Guitar Pedal DIY Part 2 - How To Build A Simple Overdrive Circuit On A Breadboard

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This is part 2 of a very basic introduction to building a guitar overdrive using a breadboard. This video is intended for those who have never used a breadboard but would love to join in on the fun of building your own pedal.
In this part 2 video we will first learn about the basics of how a breadboard works. Then, I will walk through each step of how to actually build the overdrive circuit. Finally, we will plug in the circuit and check to see if it actually works!
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Hope you enjoy the video and please share your thoughts in the comment section!
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Time stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:13 Building the circuit
30:31 Let's take it for a test drive
33:37 Quick play through of the tones
The signal chain: Late 80's Fender Japan Telecaster with Seymour Duncan Broadcaster Pickups - breadboard - 70's Japanese "BF Princeton inspired" tube amp - analog cab sim - computer
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@arito 7 месяцев назад

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@Jenisonc Месяц назад

Finally! I've been looking for something like this for what feels like forever. Thank you!!!

@arito Месяц назад

Thanks so much for the kind words!! I really appreciate it! Great to hear that this video was of some help to you, have fun with the build!!

@Jenisonc Месяц назад

@arito I will. I have not found very many videos (if any, now that I think of it) that go over off board wiring. I'm going to try to transfer this to strip board for practice. Have a great one 🤘🤙🖖

@tn7198 7 месяцев назад

This is an outstanding video. You are able to imagine what's in the mind of a beginner, like no other video I've seen. Thanks very much!! I am finally ready to build my first pedal circuit!

@arito 7 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for the kind words and compliments! Great to hear you enjoyed the video and that it was of some help to you! Yes, in making this video, I was very careful to put myself in the seat of how I felt when I didn't know how a breadboard even worked. Hope your build works out!

@Damaraja Год назад

This was the first instructional vid that led to me successfully breadboarding an overdrive circuit. Thanks for breaking it down carefully. I was a bit bummed when you cut straight past the part where you made the contacts from op amp to diodes (as you had been so clear and thorough up to then), but then the error turned out to be instructive (and entertaining 🤓), so it all worked out. I still wasn’t sure how you got clean sound first, but I’ll watch again and figure it out. You gave more than enough in these vids. Thanks again. This sounds pretty sweet. 🤙🙏👌

@arito Год назад

Thank you so much! I'm so happy to hear that you actually built the overdrive! I apologize that I breezed past the diode connection, it's sometimes really hard to take a step back and notice the things that might not be obvious. But, glad that my mistake created an opportunity to go back and reintroduce that connection. 🤣 The clean tone can be played by taking the two wires from your input & output jacks (in my case the yellow and purple wires) and plugging then in to an open/unused column on the breadboard. The ground wires (blue) can stay untouched. Hope this helps!

@user-ek2kh5uz1g 5 месяцев назад

This is the best tutorial i’ve found so far. Very clear and easy to follow. You might think of doing a pt2399 delay or better yet a reverse delay would be cool. Love your video.

@arito 5 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for kind compliments! I really appreciate it! Great to hear you enjoyed the video, I definitely would like to do a delay but I would really have to plan out the breadboard layout so it doesn't get crazy cluttered and confusing looking from the camera angle.

@MatthewJacobDaniel 9 месяцев назад

Fantastically clear instructions. Thanks for making this video!

@arito 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! I really appreciate the kind words, great to hear this video was of some help to you! Enjoy building the circuit and have fun with the finished pedal!

@poykehmusic Год назад

This *Vb* trick is a really clever way to implement circuits. Thanks for that tip, I'm gonna do so from now on ;-)

@arito Год назад

Thanks for watching! Great to hear you figured out what Vb does in the circuit!

@poykehmusic Год назад

@@arito You explained this clever idea very well. Cheers.

@arito Год назад

@@poykehmusic Thank you!

@JimmyGkavano 6 месяцев назад

What you do is very good and informative, thank you sir!

@arito 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for your kind words! I really appreciate it! I hope you enjoyed the video!

@alexandrebreton4720 8 месяцев назад

This mistake was amazing ! I love that sound ! I wanted to create an overdrive but I have to keep that in mind for later ! Thanks a lot for this serie !

@arito 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching! And thank you for the kind words! Great to hear that you enjoyed the UFO tones! 🤣

@taytaytazermusic2539 6 месяцев назад

this is such a good video. thank you so much!!!

@arito 6 месяцев назад

You're very welcome! Thanks for watching! Great to hear you liked the video!

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@fractalsauce Год назад

So I'm fairly new to the DIY pedal scene. Maybe 3-4 weeks in with no electrical engineering experience whatsoever so I'm still learning a ton every day, but it's been all I can think about since I jumped into this rabbit hole. I've done soldering work before and I'm big into 3d printers and working with Raspberry Pis and PCs and stuff like that but never any technical electrical work like this before. Anyways I followed Part 1 of this series, then I was following you in Part 2 here and once you "finished the circuit" I paused the video to try the one I made and it didn't work. I got a clean (yet quiet) signal with the gain all the way down, but as soon as I turned it up, it just made a popping noise and went dead silent. I'm playing through an audio interface as the only amp I have is a Dual Rectifier with a 4x12 cab and I'm not trying to wake up my neighborhood at 1am which is the only time I have free to do stuff like this lol. Anyways so I messed around with it for like 30 minutes then just gave up and went to bed. I came back from work the next day and watched through the video again to see if I messed something up somewhere. When I got back to the part where you "finished the circuit", instead of pausing the video to test mine I kept watching this time. And wouldn't you know it, yours was messed up too! Though since you were playing through an actual amp, you got some funny UFO noises from it where as for me...well I don't think my interface liked it so much so it just cut the signal off completely lol. So I kept watching until you figured out the issue, I corrected said issue in my breadboard and tested it out, and it worked! Such a great feeling! Also kind of a facepalm moment because if I just would've kept watching the night before I could've figured that out lol. Either way thank you for the thoroughly detailed video series on this. I searched google and youtube for guitar pedal breadboarding and out of the few videos that are out there, this is by far the best in terms of quality and comprehensibility. So thank you so much for making these videos. You saved me tons of time and I'm this much closer to being able to read schematics, understand a circuit, and not be afraid of experimenting and just messing around with circuits in general. I feel like a mad scientist doing this stuff and I love it! As a side note, I know you're in Japan but can you tell me where you get those trim pots you use? I'd love to get my hands on some. That yellow screw with the blue around it and the white etch marks just looks super handy and I can't find them anywhere. I know there's probably a slim chance I'll be able to get them, but I'll take that chance! ...Sorry for the long rant btw

