This is all I ever wanted. I wanted to see somebody take a schematic and build it with real parts-- constantly referring back to the schematic. This was a huge help! Now I know the basics of how to read one!
Zero-experience electrical engineer here looking to get into this kind of thing and am amazed at the quality of this lesson!! Learnt so much about breadboards and reading schematics, thank you so much!
currently a junior in college studying electrical engineering. i wanted to make my own pedals after we learned transistor circuit designs and this a great stepping stone thank you
Hey, I'm a guitar player and I've been trying to learn about pedals and circuits. This video puts a lot of light and bridges the gap between theory diagram charts with the real board, so thanks! 😬🤟
I have a nephew who wants to start building pedals. Because of the physical distance between our respective cities, it’s difficult to try to get him started with the ins and outs of breadboarding. You did a swimmingly splendid job here sir. I’ve watched maybe a dozen videos, curating as I go and yours is the best. I’ll send him the link and answer any questions he might still have. I’ve been building my own circuits since the 90’s and designing my own circuits for the last five years. I was about ready to do my own video for my nephew to explain all this. Now I just have to send him a link. Again, much thanks to you for this superb tutorial.
Thanks so much! I remember watching some of your vids a few years ago. As a musician I was fascinated, but didn't understand any of the electronics. I finally chose the path beyond ignorance and went back to school to study EE. This video helped me understand the relationship between power and signal in a schematic. Now I can finish my semester final! Yaayyy!
Really excellent tutorial! Absolutely what I needed! As someone trying to learn basic electronics, I've been struggling with understanding how to translate a schematic to a real working circuit, what matters and what does not, how to connect everything, etc. This video shows and explains everything very well. Just what I've been looking for! The only thing I miss is something about how/why these components work in a guitar effect pedal. Apologies if you already have videos on that on your channel. I've started to understand how transistors and diodes work, but a video about how they work in a guitar effect, how they modify the signal, etc, would be very nice. I'm also a guitar player and have been wanting to learn how to make my own effect pedals, which makes your channel even better, so thanks a lot for your videos!!!
Understanding the purpose and why a component is in a circuit is key to having some confidence in modifying. I see this comment is a bit old, hopefully you've found the resource you were looking for :)
@@derekmitchell2675there are some actual pedal kits like the 8 dollar fuzz pedal but I think you need a solder and a case to put it in but they do have kits for pedals
Very old comment but maybe you or somebody else would still like some insight! Really knowing how to make a working guitar pedal can quickly become a complicated task where some math or engineering knowledge would be needed. However if you still want to find out I’ll give you a starting point. What you’re guitar(pickup’s) are doing is translating sound to a electrical signal. Now that we have this electrical signal we can play with it what every component is doing individually is very hard(impossible) to get in to precisely due to the incredible amount of possible configurations and differences in outcome. But a good starting point might be transfer functions for RCL circuits it’s a mathematical way that creates a formula called a transfer function the formula tells you what happens with the signal if it passes through the circuit. If you get comfortable with these functions you know what the output graph is going to look like and how it will influences the input!
If you are just interested in re making some pedals and don’t care about the theory of making one I would just suggest buying or finding some schematics for pedals and a good soldering kit!
recommend putting the schematic link in the description since you say "do-it-yourself" in the url not "diy" for people that haven't been to your site before :) Love your vids btw started building a couple months ago.
Any Chance you can do a series ( full Build on one or a few of your circuits , from start to finish ) . I know you have covered drilling cases etc but a full build multi part series would be fantastic to see .
So I did it but I used stereo 9v Jack and stereo input and output Jacks. The pedal signal comes through but is terribly gated and comes through distorted. Any ideas as to why?
I was always looking for somewhere I could redirect beginners when I am writing instructables, so they have immediate help when struggling with the basics. And I have to say: you did a marvellous job guiding people through the process and showing how to approach things and what to look for! Thank you a lot!
Best tutorial I have seen detailing how a schematic is wired up on a breadboard. I was having trouble visualizing it and this clarified the whole process. Thank you!!
