A few months back I watched one of your older videos and decided to give building a RAT clone a shot. It took a while but I got it working after some encouragement from you, and I've been really grateful ever since. I'm now on my 10th+ build and have already sold a couple of custom painted cases. It's legitimately one of my proudest accomplishments. I've been making art for fun since I was a kid but have never actually sold my artwork to anyone, ever, and building guitar pedals has given me the medium to finally sell my art. I can't thank you enough, Jason.

@yo-tobyrush6943

Жыл бұрын

Where can I buy these art pedals?!🎉

@fullofsmell

Жыл бұрын

I would also like to know if you have a site I can buy from? Congrats man!

@OutlawOfKtulu

2 ай бұрын

Conversely, as somone who thought they really wanted to build pedals, I realised this is absolutely NOT my thing. Honestly though, really awesome to read that dude. Best of luck on your new boutique pedal company! People like me need people like you in the world lol

I spent the last 8 hours building my first pedal, an acapulco gold clone. Need to figure out why I suddenly get no sound now that I placed everything in the enclosure haha! I can definitely see the appeal now, it's almost a meditative experience soldering all the tiny resistors, capacitors etc and going from a handful of small parts to a functional pedal, very rewarding. Great video!

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

If it worked outside the box it is likely just a jack grounding against enclousre (: I do a monthly QA on Patreon if you ever want to ask some questions, thanks for watching!

@svartsjokolade

Жыл бұрын

@@FuzzlordEffects Thank you for the tip! I feel like troubleshooting these is definitely part of the fun too.

@jasonbloho420

Жыл бұрын

I built the same clone as my second pedal a few days ago. The thing absolutely rips.

@Mogwai06

Жыл бұрын

Lmao it will end up becoming its own damn applied science

@Mogwai06

Жыл бұрын

It will easily end up taking as much time or most likely even more than building the pedals or playing them , at least in my experience. and I knew nothing about any of this prior. It is a blast though and sometimes I wonder if I've started to enjoy just building shit more than playing with it.

I woke up today thinking I needed to get my pedal building set up again and this just solidified that. Thanks dude

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching dude!

I've built a few pedal from kit companies (BYOC, General Guitar Gadgets, cheap Amazon kit). One piece of advice that I'd give is to have a multimeter available to properly identify each resistor. As someone who has red/green colorblindness, I found it very difficult to discern the different color markings on the resistors. The brown and black, red and orange, and blue and purple can be difficult to tell the difference, but if you use your multimeter (helps to have the alligator clips), you can accurately measure their resistance.

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

Great advice!!

KILLER video Jason. People making things is awesome. People helping people make this is also awesome.

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

Thank you I really appreciate that!

@Mogwai06

Жыл бұрын

*awesomer

Oh dude how I wish you put this video a month ago when I first started building pedals! Your videos have been a huge inspiration for me

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

cheers Jason hop eit is still helpful!

Oh, wow! 😲 Just what I needed! Thank you for posting this!! 🎸

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Jody!

Awesome vid! It took me 3 tries but I finally got it! Thanks FUZZLORD!

Thanks for the tips on how to breaking the strip board more cleanly and also using a drill bit to break the paths. I always have trouble on cutting and breaking these boards.

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

it was news to me haha! Glad it helped (:

Awesome stuff Jason!!!🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

cheers Chris!

Cool build Jason my friend ✌👍

super informative and finally i have found someone using the same iBanez I have! Great video (& great guitar)

Killer video Jason! ✌️🤩

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Man!

I probably won't be building a pedal anytime soon, but I love how-to videos! This was super interesting

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was fun to watch! I don’t build cars but watch KZread hot rod videos all the time 🖤

great vid! 🎉

Informative and interesting video. Been kicking around the idea of pedal making myself. This is inspiring to say the least. Off subject Jason, just got a Rickenbacher 4003 ran it into your Fuzzlord Drone Master into Electro Harmonix Q-tron into My late '90s Trace Elliot. The swampy goo seeping out the cab was awesome. Keep up the great videos and stellar effects! Cheers bro!

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

Dang Rocky that is a badass setup!!!! 🙏

Great video! I built some tagboard pedals and it's easier than you think. The Tagboard FX homepage is a great source if you are into DIY pedals. I prefer potentiometers that are soldered directly on the PCB or tagbourd as it makes everything nice and tidy inside the pedal. If you want some great sounding and very easy to build DIY pedals, God City Instruments do cool PCBs. I just guilt a Brutalist Jr and a Hannibal and they sound awesome!

