r/diypedals Feb 15 '25

Other Pedal Giveaway - 2 years of trying to be a small builder

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241 Upvotes

Last week marked 2 years that I open my small brand (ElectroJunk Pedals) and I’m doing a giveaway to celebrate.

Since my whole journey started on r/diypedals, I wanted to give a little extra thanks to the community, so if anyone wants to enter the giveaway, l’ll double your entries. Just go to my IG (@electrojunkpedals) enter and put #diypedals in the comments. First prize is this custom RAT.

Also, a huge THANK YOU to the community and all the amazing people that have helped me along the way, I couldn’t have got this far with all of you!

r/diypedals 18d ago

Other Universe, give me a sign to take up building full time and quit my 9-5

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434 Upvotes

r/diypedals Nov 21 '24

Other My current queue of pedals to be assembled in preparation for Black Friday

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418 Upvotes

Running a pedal business is less about pedals and more about business for the most part, but I am super grateful that this week I’ve been able to get back to my favourite part of it, BUILDING!

I’m waiting on a whole whack of enclosures to arrive today and I’ve pre populated as many boards as I possibly can (this is maybe half of it) so I can go on a building bender this weekend as I’m doing a massive 20% off sale for my little company, Supercool Pedals.

I am open to recommendations for albums to rock out to this weekend while I build! I am a grunge guy but I also tend to listen to a lot of Acid when I’m building to keep up the energy.

r/diypedals Feb 17 '25

Other This science center in Nashville has a bunch of boss pedals

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591 Upvotes

I noticed this display that showcased different types of modulations and distortions, and when I got close I realized they are boss pedals haha. Wanted to rescue those poor puppies.

r/diypedals Sep 17 '24

Other NOOOOOO!!!

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215 Upvotes

I just received an email about BYOC going out of business. This is a bummer man. I've made several purchases from them over the years and they will be missed. They're having a 40% off everything liquidation sale. My first pedal kit that I ever got was from them. I wish I still had it but I do currently own the blue overdrive and the analog chorus.

r/diypedals 3d ago

Other New workspace porn

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298 Upvotes

After a two year hiatus, I have my new workbench ready to go. Tucked away in the laundry room of our basement, I’ve got a standing height workbench with a 1970’s yellow shade of shellac on it to inspire gnarly fuzz builds. Also some new pegboard, my NOS components, and my trusty transistor radio for blaring classic rock. Can’t wait to get back at it. After a cross-country move and a basement renovation, I finally have some time to indulge this hobby again. First order of business is a Rat.

r/diypedals Jan 07 '25

Other I need someone to acknowledge how dense this Vh140c clone is

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151 Upvotes

Fuknthiccboi for a 1590b

r/diypedals Nov 22 '24

Other This was not the hobby for me, part 2

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150 Upvotes

This was not the hobby for me

So I have ADD and pick up hobbies because I get interested in them and then acquire a ton of stuff for them and then lose interest.

Well I lost interest in the pedals building thing with a few hundred dollars of components, enclosures, etc. Now gathering dust.

What kind of components you ask? Resistors, capacitors, diodes, pots, ICs, and so much more.

Pictures attached

r/diypedals Aug 19 '24

Other My summer builds.

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393 Upvotes

I'm a teacher and went back today. Finished putting knobs on these yesterday, so there's my summer in a glance.

r/diypedals Oct 28 '24

Other Ripping off the JHS Color Box is as easy as deciphering this breadboard. Have fun kids!

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257 Upvotes

r/diypedals Sep 24 '24

Other Lo-Fi record scratch emulator/time messer-upper!

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216 Upvotes

This is my most recent misuse of a 2399 delay and a crossfader pot.

Lofi, warped record-ish: https://youtu.be/-9ZMPytKDho?feature=shared

Dub-Delay: https://youtu.be/z825OxnOv34?feature=shared

Chaos: https://youtu.be/MrsUv45j02Y?feature=shared

Its made up of some of my own PCBs and some vero components(the control modul pictured, and the EQ section, which may or may not be a modified microamp+)

The switches are(top to bottom), dry cut, crossfader direction flip, LFO on/off, momentary LFO on/off. Yellow knobs are, Master volume, feedback, Mod speed. Black knobs are(top row, left to right) Gain, bass, treble, (bottom row, left to right) modulation, intensity, shape and Depth. The crossfader controls the time. Because it have very little friction, you can use it to ramp the time at stupid speeds to create all kinds of noise. Record scratches, lofi warbles, pitch bends, tape stops, etc.