You my friend deserve much more credit. You explained the circuit board perfectly. Even better than my teacher. Thanks a lot. Now you have earned yourself 1 more Subscriber.
I don't know how any assholes can give you a thumbs down on anything. You're providing such an amazing, informative service that is clear and friendly and you give this away for free. I'm so thankful for your videos, I'd have no leg into this world without your videos dumbing things down for dumbies like me.
Thank you sir! Thumbs down mean nothing when you receive emails from fans telling you how they started learning from your videos and have moved onto their dream jobs in the pedal and electronic engineering fields. Stay focused on the goal and the purpose my friend. PS, your not dumb, your a beginner. Stick with it and you will learn alot.
It worked! It worked! After several failures and wanting to give up on this passion of mine this video lifted me up! But you were wrong it's been 4 hours and I still can't wipe the grin off my face 😀
I built this along with you last night and I can't say thank you enough! I'll be ordering a PCB kit soon just as a way of thanking you. This is just what I needed to better understand guitar circuits and I plan to swap out components of different values to see what they do!
This was really great! As someone who's always had trouble with electronics, this was nice and easy to follow. Definitely learned something here. Thanks a lot, mate!
First, I must say that the best dad hands down that you have on the wall is the cutest thing 😍 Second, is that I really enjoyed the video and I look forward to giving one of the kits a go at some point as this video was really easy to understand. Thank you very much :-)
Hey Paul, thanks for making such an easy to understand tutorial on breadboarding and basic circuitry. This is the video I've been looking for for about a year, I haven't found anything else that breaks down the way the blasted things are wired up internally in such an easy-to-understand manner. I'm going to have a play with the components I have for now but I've bookmarked your site for when I get to the point of wanting specialised components for projects I'm working on. Great to find a small-scale Australian supplier for all of those more arcane transistors etc. used in audio circuitry as well. Take care!
Nice one, this is 90% of what I have been looking for. The only bit I see missing is a brief description of what each component does, what bigger and smaller values do.
Cool video...as a complete noob, I'm gonna look foreward to watching several times to wrap my mind around it, and try it myself along with the video. Thanks!
Hey man, big thumbs up for your vids, i'm a beginner in electronics and just built some kits with success... but what i really miss is: WHY an Xk resistance, or WHY an Yk instead? or why a Znf cond and not an Kuf instead? i mean, if you can, could you bring up a vid (or a series of vids) explaining the basic WHY of a circuit choices (also this little booster is totally incomprehensible to me) for audio? thanks.
The LPB1 is basically a gain stage to produce natural saturation in an amplifier. The circuit is one of the first EHX products, and it was intended to push the tubes in an amp into overdrive and create not only a volume increase but clipping, and give the guitar the basic slightly distorted sound. Now, in this schematic he's just building a basic polarization network for the JFET transistor in the center. If you read more about biasing transistors, and using them as amplifiers you'll understand a little bit more. There's some math but it isn't hard to understand ;)
Nice tutorial. Do you have a video explaining component choice & purpose? I have decent electronics knowledge, but I'm still struggling to visualize the electron flow. It would also be nice if you marked the expected voltages or even the expected waveform & frequency (depending on application of course).
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and time here, people like you have inspired me to move forward in doing this and other projects. My ultimate goal is to make an amp but this is far into the future. Again, thank you!
watched about six other videos on this subject, none of them nearly as helpful! just built your bazz fuss successfully, now I'm working on a simple tremolo from a schematic I found. Cheers
I've just found your video on how to build fx pedals brilliant I love the way you take the time to show exactly what goes where really looking forward to having a go .
This is an awesome and informative video. Do you have any videos where you explain the theory on why we use certain components at different locations in the schematic? “we put a capacitor here because” and “we use a 100 ohm resistor here and a 10K ohm resistor here because…”
Fantastically helpful vid as a newbie to pedal building myself, I have this circuit 90% complete on a small breadboard just waiting on parts from Amazon and Ebay. I have ordered big stocks so loads of prototypes. Next is a Dallas treble booster again waiting for my geranium transistors to arrive.
