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Posted by Paul Doug on August 28, 2013 at 10:24am in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

I have a cigar box my son wants to use to rest his foot on while playing his guitar.  I wondering if I put a pizzo in it, will it work as a stomp box also?  I don't want to make a bigger project out of it, but have the parts to accomplish this much.  Will it work or is it a waste of time and effort?

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  • Donna August 31, 2013 at 12:44am

    That was the first thing I built.    I put the piezo on the underside of the lid.   I play bass and had a spare bass amp so I put it thru there.    I also had a Behringer Preamp booster pedal.  It was thunderous.   my only issue was the box liked to travel across the floor so I cut a piece of rubber shelf liner stuff to put between the box and the floor so it wouldnt move.  When I was playing a duo thing with a guitar player and me on bass, the stomp box really filled it out.    good luck!

  • t-belly johnson August 28, 2013 at 7:41pm

    You can also use an old speaker! Just fix it to the lid,sounder facing the lid and add a jack plug. Plug it into an old amp and you have a real bassy foot drum.

  • The Phrygian Kid August 28, 2013 at 6:07pm
    If you put a input (thru) jack as well and add a volume control on the buzzer you can plug your guitar up to it for when there's only one amp ;)

    I've done this on a few steels, so they cascade, effectively becoming a multi neck steel
    • jawbone > The Phrygian Kid August 28, 2013 at 6:35pm

      OK - I just want to get this right...cause this sounds like fun -
      Build the stomp box with an input jack, and that runs thru to the output jack then a volume control on the piezo as that runs thru to the output? I've been wanting to build one of these and figured I'd need an ABY thingy but this is better.

  • Bad Finger (Eric) August 28, 2013 at 5:22pm
    I haven't built one, but I was advised to use the largest diameter piezo for better bass output. I've heard others using a speaker wired as a mic instead of piezo also.

    Good luck and show us the result.
  • Ron "Oily" Sprague August 28, 2013 at 10:31am
    It'll work. You may want to reinforce the box if the top's not very thick. An old wooden crate works well for this, too.
    • Paul Doug > Ron "Oily" Sprague August 28, 2013 at 2:55pm

      Thanks for the reply.  Where is the best place to put the pizzo, inside bottom of the box or the underside of the top?

      • Ron "Oily" Sprague > Paul Doug August 28, 2013 at 2:59pm
        Underside of the top. Some people go crazy, and put piezos in several different places in the box...
        • Paul Doug > Ron "Oily" Sprague August 28, 2013 at 4:14pm

          Thank you, sir.

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