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DIY Guitar Effects

Pedals, effects and other cool projects related to guitar effects

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Super Hard On

The Super Hard On is a classic and simple DIY project, widely considered one of the best guitar boosters available. This circuit drives your amp into a natural-sounding overload.
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Mini Guitar Amp

This mini guitar amplifier is perfect for home practice. It features gain and volume controls, offering a very dynamic sound.
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Distortion Plus

The Distortion + is one of the DIY pedal classics. It has the ability to generate a great tone range from overdrive to distortion.
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Les Lius

The Les Lius emulates the sound of vintage Fender amplifiers. The toggle switch allows you to select between three distortion tones. In addition, a second footswitch is used to boost the gain, emulating the sound of the amplifier when it is cranked.
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English Man

This pedal emulates a VOX AC amplifier pushed to its limit. With the ability to function as a clean boost or an overdrive, it delivers a great dynamic response based on your volume and gain settings.
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Eternity

This guitar pedal offers a very smooth type of overdrive similar to the saturation generated by a vacuum tube. It is perfect to play blues and rock, adding a smooth saturation and good sustain.
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Plexitone

This pedal can generate every tone you need. The Crunch channel provides from soft overdrive to hard rock distortion. The High Gain channel offers from rock gain stages to high-gain shred. Additionally a Boost will add extra volume to your pedal output.
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Box of Rock

The Box of Rock pedal emulates the JTM45 tone. This pedal has great headroom and you will be able to control the distortion by using the guitar volume knob.
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Linear Power Booster

This is the iconic LPB booster, delivering a gain boost with added clarity and definition. Use it to drive your amplifier into smooth saturation for a richer and more dynamic sound.
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Bass Booster Hogs Foot

This bass booster is the Hog's Foot or Mole, a classic Linear Power Booster tuned for bass guitar. It delivers a powerful boost, making the low-end more defined.
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Treble Booster Screaming Bird

This treble booster is the Screaming Bird, a Linear Power Booster tuned to boost the high frequencies. Whether it is overdriving an amp or just adding some highs, it will make your guitar cut through any mix.
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Treble Booster Brian May

This treble booster is a classic DIY project. Use it to boost the treble and midrange frequencies of the guitar signal while cutting out the low end.
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Electra Distortion

The Electra Distortion is a simple and great overdrive/distortion pedal that emulates the tone of a cranked Tweed amp.
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COT50

The COT 50 is a versatile booster with unique tube-like sound. With a single gain knob, it can be used as a clean boost, a powerful crunch booster, or an overdrive.
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One Knob Fuzz

This is the One Knob Fuzz, a high gain fuzz with a very smooth response. This classic DIY project is very easy to build and delivers a fantastic fuzz sound.
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EP Booster

The EP Booster is designed to be more than just a clean boost; it adds warmth, sparkle, and definition to your sound. The PCB also includes dedicated pads for toggle switches, allowing you to control the amount of bass and treble.
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Purple Plexi 800

The Purple Plexi is a powerful distortion pedal with plexi-style amps tone. It is very dynamic and touch-sensitive distortion, perfect for rock music.
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Distortus Maximus

Distortus Maximus is a high-gain distortion pedal with three-band equalization. It produces rich harmonics and massive amount of gain ideal to play metal.
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Fuzz Factory

The Fuzz Factory is a five-knob fuzz pedal with huge range of sound possibilities. This is classic DIY pedal project that can be built with either germanium or silicon transistors.
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Guv'nor

This is the classic Guv’nor, a high-gain distortion pedal. It has a vintage valve amp sounding, with a wide range of distortion and three knobs to control the tone. It is a perfect pedal for blues, rock or metal.
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Fuzz Face

This is the Fuzz Face, the legendary fuzz pedal. With this PCB you can build the original or many other variants using either PNP or NPN transistors.
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JFET preamp

This JFET preamplifier delivers a fantastic tube-like sound. The circuit is exceptionally simple to build and can be used as a versatile booster.
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PCB for 1590B enclosure

This board will help you to build your DIY guitar pedal in the 1590B enclosure. Led, jacks and footswitch are mounted on the PCB, being only necessary to wire the battery and the effect PCB.
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Tubescreamer

The Tubescreamer is probably the most built overdrive pedal in the DIY community. The pedal has a characteristic mid-boosted tone perfect for soft rock and blues.
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RAT

This is the RAT, one of the most popular distortion effects. It performs very nice high-gain distortion suitable for metal, grunge or rock.
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Dual Looper

The Dual Loop allows you to alternate between two different effect loops. It provides two switchable loops (send / return) with a single foot switch.
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Klon Buffer

The Klon Buffer is one of the most popular guitar buffers. This simple and effective circuit restores the high frequencies lost through long cables or large pedal chains.
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OCD overdrive