Hi ! Thanks for all that helpful tips ! I made it this week-end with components that i found in electronics garbages in the street. They have not really same values than the ones you use, but the pedal works pretty well for now, and it sound more like a fuzz :P
Awesome video! I'm considering trying to mess around with pedal circuits mostly as a curiosity at this point. This gave me a basic understanding of how to get things hooked up.
Great, thanks it works with my electric guitar. Only the output is still to weak for my 60 watt amp. How can I make a higher output gain without distortion ? I use a 2N2222 transistor.
Very interesting ! Thanks ! Question is for beginners : how to learn the basis BUT applied principles of electronics ? I mean understand what a component (a resistor, a capacitor, a transistor, a diode) does is (quite) easy, but understanding how and why they are combined is way more difficult, even with the help of many internet resources. Most of the time, those tutorials says nothing about these combinations... Where to start from ? Any advice here ?
You really are gifted in circuits, I've been bashing my head on it and I simply cannot get the pedal build I'm working on, to work. (Lm386).. it's like I'm missing something obvious.
Thanks mate! You've made one huge connection for me. You've joined three of my hobbies. Namely guitar, computers & electronics. A nifty "Start here..." first lesson. I have some breadboard & a box of wires & components that came "free" with an Arduino clone. I know what I'll be doing tonight! Just had a thought... Do you think an Arduino could be the heart of a multi FX pedal or would latency be a problem? 🤔 Subscribed! 🙂
Maybe a bit of a silly question, but what do I use as ground? I'm doing some simple pedal builds on a breadboard with a 9V battery but I'm unsure what I should be using as ground or what I should be connecting the ground leads to.
About 5 minutes in he speaks of a resistance point where you won't get a beep, if anybody is wondering he's talking about the beeping u hear on your multimeter and it usually happens around 30 60 ohms. Not all multimeters will beep, but they should all read continuity (all or almost all zeros, like a short piece of wire) and the point where the speaker begins to stop sounding (the resistance of the beep circuit and the speaker, is what I think he's talking about.
Great and very instructive intro to bread boarding, answered a lot of questions I'd got. Have been thinking of reusing a large metal biscuit tin as an enclosure, with the common parts i.e power input / output jacks and maybe a few switches installed in the sides of the tin. I think Brian Wampler used an amp chasis for the same kind of thing. After watching your video feel a bit more like trying to make it work. I'm fairly new to this stuff, having modded a few pedals from kits and getting bitten by the bug! Thanks once again - great video.
Excellent video, thank you. I was curious if you have any recommendations on purchasing various components in order to have a variety to experiment. Are there kits with various resistors/capacitors etc available or do you buy them ad hoc as you need them? Decided to start playing around with electronics after I retired in order to keep an active mind.
Thank you for this video, just really getting into breadboarding. Now I know I understand it. I appreciate your attention to detail. Thanks again, Steve
Hey, great video but I was wondering if you would suggest any books to understand the terminology and concept behind it all and also schematic reading? I want to really dive deep into creating my own pedals 😁
This is an incredibly helpful tutorial. So informative and so easily disseminated! Thank you for posting this. I just wanted to ask one more thing of you. Do you have any resources that explain the process like this for a 3 band EQ pedal (bass / mid / treble)? I'm struggling to find something that explains how to make one at an absolute beginner level like this one. Thanks once again!
I'm a beginner with electronics but keen to learn how to make and tweak effects pedals. One thing that's confusing me. What's the difference between 'k' 'r' and omega with resistors?
Hey man. This video is awesome! Im trying to design a pedal for an university class, but I have a question. How does the BJT model will affect the circuit? I mean, what if I choose an 2N3904 instead? What values in the datasheet should I look for? Thank you!
This is all I ever wanted. I wanted to see somebody take a schematic and build it with real parts-- constantly referring back to the schematic. This was a huge help! Now I know the basics of how to read one!
Dude all your videos are great, it's like 6 years later and your still teaching noobs how to build pedals man thank you
💯. Hope he comes back.
