Okay so this is a stupid question. I’m new to building pedals and not an expert on the whole schematic thing. At some point I’m going to build a univibe (I know it’s ambitious, but I’ve got time on my hands). I’ll attach two images and can someone tell me if they’re the same thing? Do I need to buy them both, is one better than the other?

And alsoanywhere I can buy all the resistors etc for the pedal (I’m not bothered about the parts being from the right year and the right material, I want a...

Howdy. I'm designing a pedal. I'm curious what people around here think about a particular topic: Frequency Labeling.

Particularly, what frequency range (from x hz to z hz) would you personally consider to be
1. High Treble
2. Treble
3. Upper Mids
4. Lower Mids
5. Bass
6. Low Bass

Hello to you all,
I'm opening this thread to ask for a specific question...It's been a lot of time I started to wonder about the opamp stage involved in distortion capabilities of many, many popular guitar pedals...
Let me just say that I'm not a tech by any means, but I'm trying to figure out this object from a player point of view.
So....When you have a distortion stage with a non-inverting opamp at its heart, like in a Tube Screamer, for example;
Does the opamp itself clip when the gain...

Hey all,

I've been scouring the Web for this info, and even looked through several of the books linked in the library section, but I still can't find what I'm after.

What I'm after is something that takes simple circuits, preferably actually existing pedal circuits, and starts from the beginning, explaining where the current comes from, where it goes to, what happens to it at each and every component. Does this capacitor act as a high-pass filter? What's the point of this 10K resistor, and if...

is it safe to keep electronic parts in garage during winter ? or how cold can you keep them before they are ruined

Hi All,
This is my first post. My name is Jason and I am just joining in the greatness of pedal building. Thanks to Paul from DIY Guitar Pedals(.au), im building my first Fuzz pedal with some rad upgrades of (russian) Ge transistors and diodes, and so on.

Though all of it is pretty straight forward, (looking forward to her first words), and I do understand the basic functions of a capacitor, or a resistor, or even a diode (though limited), I do NOT understand the compounding effects these...

I have some extra 3pdt switches. Can anyone help me connect one to turn off/on my dying battery simulator?

I'm just getting into this stuff and want to make a big order. I suppose I could just make parts lists from a dozen pedals and then order lots of whichever resistors, caps, and transistors those use, but I was thinking maybe someone could point me toward a more comprehensive list.

I also planned to order from Tayda, since they seem to be about the cheapest I've seen. Is this a good idea, or does someone have a better suggestion for an order like this?

Thanks!

-Simon

FOTD882.JPG I'm a beginner who started a mod a while back. I made the mistake of trying to persuade a desoldered component out with pliers a little too much and I chipped the board around it. Do I need epoxy glue/pen or is this is a different kind of problem? I've included a picture so hopefully someone has seen this happen before. It's on the right side. Thanks!

Hello, this is my first post on the forums, and I've learned a lot so far just from reading all of the information posted here. I've done multiple projects involving soldering, but I'm rather inept when it comes to reading even slightly complex schematics, so I could use some help... I came across a schematic from a BYOC Reverb unit that I'd like to put on veroboard (I consider myself a beginner at schematic-veroboard transfer too, but let's save that for another time) that left me a bit...

Not sure this is the right section for this question so apologies if not.

My question is related to the preamp emulating pedals out there like the OLC Orange Peel or Runoffgroove Flipster. Can you boost a signal going into these types of pedals to get an overdriven sound the same way you would do with an amp?

Hi everyone.

I have decided to make a go at building effects and so I went with what seems like a good starter kit.

Finished up last night with mostly good results. Everything seems to be working great. No noise and maxed volume seems to offer quite the boost but with the gain dimed I cant get anywhere near the level of distortion in the sound clip linked above. Right now a maxed gain gives me a mildly broken up tube kind of sound. It actually sounds pretty nice but obviously not the level...

