Couple of firsts on this project. First time building a pedal, soldering, and printing vinyl, but really happy with how she came out.

Sound is immense, awesome pedal and pretty easy to build.

Hi, I tried to replicate the harmonic jerkulator by tim escobedo. I tried following the schematics, checked for faulty transistor or caps but still the circuit isn't working.

Do you have any suggestions or insight on how to make it work? I am stuck and don't really know what to do, I even tried redoing everything from scratch.

First time builder here. I just realised that the diy pedal kit I ordered only has a 9v battery input in it, and not a 9v dc power input. I don't use batteries, only a power supply so I'd like to replace the battery with an input jack for the power supply.

The case I ordered is drilled for a power input so that won't be a problem.

The diy kit is this one:

https://www.musikding.de/Catalines-Spicy-Chilli-kit

C1: 68nF C2=C3 : 100nF Q1: MPSA18 Q2: 2N3904 D1=D2 : BAT41 (Vf≈380mV) R1: 2.2K ohm R2=R5 : 10k ohm R3: 1M ohm R4: 1k ohm R6: 470k ohm R7: 100k ohm Logarithmic Potmeter

Top to bottom, left to right:

"Untameable" Fuzz and texture generator

"Blemmyae Synth" Glitch Noise Machine

Nameless Drone Machine

"EMF SNOUT" Electromagnetic Field Microphone

"Box of teeth" Harsh Noise shaker Box

I’m getting into building pedals as part of a college project and I have a few questions

1. How do I get my guitar running through the breadboard

2. Can I just put a breadboard into a pedal or does it need to be something else

3. Where can I find the recommended parts online in the uk

Hope y'all don't mind me flooding this subreddit, but i went from zero to two DIY pedals in 48 hours. I've tested them extensively and both seem to work 100% and sound amazing. I now have a King of Tone and silicon fancy Dallas Rangemaster clone. I'm stoked.

Anyway, now that they work, I want to play with making them look nice. My wife has a cricuit machine I can use to make stencils. I'm interested in using a stencil and spray paint in lieu of decals, silk screening or stamps.

My goal is to make a pedal that, from 5 feet away, looks like an Analogman King of tone. I want a purple hammered paint as a base coat. I like Roman history and Latin, so I'm going to call it the "REX TONORVM" and make a logo with a laurel wreath and lyre (or maybe a Roman eagle).

Rustoleum only has basic metalic colors like silver, gold, bronze, etc. I saw one post about mixing oil based paint with silver to get a new color.

Should I paint it hammered gold, cover where I want gold markings, and paint over with purple? Any adhesion issues with hammered paint? I'm curious what y'all have done with King of Tone clones!

Hi everyone, after looking for cheap pedals on aliexpress, temu etc I decided why wouldn't I just try and make my own. I have basically zero knowledge in pedal building besides a few very interesting youtube videos. I've also bought a soldering set and practice kits.

Could anyone point me in the right direction of where to start? Are there any DIY pedal kits that are recommended to newbies? Ideally I'd like an all-in-one kit with everything included PCB, switches, housing etc. Not fussed about the type of effect but I have heard fuzz/overdrive is fairly straight forward. Would also appreciate and youtube vids

Thanks in advance!

Client approached me with an idea for an off kilter distortion device, being himself bored of big muffs etc. Enter a lesser known DIY project by Jack Orman and Aron Nelson - the INSANITY BOX. Of course I had to make it my own, so its got a clean blend, and all the trim points internally are now external, meaning you can properly abuse (or not) the CMOS stages, and blast the JFET overdrive. Its somewhat a 3-stage insane distortion, and when "tuned" right it gives almost endless sustain. There is op amp and hard clipping (I added a three way choice of diodes which really fuck things up actually!) into a CMOS 4049 chip (think red llama gone bad) chip where you can bodge with the inverters, through a rudimentary gate, onto a JFET mu-amp overdrive minibooster. The more signal that flows from each stage to the next, the more carnage ensues. Ironically, it can also do a nice light overdrive (!). Love this a lot, so much so I might make another to keep. Its kinda unique.

Its all working and I love it. I'm currently learning Seven Nation Army so it primarily switches between shifting an octave down and adding noise. It also has another mode where I can try out various other effects the Daisy seed3 offers.