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@fractalsauce Год назад

Actually I found the trimpots! For anyone wondering, they're manufactured by Nidec Components and are available on Mouser and most other electronic component distributors :D

@arito Год назад

Thanks for watching! And thank you for sharing your build experiences in detail! Great to hear that you found my video helpful! Yes, I make simple mistakes/errors all the time, I never expect anything to work properly on the first try. 🤣 I thought about editing that error bit out from the video, but then thought it would be fun to "keep it real," and maybe some people will get a laugh out of it. Great that you found the trim pots! I've had those forever, and couldn't remember where I got them from, so am glad that you were able to track them down. Good luck on more pedal builds, and have fun!

@BjarniOlsen 11 месяцев назад

@arito I liked that you did not correct the error you made cause it actually explained a lot 😅

@arito 11 месяцев назад

@@BjarniOlsen Thank you! Yes, I think simple errors like this can easily happen with breadboards, so I thought it would be helpful to share it with everyone. 😄

@getenlightened Год назад

I appreciate this video, thank you! I've subscribed.

@arito Год назад

Thanks for watching! Thank you for subscribing! Great to hear you enjoyed the video!

@BjarniOlsen 11 месяцев назад

This is just what I needed. Very clear explanation, thank you. Subscribed 😊

@arito 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching & subscribing! And thank you so much for the kind words, I really appreciate it!

@BjarniOlsen 11 месяцев назад

@arito Just made the circuit and it worked first shot 😁👍 It sounds really good and it's fun to adjust the components to play with the tone and clipping diodes. Thank you for the effort and the excellent explanation 🙏 Your other videos are pure gold for me too 🎉

@arito 11 месяцев назад

@@BjarniOlsen Thank you so much for the kind words, I really appreciate it!! Great to hear that you successfully built the circuit! Yes, it's a great platform for experimenting with components and circuit tweaks. Thanks again, and have fun! 😃

@soup4495 2 года назад

Do you have any experience making simple delay circuits such as using the pt2399 chip? loved the video btw!

@arito 2 года назад

Thanks for watching! I have researched delay schematics in the past, but have yet to commit to building one... I definitely think if would be fun to try some delay and chorus circuits!

@venzaba Год назад

hello i will follow this and update you on my build... i have no knowledge in electronics but i live to try by the way, can we replace the trim pots with regular potentiometer?

@arito Год назад

Thanks for watching! Great to hear you'll be trying the build! Yes, you can totally use regular pots instead of trim pots. I would use a linear 20K for the tone, and audio/log 100K for the output level, but it's not a big deal if you don't. Good luck and have fun!

@petegaslondon 2 года назад

Hi Arito Fun watching you show how to use, only.. You wanna hear something sad? I had ACRES of breadboard before my big eviction - now I've just got ONE of those little guys that you have One is of course, infinitely more then zero ;) had to rebuild most my stuff from nothing...OK, 32:48 pause, see if I can figure what's happening? My guess is, you've returned the clip diodes to the artificial midrail - if you put WAY more decoupling there that might fix it - or do what BOSS do and return the diodes (using a coupling C) to -ve instead - lets see if I got it ? Oops, noo I didn't spot that miswired OPA * More decoupling all over is good mind, batteries can be pretty high impedance :)

@arito 2 года назад

Thanks for watching Pete! Sucks about your breadboards, but as you say, better to have one than none. Awesome that you played along with the troubleshooting! :) I had no idea what had happened at first, but since I was building the circuit while talking, and couldn't put my face in front of the breadboard because of the camera, I knew I would mess something up and plug it in the wrong spot... But it was fun mistake, I definitely got a kick out of it.

@matucad4514 3 месяца назад

i’ve tried to do it at home exactly how u done it, but the sound doesn’t get trough the circuit

@arito 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching! It's hard to tell what the problem is without looking at the breadboard, but one thing I would check is: ground connection. A ground wire has to be connected to BOTH input and output jacks. Also, remember to bridge the two blue ground sides on the breadboard. Otherwise, I can only guess a miss plugged connection (like I did with mine). Breadboard wires can also have a bad connection. Worst case it could be a bad op amp, capacitor or resistor.

@tonyennis1787 Год назад

What does the cap in the voltage divider section do that the one on the 9v line (top left) doesn't?

@arito Год назад

Thanks for watching this one as well! That cap has the exact same function as the other one, only it's for the Vref line.

@juliobonnemaison9179 Год назад

What is exactly the reference voltage Vb?

@arito Год назад

Thanks for watching! I talk about it briefly in my "Part 3" video around 32min 45sec. But, it's a 4.5 volt "bias voltage" to create a "virtual ground." I know that might sound complicated, please watch part 3 if you'd like to learn more.