Stripboard layout for a ProCo Rat guitar pedal.

ProCo Rat On Stripboard

January 22, 2025

 Here it is! The ProCo Rat. The ProCo Rat is just one of those pedals, distortion or otherwise, that has endured decades and maintained its popularity. Like the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff for fuzz or the Ibanez Tube Screamer overdrive, the ProCo Rat seems to be one of those enduring distortion pedals people still love, despite […]





Three guitar pedals stacked on top of each other.

What Is Gain Stacking And How Do You Do It?

January 16, 2025

If you’ve been playing around with pedals like overdrive, distortion, or fuzz (especially overdrive), you’ve probably tried combining the two to see what happens. If you’re just fooling around without thinking about it, it may not sound very good, but done with some consideration and calculation, stacking pedals can have a lot of benefits and […]





Stripboard layout for an EartherQuaker Devices Speak Cranker distortion pedal

EartherQuaker Devices Speaker Cranker On Stripboard

January 2, 2025

 The Speaker Cranker by EarthQuaker Devices is an easy to make single knob guitar pedal. EarthQuaker Devices are calling this an overdrive but, judging by the schematic and the sound, I’d be more likely to call this pedal a distortion (and there is a difference between distortion, overdrive, and fuzz). That being said, I’ve just […]





Example of a piece of stripboard populated with various components to make a guitar pedal.

How To Make A Distortion Pedal

December 12, 2024

I’ll cut to the chase very quickly: you’re probably here because you want to learn how to make guitar pedals at home, so you searched for something along the lines of “how to make a distortion pedal,” and found this website. Welcome! The good/easy part of answering that question is, sure, read on and I’ll give […]





Stripboard layout for a Catalinbread Karma Suture guitar pedal.

Catalinbread Karma Suture On Stripboard

October 15, 2024

Here’s a fun and great sounding DIY guitar pedal build: the Karma Suture by Catalinbread. It looks like like this pedal is no longer in production, so if you want one, you’ll have to build it. To be specific from the get go: this is the silicon version of the pedal; I went with the silicon […]





Stripboard layout for a Green Giant effects pedal by Greer Amps.

Greer Amps Green Giant On Stripboard

August 28, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-muKTaGdx9E Here’s a kind of weird guitar pedal, but a fun build nonetheless and also a pretty simple guitar pedal build too. I had never heard of the Green Giant by Greer Amps before and I kind of just stumbled upon the layout on Tagboard Effects and thought it sounded interesting. Other than what’s on […]





Stripboard layout for an EarthQuaker Devices Acapulco Gold guitar pedal.

EarthQuaker Devices Acapulco Gold On Stripboard

August 18, 2024

https://youtu.be/ZgzqZcc0xWg The Acapulco Gold by EarthQuaker Devices is a pretty well know single knob distortion pedal. According to EarthQuaker Devices themselves, they’ve  modelled this pedal off of a Sunn Model T amplifier turned up to the max. Similar to the Lovelpedal Champ, the single knob on this pedal means the amount of drive is adjusted […]