Easiest Guitar Pedal Build Tutorial (7-Minute Fuzz Pedal)

The celebratory pedal test lick brought a big smile to my face

STICKY TACKY STUFF FOR THE WINNN!! GREAT TIP!

Does it matter what posts you solder the wires to, on the mono ts jacks?

Nobody like a big oversized hole especially if it's got rough edges!

Cool, thanks! How would a novice pedal builder go about adding a potentiometer that controls gating??

It sounds ok for such a simple circuit. I recently soldered together a cheap chinese 2 tube pre amp board and it was really easy. I tried to space out some of the resistors and capacitors by putting them on either side of the board in a way as to try to minimize the chance of the components overheating - so it didn't look so neatly arranged but it was for that reason of not wanting it to overheat.

The footswitch hole looked a bit too big.
However a bit of ptfe tape would get any of those components fitting snuggly.

Very Sonic Youthy :)

Hey Aaron, thanks for the very detailed review! Do these kits ship to the USA? Thanks dude!

How does this sound with a bass guitar?

Is þis a clone of a certain vintage pedal?

This was an amazing video

Thankd for video!!!Can anybody more experienced recommend any quality and affordable soldering iron station or kit to buy in UK?I'm just a hobbyist and want to start learning this craft...also need to fix few faders and buttons on my synths...thanks

i make simple circuits but this is my first video really explaining guitar pedals, im curious, what about the circuit makes the guitar get a fuzz effect? how does it give it that effect? isnt it just a simple circuit with nothing happening exactly? or am i having the wrong idea?

1). Where can I find a kit? 2). Can I repair and/or upgrade one of my inoperable old pedals?

this video makes me want to start building my own pedals instead of buying them…thank you sir😫

You lost me at the blue LED. Lol can’t stand blue LEDs

thank you

pay say bee :)

i wonder if you can build a pedal that separates the bass, mid, and treble of your signals and applies different distortions for each. could make an interesting sound.

Isn't it better to connect the battery last, negative then positive? My understanding of electrical engineering says that would make sense... Otherwise very helpful 👍💚

this is the first and so far only video that has helped me to understand not only the guts of guitar pedals, but also soldering and circuitry and all the various components in general. thank you!!!

I subscribing the crap out if this channel. Omfg!

Is this a digital kit? Or analog?

I don't know anything about electronics lol

is that pcb one or two layered?

The most reason why I subscribe your channel is because your crystal clear explanation and working process. Keep up man 👍👍👍

Very good. Extra points for the absence of such verbage as 'uh' and 'um', like one suffers with on other well known DIY You Tube videos.

Hey Aaron, Thanks for this guide it's extremely helpful for beginners. I've just put this kit together myself but it only works if my guitars volume knob is at 10.. like you can hear the effect cut in and out as you change the guitar volume between 9 and 10, any ideas where I've gone wrong?

Good video, except for one thing: you aren't crimping the leads on your components before you're inserting them/soldering them to the pcb. There are soldering standard practices, and this is one of them. The extra small bend in the metal leads that come out of the components on the top side of the pcb allow for expansion and contraction when changing temperatures pass through the components. Without these bends (like your components in this video), repeated heating and cooling of the components will create internal stress, leading to eventual failure of the component.

Your instruction should be amended to include this, otherwise you are advising people to solder things in so tight, the components or even the rings of copper on the pcb may pull themselves apart and cause circuit failure.

Is there a difference between pedals meant for standard electric guitars and bass guitars?

This had a lots of help because I will Start to built pedals!

how do i build the pcb?

"I'm using two mono [audio] jacks for this pedal because I won't be using the battery"

What does that even mean ?

Stepping drill bits make more sense for safety reasons. A standard drill bit can easily catch the aluminum and throw the pedal around.

are you using any other pedal/s /effects during the sound tests or just this fuzz pedal you made?

Thanks for that tutorial.
Do you consider making a tutorial about how to build one from scratch, without a kit?
Would be very much appreciated.

Anyways keep up your good work!

Nice one... since I'm just about to finish my first pedal build, I was a bit confused with footswitch wiring diagram, eg. why does ground get connected to pcb IN when in off mode, but that's probably to stop the circuit from idle working in amplifying random noise, which is kind of useful, and I'm going to do the same wiring.

is the pcb specifically for fuzz? or we can use ordinary pcb to produce fuzz effect? thank you!

Hi! Great video, i really needed it to build a fuzz pedal myself :) sorry, what's the last hole on the top for, the one with the mini dc jack? I saw a wire connected to it in your video but i couldn't understand its function. Also, no more 9v battery at the end, It was just for testing the effect? Thank you so much!!

This is very rad. Thank you for just dropping all this information out here!

Video was helpfull but still i have some question - how to power this (i mean what power supply it needs)

What if I want to put a picture on the pedal? Is that possible? and how?

Where can I get that tool he used to solder?

Great video mate. Really helpful and informative!

This deserves more views.

What part makes the effect sound?

Dude, you're a lifesaver. Best guides I've ever seen on the internet.

Could i add another potentiometer for fuzz? And if it works where in between should i put it :)