One Dollar DIY Amazon Fuzz 

Feel like I’m gonna put this inside one of my guitars

I used this same board but with an inductor as the input. It works as an EMF sniffer. Great noise project when coupled with a multi-effects pedal. Also good for checking if your house has been bugged.😅

You can build this into a guitar and even put a speaker in it. Then you can turn it on and off (if you add a switch). If you have an electric guitar you can use it as an effect because you can play through your amp, and then turn on the guitar speaker to get more gain or just a different sound. If you place the speaker slightly behind the strings (like part of the speaker not all of it, then you can get crazy feedback effects at the flip of a switch in a tasteful manner

just used 2 of these to build an acapulco gold. run the gain pot full on the first and adjust the sound at the second to taste. sounds absolutely identical to the eqd pedal

Not only was that hilarious and so fun I think I'll try it. BUT, those solderless ribbon jumper wires are exactly what I have been looking for to complete my moveable pick up project. Thanks.

I'm highly impressed by the tone of this, especially how cheap and simple it is. The tone reminds me of the band Bush. 🤘

This music is absolutely insane. I love it.

Wayne McPherson did a mod of this. Remove C1 and run it into a gain pot. Remove the blue variable resistor and add 2 caps, one for filtering to ground, one for increased line capacitance. Run input to volume knob then out to LM386 card.

Cool, I bought a pack of 386 preassembled units like this before, I just figured I'd find something cool to do with them and here it is. Everybody always tells me I should try running my drum machine through a fuzz pedal, I think this will be it right here.

Groovy and inexpensive! Nicely done!

This is awesome, now im gonna Have presents for my buds for Christmas!

@MarkGutierrez - Very neat idea! The Altoid box as an enclosure would be a cheap and easy way to shield these electronics from EMF noise.

I've used these things before and they do sound pretty sweet with two or three in series. The issue I found was that the signal is so hot you can't run it with your amp set to normal volume without risking damage to your amp (and hearing), so you really need to find a way of attenuating the output signal to make it very useful, especially if you want to introduce a bypass switch and chain it with your other pedals.

Nice. With a stereo jack socket using the centre pin to complete the battery power circuit, you could make it so unplugging the guitar cord from the input jack turns off the battery

With a stereo amplifier board you could probably run the line in through one channel, and then the output from that channel to the input of the other channel. And between channels have a volume pot and a tone pot.

super rad video, holy shit that doubled up tone was MONSTER!

Awesome Video! Could you do a video adding a switch and put it in an altoids box or something? Would be very cool. Thanks for the awesome content! ✌🏼

As soon as you mentioned Little Smokey amps, I remembered that's exactly what mine sounded like!

It's all the bits around the circuit that would make a finished pedal expensive. Once you have some nice jacks, decent panel mounting pots. 3PDT foot-switch, barrel socket, die-cast enclosure the one buck pedal becomes a whole lot more!

I love my little Smokey Amp. I keep it in my guitar case with a short guitar cord and I’m ready to practice anywhere.

So cool, thanks!!

Genial Marcos .muy grande .podrías agregar como poner un foot switch y un potenciómetro de volumen? Muchas gracias por tu aporte

The two amp version sounds a lot like Sun 0)))! Love it!

Amazing dude! Thanks a lot!

Thankyou so much for a great video. I've been trying to build an audio translator with an Arduino, it's like a color organ, for my Christmas lights. I want six of them so they need to be cheep. I built FM transmitter & receivers from you tube but needed a low cost amp and now with your help I have that. I just ordered the parts and with luck it will be ready by the end of October when my lights go up.

Had to subscribe, you are a real one for this! Very cool. This will be my first pedal build. If I wanted to give this an on/off footswitch, what would I need to do? If I wanted to add a 9v center neg input for a wall wart what would I need to do?

Wow. I need to make this

Always with the cool ideas. :)

I cant believe that it actually sounds good. Id like to figure out a bypass for this so it isnt just on or off.. i did buy a 9v box with a switch so at least im not always disconnecting the battery every time. When that red light turned on, i was so happy

Congrats, you made pocket fuzz!! XD I actually may give this a try, cheap and simple, I like it!

this is awesome! would be good to add a switch. great playing too!

