The D.I.Y. FX Pedal Building Thread

[stan]

great stuff doc, this will be cool

[DrNomis_44]

Update:


Okay here's a step by step account of what I have done so far in the build process:


Since I decided to use a piece of Tagboard to mount the parts on, I did a quick search in Google and found a suitable Tagboard layout which I drew onto a piece of A4 printer paper:





Once I was happy with the layout, I trimmed the Tagboard to size so that there were 12 solder-tags on each side of the board:








The next thing to do was to use a Blue marker pen to mark out where the wire-links, linking the solder-tags together, needed to go:

[DrNomis_44]

The next step was to solder the wire-links to the Tagboard, some were soldered to the underside of the board, some were soldered on the top:








After doing that, the Tagboard was ready for soldering the components to it:




And this is what the Tagboard looks like now, all that needs to be done is to solder the two transistors in place, the transistors are the two black components with three silver leads below the Tagboard in the pic:







So once the transistors are correctly soldered onto the Tagboard, the next step in the build process is going to be the marking-out of the Aluminium case I'm going to be using to house the pedal in, I need to work out where the centres for the mounting holes for the pots, footswitch, in/out jacks, and the indicator Led, are going to go, once the centres are all marked out I can then go ahead and drill the holes to size.

[stan]

cool to see the process

[DrNomis_44]

cool to see the process

Surprisingly, the actual build-process for building a DIY FX pedal is nowhere near as hard as people may think, it just takes a bit of time, same like building a guitar.

[Dedman]

OK Doc, for us noobs can you label what the components are in the diagram and maybe a copy of your shopping list?
I'd be keen to have a go but am component ignorant atm

[dave.king1]

Surprisingly, the actual build-process for building a DIY FX pedal is nowhere near as hard as people may think, it just takes a bit of time, same like building a guitar.

Not a lot of sanding involved though

[Dedman]

Not a lot of sanding involved though

my thinking exactly!

[DrNomis_44]

OK Doc, for us noobs can you label what the components are in the diagram and maybe a copy of your shopping list? I'd be keen to have a go but am component ignorant atm

Can do, I'll make a clearer drawing of the Tagboard layout so it's easier to follow, and I'll also post a list of the parts I used with their Jaycar Electronics catalogue numbers so you can find them, you may need to order the Tagboards from Evatco if you want to build the circuit on a Tagboard like I did, I'll get that all sorted out in the morning.

[DrNomis_44]

Not a lot of sanding involved though

Lol...yep, very minimal sanding involved.