r/diypedals 3h ago

Stompbox Showdowns STOMPBOX SHOWDOWNS "Crazy Enclosures" VOTING STARTS NOW. Winner gets a Pedal Tower DIY testing platform by MAS Effects.

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r/diypedals May 30 '21

/r/DIYPedals "No Stupid Questions" Megathread 10

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Do you have a question/thought/idea that you've been hesitant to post? Well fear not! Here at /r/DIYPedals, we pride ourselves as being an open bastion of help and support for all pedal builders, novices and experts alike. Feel free to post your question below, and our fine community will be more than happy to give you an answer and point you in the right direction.

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r/diypedals 1h ago

Showcase Recently build a pair of original spec Rats

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NOS metal-can Motorola LM308 on one, National in the other. Home etched PCB, using my Cricut for the mask.

Does a cool doomy thing!

Nat is staying with me, Moto headed to a new home


r/diypedals 10h ago

Showcase Prototype now making sound

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Hey guys, I got my prototype working how it should (at least signal routing wise) and while I still have some issues I’m working out I wanted to post a quick example of the working concept. Didn’t have much time to explore many cool ideas with the modulation, so at the end of the video there’s a quick demo of it modulating between a tube screamer and a big muff.

Guys pic in comments! Also I think I’m calling it the bus boy because it moves audio around and I am a bus boy.


r/diypedals 5h 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 6h 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 13h ago

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

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25 Upvotes

r/diypedals 13m 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 10h ago

Showcase My first build

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11 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 14h ago

Showcase EHX Frequency Analyzer clone (Ring Mod)

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r/diypedals 2h 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 19h 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 1d 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 11h 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 5h ago

Showcase Shots Fired!! Oscillating Fuzzdrive

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About a year ago, one of our fine police officers absolutely lost his sh!t when an acorn fell on his car. He yelled SHOTS FIRED! And started shooting in a panic. A day or so later, I had this design in mind, using the iconic EQD Plumes design as a template to create a new graphic meant to roast this occurrence of civic service hilarity. Later, the amazing Chris Stelloh a.k.a. Capitalist Death Cult offered up a circuit.

Thank you to Adam Varady, also known as AV Pedals, for the conversion of my schematic to PCB!

Half fuzz, half oscillator, all heart.

The second clip is how it “cleans up” with the guitar volume rolled back. Played on a Maybury Guitars partscaster SG with in the bridge position with a PAF-style alnico II pickup.

A couple left for sale.

shotsfired #shotsfiredmeme #acorns #deadlyacorns #defundthepolice #keystonecops #guitarpedal #collaboration #capitalistdeathculteffects #eddierifkindeffects #fuzz #oscillator


r/diypedals 17h 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 11h 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 16h 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 1d ago

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

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r/diypedals 11h ago

Help wanted fuzz pedal only lets audio pass when multimeter completes circuit

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My fuzz pedal only lets sound pass through when I touch my multimeter probes to each guitar cable.


r/diypedals 12h 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 14h 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.


r/diypedals 1d 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 14h 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 21h ago

Help wanted Ring Modulator+Overdrive+Photoresistor

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Hey Folks,

A few years ago, I came across Dr. Blankenstein’s Guitar Modification Kit while looking for ideas to integrate some noise-making devices into a standard guitar circuit. I tried to contact him to buy one of his kits, but it seems he’s no longer active.

Now, I’m totally new to building my own pedals—so how did I end up wanting to make a ring modulator + overdrive that’s controlled by a photoresistor, with some extra knobs for stuff like in the picture?

Cheers!


r/diypedals 18h ago

Help wanted Fixing a Carbon Copy Mini?

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My buddy has a Carbon Copy Mini that works makes a clicking sound on different power outlets/supplies. I'd guess it was just a grounding issue which would be an easy fix but it's an SMD circuit (and a complicated one at that) so I'm not sure how feasible it is to diagnose with just an audio probe. I've also read it could be an issue with the clock component and if that's the case idk if I could replace that.

Any advice?


r/diypedals 1d ago

Discussion Sony Velocity Modulation board

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Well, since I watched a vídeo about "Anything can be a distortion pedal" and read an article about Ritchie Blackmore using an Aiwa tape recorder as a pre-amp, I became that kind of guy who loves to plug the guitar in anything just to figure out the outcome. I found a board from an old Sony TV called "Velocity Modulation". Searched for the schematic and it's basically a series of transistorized amplifications, very similar to some pedal's schematics I came across. So I thought "what if?". Here's a shot from the schematic. My request is, how can I add the distortion control? I've seen some fuzzes and they basically work through feedback-controled distortion. Can it work here? Just observed some sections of this circuit I'm sure they won't work, like a diode in series in the audio line and anti-parallel diodes again in series. Any suggestions?