Zero-experience electrical engineer here looking to get into this kind of thing and am amazed at the quality of this lesson!! Learnt so much about breadboards and reading schematics, thank you so much!
currently a junior in college studying electrical engineering. i wanted to make my own pedals after we learned transistor circuit designs and this a great stepping stone thank you
This was really a nice beginner video. You really did a nice job explaining how the breadboard contacts work. Lots of great beginner info here.
Hey, I'm a guitar player and I've been trying to learn about pedals and circuits. This video puts a lot of light and bridges the gap between theory diagram charts with the real board, so thanks! 😬🤟
I have a nephew who wants to start building pedals. Because of the physical distance between our respective cities, it’s difficult to try to get him started with the ins and outs of breadboarding.
You did a swimmingly splendid job here sir. I’ve watched maybe a dozen videos, curating as I go and yours is the best. I’ll send him the link and answer any questions he might still have.
I’ve been building my own circuits since the 90’s and designing my own circuits for the last five years. I was about ready to do my own video for my nephew to explain all this. Now I just have to send him a link. Again, much thanks to you for this superb tutorial.
Build this today as my first tryout pedal circuit. Works like a charm. Could indeed not take the smile of my face for half an hour. Thanks!
Thanks so much! I remember watching some of your vids a few years ago. As a musician I was fascinated, but didn't understand any of the electronics. I finally chose the path beyond ignorance and went back to school to study EE. This video helped me understand the relationship between power and signal in a schematic. Now I can finish my semester final! Yaayyy!
I think this was the most helpful tutorial for these guitar pedals that I've seen so far! Awesome!
Really excellent tutorial! Absolutely what I needed! As someone trying to learn basic electronics, I've been struggling with understanding how to translate a schematic to a real working circuit, what matters and what does not, how to connect everything, etc. This video shows and explains everything very well. Just what I've been looking for!
The only thing I miss is something about how/why these components work in a guitar effect pedal. Apologies if you already have videos on that on your channel. I've started to understand how transistors and diodes work, but a video about how they work in a guitar effect, how they modify the signal, etc, would be very nice.
I'm also a guitar player and have been wanting to learn how to make my own effect pedals, which makes your channel even better, so thanks a lot for your videos!!!
Understanding the purpose and why a component is in a circuit is key to having some confidence in modifying.
I see this comment is a bit old, hopefully you've found the resource you were looking for :)
Can you purchase a kit with components
@@derekmitchell2675there are some actual pedal kits like the 8 dollar fuzz pedal but I think you need a solder and a case to put it in but they do have kits for pedals
Very old comment but maybe you or somebody else would still like some insight! Really knowing how to make a working guitar pedal can quickly become a complicated task where some math or engineering knowledge would be needed. However if you still want to find out I’ll give you a starting point.
What you’re guitar(pickup’s) are doing is translating sound to a electrical signal. Now that we have this electrical signal we can play with it what every component is doing individually is very hard(impossible) to get in to precisely due to the incredible amount of possible configurations and differences in outcome.
But a good starting point might be transfer functions for RCL circuits it’s a mathematical way that creates a formula called a transfer function the formula tells you what happens with the signal if it passes through the circuit. If you get comfortable with these functions you know what the output graph is going to look like and how it will influences the input!
If you are just interested in re making some pedals and don’t care about the theory of making one I would just suggest buying or finding some schematics for pedals and a good soldering kit!
recommend putting the schematic link in the description since you say "do-it-yourself" in the url not "diy" for people that haven't been to your site before :) Love your vids btw started building a couple months ago.
Whoops, thanks for letting me know. Added link to description and pinned this comment for anyone confused. Cheers
Any Chance you can do a series ( full Build on one or a few of your circuits , from start to finish ) . I know you have covered drilling cases etc but a full build multi part series would be fantastic to see .
So I did it but I used stereo 9v Jack and stereo input and output Jacks. The pedal signal comes through but is terribly gated and comes through distorted. Any ideas as to why?
@@parabot2 I agree with para. This would be wonderful!
@@mllahTime289 was this issue ever resolved? I may attempt to try and build one of these.
I was always looking for somewhere I could redirect beginners when I am writing instructables, so they have immediate help when struggling with the basics. And I have to say: you did a marvellous job guiding people through the process and showing how to approach things and what to look for! Thank you a lot!
