Crazy Chicken Guitar Pedals

Welcome!

Here’s my website about guitar pedals, mostly DIY guitar pedals/making your own guitar pedals, but we’ll also see where this adventure takes us.

I’ve made this site because I enjoy making my own guitar pedals and want to share my hobby with other people, give them some advice, and encourage them to take up the hobby of making their own guitar pedals as well.

I also find that having a website like this helps me learn more about making guitar pedals and electronics in general. You pick up a lot of random knowledge wit this hobby, but sometimes forget to ask “why.” Let’s find out together.

Recent DIY Guitar Pedal Posts

Vox Tone Bender On Stripboard June 28, 2024Here’s the Vox Tone Bender, a great early fuzz pedal that’s sure to please. The build I’ve done here is the NPN version of the pedal, so it’s slightly different from the original, which used PNP transistors. The big difference …Read More »
How To Wire A Guitar Pedal DC Power Jack June 26, 2024Although it’s important to correctly place and solder in every guitar pedal component, at the end of any pedal build, perhaps the most important thing to get right is wiring the power supply. Sure, there are passive pedals out there …Read More »
How To Find The Audio Signal Path For A Guitar Pedal June 21, 2024Part of building DIY guitar pedals is creating something that doesn’t work then figuring out how to fix it. This is all part of the process of debugging guitar pedal builds. These things are hand built, after all, and even …Read More »
ZVEX Super Hard On On Stripboard June 20, 2024Time to build a ZVEX Super Hard On! The Super Hard On, or SHO, by ZVEX is a nice little boost pedal. It offers a fairly clean boost with only a little bit of clipping at higher gain levels. It’s …Read More »
Should I Make Guitar Pedals On Stripboard Or PCBs? June 18, 2024Whether you’re new to making guitar pedals, or if you have a few builds already under your belt, you’re probably wondering about the best way to pursue the hobby. One easy way to start building guitar pedals is building then …Read More »
What Is Stripboard And How Do You Read Layouts? June 13, 2024Also called Veroboard, stripboard was originally made for prototyping electronic circuits. It’s still called Veroboard a lot because it was originally made by a company called Vero Technologies, but a lot of people (like me) use the generic name stripboard. …Read More »
What Is A PCB? June 13, 2024PCB stands for “printed circuit board,” and that’s pretty much what it is. Using special printers, all connections needed between components are created and the holes needed or each component are also put in place. In this way, all that’s …Read More »
Lovepedal Purple Plexi On Stripboard June 12, 2024Let’s build a Purple Plexi by Lovepedal! Lovepedal’s Purple Plexi is designed to sound like an old Marshall guitar amp from the 60’s, 70’s, with a little bit of 80’s thrown in there for good measure. The “Plexi” name comes …Read More »
Why You Should Build Your Own Guitar Pedals June 11, 2024If you’re here, you’re probably thinking about taking up making guitar pedals as a hobby. Welcome! The world of guitar pedals is wide. Whether you’re looking for big distorted or fuzzy sounds, some modulation effects, or just a boost to …Read More »
Big Guide To Debugging DIY Guitar Pedals June 6, 2024So, you’ve finished building a new guitar pedal, you want to try it out so you plug it in and… it doesn’t work. If you’re built even only a single guitar pedal, you know that it’s pretty much the rule …Read More »