Audio geeks, guitar pedal modders?

[patrickjdempsey]

Probably about as "low tech" as it gets, but do any of you guys play around with modding guitar pedals?

I'm working on a few projects right now for the summer... to get away from the computer a bit... music is a sort-of social activity right?

Anyway, one of the things I've been thinking about for quite some time is being able to "play" my pedals and effects boards as an electronic instrument separate from using them on my guitar and bass. So I've been thinking about finding an old 9V AM radio and putting a power tap on it and turning it into a white-noise generator. This would be cool because I could also use that as a way to test my pedals as I mod them. I have an old Heathkit sine/square generator but pure tones I think may be a bit boring... unless I could mod the Heathkit and turn it into some kind of noise monster?

[Grumpus]

Even though it uses a physical interrupt method, what about a Theramin?
Might even come up with a new way to jam Amazon's drone signals.

[malliz]

Used to be a fair few mods on Hackaday
http://hackaday.com/?s=guitar+pedal