currently going to Oregon State University for electrical engineering specifically so i can build synthesizers and guitar effects. Maybe someday our pedals will cross paths!
Fuzzlord Effects this is actually crazy because I didn’t even get to the part in the video where you said you went to OSU when I commented. Small world. This is actually really encouraging now lol
If it makes you feel any better or gets a laugh I used to always call Matt Schumann or whatever his name was “Schumann” but like Newman from Seinfeld. It always pissed him off and I don’t think he understood why..... Frickin Schumann 😂
Fuzzlord Effects I always try to avoid Schuman’s classes when possible. He is by far my least favorite instructor I’ve had since high school. I dropped a digital logic class he was teaching because he’s just such a hard guy to like lol
Hello! I'm a highschooler in Virginia and I really appreciate this video. I usually have to find information like this through multiple videos and/or websites so thank you so much. I've always been really into electronics but I've gotten really into guitars this year. I think I'm going to order a diy boost pedal for my first project. Thank you!
I seen 6 moogerfooger pedals going for $25,000, and with a background in electronics, decided enough is enough. You were the first video I seen, and I'm ready to build for my own needs... Because the day I spend that much for a pedal is the day I really am a moogerfooger! Thanks for the start... I'll keep you updated with my path.
@@us3r11 I have built 3 since then... 2 eh, and another that I like. Thank goodness for the internet or I wouldn't have been able to do it. With the time I have put into it, I could have bought a pedal for cheaper, but the experience was worth it.
Hey man, heartfelt appreciation from India for this constant delivery of amazing content. In here, we have no pedal builders, and no one to look over the shoulders and learn from. Thanks for what you are doing.
Whoa, I’m 5 years late to this video 😂… I’m in Tumwater, WA just a bit north from you. I’m a science teacher (middle/high school); I got into pedal building from watching Brian Wampler talk about how pedals work and how to mod them. Then I put together a StewMac king of tone clone and got hooked! On my way to work and back in Hoquiam I’d listen to electrical engineering lectures. Then I discovered Copper Sound DIY and then JHS started talking about it. THEN RUclips suggested your channel … this is getting too long … now I’m doing Brian Wampler’s pedal building course because I have a ton of time in the summer. highfive ✋🏼😎
Currently failing my qualifying year for engineering at uni and this video is inspiring me to turn myself around to become an electrical engineer so I can do the same thing as you. I’m super excited to try to build a fuzz pedal this summer too!
Thanks Steve! Hopefully someone will get into building their own pedal for the first time (: Looking forward to this weeks guitar lesson on your channel! ~Jason
It's like going to school and relearning how to use the various modules in step to learn a great approach and not pick up bad habits. Thanks for the primary lesson with a great calm teacher approach. Outstanding 👍
Really appreciated this, especially the respect paid to those who beat a path before us. I've been hungry to start building pedals... been 20ish years since I used a soldering iron, never did much more than rewiring speaker cabs or swapping out guitar pickups, but always wanted to do more. Found this very inspiring--checking out the LPB 1 next!
I like you’re passion, honesty and dedication for making this video. I am getting into Doom Metal and interested in buying a pedal. I play guitar for a long time and was into deth and tech death metal. Now in my 40’s my passion is synthwave i have a Boss sy200 and it’s a fantastic pedal. Recently i’ve been getting into the Band Sleep which i never heard of and gave me the gateway for doom.
I’m compelled to build. I can’t help it. My first baz I built from salvaged parts. I had just got into it and I was so hungry and I couldn’t really work a job at the time so I was broke. It was a good long while before I was able to find a good transistor type that I didn’t half roast in the removal process from the iron. There is something magical about making them come to life. I just recently discovered biasing and it’s mind blowing awesome to have access to that control parameter- it’s like secrets hidden in limitations by the manufacturers. Because playing with biasing is straight up bad ass and I love access to that control 🤗
Just kinda starting to stick my toe in the water of effects building and modding and this was the first video I watched. Great info and a great sort of “where your mindset should be”. Thanks for not being overly technical and making it so someone like me can understand it and keep the enthusiasm up. We’ve all seen those “intro” videos that are too technical and turn you off immediately. Thanks man!
Your intro was very wise. My education was a LOT like yours, but earlier, EE class of ‘77, minor in Software. You points about tools are well made, especially screwdrivers!
Greetings from Austin TX ! I think it’s really cool that you talk about this for ppl like myself that are starting to tinker with pedals. The tools and advice was cool too. Advice about respecting those who came before you is great in any part of life. I enjoy your videos and only found your channel last week. I like what you do sir, and your products. I just ordered a bazz fuss kit and a few others. Plus some tone stacks and a couple electric engineering books. Jumping in head first haha. I’ve been teaching myself guitar repair and wiring them for yrs. might as well learn to make the pedals that make my guitars scream. I just want to make cool pedals with my daughter and be able to fix the box of old pedals I already have. Keep doing what you do sir.