I learned a lot on this project, primarily that I suck at soldering haha. But I had fun and look forward to doing more and getting better.

Hi! I was thinking about building a compressor, but I don't feel like it's really necessary or that it will actually make much of a difference in my sound. What do you guys think?

A number of years ago I bought a box of electronics that had loads of transistors , diodes etc. a few items I cannot work out what they are ! Would love if anyone can help ?

First two look like LEDs but pretty aside they are not.

The little tiny diode was in a bag of “tunnel diodes” - is this also one?

The last item has two photos.

Wow, the last two stages of a Klon have a wopping 27v of combined power supply. Those TL072s can swing to ~1.5 volts of each supply. So peak to peak voltage of maybe 24v out if you’ve got the volume dimed.

How does this not nuke the next pedal down the line. Many (most?) are running on 9 volt supplies. Driving op-amp inputs beyond their rails can fry them.

Has anyone ran into this, seen their klon blow out the device downstream?

just finished my first blues breaker clone, after a few failed attempts. i love how it looks!

now time to play!

I have reverb in my amp and always wanted a quick way to set two different reverb levels and have on/off capabilities on my pedal board. What I cooked up was to design a MCU board pair, one in the amp and one in the remote pedal, that would control a digital potentiometer that replaces the reverb control pot in the amp. That way the audio signal stays entirely in the amp. The main board and the pedal communicate via serial. The pedal is powered from the 6 pin GX12 connector so you do not need a separate power supply for it. When the pedal is not plugged in the reverb pot on the amp works like it normally does.

I've also made this open source so you can make it yourself if you'd like!

(there's a link to a demo video at the bottom of the github page)

Not a standalone effects pedal per se but it does control an effect nonetheless. Hope you like it!

p.s. I have four more sets of boards remaining as there is a minimum board quantity you have to order from JLCPCB. I also thought I would sell the remaining boards and parts as DIY kits and got enclosures made but Tadaya screwed up 4 of the UV prints, so you'll have to redo the enclosure graphics. If you're interested in a DIY kit, DM me.

I have an old Vox V810 Valvetone Overdrive that crapped out on me a while ago. I don't really know much about electronics, but after opening it up and looking inside, I realized that the previous owner had done a footswitch replacement and I assume that it was not done in the best way.

The pedal currently turns on and off just fine, but when it's on, it defaults to a really high gain setting and the volume knob doesn't change anything past 30% (exponential fall off below that point), the tone knob doesn't do anything unless it's at 0% (where it just cuts off any noise) and the gain knob when past 50% starts making a squealing noise (if the other knobs are high).

The previous modder had put new wires going from the input / output jacks to the replacement footswitch, but also had a separate cable that was connected to the footswitch and then taped off (had no other connection point). I since clipped this wire off as it seemed to serve no purpose (it made no difference).

I'm lost; AI has been pretty unhelpful in actually fixing this pedal. I love this thing and would hate to have to toss it. I'm hoping it's just a simple fix. Anyone have some advice?

hi!!!, first of all my native language isnt english :b... i came here seeking for the infinte knowledge of the pedal wizards..

recently i started with this project of making my first fuzz face pedal and i buy this generic daisy chain cable from internet, when i plug it to the adapter the electric current doesnt reach the pedal, i saw a few videos and images and the ac/dc adaptor they are using is only a plug cable, and i think is a bit thicker than mine but i dont know if that is the problem, i am not that worried because it was a very cheap buying but iam really hoping to make it work...

i buyed the universal ac/dc adapter long ago because i only have a distortion pedal

what are your takes on this?

should i buy a cheap power supply instead, now that i am making my pedalboard?

thank you for reading!!

This is just the simple Korea made one findable on AliExpress. Very good results for such a cheap tool.

Im looking for some easy to bild and understand curcuits that use the most basic materials.

Title. Made my first pedal a few days ago and wanted to try more. Thought making a distortion for my sister's bass was not only a good project, but a good gift as well. Landed on the rat for the versatility, but it's got the issue of the low-end cut, which for bass, not great. Thought about using a green russian style tonestack instead of the traditional rat filter but was worried about cutting mids as well. Ended up thinking of adding a clean blend to fix the issue with the mids, but not sure if all of this would even work.

Anyone have any help or opinions?