How To Make A Boost Pedal - DIY Booster For Electric Guitar (tutorial) - Boost Driver

This video is a tutorial on making a boost pedal at home with your own hands. This is a pretty easy way and the one in the video I've made in a few minutes.
What is the booster for? Sometimes you need to increase your guitar volume to make your amp give more distortion and drive. And this thing can drive for sure. That's why I called it - Boost Driver!
Just imagine faces of your friends (if you have them) when they will see this pedal in your pedalboard! But besides this pedal is super original and beautiful - it is also a real working booster.
If you like make guitar effects pedals yourself, you may also like my another video - DIY Volume Pedal For Guitar In 3 Minutes (DIY Attenuator stomp box For AMP) • How To Make A Volume P...
For DIY Booster you will need:
Transistor 2N5088
2 identical 150nF Film Capacitors (often they are marked as 0.15uF)
10k resistor
830k resistor
360 ohms resistor
100k resistor
100k potentiometer
soldering iron
electrical tape
wires
DPDT Foot Switch Push Button
2 jacks - stereo for input and mono for output
9-volt DC power jack socket
For pedal enclosure you can use a tin candy box, a box from a craft store or a hand cream container. But you can think outside the box - and use something absolutely unpredictable. For example - toy car.
Subscribe to my channel, leave comments with your ideas. Drive save!
Make rock not war!

[@MichaelHokefromCO]

"Just imagine faces of your friends - if you have them." Brilliant. Love the vid!

[@AlexisGuitars]

This is quickly becoming one of my favourite RUclips channels! Great video :D

[@HannaShevchenkoUA]

Absolutely super-duper awesome!

[@CarolinaLandshark]

That is awesome!! Thank you for showing us this Mykola!! :-)

[@emiliojfisio]

Great. It’s a wonderful idea and project. Thank you very much for this video.

[@ritz1119]

Wow! This was cool and very funny. Wonderful lesson as well!

[@MrGoodDreamer]

Super. 👍Great job.

[@LindembergueSilva]

Very Crazy my brother, from Brazil

[@boneserge8853]

Cool pedal. I like it 👌

[@diytop6352]

Your lessons are always interesting. Thanks.

[@delaneymarshall366]

Z

[@NinasIdeas]

I like it! Great lesson.✌

[@stijnroelands2819]

That's pretty awesome broo! 😅

[@HacksTricksTipsDIY]

So cool! Thanks!

[@Bowsmin12]

I use this boost design a lot but with different component values, I first learned this design from DIY guitar pedals' channel. But the car took this video to a whole new level, love this enclosure idea. Other than it pranking you and reversing every time you try to turn it on or off. 😆

[@bhu1334]

Very cool and original idea

[@delaneymarshall366]

@@MrHardguitar 08

[@TheGalandia]

That is awesome !!! I want a new pedalboard like a
traffic jam 🚗🚗🚗🚗

[@johnshepard8620]

Nice!🔥🔥🔥

[@ohvnaq]

lol i love it! great job

[@spud4242]

brilliant, funny and quite inspiring. thanks mykola i will have to look for cool toys to build a pedal board from...

[@LindembergueSilva]

Very good your videos Man. Then make a high gain distortion pedal that easy. Sorry for my English I'm using the translator's help. Hugs from Brazil

[@evilksandr]

Pedal to the metal!

[@hansfausto]

Thank you sir

[@jimvanbuskirk2695]

Where did you find the 830k resistor? I can't find it online.

[@Nafan60]

Wow! Great! Your humor is the best!

[@AliKiani7887]

Very nice video, i really learn a lot.. thanks
2 qeustions
1- Why you put stereo jack for input?
2- your boost is seems like a low overdrive pedal, if we want to build cleaner boost what type of transistors, resistors and caps should we use?
Thanks.

[@empyreal8354]

tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2017/03/earthquaker-devices-black-eye.html is a really nice clean boost. Also acts as an attenuator when you turn down below 12 o'clock

[@abril8596]

great

[@arlenevaz8543]

i will make the above booster as well

[@franckforster5451]

Just made this, great I was looking for a simple boost to add in a EHX Holier Grail. Thank you

[@Vinceorange]

Care to answer some questions? I built one to and i'm struggling

[@franckforster5451]

@@Vinceorange Sure, what do you need to know?

[@Vinceorange]

@@franckforster5451 I've built mine the way it is described(i've tripple checked) some components are different. Like the potentiometer is a 50k(is that a problem?)
Anyway. The signal is VERY low? where could the problem be?

[@desertwalker123]

Cool! Can it run on a 12V DC power supply? Or be modified to do so?

[@wojciechstecyszyn6040]

Nice :) Can you pls tel what is the power consumption of such a DIY booster?

[@edwardrunyard5364]

How would I go about adding a LED to show when the pedal is on or off?
Thanks in advance

[@Dehan.Y]

Can I use 820k Resistor Instead Of 830k And Can I Also Use 0.1uf Capacitor Instead Of 0.15uf?

[@generalleigh7387]

How much does this circuit affect overall eq? Like any mid peaks?

[@hiperkillerentertainment5225]

Could not get all the components in the market please any alternative . Please reply my comment please

[@87zox]

Hi, can u tell me what is the difference between boost pedal and volume pedal?

[@davelowe864]

Pretty much a clone to a $200 Lovepedal COT50 with just slight differences in part values. Nice video.

[@1filipos]

BLACK WIRES ARE GROUND?

[@string5Five]

puede usarse un 3pdt en vez de un dpdt?

[@g.e9832]

chorus vs vibrato pedals please :)

[@marting.official]

Can I use it as a clean boost?

[@MrHardguitar]

Yes. In my opinion, this is a clean boost.

[@juanokita4401]

Micola jajajajaj

[@miguelgateira4070]

🤣 I collect hot wheels and pedal

[@ArpadVarju]

The tutorial is super, but is it really so hard to say the letter D? ´´The´´ is pronounced D and not Z. Ze booster pedal. Say after me: D, D, D, David not Zavid. The Duck - D Duck, not Ze Duck.