Watch: Someone has built four effects pedals into an original Sony PlayStation 1

By Rob Laing
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And why not! Especially when the four are a Tube Screamer TS808, ProCo RAT, Deep Blue Delay and EHX LPB-1

We love a good pedal mod, and the original Playstation gets us misty-eyed with late 90s nostalgia, so the latest project by Thiago Ferri, aka tethinhas on Instagram (opens in new tab), has made us very happy indeed, He's gone and built four effects pedals into an original PlayStation chassis and called it the Pedalstation 1.

#PedalStation 🇺🇸: And it is finally ready! This is a project that I have been thinking about for over 4 years, but only now it has been materialized 👽 Another one for the video game pedals team, along with the GameBoy pedal and the Nintendo 64 pedal (that you can check here in the photos). As I really like video games and building pedals, I had the idea of mounting an “analog multi-effect” inside the shell of a PlayStation Fat, containing the main effects that I use when I'm going to rehearse. I thought about the combination of a drive, a distortion, a booster and a delay; the choices were: - Ibanez TubeScreamer 808 with clipping mod, offering 3 distinct tones (silicon / bypass / red LEDs); - ProCo RAT also with clipping mod (silicon / bypass / red LEDs); - Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay; - Electro Harmonix LPB-1. I spent the weekend testing and it was exactly as I expected. The combination TS + RAT is incredible and you can take a huge range of tones with these two, ranging from light saturation to high gain. Deep Blue is a clean and direct to the point delay that opens the door to creativity. I modded it to increase the maximum volume of repetitions. The LPB-1 worked very well with the TS and the RAT and is great for giving that highlight at the time of solos. PedalStation 1 is TrueBypass and features an internal 9V source + a P4 output to power other pedals. I also placed a metal handle on the back of the housing for easy transportation. Everything 100% handmade… the internal modification of the housing, the drilling, the making of the circuits of the pedals and the wiring of the project. Anyway, I was very happy with the result and took several pictures of the construction. Check it out! Hope you like it ☺️ So, what you think? MORE PICTURES: LINK IS IN THE BIO _____________________________________________________________________________________________ #Handmade #Handwired #HandCrafted #Pedalboard #Pedalporn #Guitar #Music #guitargear #GAS #DIY #guitarporn #pedal #pedalboardmadness #mammothelectronics #boutiquepedals #knowyourtone #gearwire #gearnerds #geartalk #effectsdatabase #thefuzzpage #sony #playstation #ps1 #overdrive #knowyourtone #distortion Thiago Ferri 🍄🤖 (opens in new tab)

A photo posted by @tethinhas on Jan 28, 2020 at 8:49am PST

The Pedalstation 1 is packing some great choices too with an Ibanez Tube Screamer TS808, a ProCo RAT, the Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay and an Electro-Harmonix LPB-1.

“The combination TS + RAT is incredible and you can take a huge range of tones with these two," says Ferri, "ranging from light saturation to high gain. Deep Blue is a clean and direct to-the-point delay that opens the door to creativity.

“I modded it to increase the maximum volume of repetitions. The LPB-1 worked very well with the TS and the RAT and is great for giving that highlight at the time of solos.”

(Image credit: Ferri / Facebook)

The Pedalstation is true bypass and features its own internal 9-Volt source with a P4 output that means it can power other pedals in a chain. 

To follow Thiago Ferri's future projects head to his Instagram (opens in new tab)

(Image credit: Ferri / Facebook)
Rob Laing
Rob Laing
Guitars Editor, MusicRadar

I'm the Guitars Editor for MusicRadar, handling news, reviews, features, tuition, advice for the strings side of the site and everything in between. Before MusicRadar I worked on guitar magazines for 15 years, including Editor of Total Guitar. I've currently set aside any pipe dreams of getting anywhere with my own songs and I am enjoying playing covers in function bands.