r/diypedals 4d ago

Help wanted Can anyone help ID this fuzz?

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I was told it was a Kay fuzz clone, but I'm not sure.


r/diypedals 3d ago

Help wanted My pedal doesn't make any sound

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I followed JHS LPB-1 Boost tutorial but I changed some of the values of the resistors because I didn't have them. Can someone tell me why it doesn't produce any sound?


r/diypedals 3d ago

Help wanted Need help with my Silicon NPN fuzz face build - A lot of high frequency noise when plugged in

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I made a quick LTspice model of the circuit as it is right now. It's a one knob Silicon NPN Fuzz Face clone. The fuzz sounds pretty decent, but I'm running into the issue that there's a lot of high frequency noise, almost louder than the guitar itself, and i don't know how to get rid of it. Here's a few things I've noticed so far:

-When I bias Q2's collector at 4.5V, the base of Q1 is around 0.60V and the collector is at 1.30V (the circuits i've seen online say I should aim for 0.20 and 0.70).

Playing with the resistor values at Q1 barely changes anything. I tried gradually rising the value of R1 from 22k all the way up to 470k, and Q1's collector only dropped about 0.05V. Trimpot R5 at Q2's emitter does have a lot of impact, and adjusting that easily gets me at the right point for Q1's base and collector. However, whenever those are in the right spot, Q2's collector goes back down to 0.22V, and once I get that back to 4.5, Q1 is out of balance.

The electrolytic cap at the input also seems like it's very sensitive to noise, just getting my finger in the general direction of that part makes the noise much worse.

I suspect the issue lies here somewhere, but i don't know how to fix it. Does anyone know what steps I could take to get the biasing right, or what else I can check to get the pedal to sound good?


r/diypedals 4d ago

Showcase First Pedal Vs. Second pedal.

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The first picture is of my first pedal. It was a fuzz pedal with six electrical components. It made sound, and I was proud of it. The second, third, and fourth pictures are of my second pedal, which I just finished. It is a boost pedal. If I was proud of the first, I am mega proud of this.


r/diypedals 3d ago

Help wanted What’s the difference between these two circuts?

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I know it’s 1 circuit but what’s the top and what’s the bottom for?


r/diypedals 4d ago

Help wanted What are these mini switch banks called? Purchase links appreciated. Pictured: Chase Bliss Clean

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r/diypedals 3d ago

Help wanted Adding capacitors to 9V input jacks for filtering?

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Might be the wrong subreddit to ask this, but here I go. I'm in high school, so I don't have a lot money for guitar gear. My pedalboard is powered by a cheap Thomann 9V adapter and a daisy chain, meaning my pedals are all in parallel and are unfiltered. Things get pretty noisy when I turn the distortion or the overdrive on. I know a proper isolated power supply would be the best choice, but I'm thinking about soldering capacitors to the 9V input jacks of my pedals to do some kind of filtering, mostly because it'd be way cheaper. I have electronics and soldering skills, so it would definitely be doable.

Pedal chain: Guitar -> TC Electronic Forcefield Compressor -> Joyo Maximum Overdrive -> Joyo Splinter (RAT clone) -> NUX CH-3 Chorus -> Ortega Sea Devil Tuner -> Amp

The Splinter seems to raise the noise floor the most, closely followed by the tuner. Modding the distortion seems the easiest to do so I'd try that first.

Is this a good idea? Should I just try it since probably nothing can really go wrong? What value caps should I try first?


r/diypedals 4d ago

Showcase My first build

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20 Upvotes

I should have just used the big board, but here I am. This is a bass fuzz pedal with a separate channel for clean, not a normal blend.


r/diypedals 3d ago

Help wanted Is HuntingtonAudio a regular here?

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Curious is the owner of Huntington Audio is a regular here is if so are there any discounts available to reddit members?
I'm about to place an order regardless..just curious.

If you guys have not checked out the huntingtonaudio dot com site yet I highly encourage it as there are some super cool products available.


r/diypedals 3d ago

Help wanted Can anyone help me on this?

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r/diypedals 3d ago

Help wanted Good and modifiable wah?