I love pedals. I want to make pedals so i can have more pedals. I love these lil boxes of majic. I enjoy your encouragement and honesty. I will be gettin set up soon. Thanks you Fuzzlord.
This is exactly the video I have been hoping to find for the past 3-4 years. Most tech-related videos seem to have either a sterile matter-of-factness or a smug intellectual elitist feeling that this video absolutely does not! I very much appreciate your grounded genuine description and encouragement. To answer your questions... I am watching from Charleston, SC. My main goal is not at all commercial. I just want to learn more about what happens when I step on my Rat pedal. An idea for a future video... Hmm... I would LOVE to have someone take a schematic of a common pedal, and go through the entire process of going to Digi-Key, Amazon... whatever... and actually filling their "shopping cart" with all the parts... all the while giving commentary on... Why I chose THIS package vs. that package. Metal Film vs.... This capacitor type vs. that... and why... as well as... Why I use Digi Key, or Distributor X, Y, Z instead of whatever.. Then going through checkout.. Then when the parts arrive... you un box them, and breadboard the simple circuit(s). See... the problem that I find with all pedal channels on RUclips is... they either assume that you know all about where to get stuff.. or, they treat you like a child and talk about lighting up an LED light bulb. I want to see the real life of where, which, and why of actual real-world components. No one shares that. But... really man... thanks for the killer video! I'm buying a damn hoodie!!!!
watching from indiana. really liked this video! spent a year soldering boards for radon detectors at work & really enjoyed it. mentioned to a friend that i miss soldering & he recommended building pedals. i’ve grown up in a musical family but i didnt get the special touch lol at least i could potentially make them some things
I was in GW magazine in 2004 when I was in Iraq. You look like a dude that I jammed with in Camp Victory Iraq. I had a white strat if you remember this. M.O.S.T. 256INF/Mech🎸🤘🏻 I was building guitar kits but now I think I’m gonna try a pedal.
Rods from London here. I really wanna get into basic old school stuff like treble boosters, fuzzboxes and classic overdrives. Thanks for the nice video.
@@FuzzlordEffects haha yea absolutely! The first half is literally how you need to approach anything you ever learn/do😇 who knew making pedals would be the guide to happiness
I bought a dB boost pedal kit after watching this video because it seemed fun to try putting something together myself. And now I'm watching electrical engineering 101 videos on youtube so I can figure out WHY the directions work and how to modify them if I want haha Thanks Jason. I love this channel. Your passion for what you do is infectious. Your pedals are sick and I plan on trying to get one on preorder before they sell out again.
This video is so inspirational thank you! I think people who build pedals are the coolest and really want to get into it. I'm going to buy my first kit soon and hopfully this can be something I can get into.
This was very inspiring. I have most of the equipment besides the adjustable soldering iron. I really enjoyed switching pickups and fixing input jacks and I am really interested in learning how to read diagrams for pedals and fully under stand them. This definetly pushed me to try it!
I have an EE degree and I know very little about music but friends of mine run a band and I figured I could help them with designing a pedal. I searched for "how to build your own guitar pedal" and found this video.
Hey thanks for you videos. I hope you don’t get mad. I just wanted to add something here to the younger Generation. I’m almost 56 yrs old been around the block. I just wanted to add that to don’t have to go to School for Electrical engineering to learn about electronics if you do that’s great you get that engineering degree all good. You can go for an 2yr. Degree in electronic technology. By no means it’s not the same degree. But you learn the principles of electricity and electronics. If college doesn’t fit you a trade school will beat the stuff in your brain. But you won’t get that college degree. Me, Personally while in H.S. Learned electricity in shop classes ( look that up) and while their also went to a trade school for electronics. Then graduated, did some college. The electronic companies tanked were I lived. I ended up using my knowledge of Electricity to get my way into an Electrical utility company . Here almost 35 years. Almost retired. I just started playing guitars and messing around with amps. Repair a couple of tube amplifiers and modifying pedals. I bought a solid state amp that was broke. No schematic for it because it a 100.00 amp new. Called everybody and looked everywhere. So I made one myself. Took my knowledge I learned from guys like yourself on RUclips. Trace out the circuits and drew up the schematic, trouble shot it, repaired it, now working on modifying it. It’s very rewarding. So thank you again. I think I might buy an Oscilloscope in the future
this video is great man, I've been getting into pedal building and I'm in the same boat of having some experience from soldering and fixing guitar wiring. I might have to check out if my local university has an electrical engineering degree, or even just some classes on analog circuitry. Kits are sweet, but I want to learn how and why each component does what it does and this is super helpful
@@FuzzlordEffects it was what I originally wanted to major in before I settled on computer informational sciences. But the local university has added a BUNCH of classes recently
I know this is an old video but I appreciate the basic introduction. As a grad student, I work part time calibrating and repairing radiation detection meters for our university. Lots of overlap or similar concepts directed towards modifying signal output. I am just starting to get my toes wet creating pedals in my free time, but I have a lot of unique/old components at my disposal I have been playing with. lots to learn... If you are into history, I think the history of Jordan electronics speaks to the similarities between the two fields. Regardless, appreciate the content!
