon.com.
You might want to look around for a bass pickup, which will give you a much deeper sound.
And you will need a 1/4" phone jack to hook the box to an amplifier.
For a little more info on my stomp box, watch this follow-up video on my Vlog channel:
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Excellent video. I work at an elementary school and I would love to surprise the music teacher with a few of these. Thanks again!!
It was so stupid...I really kept coming up with all sorts of complicated ways of dealing with the snare before that. I should never forget the value of duct tape.
Two thumbs up for duct tape, you can make a pretty decent wallet from it as well.
Steve, your last few projects have been great... A Wirligig, a Door Harp and a Stompbox... All 3 of those things i want to try out, excellent work man... keep inspiring!
very nice! your how to's are always so much more concise and simple than anything else out there. I like all the white stripes at the end too lol
I am trying! Thank you for the reply! You have inspired me to keep working in the shop while other things have not looked so good. I would like to see more instruments!!! Again, thanks
I have the skills to do the woodworking part but man you have the GIFT of gab and a fantastic camera presence. Something I will never have. Keep it up man Great!!!! Job.
Cool...yes, I've seen people play cajones using all three sides.
Brilliant video. Giving your information for free so everyone can learn. Top Man. Respect from the UK.
You just have to play with it. If the snare presses too tightly against the tapa, it won't do anything. If it's too loose, it won't make a nice snappy sound.
This is a fantastic video, how in the world has it received even a single downvote?! Thanks for this detailed walk-through, this is an excellent stomp box idea, and your work is beautiful--you're a genius! I can't wait to build one. Cheers!
the placement of the piezo(s) and even the type and amount of glue used have quite an inpact on the sound. it's worth experimenting a bit!
the face sounds different than the sides, and the corners from the middle. the elasticity of hot glue douple sided tapes absorbs more high frequencies, than CA or epoxy, and backing the piezo with a rubber foot or some plumbers putty increases the bassy thud - the heavier the backing, the thicker. happy tinkering!
Hats off for the overall work and for the White Stripes !
Forstner bit. You could use a spade bit, too.
I've watched just two of your videos and I think you're probably one of the best percussion woodworkers I've seen yet.
You're right! I didn't realize that redundancy!
wow, so cool. The tamborine add on was genius!
A plastic cover insted of wood might work. But break probably. I also found paintings work, whether it is the canvas or the stiff material covered with canvas. Anyway the lightest gear possible if you are busking, is desirable. Great upload thx!
This is a really great project. The bamboo panels look quite nice for this, too. As for the biscuits, it actually would have been a great idea to use them for corner joints, because with a mitre joint, you have a weak glue surface. Basically, they're very useful for 90 degree corners, shelves (like in a bookcase), face frames, mitered corners (even door frames and picture frames if they're wide enough), etc.
Thanks! I built a stomp box from an old cigar box, but yours is much more functional and has a better acoustic sound....mine really needs to be plugged in.
made me very happy when his son sang white stripes at the end
Hey Steve, thanx for all the great vids. Sometimes entertaining, sometimes annoying, but always informative.
Ah, another project I need to make for my musician wife. Great video Steve!
"And then the solution hit me" Ductape!!
Awesome man! Nice video and good humor.
"Suddenly the solution hit me" /oooooooooo/
You're just amazing man, keep wooding
Yer your son is an awesome singer
+joe finnigan yer your funny
I'd love to see a series of videos of you building an entire guitar.
Any wood bits will work with MDF.
Looks and sounds rad. I'll have to make on of these for my youngin when she's older.
i would have used bisquits just for those that were complaing about them. but then that's why you do vids and i don't. haha...another great vid. now i know what a stomp box is.
Loved the cement chunk clamp for the top.
Just one word: amazing!
dude, this video was amazing! wasn't expecting the end tho :D. very nice. I especially liked the transition to the guitar playing and the drill sound kinda overlapping, great job!
Great vid, I love weirdos who make stuff like stomp boxes and loud music. Keep it comin!
Hmmm... needs more cowbell...
I love that big concrete clamp! Eat your heart out Norm...
Yes, except the dowels.
nice music choice, the white stripes are awesome
Good edtiing. Inspirational. Hope your son is still playing.
Perfect for White Stripes songs as demonstrated at the end of the video 🤘
Great demo. I love the White Stripes!
Your son likes green day and Metallica. He's good in my book.
Woodworkers get excited with dovetails
THAT kid has his heart into it all really great but hes gotta work on his vocals being more stable singer but hes got heart for sure cheers buddy
If you want a quicker way to join two pieces of wood without a miter joint. Try using the Kreg jig with about three holes in the piece used in this project. For smaller projects, use two. It holds stronger than glue and takes about a couple of minutes.