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! The Tagboard page is so great and a wonderful resource for DIY folks. I might have to check out one of those kits for myself! I am planning on offering a kit with a build video in the future as well! Cheers!

@rk28984

Жыл бұрын

@@FuzzlordEffects That would be awesome, and please make sure these kits are also sold on Musikding in Germany! Because shipping to the EU is prettyx expansive. ;)

Awesome looks like some work though if you don't get it exactly right wow great informative video😎💯🤘

Great video! Where did you get your large potentiometer knob cover?

This is a great video and the fuzz sounds killer. Great job. I’m new to this. Is there anywhere online I can find directions for installing a potentiometer switch and jacks. That’s where I’m having the most trouble. The board was fun to make. The other wiring is tripping me up.

😂😂😂 poor Brett, so excited to get those pedals built and we sat there at my dining room all night, now look how far he's come in such a short time.

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

he's a trooper and a really motivated learner (:

@AshenHollow7

Жыл бұрын

@@FuzzlordEffects Yes indeed he is hahaha, awesome guy for sure.

Awesome!!

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

thanks man!

From 0 to Hella!

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

hell yeah!

I'm saving all the resistors from my circuits lab for this very reason!

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

Check out the Johnny cash song one piece at a time haha. Did the same at school 😃

This was fantastic! Thanks so much for doing this! If one wanted to replace the footswitch in a kit with a soft switch, what are some things to keep in mind when replacing that part? Great content! Cheers!

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

The soft switching requires another mini sub circuit that would have to be added on. Maybe I’ll have to design an add on kit for this (:

@Mogwai06

Жыл бұрын

Is that like the JFET switching or boss type set up you'd see a lot? I can never remember what that's called? Id always wondered this about those switches some pedals have that you can operate like typical footswitch he's or hold them for momentary operation of certain things. I've not used one yet in any pedals but there's a bunch with that switch in them. Wasn't sure if that would entail extra circuitry that you'd not normally have to include, aside from what the momentary action is driven by, for example like making your delay go apesh*t while it's held down, into crazy oscillations.

G'day all you Fuzza's from Mad Max country in outback OZ. Cool vid and that sounds fuzzn awesome, i bread boarded a tame axis fuzz last night it's cool but now i want one of these. What transistors did you decide on?

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

I think we went with 2n222a, but will have to see if that’s what he keeps in the pedal! Cheers Ilyas!

@92ilyas

Жыл бұрын

@@FuzzlordEffects cool ill give those a crack maybe even BC550s I've got those lying around also

Yo ,is it possible to burn a amplifier when you will connect something wrong in effect?or something will be wrong with power supply like input of DC ?

Can I get a picture of the backside? I just connected everything but know I want to finish the soldering.

Hi Jason, thanks so much for this. Do you advise that an absolute beginner do some kind of basic electronics/electrical course? I've always tended towards literature and so the sciences is a new interest.

@TinkerToneworks

Жыл бұрын

Having some basic soldering experience and even better, experience wiring guitars. The process is a lot of troubleshooting, so don't be discouraged

@ethanpunto9222

6 ай бұрын

Search beginner electronics on KZread and there's someone with a pretty good playlist, I forget the channel name but it'll be right there immediately. Has some good content for the basics

Where can I purchase the tagboard?

Where do people get the tagboard? Google is failing me.. A list of websites for these parts would be wonderful. Or a list of the parts for this build and where to buy them. Thank you

@FuzzlordEffects

Жыл бұрын

Often also called vero board. Tayda electronics is one place but there are many out there (:

I need to see the backside of the wired circuit board. Can I get a picture?

Why do you do trace cuts for the cables? I am confused

20:30 Talking about ground loops... I find you don't need to connect one of the jacks to ground, the metal pedal enclosure itself will do this and avoid a loop, otherwise you WILL have a loop. Perhaps different if the pedal enclosure is painted and thus not conductive

Is there a better starting point for me?? I feel like I missed a day or two of class

@FuzzlordEffects

6 ай бұрын

I did another recently where I assembled a kit with pcb that was a lot more clear in the steps of assembly hope it helps!

I will using breadboad :) this very cheap tool and I Dont have big experience in building effect so this is beginner solutions :)

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I dont understand a single thing, i guess ill just have to buy a pedal