Hey man, this is a great starter video. Currently studying mechanical engineering in Louisiana, and I've always wanted to understand the ins and outs of pedals to eventually make my own clones. Thanks man!
Thanks so much Jason this is EXACTLY the video I needed to see. I’ve never made a pedal or played with electronics but I’m super keen. Your advice is invaluable
@@FuzzlordEffects pleasure is all mine. Loved your short vid on the budget broom board. That behringer super fuzz is amazing. First saw it on Josh Scott’s episode about behringer. Definitely picking one up. And I need to explore you’re range. They look super cool
thanks for the inspiration - I think I'm going to build a Fuzz box from an old electronics magazine - my old soldering iron is no longer sufficient so I picked up an adjustable one with a station and built-in solder dispenser
Great video dude. I think another good way to ease into pedal building is by using good old fashioned breadboard circuits. My background is in robotics so I have tons of components lying around from school back in the day. I figured "why the hell not?" and I found a cool but really simple op-amp fuzz pedal circuit on the web. I didn't have the exact part numbers that the diagram called for so I started swapping out components just to see how they sound. The biggest surprise I found was how cool it sounded by putting in LEDs for the clipping diodes.
I can't thank you quiet enough, like many I desire something much bigger out of life. Can't get the peak of Everest unless you take the challenge and climb it. Off to the local electronics parts depot to get started, TIA Jameson
this was very inspiring for the fact im a hobbyist computer programmer/automation programmer/most lately electrical engineering for arduino/rpi/etc.. stuff, (mostly focused on automation and software) however many of my friends are very heavy musicians from the new england/western massachusetts areas, they would tell me that my equip and tools are exactly what is needed and asking me for clones (and "klones" of the klon centuar), so very recently i started to go deeper finding your content because i was tasked with making some just replication guitar pedals, but just wanted to make sure im getting a nice ground up expereince, only to find out alot of this falls exactly in line with many of the "gists" ive figured out naturally over time, but allows me the testbed to further excercise learning, while still helping some great friends out (im self taught entirely, internet is powerful as you said, amount of information, and what the past people have left behind is huge, you literaly are matching this quote i say about how "were not reinvinting the wheel" thing) anyways, thank you for the content, this really makes me know im found myself to the right path
Thanks for the information. Just ordered my first kit! If the the solder job I did on my guitar is anything to go by I'd better order extra solder and one of those suckers too. If I'm honest I'm mainly looking forward to painting the enclosure
Great video! Built a mod thunder drive a while back and looking to do go feeling into knowing what I’m doing. Super helpful video. Coming outta Stafford CT.
Nice vid just finished my first course in college for electrical engineering and I’m wanting to get into pedal building while I wait till for my next course to start in January
I’d just like to say thank you so much for your effort. This is truly an amazing and heart warming welcome into the world of electronics. I can see the passion that you hold for these things and I truly admire that. Thanks for paying it forward and making it easier for others to get involved.
Start making circuit designs and PCBs now, make lots of projects, makybe start blog or youtube channel to document your work. If you ever want to apply as design engineer to a larger company all of that work makes a great resume and shows your dedication also. Hope that is hekpful! (:
Just bought my first pedal and then I bought a second before I even received the first. It is what it is. I’ve poorly build a compressor about 7 years back. I’ve learned a lot about how to do things in general since then so I’ve feeling good if not apprehensive. Longe story longer than it should. I’m glad I’ve found your channel. So wish me luck on my guitar PCb kits of a bass drive and model t amp in a box builds. Ps. Judging from the kits purchased what should my next build be. And thank you.
Real good intro. I've been doing it off and on for a long time. I mostly built patch cords. Now, I'm getting into pedals. I want to build a sythesizer. I have a lot of Moog circuits. That's much further down the line, if I live that long and we still live in a world where hobbies are tolerated.
I used only a RAT for at least 15 years thinking I’d never need another gain pedal because it did everything I wanted. Then my friend gave me the abominable Christmas ornament fuzz face kit. I didn’t expect much but now it’s the other dirt pedal I don’t want to go without, and I’ve built s pedalpcb clone of the Thorpy Fat General compressor. Don’t want to be without it either. I need those drawers! My desk is a PILE of parts and packs of strings and picks and oh my. But I do have the tools and I do know where they are. I’m at the point where I want to start learning what does what and how to read schematics and start understanding the point A to point B to be able to isolate parts whose values I want to modify or swap etc.