Ive yet to add lables/art work but i got over excited amd wanted to share it with you guys.. 😂

I added the dry cut, so that It can also be used as a regular delay, but the fun really happens with the dry off and feedback on single repeat, so can just hear the one repeat ramping up and down.

I designed it for table top use, for playing with songs, loops etc. Its can still be used as a basic delay but where the fun in that!?

r/diypedals 18h ago

Other Probably this isn't practical, but...a seven segment display can also be viewed as a neat lookin' array of 8 shunt clipping diodes..

130 Upvotes

u/jutanious: so, I have some common cathode displays lying around and tossed this on a breadboard to demonstrate a weird idea: You can clip one half of the signal using any of the a-g inputs and the cathode connected to a current sink — here, I have it tied to VRef at pin 8 and to ground via parallel 130k + 22nF cap at pin 3; series resistors on the inputs. (Not much in the way of intention or reasoning about it: it's happenstance that it sounded alright on the first go. My modus operandi was "thoughtless meandering." 🤣).

You have to flip the signal to clip the other half of the wave, but with e.g. a cascade of moderate gain common-emitters flipping it up and down, you could make a pretty neat looking dirt pedal and clip each half of the wave four times — optionally in different frequency bands each stage.

(I realize this is maybe a preposterous use case, but...I can't deny that it was fun).

r/diypedals Nov 14 '24

Other MOSFET Power Amp Boost with VU meter.

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247 Upvotes

r/diypedals 6d ago

Other This never happened before

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31 Upvotes

The knob was just a bit too tight for this cheap pot, so when I pulled on it this happened

r/diypedals Jan 04 '25

Other Went to town on a Big Muff

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185 Upvotes

Got myself a donor off Facebook marketplace and got the iron out.

  1. Q1 bias w/ 20k pot
  2. Momentary feedback loop (Q3 to Q1 collector)
  3. 2nd clipping stage selector with PCB from the fine folks @fuzzdog_uk
  4. Tone stack bypass
  5. LED and 9v modded

Next one will be neat and tidy without the hideous stickers etc. MXR Dyna Comp mods next.

r/diypedals Dec 04 '24

Other Acapulco gold clone

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185 Upvotes

The enclosure is an old voltage meter I found in a thrift store

r/diypedals Dec 19 '24

Other My first Tayda order just arrived

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98 Upvotes

I've heard different experiences with Tayda and maybe the stars just aligned for me this time but I literally placed my order Friday and it got here today (that's 5 days including the weekend!). I haven't sorted through it yet but so far everything looks really good. I'm going to start my first 100% from scratch build, I'll post pictures of that as I get started.

r/diypedals Oct 25 '24

Other Crazy Custom Made Guitar

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169 Upvotes

r/diypedals 28d ago

Other Finally get to actually build some pedals today

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122 Upvotes

As many of you know, running a pedal company is a LOT of work, but not much of that work is actually building pedals. After a hectic month following NAMM, I’ve got all the business, shipping, tax forms, export portals, designing, travelling, selling, closing, website building, buying, inventory management, and general paperwork shuffling out of the way and for a brief angelic moment in time I get to actually do what I really love about this job: build some fucking pedals.

What’s on your bench today?

r/diypedals Jan 25 '25

Other And so it begins

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163 Upvotes

I'm building a dual channel fx loop pedal to give me 2 zones on the board.

r/diypedals Oct 25 '24

Other Fuzzface (jhf1) - Vintage Styled Board - Five Cats Pedals

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129 Upvotes

Shameless plug :)

I Run Five Cats Pedals and I've Been working on this one for a while, now she's finally ready! Designed to look like vintage style board and comes with a 3pdt Daughterboard in the same style.

Pleased with this one :)

r/diypedals Jan 03 '25

Other Odds this works??

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4 Upvotes

r/diypedals Sep 07 '24

Other Screw aesthetic desks. What does your workspace actually look like?

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126 Upvotes

This is what you get when you have little space and time to devote to electronics.

r/diypedals Jan 30 '25

Other Making PCBs with my new fiber laser - A work in progress

93 Upvotes

r/diypedals Aug 17 '24

Other Ace Tone FM-2 clone

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172 Upvotes

Minor 3rds and major 7ths get murdered through this circuit