This popular DIY pedal produces the dynamic feeling and harmonics typical of tube amps. It has a switch to control the overdrive brightness.
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BSIAB2 Distortion

The most popular DIY high-gain distortion pedal is here. The Brown Sound In A Box version 2 (BSIAB2) is the excellent distortion pedal. It performs Marshall-type distortion that sounds great with low or high drive.
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SMD Transistor PCB

Quality through-hole FETs are becoming hard to find, replacing them with their SMD version is the best solution. This PCB is designed for placing SMD transistors and easily substituting the through-hole ones.
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Protoboard for 1590B enclosure

This board will definitely help you to build your DIY guitar pedal in the 1590B enclosure. Just built your effect circuit on the preperforated area of the PCB. Led, jacks and footswitch are mounted on the PCB, being only necessary to wi
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Shred Master

The Shred Master is a classic high gain distortion pedal from the 90s. It provides a good range of gain and has three knobs to control the tone. It is a perfect distortion for playing rock or metal.
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PCB for 1590BB enclosure

This board will help you to build your DIY guitar pedal in the 1590BB enclosure. Led, jacks and footswitch are mounted on the PCB, being only necessary to wire the battery and the effect PCB.
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Orange Squeezer

The Orange Squeezer is a classic and simple DIY guitar project. This circuit provides smooth and effective compression, perfect for controlling and shaping your guitar's dynamics.
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Stratoblaster

The Stratoblaster is a classic DIY booster pedal. When pushed to high boost levels, it adds a nice, warm saturation to your sound.
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Charge Pump

This versatile charge pump generates both –9 V and +18 V from a single +9 V power source.
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Rangemaster

The Rangemaster is a legendary treble booster from the 1960s, used by Eric Clapton and Brian May. It produces a brighter tone, adding color to the signal.
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Big Muff

This is the legendary Big Muff! This unique fuzz distortion pedal provides rich harmonics and a huge dose of sustain.
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Tone Bender

The Tone Bender is one of the most iconic fuzz effects from the 60s. With this PCB you can build the original or many other variants using either PNP or NPN transistors.
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Box of Metal

The Box of Metal is a high-gain distortion pedal great for metal and hard rock.
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OD-1 Overdrive

The OD-1 is a legendary overdrive pedal. With only two knobs (gain and volume) creates warm and vintage overdrive tones.
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EA Tremolo

This is the EA Tremolo, a classic DIY guitar effect project. This pedal varies the volume automatically over the time with speed and intensity controls.
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Dr Q Autowah

The Dr Q is a classic DIY autowah project that delivers a highly interactive envelope filter effect. It responds to your playing dynamics to create the distinctive choppy rhythm of the 1970s funk recordings.
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Zendrive

The Zendrive delivers the perfect balance of saturation and tone. It comes with four knobs to control the gain, volume, tone and voicing.
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Fuzz Factory 1590B

This is the Fuzz Factory in a 1590B enclosure, a classic DIY fuzz pedal project that can be built with either germanium or silicon transistors.
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Dr Boogie Distortion

Dr Boogie Distortion is a JFET emulation of the Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Solo Head.
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Red Llama

The Red Llama is a very versatile and easy to build pedal. With just few components and two knobs, it delivers great overdrive and distortion.
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PCB for 1590BB enclosure (horizontal)

This board will help to build your DIY guitar pedal in the 1590BB enclosure. Led, jacks and footswitch are mounted on the PCB, being only necessary to wire the battery and the effect PCB.
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Blues Breaker

This is the Blues Breaker, a very popular DIY pedal. It gives a very dynamic range, from transparent to overdriven sound.
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Full Drive

The Full Drive is a very versatile overdrive pedal with several clipping options and boost.
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Timmy Overdrive

The Timmy Overdrive provides a classic transparent overdrive with a huge versatility thanks to the three clipping options.
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OD Eleven

The OD Eleven provides a classic transparent overdrive perfect to drive a tube amplifier.
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Distortus Maximums (1590B Enclosure)

Distortus Maximus is a high-gain distortion pedal with three-band equalization. It produces rich harmonics and massive amount of gain ideal to play metal.
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Box of Rock (3 knobs)

The Box of Rock pedal emulates the JTM45 tone. This project simplifies the original circuit by removing the boost section, fitting in a 1590B enclosure with 3 knobs.
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Footswitch 3PDT PCB

This PCB is placed on the base of the 3PDT footswitch. It will help you to wire all the components of the pedal, keep a neat circuit and reduce the noise.
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Champ

This pedal emulates the sound and dynamics of a cranked Fender Tweed Champ.
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Amp Eleven

This pedal provides a classic overdriven tube amp tone with an extra gain booster.
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Woodrow

This pedal is designed to emulate the sound of a cranked 5E3 Tweed amplifier.
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Super Six Stevie

The Super Six Stevie reproduces the sound of the 60s Blackface Fender turned up to six.