Thank you for this video ! It's been some years already that I wanted to get into pedal modding (and maybe making my own for myself and bandmates) this video really helps and is motivational ! Cheers from France !
Great stuff man. Watching from Terrace, BC Canada! Appreciate your thoroughness. I am working out my first pedal build and I came across your vid, thank you!
I'm in it for the hand signals.
Added extra to new video just for you 😂
👋💪🙌👍👊 hes right.
Before he built his first kit, he was a first base coach 🤷♂️🙅♂️💁♂️
Why did you have to mention that.
😂
currently going to Oregon State University for electrical engineering specifically so i can build synthesizers and guitar effects. Maybe someday our pedals will cross paths!
That’s badass! I graduated from there 🤘 Tell Don I said hi.
Fuzzlord Effects this is actually crazy because I didn’t even get to the part in the video where you said you went to OSU when I commented. Small world. This is actually really encouraging now lol
If it makes you feel any better or gets a laugh I used to always call Matt Schumann or whatever his name was “Schumann” but like Newman from Seinfeld. It always pissed him off and I don’t think he understood why.....
Frickin Schumann 😂
But fair warning, you literally have to pull near perfect test while in that course with that level of sass Hahahaha 😂
Fuzzlord Effects I always try to avoid Schuman’s classes when possible. He is by far my least favorite instructor I’ve had since high school. I dropped a digital logic class he was teaching because he’s just such a hard guy to like lol
Hello! I'm a highschooler in Virginia and I really appreciate this video. I usually have to find information like this through multiple videos and/or websites so thank you so much. I've always been really into electronics but I've gotten really into guitars this year. I think I'm going to order a diy boost pedal for my first project. Thank you!
That’s so great to hear Natalie and I am sure you are going to have so much fun with that! Thanks for watching
yeah i can’t wait to hear an update! i bet you’re doing amazing :D
I seen 6 moogerfooger pedals going for $25,000, and with a background in electronics, decided enough is enough. You were the first video I seen, and I'm ready to build for my own needs... Because the day I spend that much for a pedal is the day I really am a moogerfooger! Thanks for the start... I'll keep you updated with my path.
Hey. How's it going with the pedal build?
@J A in also wondering. Its been a year
@@us3r11 I have built 3 since then... 2 eh, and another that I like. Thank goodness for the internet or I wouldn't have been able to do it. With the time I have put into it, I could have bought a pedal for cheaper, but the experience was worth it.
Awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I love your channel dude !!!!
Bro if I didn’t see you post anywhere for a long time in stoner metal theme vids, I’d think you’ve died or something
"Enjoy the journey...Don't fascinate yourself with the end goal.'" Words to live by.
I've been building, repairing or modding fx pedals off and over for over 25 years. Did a lot of Big Muff repairs. Really enjoy your channel.
Nice! Thank you and glad you are liking the channel!
i'm doing electrical engineering here in UTFPR - Brazil right now, this is exactly the video i needed, thanks man!!
That is so awesome you are in engineering school! A lot of hard work but it will be so worth it man I promise!!! Changed my whole life
Hey man, heartfelt appreciation from India for this constant delivery of amazing content. In here, we have no pedal builders, and no one to look over the shoulders and learn from. Thanks for what you are doing.
just now seeing this comment, thank you so much (:
@@FuzzlordEffects Big ups!
Whoa, I’m 5 years late to this video 😂… I’m in Tumwater, WA just a bit north from you. I’m a science teacher (middle/high school); I got into pedal building from watching Brian Wampler talk about how pedals work and how to mod them. Then I put together a StewMac king of tone clone and got hooked! On my way to work and back in Hoquiam I’d listen to electrical engineering lectures. Then I discovered Copper Sound DIY and then JHS started talking about it. THEN RUclips suggested your channel … this is getting too long … now I’m doing Brian Wampler’s pedal building course because I have a ton of time in the summer. highfive ✋🏼😎
Currently failing my qualifying year for engineering at uni and this video is inspiring me to turn myself around to become an electrical engineer so I can do the same thing as you. I’m super excited to try to build a fuzz pedal this summer too!
You're like the Mr. Rogers of effect pedals! I mean that in a good way!
Hahahhaha thanks!
jsun blue "oh won't you hear my phaser?"
jared greer 😂
Fuzzlord is absolutely the coolest name for a pedal company ever.
Great advice on not getting hung up on an end result and valuing each kernel of insight along the journey.
That is one thing I try to keep in mind on a daily (: I forget it also!