Best tutorial I have seen detailing how a schematic is wired up on a breadboard. I was having trouble visualizing it and this clarified the whole process. Thank you!!
Your channel is a gold mine. Thank you.
Thanks mate, appreciate your support and comment! Cheers
You my friend deserve much more credit. You explained the circuit board perfectly. Even better than my teacher.
Thanks a lot. Now you have earned yourself 1 more Subscriber.
I'm from the states and I appreciate you saying "and this be." and thanks for the info. free education is all the internet should be
I don't know how any assholes can give you a thumbs down on anything. You're providing such an amazing, informative service that is clear and friendly and you give this away for free. I'm so thankful for your videos, I'd have no leg into this world without your videos dumbing things down for dumbies like me.
Thank you sir! Thumbs down mean nothing when you receive emails from fans telling you how they started learning from your videos and have moved onto their dream jobs in the pedal and electronic engineering fields. Stay focused on the goal and the purpose my friend. PS, your not dumb, your a beginner. Stick with it and you will learn alot.
I just completed this and you are right, huge smile on my face!
It worked! It worked! After several failures and wanting to give up on this passion of mine this video lifted me up! But you were wrong it's been 4 hours and I still can't wipe the grin off my face 😀
I built this along with you last night and I can't say thank you enough! I'll be ordering a PCB kit soon just as a way of thanking you. This is just what I needed to better understand guitar circuits and I plan to swap out components of different values to see what they do!
Thanks Michael, I appreciate your suppport. Good luck with diy pedal building!
This was really great!
As someone who's always had trouble with electronics, this was nice and easy to follow. Definitely learned something here. Thanks a lot, mate!
You have an incredibly natural ability to teach! Very glad I found this channel!
Making mistakes in your video is very helpful. It helps to understand how it works.
First, I must say that the best dad hands down that you have on the wall is the cutest thing 😍
Second, is that I really enjoyed the video and I look forward to giving one of the kits a go at some point as this video was really easy to understand. Thank you very much :-)
This has really helped me understand how breadboards and circuits work. I'm looking forward to trying this out. Ordering a breadboard now!
You are an absolute legend for sharing your knowledge so freely. Thank you 🙏
Mate, that is the best beginner electronics video I've ever seen you absolute legend. Thanks!
This channel is liquid gold. Gold, Jerry!
Thanks man, what a great way to spend an afternoon!
This man deserves a medal
Thanks a lot! 6 years after this video was posted it's still helping noobies like me!
How in the hell is this page not have at least 500k subs?? This is amazing. Thank you very much.
I think the subject matter is very specific, you have to have an interest in electronics and guitar pedals. Thanks for the comment, i appreciate it :D
Been struggling with learning how to put a schematic into a breadboard and this was perfect. I have zero background in electronics.
Hey Paul, thanks for making such an easy to understand tutorial on breadboarding and basic circuitry. This is the video I've been looking for for about a year, I haven't found anything else that breaks down the way the blasted things are wired up internally in such an easy-to-understand manner. I'm going to have a play with the components I have for now but I've bookmarked your site for when I get to the point of wanting specialised components for projects I'm working on. Great to find a small-scale Australian supplier for all of those more arcane transistors etc. used in audio circuitry as well. Take care!
Excellent explanation of how a breadboard works , and really interesting circuit well worth the watch , think I will be having a go at this ... thx
You've got someone interested in electronics and pedals now, thank you for this lesson!
You make the best guitar pedals content/tutorials for any beginner and for free! You sir are a legend.
Nice one, this is 90% of what I have been looking for. The only bit I see missing is a brief description of what each component does, what bigger and smaller values do.
The best clear explanation by far. And I like the way you show a clear view of the connections. Thanks
Deffinaty the most amazing tutorial I have ever seen. Well done man
Thanks for making this! I’m looking forward to doing projects on a breadboard, after years of kits and vero.
Cool video...as a complete noob, I'm gonna look foreward to watching several times to wrap my mind around it, and try it myself along with the video. Thanks!
