Quick question: From just a cursory glance, the diode does the clipping, but otherwise it's just a ridiculously loud clean boost, right? Like, if I omitted the diode, it'd just clean boost the signal?

Can u give me all that volt??

Can you add a pot to the output to control the volume? Just soldered in between the out put and the jack?

Damn that's so cool

That so awesome! This video got me interested in learning more about electrical components.

Freakin didnt work for me on my breadboard

Same but not a masters but just a bachelors degree haha

Funny, I was fired when I watched this video. Wife took the kids, government took my home. I’ve lost everything, but at least I know how to make a guitar pedal

I have no clue what your talking about haha guess you got to start somewhere

@@MrSake1000 I actually have clue about this comment two months ago, and here I am after five pedals, it feels good to see yourself make a progress when learn a new things. :)

I’m at the point where I’m going to try these modifications today

veryy cool! i built a few of them too in small stompboxes with a filter switch and a diode switch to have different sounds.

+Тимур Тикиджьян Awesome man, glad you liked it and welcome to the hobby :)

DIY Guitar Pedals what the ground and where can i buy those

Any good?

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THANK YOU!

Got two PN2222s on a breadboard. Should work as a Darlington pair.

Try to use bc517. I've been tryed and works fine

Try to use bc517. I've been tryed and works fine

I made a Szaklai. Using a 1k in between the input bias and the 2n3904 driving a 2n3906. I have a white LED as the feedback clipper and a hard clipper on the output to ground with a red LED. My 9v has a 4.7k Resister and a 100k pot in series. The White LED stays on and flashes with clipping.. The Red flashes hard. NPN and PNP can be mixed with Szaklai so you can run Germanium transistor mixed with the Silicon. It's loud. But I can dial in a crazy gated fuzz and then run another clipping stage after and the sustain and stuff normalized again.

No worries Bruno thanks for the feedback and welcome to the hobby / addiction / part-time job / marriage :D

Bruno, I had to laugh at your comment. Really well written, and so damned funny. Thanks for a good, but in all respects. true comment.

I known ununtil right?

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send him your WIFE!

hello

Bro which transistor did u use?

Volume to output Fuzz control to emitter.before the 100uf green film capacitor

Shean Carey . Im going to copy the idea, get a patent for it too

@@geegod9461 Lol....smh. You cant patient other peoples designs, this was already patented before you were born. And nobody would buy a really really crappy transistor/diode based fuzz loaded guitar anyways. Its been done. Guitar pedals arent patented anymore cause they are pretty much always just recreations of existing circuits so you pay for the licencing ( CREATIVE COMMONS SHARE-ALIKE/ATTRIBUTION/NON-COMMERCIAL LICENSE ) if you want to sell your own version of a pedal on a large scale commercially ( with a few insignificant changes to the original of course ). Small scale operations dont need to worry about licencing cause the pedal community isnt filled with douch bags who build things just so they can patient them. LOLOLOL im sorry for ridiculing you but its hilarious you "thought" of a guitar with on board effects and thought youd patent it even thought its the most simple circuit ever and someone else had to teach you how to build it. Not to mention guitars with on board effects had been thought of, built, marketed and failed before you were even born. Please spare me the comment about how that was two years ago and your much smarter now. Instead of being excited about being able to be creative with a new effect and possibly new skill ( if you were able to comprehend this incredibly simple build ), you thought "oh ill patent someone elses idea". Stick to fast food, we have enough people ruining music by trying to make a buck off everything they can. But dont get me wrong, just from your comment i didnt think for a second youd actually be able to figure out how to apply for a patent. This isnt a worthwhile effect to anyone except a first time pedal builder who wants to get their feet wet.

@@michaelinglis8516 lol pretty sure he was joking mate no need to be such a snob xdd

@@charlie4300 He was joking about actually doing it, not about thinking he could if he wanted to.

@@michaelinglis8516 damn chill my guy

Delicious, and kool.

...so is it safe to do so? Haha

AC equipment has stored capacitance that can harm or kill. I do not recommend opening the amp.

chromespherecom This is just a pocket sized amp that runs off 9v dc or a pp3

SONGSTICKS Ah k, no problem. Yeah well its probably not much loss if you kill it either? :) You could just put it behind the input of the amp sure I don't see why not? You should replace the whole board with one of my punch amp projects. 9v, 1watt, sounds really nice. Although actually its probably more the speaker that's the problem then the amp hah..

chromespherecom You're probably right there, it's just a little speaker like you'd get on your car radio !

