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New pedal build: Big Muff clone part 1

I’ve always loved the Smashing Pumpkins first few albums, and the great big dirty Big Muff tone that was on those albums. I’ve been reminiscing in particular about Siamese Dream, my favourite Pumpkins album. I decided that I had to build myself a Big Muff clone. I originally was planning …

New pedal build: MXR Distortion+ clone part 2

One thing that I really wanted to add to the Distortion+ circuit was a tone control, and in my search for various modifications to the Distortion+ I found a great article from Premier Guitar written by Brian Wampler (of Wampler Pedals). I really found the article interesting, not just because …

New pedal build: MXR Distortion+ clone part 1

Over the past few weeks I’ve been spending my spare time working on a new pedal build, my first using an integrated circuit (IC). The MXR Distortion+ circuit is a fairly simple circuit to build, using the LM741 operational amplifier (op amp), two diodes, and a handful of capacitors and …

EHX LPB-1 clone build

After the success I had with building my “Green Envy” overdrive pedal from a cheap Daphon E20OD Overdrive pedal I thought it was time to try and build an effects pedal from scratch. Doing some research on the Internet I discovered DIY-Layout.com, a site dedicated to stripboard layout effects pedals. …