Hey man, big thumbs up for your vids, i'm a beginner in electronics and just built some kits with success... but what i really miss is: WHY an Xk resistance, or WHY an Yk instead? or why a Znf cond and not an Kuf instead? i mean, if you can, could you bring up a vid (or a series of vids) explaining the basic WHY of a circuit choices (also this little booster is totally incomprehensible to me) for audio? thanks.
The LPB1 is basically a gain stage to produce natural saturation in an amplifier. The circuit is one of the first EHX products, and it was intended to push the tubes in an amp into overdrive and create not only a volume increase but clipping, and give the guitar the basic slightly distorted sound. Now, in this schematic he's just building a basic polarization network for the JFET transistor in the center. If you read more about biasing transistors, and using them as amplifiers you'll understand a little bit more. There's some math but it isn't hard to understand ;)
Nice tutorial. Do you have a video explaining component choice & purpose? I have decent electronics knowledge, but I'm still struggling to visualize the electron flow. It would also be nice if you marked the expected voltages or even the expected waveform & frequency (depending on application of course).
Fantastic tutorial, I love how in depth you went!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and time here, people like you have inspired me to move forward in doing this and other projects. My ultimate goal is to make an amp but this is far into the future. Again, thank you!
You are amazingly thorough. Thank you for this awesome video.
watched about six other videos on this subject, none of them nearly as helpful! just built your bazz fuss successfully, now I'm working on a simple tremolo from a schematic I found. Cheers
Superb detail appropriate for a beginner or refresher. A must watch.
I've just found your video on how to build fx pedals brilliant I love the way you take the time to show exactly what goes where really looking forward to having a go .
Just ordered a bunch of parts and bread board and stumbled on your video. Thank you for all the great info!!!
This is an awesome and informative video. Do you have any videos where you explain the theory on why we use certain components at different locations in the schematic? “we put a capacitor here because” and “we use a 100 ohm resistor here and a 10K ohm resistor here because…”
Fantastically helpful vid as a newbie to pedal building myself, I have this circuit 90% complete on a small breadboard just waiting on parts from Amazon and Ebay. I have ordered big stocks so loads of prototypes.
Next is a Dallas treble booster again waiting for my geranium transistors to arrive.
Perfect. Just what I was looking for to get started. Thank you!
Thank you sir I always wanted to start doing something like this. I know where to start now.
Hi ! Thanks for all that helpful tips !
I made it this week-end with components that i found in electronics garbages in the street. They have not really same values than the ones you use, but the pedal works pretty well for now, and it sound more like a fuzz :P
The devils into details. Excellent tutorial.
Right video, I like the nerdy stuff
Excellently explained and showed, thanks!
Awesome video! I'm considering trying to mess around with pedal circuits mostly as a curiosity at this point. This gave me a basic understanding of how to get things hooked up.
Woo Hoo! Scuba gear ON! I'm diving DEEP down this rabbit hole.
thank you. very interesting and complete tutorial. Can I ask you the complete schematic for your POWER SUPPLY REGULATOR. Where do I find it? Thank you
Incredibly useful tutorial--big thanks.
A simple, and sincere thank you!
Great, thanks it works with my electric guitar. Only the output is still to weak for my 60 watt amp. How can I make a higher output gain without distortion ? I use a 2N2222 transistor.
I started with a fuzz, now I'm building half bridge circuits for researching Radiant electricity. great way to start learning.
Very interesting ! Thanks ! Question is for beginners : how to learn the basis BUT applied principles of electronics ? I mean understand what a component (a resistor, a capacitor, a transistor, a diode) does is (quite) easy, but understanding how and why they are combined is way more difficult, even with the help of many internet resources. Most of the time, those tutorials says nothing about these combinations... Where to start from ? Any advice here ?
There is a tutorial on RUclips I found helpfull
the art of electronics book ,by horowitz
Thanks for the info ! This book has amazing reviews
Excellent; gr8 delivery for this newbie . Much thanks.
Thank you so much for going into detail here!
A GREAT lesson for beginners. Thanks for this video!
This video has helped me immensely. Thank you!
Exactly what I needed, thank you! Your videos are a treasure trove!