You might try looking in the description.
Genius. Been looking for a cool design, this is one! Thanks.
Love it.. I would love to hear the difference if the pickup was placed on the thinner percussive surface rather than the solid walls of the box. ..
this is awesome, it sounds great!
... i need to make one of these.
That a boy Steve, back to your intuitive solutions. Really you are being under rated just being on You Tube. :-) BTW, I love to build boxes, this is a good one.
Brilliant video! Absolutely hilarious, great instructions and cool editing/camera work. I'm thinking to get a Cajon but this idea seems better since I want to play guitar at the same time. Thanks for the inspiration Steve.
your getting better and better at creating this videos nice editing nice tempo -thanks
Dang, that thing is cool!
xcellent job recording, including the close ups. thanks
you sir. are an artist and a great teacher. new subscriber here. thanks for these videos
Cool project, never even thought of making one and now I want it. Ha!
Great project, and a great jam! Thanks for the inspiration, on this Friday the 13th, going down to the workshop to tinker around... da da a da da dun da da a dun da a fa fa la la dun da da aaaa
Thanks Ken....I never thought of that.
you can also use the fixing discs that are used when placing insulated plasterboard only a buck or two at hardware store for about 50
Thx Steve.
I can use this when playing my Ukulele.
Greatings from Belgium/Europe
Excellent camera work (and subject matter too)...
I want to make note that using a Piezo pick-up directly can be fairly hot. i have done this using 2-3 different sized Piezo disks. In testing with several different boxes small wooden jewellery box, plastic DIY electronics hobby box, cookie tin. pick-up was to hot and caused feedback. plus piezo pick-ups don't have much bottom/low end. I found putting them through a bass guitar preamp gives them more bottom end.
how was your testing, did you improve the pickup in any way.
Well done Stevin! Always enjoy your vids, Thanks!
great work Steve
that kid is down with the white stripes and that's awesome
That's a really cool little stomp box, keep up the good work :)
Heck yeah White Stripes!!
@ Wayne Howard, any piezo should work, but don't try to just put a voice mic in there! It would be really bad sound. A piezo gets the vibrations of the wood much better as where a voice mic gets the vibrations of air. Good luck!
I love this guy!
Very nice video, Steve!
Very nice video Steve. A friend of mine at work was telling me about this and thought I'd check it out. I'll be building one of these myself and I guess visiting Radio Shack for the transducer. Yours sounds great!!
Nicely done. I want!
Maybe not go all the way through the wood with the dowels. This would leave the top of the tambourine wood free of unsightly dowels popping through. Great job as always Steve and Great entertainment Wyatt.
you're son is pretty good. he should start a youtbe channel too
Nice Box. To attach the pick up, I think it could be better to use epoxy. The hot glue is some kind of hard rubber and could add some attenuation.......maybe.
my friend had one of these but its an instrument in itself. you sit on it and 3 sides produce a different sound and one is the acoustic hole
Great video. The tape might fall off, especially if it gets hot. I always use velcro for that sort of thing
thats pretty gnarly!
U da man, and your son rocks! Thanks for sharing.
Very nice! FYI the metal parts on the tambourine are called Zills
YOU ARE CRAZY DUDE!
You probably have annotations turned off.
Great vid. Deff gonna consider making one of those.
you simply rock, man!
I think you have to do it from your Cafe Press account.
No, most electric guitar pickups rely on induction coils which generate current when the metal string vibrates back and forth over a magnet. You will definitely want to use a piezo-electric transducer which generates electric current when there is a change in pressure (like sound vibrations) against the pickup.
you're a genius dude!
Check out Doris express. It's a wood glue slightly stronger than tight bond, sets up twice as fast. Excellent for this kind of application.
+Dirk DIGGLER can You give a link for it please ?
I freakin' love ya'lls taste in music.
Really great video. It's given me a good few ideas.
Subscribed. Your video was fun, and informative! Thank you so very much for this great instructional!
Super explanation. Thanks!
Excellent.. I like this fella, Good humour !
And with the left over tamborine body you could make a cigarbox type banjo guitar?
Thankyou for sharing that Steve
It's blockboard. Certainly that's the name in the UK, may be different in US or elsewhere.
Great video!
Great box...
thats really cool man thanks!
Those transducers are used as speakers in greeting cards, small electronics, and various other things. I scavenge most of mine but you can find them cheep on eBay or Amazon
Great video
White Stripes--so raw (kind of like early Def Leppard)--nice. Is it legal to use a forstner bit in a handheld drill? Good job making your videos fun to watch.
A lot of guys will use a cigar box to make their own stomp box, but I far prefer the idea of making my own, as I can make it to my own specs for dimension and shape.