140watts amp.... Disconnected a jack at 60% volume scared me so much that I fell over and it felt like my ears where bleeding

Troller700 I don't know if you already managed to do that, but I can help you if you need. I can send you an email with a drawing. Te puedo enviar un dibujo sobre cómo conectar los jacks de input e output se quieres.

I already did the pedal and it worked well, thanks

I’m sorry I don’t speak rip-off Italian

@@mr.purple250 sad for you, monospeaker

ace grey nixon you can put an on/off switch inline with the battery wire.

Gary Hylton when the battery doesn't supply the fuzz kit, is the output of guitar move along as "clean" sound?

@@DeddycationMusic for bypass you will need a specific switch that switches 2 points in parellell, its a bit hard to explain but basically the switch would be simultaneously hooked up to the battery and the rest of the circuit in one position and on the other part of the switch you wanna hook up the output to the switch and the jack to where the battery would be, effectively making the circuit go through the switch twice. then you want to hook up a wire from the other position to the one in paralel. this is called true bypass. google images will probably explain way better. but to answer your question no the circuit will not let your guitar go through without a 9v source

Change the resistor to a variable one. The lower the resistance, the more like a sine-wave it becomes.

So just replace the resistor with a potentiometer?

Edit: Tried it with a 100 K linear pot (that's what I had lying around), fried the transistor immediately because I was a moron and turned it down all the way. I then set in a 6.8k resistor in parallel to the pot, but now the effect of the pot is minimal. However, I noticed that if I turn the volume dial on my guitar almost all the way down, it sounds almost clean, so by regulating the input-voltage, you regulate the fuzz. Basically it's an amplifier that takes the input voltage and tries to amplify it more than the battery allows, resulting in the top of the output voltage (sound-wave) being flat, which is what gives the fuzz. You can either turn down the input voltage (by turning the dial on your guitar), so that the amplification doesn't amplify "too much", not giving the fuzz, or you can adjust the amplification by inserting a potentiometer (wiring the middle pin to battery, and one of the side pins to the transistor's collector), and turn on it. If you choose the second option, and the resistance becomes too low, though, then the current through the transistor becomes very high, and the thing starts smoking and breaks, and your circuit won't work, so if you want to try this out, I suggest you insert a resistor between the battery and the pot - and I don't know what value the resistor needs to have. In general: The higher the resistor, the bigger the gain (more fuzz up to a point) and the smaller the current, and small resistor = less gain (less fuzz), more current (higher likelihood of frying something).

That's an awesome response man, thanks. Is this not possible to figure out with some math? Like, knowing the max current the transistor can take, we could then figure out the minimum resistance that needs to be applied to the input, and choose the right resistor and/or potentiometer to regulate the voltage? I know dickall about this, I'm just trying to learn here so I might have said dumb things

Well, on the "absolute maximum" ratings on the datasheet, it says, under collector current 1.2 A, which is absolutely ridiculously high current. This, for a 9 V battery, as we have the +9 V side connected to the collector, gives (ignoring everything but the transistor) 9 V = R*1.2 A => R=(9/1.2) Ohm ~ 7.5 Ohm. Of course, this is "ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM" values for the current, so this is the absolute minimum value for the resistor. Therefore, I'd say something like 100 Ohm. Haven't tried it yet, though, I plan to order components and build it next month.

Your getting interference probably due to not insulating anything. If you really care to have it sound clean you'll have to insulate. Like speaker wire for instance, without adequate insulation it would do the same thing.

Usually after I box up a circuit, all of the radio interference goes away.

Hi Luis, you can get the schematic on my webstore page, scroll down to "downloads" and "schematic". Heres the link, cheers: www.diyguitarpedals.com.au/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=31

DIY Guitar Pedals thanks a lot bro you have a new follower I'll take a look to your webpage I appreciate your answer

you're the knob! just pick it up and it's connected to a knob! nah..just kidding! i don't know...

+James Hockenhull Thanks James glad you liked it!

+Nicholas Durham Thanks Nicholas, hope you like it. I will get it in the mail for you today. Cheers!

+DIY Guitar Pedals Thanks, man.

I detect a hint of sarcasm

@@tubthump No sarcasm. I was dead serious. I think his explanation was super clear.

@@stefanhansen5882 then I apologise. I couldn't be more sorry about anything ever.

Thanks toetappin, I try my best! Cheers

Thanks Bassman for the positive response and welcome to an awesomely fulfilling hobby!

Cool info David, have to give that combination a test run! What resistor did you use for the bias and in / out caps? 100nf x2 / 10k?

I used the same from the video, just swapped the transistor/diode. It really likes the low frequencies and it sounds really cool!

Can I use BC547?