Cheers,
Jason
Another awesome video. Thanks for the insight, Jason!
Thanks Steve! Hopefully someone will get into building their own pedal for the first time (: Looking forward to this weeks guitar lesson on your channel!
~Jason
This is a really cool channel.
Thank you!!
~Jason
Great vid, I have a degree in electronics and really never applied it so this seems like a good use for it.
Keep up the cool content
Cheers!
It's like going to school and relearning how to use the various modules in step to learn a great approach and not pick up bad habits. Thanks for the primary lesson with a great calm teacher approach. Outstanding 👍
Thank you for watching Robert and glad you like the video style!
Really appreciated this, especially the respect paid to those who beat a path before us. I've been hungry to start building pedals... been 20ish years since I used a soldering iron, never did much more than rewiring speaker cabs or swapping out guitar pickups, but always wanted to do more. Found this very inspiring--checking out the LPB 1 next!
I like you’re passion, honesty and dedication for making this video. I am getting into Doom Metal and interested in buying a pedal. I play guitar for a long time and was into deth and tech death metal. Now in my 40’s my passion is synthwave i have a Boss sy200 and it’s a fantastic pedal. Recently i’ve been getting into the Band Sleep which i never heard of and gave me the gateway for doom.
I really appreciate that!!
I’m compelled to build. I can’t help it. My first baz I built from salvaged parts. I had just got into it and I was so hungry and I couldn’t really work a job at the time so I was broke. It was a good long while before I was able to find a good transistor type that I didn’t half roast in the removal process from the iron. There is something magical about making them come to life. I just recently discovered biasing and it’s mind blowing awesome to have access to that control parameter- it’s like secrets hidden in limitations by the manufacturers. Because playing with biasing is straight up bad ass and I love access to that control 🤗
Oh thanks so much!! It helps me very well to understand your Fuzzworld! and how elaborate can be made guitar pedals!
thanks for watching!
Just kinda starting to stick my toe in the water of effects building and modding and this was the first video I watched. Great info and a great sort of “where your mindset should be”. Thanks for not being overly technical and making it so someone like me can understand it and keep the enthusiasm up. We’ve all seen those “intro” videos that are too technical and turn you off immediately. Thanks man!
Your intro was very wise. My education was a LOT like yours, but earlier, EE class of ‘77, minor in Software. You points about tools are well made, especially screwdrivers!
Thank you Ike! I am curious to know what you focused in for your career after graduating!
@@FuzzlordEffects Master in Aerospace Eng. Focused on Spacecraft Dynamics and Control. Shades of BB!
I have loved electronics and I’m learning to play guitar and I would love to make pedals but I couldn’t find any information but you saved me thanks !
Glad this was helpful Eli cheers!
This is so informative and chill at the same time
Thank you, you made this seem like a realistic hobby to get into.
Greetings from Austin TX ! I think it’s really cool that you talk about this for ppl like myself that are starting to tinker with pedals. The tools and advice was cool too. Advice about respecting those who came before you is great in any part of life. I enjoy your videos and only found your channel last week. I like what you do sir, and your products. I just ordered a bazz fuss kit and a few others. Plus some tone stacks and a couple electric engineering books. Jumping in head first haha. I’ve been teaching myself guitar repair and wiring them for yrs. might as well learn to make the pedals that make my guitars scream. I just want to make cool pedals with my daughter and be able to fix the box of old pedals I already have. Keep doing what you do sir.
That is so awesome you are going to build a bass fuzz kit Ron!!! That was my first pedal also!
Cheers
Jason
Rapidly becoming one of my favorite channels! Never realized i love Doom Metal!
So happy to hear that!
I love pedals. I want to make pedals so i can have more pedals. I love these lil boxes of majic. I enjoy your encouragement and honesty. I will be gettin set up soon. Thanks you Fuzzlord.
Now that is the right attitude to start building!
This is exactly the video I have been hoping to find for the past 3-4 years. Most tech-related videos seem to have either a sterile matter-of-factness or a smug intellectual elitist feeling that this video absolutely does not! I very much appreciate your grounded genuine description and encouragement. To answer your questions... I am watching from Charleston, SC. My main goal is not at all commercial. I just want to learn more about what happens when I step on my Rat pedal. An idea for a future video... Hmm... I would LOVE to have someone take a schematic of a common pedal, and go through the entire process of going to Digi-Key, Amazon... whatever... and actually filling their "shopping cart" with all the parts... all the while giving commentary on... Why I chose THIS package vs. that package. Metal Film vs.... This capacitor type vs. that... and why... as well as... Why I use Digi Key, or Distributor X, Y, Z instead of whatever.. Then going through checkout.. Then when the parts arrive... you un box them, and breadboard the simple circuit(s). See... the problem that I find with all pedal channels on RUclips is... they either assume that you know all about where to get stuff.. or, they treat you like a child and talk about lighting up an LED light bulb. I want to see the real life of where, which, and why of actual real-world components. No one shares that.