I got about 6 little stereo phone circuits from wish not much bigger than my thumbnail. I need to get jacks. My favorite is to take a cassette walkman type and mod it into a pedal box

aliexpress also has them for around four for a dollar at the moment with free shipping on orders over ten dollars. a bunch of variations with various pots and such as well. might be worth a look for those that don't mind the wait.

2 in series, lpb 1 circuit before, and replace every resistor with a trim or potentiometer and 9v sag

very cool!

would love to see you try and mod it to see how to sound can be changed

Great job! :)

I built one of these recently and it worked great for a few minutes, next time I plugged it in… no sound, just static. Built another one where I even added reverse polarity protection, same result. Any recommendations as to how to fix this?

Coolest part is you can push a speaker directly from that circuit's output. Because it's a half-watt amp. And if you wanna dabble in SMD soldering, you could mod it into any of the LM386 Runoffgroove projects (Little Gem, Grace,/Big Daddy, Ruby), which have been known to sound pretty alright. Also, fun fact: Many pedals use the LM386: Lovepedal's Black Magic, Purple Plexi and Jubilee, DAM's Sonic Titan, even Frantone has used it! I too remember that the 90's Vox AC1 miniamp used that chip as well, and a few years ago I saw that circuit cloned into a Benson branded mini-amp (that looked like a Marshall MS4 mini stack). So the "not so great" sound from this particular board is more likely a fault of an inadequate implementation for guitar use than a fault of the chip.

Interesting. I wonder, you think this could amp up the line signal of my contact mics? Trying to push those directly into FX pedals doesn't seem to work too well.

Hey Mark; thanks for the great video, especially for those of us that have never built a pedal, etc. I'm trying to cascade two of them together as you had near the end of the video, but for some reason (which I believe to be the wiring) they appear to be "separate", despite connecting the out of the first to the in of the second. Any insight would be appreciated; would have loved to see a bit more detail as far as chaining the two in the video - been having to pause to look. It also looks like your "out" (blue wire) isn't connected to the jack? Just curious and thank you again.

Excellent video,man.Gotcha new subscriber.Keep up the good work.The last example sounded like me trying to dial in the Fuzz Factory fuzz,before returning the pedal for a more traditional fuzz. Not saying the FF is a bad pedal,it’s just not what I wanted.

Only kidding. You did a great job!

Impressive Mark! No idea how you figured that out but cool!

Nifty. Way back in the day(pre-surface mount & multi-layer PCB's) I copied the OG MXR Distortion+ several times, which was(perhaps still is) one of the best IMO. Its just a 741 op-amp & a few support components. The 2 diodes being the most crucial to match. They are very simple circuits, the hardest part to find was the DPDT PB toggle(AKA stomp) switch. Would usually just steal them from other broken pedals. That could use one too & I'm sure they're practically a dime/doz nowadays.

Awesome! Say you want to add a Tone Control to this, where you should place it? What do we need for that?

6:33 This cut made me lol - crazy sound!

New sub! Thank you for this vid! 🙏🏻👍🏻🎸

Quick question, when you were playing the guitar through just one of those do you recall what pickup position that was in?

I'm thinking about placing a small value capacitor at the input of one of these babies to make a "treble booster" type gadget. Probably have to tinker a bit to find right value cap; might wanna put several small caps on a switch . Ordered 3 of these little devices. On a slow boat from China at this time ...

If you were to give these away to friends/family it would probably be a good idea to add a resistor or volume pot to the output so it isnt as hot. Could cause damage if they had their amp cranked and weren't aware of how hot it's signal is.

Great video...how could I put a gain control (clean or dirty) and tone control....thanxs!!!!

Its almost like a shoegaze or doom type sound when you use 2

I wanna do flanger like this

now i need to look up how to wire the on/off switch

You are a God, sir...