Hi guys

New to the forum, sorta new to guitar, and new to pedal building. I do have some electronics soldering experience as I did quite a bit if diy R/C airplane stuff but not with regard to more complex circuits. My question relates to this BOM for a build I am interspersed in:

PART COUNTS

RESISTORS

(3) 1M
(6) 100K
(3) 470K
(5) 47K
(3) 1.5K
(1) 22K
(4) 10K
(1) 4.7K
(3) 3.3K
(1) 330 OHM
(1) 220K
(1) 1K
(3) 150K
(1) 6.8K
(1) 18K
(1) 47 OHM

CAPACITORS

(1) 470PF
(2) 33NF
(9) 100NF
(1)...

can someone please tell me if this is the right pcb board im staring out and this is my first build. I know I probably should have started with something simple but i like the challenge. its for a paisley drive

Hey guys, not sure if I'm putting this in the right place, its my first thread so please bear with me.

So I have this crazy idea of trying to build a one knob hybrid booster/overdrive, with two transistors (one JFET, one germanium), for bass. I got the idea while looking at the vero for the AMZ Mini-Booster, cause I know it's fairly clean sounding normally, but I figure I can get a little bit of grit, warmth, and color from the incorporation of a germanium. The reason I'm thinking to have a 2...

I am going to build the 18V power boost with b169c. see attachment I have read that this circuit works best when the collectors are biased to 9V ( sound right??)
my question is which resistors would you tweak to bias the collector voltage for t2 and t3? (r6 and r 14) sorry its been a while since I too a electronics class

I've been playing guitar for a while and would love to start modifying effects pedals and eventually building my own. I know completely and absolutely nothing about electronics except for a vague idea of how to solder. Should I start out by playing around with an electronics learning kit (like this? ) before even thinking about building effects? :hmmm: Where should I begin with learning electronics and what's the next step? I've been building a collection of cheap Danelectro and Behringer...

hi all, i think i have problem with my jacks, i can build anything, and the sound its only ground, but voltages are ok, in everything i have made, i have build many pedals, so i dont doubt my soldering skills, but i have tried something that mayme doubt of my jacks, if i use a two jacks, and solder a lead in the tip of the jack and the join tip to tip, i cant get any sound, as far as i know it should work but i dont gat any sound, its that normal?? or my jacks are bad??

Hey all...

I didn't see a thread like this (searching for components was not a good idea... :lol: ), so I thought I would start one as I'm sure I'm not the only newbie here basically starting from scratch... Please forgive me if I'm duplicating threads.

As I mentioned in my introduction, I built a few pedals many years ago, but haven't really done anything major in quite some time.

Since I am jumping into this with both feet (as I tend to do with things like this), I though I'd ask for...

First time poster. Finally put together the Tonefiend Fiendmaster kit I've had laying around. I put in a socket for the transistor like Joe does in the build instructions, but I had a helluva time doing it! The leads seem too long to leave straight, nor do they make physical contact with the solder pad. On the other hand, they're almost too short to bend, which is what I did. It took a flathead screwdriver and nearly ripped off the solder pad in the process. Is there a trick to putting these...

Hi,

I soldered together a Big Muff clone based on the design and ready-to-build kit from Musikding.de .
It ain't working yet though...

What I was wondering: some of the film capacitors (aka the whitish boxy things) are marked with a dot, and the schematics also clearly mark a + side on the board.
By the power of deduction I conclude these things must have some kind of polarity. Looking at the current way I soldered this, I've probably screwed this up.

My questions:
- Am I correct in...

Hello,

well i have built a few effects, i started about 1 year ago building them. And I feel I am getting better soldering skills, better offboard wiring arrangement, better fit-in-enclosure layout, better overall quality circuit I guess...

But there's something I couldn't never, EVER, do properly. Enclosure painting and finish (labels and all that). i mean, my enclosures just SUCK!!
My modus operandi regarding this comes to clear decal paper, but then again it just sucks! i can't paint a...

Can anyone tell me how to go about testing an opamp to see if it is working or working properly? I'm attempting to see if an FTE986 I have is still good.

Thanks.