But... really man... thanks for the killer video! I'm buying a damn hoodie!!!!
Hi Michael, I'll be making more circuits videos! There are a few more available on the Patreon page also. Cheers man!
watching from indiana. really liked this video! spent a year soldering boards for radon detectors at work & really enjoyed it. mentioned to a friend that i miss soldering & he recommended building pedals. i’ve grown up in a musical family but i didnt get the special touch lol at least i could potentially make them some things
I was in GW magazine in 2004 when I was in Iraq. You look like a dude that I jammed with in Camp Victory Iraq. I had a white strat if you remember this. M.O.S.T. 256INF/Mech🎸🤘🏻 I was building guitar kits but now I think I’m gonna try a pedal.
Rods from London here. I really wanna get into basic old school stuff like treble boosters, fuzzboxes and classic overdrives. Thanks for the nice video.
This is not about building pedals, this is a guide to life.
I hope you liked it anyway 🤓🙏
@@FuzzlordEffects haha yea absolutely! The first half is literally how you need to approach anything you ever learn/do😇 who knew making pedals would be the guide to happiness
This is actually relaxing to watch
Happy to hear that!
Thanks for the wisdom dropped at the beginning of the video. I really appreciate everything you said. ❤
I bought a dB boost pedal kit after watching this video because it seemed fun to try putting something together myself. And now I'm watching electrical engineering 101 videos on youtube so I can figure out WHY the directions work and how to modify them if I want haha Thanks Jason. I love this channel. Your passion for what you do is infectious. Your pedals are sick and I plan on trying to get one on preorder before they sell out again.
So happy to hear your messing with a pedal and watching engineering videos!!!! Whose channel are you watching?
Fuzzlord Effects The Engineering Mindset has some good basics videos. And the DIY Pedal Guy (I think that was his channel) cool stuff.
“DIY Guitar Pedals” is the channel.
As somebody who is in electrical engineering right now this video had some solid advice
Cheers Jordan thanks for watching and best of luck in your studies!
This video is so inspirational thank you! I think people who build pedals are the coolest and really want to get into it. I'm going to buy my first kit soon and hopfully this can be something I can get into.
You've got a thumb's up when I heard: a deep respect for everyone that came before you ...
Many thanks for sharing!
Thanks bro from UK. Great advice for this newbie.
This was very inspiring. I have most of the equipment besides the adjustable soldering iron. I really enjoyed switching pickups and fixing input jacks and I am really interested in learning how to read diagrams for pedals and fully under stand them. This definetly pushed me to try it!
Ah maybe a good video topic!
I have an EE degree and I know very little about music but friends of mine run a band and I figured I could help them with designing a pedal. I searched for "how to build your own guitar pedal" and found this video.
Exactly what I was looking for thanks mate! Cheers from Aus
Just got some reading glasses and a soldering iron. I'm off to a good start! Lol 😂
Sure are!
Hello Mr. Fuzz. Thanks for your sharing. Best regards from Indonesia 🇮🇩
I'm a musician and a gear head, and I am really interested in building my own pedals. Thanks for the great video, even if I'm a bit late to the party!
Thanks for watching Tim!
I enjoy your channel dood and your passion for making pedals is always evident in your videos but it's on fire in this one. Well done Fuzzlord!
Thanks so much for watching! Cheers!
Hey thanks for you videos. I hope you don’t get mad. I just wanted to add something here to the younger Generation. I’m almost 56 yrs old been around the block. I just wanted to add that to don’t have to go to School for Electrical engineering to learn about electronics if you do that’s great you get that engineering degree all good. You can go for an 2yr. Degree in electronic technology. By no means it’s not the same degree. But you learn the principles of electricity and electronics. If college doesn’t fit you a trade school will beat the stuff in your brain. But you won’t get that college degree. Me, Personally while in H.S. Learned electricity in shop classes ( look that up) and while their also went to a trade school for electronics. Then graduated, did some college. The electronic companies tanked were I lived. I ended up using my knowledge of Electricity to get my way into an Electrical utility company . Here almost 35 years. Almost retired. I just started playing guitars and messing around with amps. Repair a couple of tube amplifiers and modifying pedals. I bought a solid state amp that was broke. No schematic for it because it a 100.00 amp new. Called everybody and looked everywhere. So I made one myself. Took my knowledge I learned from guys like yourself on RUclips. Trace out the circuits and drew up the schematic, trouble shot it, repaired it, now working on modifying it. It’s very rewarding. So thank you again.