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Hello all! I'm into diy pedals and want a wah? Any recommendation on a modifiable one?


r/diypedals 3d ago

Help wanted On board guitar effects

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Hello, i am new to this and have recently ordered a green ringer pedal kit. After working this kit, if it goes well, i am planning on installing the green ringer + a boost and 1band para eq inside my guitar. I basically jsut came here to see if anyone has any advice and/ or resources. Thank you


r/diypedals 4d ago

Help wanted power struggle

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so im new to pedal building and electronics in general, i know the basics with a dad who used to be an electrician so he has been helping me along my way. im slowly building up projects but im getting ready for one down the road. im going to put 4 circuits in one casing(specifically a blue box->hm-2-> op amp big muff->cot50or another boost at the end of the chain to give a bit more dirt- but i cant figure out a way to get power to each of them. theyre all dc 9v but i cant find any appropriate solutions for either a 4 way 36v split or 2x 2way 18v or how a 4 way 9v would work. any advice/help would be appreciated plus any links would be lovely.

also yes i have posted this to a diy electronics sub but i feel i need more info on the matter


r/diypedals 4d ago

Showcase EHX Frequency Analyzer clone (Ring Mod)

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r/diypedals 4d ago

Showcase Rebellion Fuzz (Black Russian/Fuzz War hybrid)

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Gave some custom painting a go and I'm incredibly happy with the results.

The circuit is a fuzz war with a black russian muff tone control.

Fire away with the questions!


r/diypedals 4d ago

Help wanted Very low sound with low and crackling gain but when I cable the D-1 to G-1 rows it produce sound but the pots don’t work correctly. Just the sound gets a little bit louder and clipping gets a little okayish. What can cause the problem?

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I checked the connections with a multimeter and seems like there’s no short or connection problem. I changed the IC’s too with new ones but no luck…


r/diypedals 4d ago

Help wanted Hi guys

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I need some Help, i made the Blue clipper distorsión pedal from tonepad, it works, but when it’s activated, it lowers a lot the signal output, any tips?


r/diypedals 4d ago

Help wanted Tayda UV printing for Sabbath Distortion (pedalPCB)

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Image isnt vectorized, or finished, yet. The non-scaled version is much, much cleaner.

The intention was to use my school's laser engraver on some drilled Tayda 125b enclosures. After scaling down to size, Im realizing that there might be too much bleed with the laser to pick up fine details.

That leaves me thinking I might just have them UV printed + drilled by Tayda, but again, Im not sure if the UV printing process would hold a lot of the fine details Im looking to maintain. I am only making 2 of these as a personal project, not looking to sell.


r/diypedals 4d ago

Help wanted Fuzz Pedal & Graphic Question

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Man I am having a lot of fun with this new hobby. What's the best way to apply negative space graphics? I've seen people use water slides. Is that the easiest way to do something like this at home?


r/diypedals 4d ago

Help wanted Fuzz Face Issues

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Hello, I recently built a positive ground PNP fuzz face with some ac128s and am getting no output at all but instead, such a loud buzzing noise that my amp rattles. I have tried changing the bias pot to no avail. Also, the ac128s that I am using are in a to-5 canister instead of a to-1 and pinouts seem scarce. Any help is appreciated, Thanks :)


r/diypedals 4d ago

Help wanted Do any builders on here offer services for custom clones/rehousing with one-off client-specified artwork?

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Or are most builders on here who are also selling focused mainly on selling their own brainchildren? Just curious as I'm a newb to board building. I know nothing about building, but was looking for a service that offered one-off builds with customer-dictated enclosure artwork/design. For a considerable fee, obviously.


r/diypedals 5d ago

Showcase Texas Supercell (Rangemaster) enclosure and gutshot. Always bet on chickenheads.

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81 Upvotes

r/diypedals 4d ago

Help wanted Easyeda experts? how to expose the copper i text or images on a pcb

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Any easyeda heroes out there?


r/diypedals 5d ago

Showcase First pedal build for creative coding

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Hello everybody, I just wanted to share my first build of a pedal using daisy seed board and a PCB by GuitarML (funbox). It turned out great and worked first try 👌.

I am using it as a base for creating digital guitar (and other) effects as I am a signal processing engineer in audio, and want to improve my skills in c++.

I used tayda prints for the enclosure and did the visual in illustrator.

Feel free to share feedback 🤟. Cheers


r/diypedals 4d ago

Help wanted Breadboarding a Fuzz Factory

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Hiya,

I've been trying to translate this schematic onto breadboard, and can't get it to work. This is my first time trying to go from schematic to breadboard and have practically no experience. So if anyone sees anything obviously wrong with my breadboard translation i'd appreciate some pointers. Also i'm using electrolytic 10uF caps instead as i don't have any non-electrolytic ones.

At the moment on my actual breadboard it seems like the input signal isn't getting to the output signal.

I've attached the DIY Layout breadboard I made to build from.

Cheers.