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.
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.
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!
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 RU-vid 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 ✋🏼😎
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.
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 🤗
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.
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.
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!
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 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!
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.
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
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! (:
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 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 RU-vid 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 Texas, USA. I appreciate that you didn't put up some Amazon link to a $150 soldering iron. I was watching a guitar-related channel recently and the guy was talking about tools that guitarists should have. He brought on his friend from a small pedal company to talk about soldering and that guy recommended people buy really expensive irons. It was absurd. How often does a guitar player need to solder something? How long will they be using the iron for at a time? Not often, and not long. I have nothing against affiliate links, but man.
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.
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
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!
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
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 !
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.
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 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!
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 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! 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.
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.
Been soldering at work and want to start doing it creatively. I am good at the soldering part but the schematics and design have been hard. Thank you for the suggestions. I won't burn out on this I honestly want to see how far this can take me and am very much in for the long haul.
Thanks a lot! That's really helpful! I just built my first two kits (Fuzz Face, actually built it twice cause I got it wrong the first time and a Tube Screamer) and am currently in school for soldering technician. Trying to learn about design a bit now. I'd love to see a video about breadboarding and trying different components (if you do that). Thanks again!
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.
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.
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
Been thinking about getting into pedals for a few years now. This was inspiring video thank you, im gonna build my first pedal soon. Also you forgot to mention the little beepermeter between your drawers! 😁👍 Watching from Finland.
@@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
Omg this video was SO educational! I’m excited to start work again and try some DIY circuits and pedals building. Maybe next time you can make a part two of this! one where you show The different kinds of simple kits and circuits. or do a Build you have done before that was simple. and guide us through a step by step? Just an idea?