I think I might buy an Oscilloscope in the future
this video is great man, I've been getting into pedal building and I'm in the same boat of having some experience from soldering and fixing guitar wiring. I might have to check out if my local university has an electrical engineering degree, or even just some classes on analog circuitry. Kits are sweet, but I want to learn how and why each component does what it does and this is super helpful
Most people never regret going into engineering, it’s a hard subject but I enjoyed it!
@@FuzzlordEffects it was what I originally wanted to major in before I settled on computer informational sciences. But the local university has added a BUNCH of classes recently
This is so so good! Almost felt like therapy! I've bought 2 kits broke it, not giving up... just got to improve at soldering.
Soldering is tricky, but don’t give up! I messed up so many pedals when I was trying to learn. Glad you enjoyed video 😊
Going to school for EE, my father and I want to make pedals. Thank you! SUBBED!!!
That is so cool!!!! Which school are you going to? Hope you two have fun making pedals
Thanks for this. I don't like asking this of people who are great at making pedals. So I appreciate this a lot. Cheers!
Will keep these coming! Plan on doing a group build/kit pretty soon (:
Cheers,
Jason
Watching from San Antonio, Texas!
cheers Josh!
Have always wanted to learn how to build/repair pedals and amps. Thanks for a great video and a great channel.
Hi Adam, I think you should check out Uncle Doug's playlist called "Tube Amp Bootcamp," lots of good info there aimed at people new to electronics.
I m happy to see your desk and my desk look pretty much the same XD
Thanks a lot for sharing. I see there's a lot of stuff to learn before I can build my own pedals. Greetings from México!
Don’t get discouraged, kits and simple one knob pedals are great to start with.
just discovered you channel! i recently got interested in building my own electronics/pedals. I'm watching from düsseldorf, germany
cheers and thanks for watching!
Great stuff, mate. I did enjoy it
thank you Ross!
I know this is an old video but I appreciate the basic introduction. As a grad student, I work part time calibrating and repairing radiation detection meters for our university. Lots of overlap or similar concepts directed towards modifying signal output. I am just starting to get my toes wet creating pedals in my free time, but I have a lot of unique/old components at my disposal I have been playing with. lots to learn...
If you are into history, I think the history of Jordan electronics speaks to the similarities between the two fields.
Regardless, appreciate the content!
I love the way you describe things
Great video Jason, thanks for taking the time to share. I'm excited, I'm getting ready to make my first pedal. Take care.
Cheers FoxDrvr hope it goes well!
So humble. So righteous. Thank you.
Thank you so much!
Hey man, this is a great starter video. Currently studying mechanical engineering in Louisiana, and I've always wanted to understand the ins and outs of pedals to eventually make my own clones. Thanks man!
That’s badass you are in engineering school! Your basic electronics classes that I think all mechanicals take now will help you a lot!
@@FuzzlordEffects I'll be sure to let you know how my first pedal turns out! Thanks for all your help!
Thanks so much Jason this is EXACTLY the video I needed to see. I’ve never made a pedal or played with electronics but I’m super keen.
Your advice is invaluable
I really appreciate you watching!
@@FuzzlordEffects pleasure is all mine. Loved your short vid on the budget broom board. That behringer super fuzz is amazing. First saw it on Josh Scott’s episode about behringer. Definitely picking one up. And I need to explore you’re range. They look super cool
Great introduction thank you for sharing
thanks for the inspiration - I think I'm going to build a Fuzz box from an old electronics magazine - my old soldering iron is no longer sufficient so I picked up an adjustable one with a station and built-in solder dispenser
Great advice about enjoying the process and not focusing on the end goal. I wish I would have understood this when I was younger.
Great video dude. I think another good way to ease into pedal building is by using good old fashioned breadboard circuits. My background is in robotics so I have tons of components lying around from school back in the day. I figured "why the hell not?" and I found a cool but really simple op-amp fuzz pedal circuit on the web. I didn't have the exact part numbers that the diagram called for so I started swapping out components just to see how they sound. The biggest surprise I found was how cool it sounded by putting in LEDs for the clipping diodes.
Totally agree and very cool!
I can't thank you quiet enough, like many I desire something much bigger out of life. Can't get the peak of Everest unless you take the challenge and climb it. Off to the local electronics parts depot to get started, TIA Jameson
this was very inspiring for the fact im a hobbyist computer programmer/automation programmer/most lately electrical engineering for arduino/rpi/etc.. stuff, (mostly focused on automation and software) however many of my friends are very heavy musicians from the new england/western massachusetts areas, they would tell me that my equip and tools are exactly what is needed and asking me for clones (and "klones" of the klon centuar), so very recently i started to go deeper finding your content because i was tasked with making some just replication guitar pedals, but just wanted to make sure im getting a nice ground up expereince, only to find out alot of this falls exactly in line with many of the "gists" ive figured out naturally over time, but allows me the testbed to further excercise learning, while still helping some great friends out (im self taught entirely, internet is powerful as you said, amount of information, and what the past people have left behind is huge, you literaly are matching this quote i say about how "were not reinvinting the wheel" thing) anyways, thank you for the content, this really makes me know im found myself to the right path
Thanks for making this video! I'm gonna build something!