Super cool video, thanks for posting! I don't know much about circuit/electronics, so this is a bit of a noob question, but when you daisy chain the two circuits to make the super noisy one, could you put a volume (and/or gain?? not sure if it's the same thing in this case) potentiometer in between the two circuits to adjust the amount of signal passing from the first to second? Would that work, or am I thinking too much like a beginner? Ideas with no knowledge! Lol

Have you tried the LM358 module, the LM358 is a proper preamplifier module with 2 stages. You can mod it by adding the clipping diodes and a tone control. The LM386 is a power amplifier so not so flexible for what you want. The LM358 will work very well as a built in booster or a buffer.

with two of them its a pretty thick doom tone!

The lm386 is actually an amp so you could run directly into a small speaker and have an amp

Thanks for the video. You could have a mini pedal by using a power supply jack instead of battery

a hug brother. thanks for this video. I'm going to see how it goes

A distortion pedal idea would be picking some old stereo speaker that works on 9V. How? Run the output of Left (Just to name a channel) on the Right Input, Left Input being your FX Input and Right Output being your FX Outpit. In some cases would be a 0$ effect due to old speakers can be found even in the trash or given by someone who doesn't need them.

That’s pretty neat! I’d still want to put it in a small case with a foot switch though

To make it useful all you need to do is add a 100k pot on the output add a stomp switch. Of course a tone control circuit would be a bonus which schematics are available on line for passive designs, just pots, resistors and caps…. The LM386 is actually designed to drive an 8 ohm speaker directly. Years ago I hooked up a small speaker to one, plugged in my guitar and mic’d up the speaker! My bandmates nick named it the Ted Nugent amp!

The Smokey Amps were even less complex than this tiny circuit, just the chip and two 47uf caps.

You should do a guitar install video

Cool stufffff

Check out the similar board meant to be used as a mic amplifier. Should be cleaner.

Try adding a potentiometer been the battery and the board; dropping the battery output can and will change the tone to the fuzz. Or add another battery for 18 volts input if you wanna go crazy.

Sounds like it’s worth every penny.

I just scored a five pack of LM386 chips. I just breadboarded my first pedal, a Fuzz Face clone kit by Copper Sound Pedals, I wonder if I could add an LM386 after the second transistor before the volume potentiometer.

You think this can work to amplify the signal from a PU to a sustainer ?

You should try and do that for a chorus pedal now. If you would be so kind

Is it possible to add an on off switch?

Yea but how do I connect knobs instead of those screw turn things? 😂

That was cool! Do you know if there are other options like this for a distortion that is not over the top like this?

Blu Blu blu nice!

I made one!!!! Great video! Nice and slow and zoomed in!

stoner metal at its best

Any 9volt Battery can push a speaker .

Sounds like a sound garden guitar

It sounds about how a 1 dollar fuzz should sound. its sounds Like gas station sushi tastes.

The song is a Bop too. Very dope project

So gritty, I have some trash small amp boards to go mess with now

LM386 is the beast behind the legendary mid/late 2000s pedal by an English company, made on perfboard 3 knobs, happy hunting :)

You have to use one dollar guitar with this.

Wow

How hard would it be to add a switch with a bypass?

How do these input/output jacks work? I followed the wiring in the video but all i hear is buzzing. I think its the jacks but im not even sure how they work to begin with

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i dont know if u will see these but can someone tell me how to put a on-off switch in this pedal,

Can i use for making this only 1 piece of its'?

You could turn the volume down of one circuit when cascading into the other which might yield better results. Another option would be run them in parallel with one distorted and the other clean. Then you'd almost have a Klon style pedal.

No solder?

Lol i have a BUNCH of these from when making box mods was a thing. Now i can get rid of these

Leave it to EQD to design a pedal where the case and graphics cost 20x what the components cost.

That sounds like a sound I would like to so people could say, "what the hell is that!"

Hi, sorry to bother but I am trying to find the wiring schematic and I cant find a working link in the comments. If you see this could you send one? Also great video.

Dude-could you do some more sound samples? I’m really curious as I’ve just gotten into fuzz in the last few years. That doesn’t seem to be a ‘Velcro’ type fuzz, more Muff like which I’m all over. Love to hear some leads and maybe it’s low volume sound…so many questions…just watched Andy’s demo of the E.Q. pedal…@#$&ing Red Fang! But seriously, thanks. I’m going to buy those to mess around with…who knows? I love making my own stuff and customizing the hell out of it.