Anyone building there own guitar pedals?? I just finished a cool fuzz pedal last night using a basic perf board. It's tricky but if you take your time you can save yourself tons of money. I've modfied every pedal I own... I guess you can call me a gear head. Tone Tone Tone

If I wanted to make a pedal, where would I start? Should I buy one and tinker with it? Sounds expensive that way.

For starters I would get the book Electronic projects for musicians by Craig Anderton. Search Google or Amazon. There's lots of projects for you to work on in the book. You can go to Radio Shack and get most of the parts or Small Bear Electronics, Mouser.com,Digikey.com has the hard to find stuff. What kind of pedal would you be interested in building???

LOL, I don't know. I'm new to pedals too. I heard a sound that I think was a guitar, but I don't know. It sounded like a frog croaking. It reminded me of a wah........In other words, I'm completely clueless.

How much does it cost to make a pedal usually?

It depends on what your building. What gets you is the case,knobs,switches etc.. The resistors,caps,perfboard etc are pretty cheap. I've built a few pedals using floppy disk cases and some old radio knobs :giggly: They looked like crap but sounded better then just about all my pedals. I like building fuzz and distortion pedals. Sometimes though it's cheaper just to buy a Boss,Danelectro pedal then modify to your liking. I would say to build a basic distortion pedal it would run you anywhere from $25 to $75 depending on what your building.

pedals anyone...

brian...how did you do it (what materials...i was wanting to make one

Brian!
Wanna build me a cheap Rat copy but with extra balls to it?

It's not that hard but first have you built any pedal before??
How's your soldering skills? Do you plan on using a perf board or make your own board?

[Edited on 8/4/2005 by brian]

Here's a diagram of the Rat I found with a quick google search

All credits go to RG Keen!

http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/diagrams/ratc.gif


There's lots of projects and they even sell boards!

i have no clues what that is so thx anyways

[Edited on 8/4/2005 by birdman506]

brian i'm not that old there i just want a simple way to be able to make one (could you give me like a step by step so that i can make a distortion pedalk plz) plz and thank you

That's wild man. I never even thought of buildind a new pedal before. Jury-rigging one into a guitar body yes but never one from scratch. Building a guitar is one thing but a pedal? Thanx for the idea man.

Cool
Cheers dude

I am new to building pedals, but i would like to learn how to. i am wondering what all i need to start out.

Anyone build any pedals????

I keep meaning to have a go, but there's always something more important to do.
There are lots of websites about building pedals, just do a quick search on Google

More important like eating,sleeping
here's the top links on the net

http://www.theguitarfiles.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=s howpage&pid=26

I'm getting ready to buy a new soldering iron and the parts I need to build a basic fuzz pedal. Hope you guys can help if I run into troubles. I like the Hosa foot switches I will drill some extra holes to make it work. Give it a go

ok so i have a basic knowledge of elctronics and i would really like to build a pedal as a personal project, where can i find some step by step instructions on how to go about doing this?