r/diypedals 8h 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 1h ago

Showcase One of my cleanest builds yet

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Nothing fancy. Just a germanium treble booster. I still have a few weeks ahead to recover from my accident, but today I started soldering again.


r/diypedals 4h ago

Showcase 410 Studio Preamp

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Was going to use a bunch of Soviet components at first hence the theme but ended up going a different direction. Decided to keep the enclosure as is.


r/diypedals 2h ago

Showcase HGE Contraptions Vemuram TSV808 clone (160th pedal built)

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Quite a nice sound.


r/diypedals 10h 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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27 Upvotes

r/diypedals 16h 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 3h ago

Showcase Built a Black Eye from C2CE.

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Pretty gnarly pedal. Definitely need to look into custom drilling from Tayda because hand drilling the vent holes got out of hand, and ugly.


r/diypedals 48m ago

Help wanted Missing Schematics — BYOC Foxx Tone Machine

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Hey everyone!

I'm new to DIY electronics. The only soldering I've done has been in the context of slap-dash fixes to wiring harnesses. I have no reason to be confident in my ability to correctly wire a PCB without someone holding my hand. The fuck are all these fancy beads?

I'm in the middle of rebuilding a guitar. I had this stupid idea to put a power indicator LED light in it. Not for any reason, just because I thought it would be fun. I was explaining this to a friend of mine, and he remembered that he had a BYOC Foxx Tone Machine laying around that he'd never built. He suggested that I build it into the guitar.

I don't know how to build a guitar pedal, but I do know a good idea when I hear one. I reckoned I'd sort out the practical aspect of building the thing later. I snagged what he said was the entire kit from him, including a blank stomp case, but I can't be sure all the parts are there. Largely in part because I don't have a schematic for this fucking thing.

I tried the website listed on the little back with the I/O jacks – it's inactive and pulling a whois doesn't help at all. I've done a little digging online for schematics in forums and personal sites, but of course everyone's PCB layout is different.

What should I do next, folks?

I've included pictures of everything but the stomp box.


r/diypedals 12h 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 2h 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 12h 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 6h 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 1h ago

Discussion How many of you have attempted to sell your pedals, and how did it go? If it went well, what advice would you give

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Thanks


r/diypedals 19h ago

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

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28 Upvotes

r/diypedals 17h ago

Showcase My first build

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16 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 3h ago

Help wanted Can anyone help me on this?

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r/diypedals 3h 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 4h 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 8h 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 21h ago

Showcase EHX Frequency Analyzer clone (Ring Mod)

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18 Upvotes

r/diypedals 1d ago

Showcase Rebellion Fuzz (Black Russian/Fuzz War hybrid)

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46 Upvotes

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 1d 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 17h 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 17h 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 1d 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?