You really are gifted in circuits, I've been bashing my head on it and I simply cannot get the pedal build I'm working on, to work. (Lm386).. it's like I'm missing something obvious.
Mister, you just earned yourself a new subscriber. Thank you for all the information you share.
Thanks a million. You just got me started in a new hobby. Peace
Thanks man, Wicked tutorial! Is there anyway you can go through the calculations for working out which components to use and what size?
Please do that and also explain what each component actually does in the effect's circuit.
Thanks mate! You've made one huge connection for me. You've joined three of my hobbies. Namely guitar, computers & electronics.
A nifty "Start here..." first lesson.
I have some breadboard & a box of wires & components that came "free" with an Arduino clone.
I know what I'll be doing tonight!
Just had a thought...
Do you think an Arduino could be the heart of a multi FX pedal or would latency be a problem? 🤔
Subscribed! 🙂
couldn't get a signal on breadboard but after soldering component to component it worked. satisfaction is as you assured =). thx a lot!
I loved this video, particularly the advice at the end. Can’t wait to get a breadboard and start changing circuits 🔥
This is incredible. Thank you so much!!!
That was amazing dude. You've effectively taught an old dog some new tricks
Maybe a bit of a silly question, but what do I use as ground? I'm doing some simple pedal builds on a breadboard with a 9V battery but I'm unsure what I should be using as ground or what I should be connecting the ground leads to.
About 5 minutes in he speaks of a resistance point where you won't get a beep, if anybody is wondering he's talking about the beeping u hear on your multimeter and it usually happens around 30
60 ohms. Not all multimeters will beep, but they should all read continuity (all or almost all zeros, like a short piece of wire) and the
point where the speaker begins to stop sounding (the resistance
of the beep circuit and the speaker, is what I think he's talking about.
Great and very instructive intro to bread boarding, answered a lot of questions I'd got.
Have been thinking of reusing a large metal biscuit tin as an enclosure, with the common parts i.e power input / output jacks and maybe a few switches installed in the sides of the tin. I think Brian Wampler used an amp chasis for the same kind of thing.
After watching your video feel a bit more like trying to make it work. I'm fairly new to this stuff, having modded a few pedals from kits and getting bitten by the bug!
Thanks once again - great video.
Excellent video, thank you. I was curious if you have any recommendations on purchasing various components in order to have a variety to experiment. Are there kits with various resistors/capacitors etc available or do you buy them ad hoc as you need them?
Decided to start playing around with electronics after I retired in order to keep an active mind.
Thank you for this video, just really getting into breadboarding. Now I know I understand it. I appreciate your attention to detail.
Thanks again,
Steve
Hey, great video but I was wondering if you would suggest any books to understand the terminology and concept behind it all and also schematic reading? I want to really dive deep into creating my own pedals 😁
Simply Amazing
great channel
what do i do to convert the input to line level? thanks
This is an incredibly helpful tutorial. So informative and so easily disseminated! Thank you for posting this.
I just wanted to ask one more thing of you. Do you have any resources that explain the process like this for a 3 band EQ pedal (bass / mid / treble)? I'm struggling to find something that explains how to make one at an absolute beginner level like this one.
Thanks once again!
awesome video! very informative on how to use a breadboard and read a schematic. Thanks!
Great video, but "tends to get messy when you're making connections on connections on connections"? Isn't that what the breadboard is for?
great video thank you
Thanks dude. Helped a lot to finaly start building a pedal!
Extremely helpful. Thank you very much
Very helpful tutorial. I have one question. Where would you add a switch to turn it on or off?
On the positive, red lead, from the battery or power supply. I'd stick a diode on that lead too to protect from crossed polarity mistakes.
I'm a beginner with electronics but keen to learn how to make and tweak effects pedals. One thing that's confusing me. What's the difference between 'k' 'r' and omega with resistors?
Hey man. This video is awesome! Im trying to design a pedal for an university class, but I have a question. How does the BJT model will affect the circuit? I mean, what if I choose an 2N3904 instead? What values in the datasheet should I look for? Thank you!
Years late on this but loved it ...... could I go from bread board to housing it for real?