I have been looking into this for a while so thank you for making this video. You have confirmed a lot of my assumptions, which is great!
Thanks for watching!
I have the same Weller soldering iron. Great advice; it works very well.
Thanks Buck! It’s such a good one for the price 👍
Dude, thanks for taking the time to share your expertise!
Thanks for watching!!
Thanks for the information. Just ordered my first kit! If the the solder job I did on my guitar is anything to go by I'd better order extra solder and one of those suckers too.
If I'm honest I'm mainly looking forward to painting the enclosure
Thanks for the video. I am excited to make something.
Nice to see someone who went to school in OR.
Super inspiring.
Appreciate this, cool to hear someone who makes a living selling pedals encouraging everyone to build their own 👌
thank for watching Spencer and hope you have fun making pedals!
Hey man, I watched you from Greece and I really enjoyed your video! Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Great video! Built a mod thunder drive a while back and looking to do go feeling into knowing what I’m doing. Super helpful video. Coming outta Stafford CT.
love the video. ordering everything i need to start building today!!
Thanks I’m moving from Oregon to Hawaii and want to start building pedals on the Big Island. Your channel is a great find :)
Awesome video, thanks
Nice vid just finished my first course in college for electrical engineering and I’m wanting to get into pedal building while I wait till for my next course to start in January
That is so awesome and good job finishing up your first course!!!!!!! I hope you do find a fun pedal project or small amplifier (:
5:00 stone solid man. The mania over the art is so unhealthy.
Gratitude is the attitude.
Thank you Jon!
Super helpful stuff, thanks! And hi from McMinnville!
Bazzfuss was the first pedal for me too, a good one to start soldering, and also a very cool fuzz pedal to play with when it's done !
such a fun one!
This was awesome. This is something I've wanted to get into for a long time, and I think I'm finally going to. Thank you!
I’d just like to say thank you so much for your effort. This is truly an amazing and heart warming welcome into the world of electronics. I can see the passion that you hold for these things and I truly admire that. Thanks for paying it forward and making it easier for others to get involved.
Was just up in Corvallis for the holidays...small world 🌎
Thank you Buddy loved this!!!! Enjoy the Journey!!!
Thanks for watching!
I'm an electrical engineering and music major and my plan is to go into audio electronics!! Any advice you may recommend?
Start making circuit designs and PCBs now, make lots of projects, makybe start blog or youtube channel to document your work. If you ever want to apply as design engineer to a larger company all of that work makes a great resume and shows your dedication also. Hope that is hekpful! (:
Just bought my first pedal and then I bought a second before I even received the first. It is what it is. I’ve poorly build a compressor about 7 years back. I’ve learned a lot about how to do things in general since then so I’ve feeling good if not apprehensive. Longe story longer than it should. I’m glad I’ve found your channel. So wish me luck on my guitar PCb kits of a bass drive and model t amp in a box builds.
Ps. Judging from the kits purchased what should my next build be. And thank you.
Great channel, just got my wife a HM-6 after watching videos on all your products. Very cool stuff and great educational content.🤘
Real good intro. I've been doing it off and on for a long time. I mostly built patch cords. Now, I'm getting into pedals. I want to build a sythesizer. I have a lot of Moog circuits. That's much further down the line, if I live that long and we still live in a world where hobbies are tolerated.
I used only a RAT for at least 15 years thinking I’d never need another gain pedal because it did everything I wanted. Then my friend gave me the abominable Christmas ornament fuzz face kit. I didn’t expect much but now it’s the other dirt pedal I don’t want to go without, and I’ve built s pedalpcb clone of the Thorpy Fat General compressor. Don’t want to be without it either. I need those drawers! My desk is a PILE of parts and packs of strings and picks and oh my. But I do have the tools and I do know where they are.
I’m at the point where I want to start learning what does what and how to read schematics and start understanding the point A to point B to be able to isolate parts whose values I want to modify or swap etc.
Thank you for this video ! It's been some years already that I wanted to get into pedal modding (and maybe making my own for myself and bandmates) this video really helps and is motivational ! Cheers from France !
Great stuff man.
Watching from Terrace, BC Canada!
Appreciate your thoroughness. I am working out my first pedal build and I came across your vid, thank you!
good luck building!
Excellent information, just subscribed to your channel. Looking forward to viewing more of your videos.