Category: Guitar Pedal Building Blocks

In a lot of ways, guitar pedals are just made of different building blocks. You have things like tone control, buffers, gain, clipping, and more that come together to create a specific effect. Of course there’s a little bit more to it; there’s stuff in between, how the building blocks work together, and the specific values of the components in the building blocks, but, if you start to understand the blocks, you can start to do modifications of your favourite guitar pedals and build.

So here’s an explanation of some of the guitar pedal building blocks. I hope you find it interesting.