Build Your Fuzz Effects Pedal Kits DIY Electric Guitar Stomp Box Kit (chrome)

Great value for the money and an amazing learning experience. Sounds just like I wanted it to. Dialed in the fuzz tone I was looking for quickly. I will say this for those who are looking to build, get a magnifying glass with an LED light on it to clamp on your soldering station. It will help you a tone when having to identify some of the parts. Build went very smooth even with the black and white instructions.

It doesn’t come with instructions, but it’s pretty easy to figure out if you’ve worked on stuff before. It doesn’t come with everything you need though, you’ll need to get some small garage wire to install the led and to connect to the 1/4” jacks.

The components are adequate. The electronics are good, have good tolerances, but the off board components are cheap and flimsy. The hardware is quite good, especially the enclosure. The PCB is well designed and well labeled. The big problem is that the layout instructions are quite poor and mislabeled in a number of places. There is no bill of materials so the components can be quite difficult to distinguish even when they're labeled. Additionally, product only includes one color of wire and does not include digital instructions as indicated in the product description. All in all, not terrible for the price but hard to recommend.

I made a few mistakes when soldering wires onto the pots. Once I zoomed in on the colored instructions I realized I put them on the wrong lugs. Once I swapped those, the pedal worked. I had fun putting it together. Looking forward to putting some fun graphics on the box and putting it on my pedal board. Would recommend.

Very happy with the kit. I just followed the picture and took my time. Just be sure not to use too much heat. The sound is very vintage fuzz face type.

The provided wire is enough to connect the output and input jacks, assuming you mark the single color of wire with some dashes at each end. That leaves the LED, control knobs, and power jack to work magically without wire! Or not. As there are no longer electronics stores in the area like Radio Shack was when I was growing up, I had to order some (Elenco Hook-Up Wire Kit through Amazon). Stepping up in the world, I now would have 6 colors of wire! While waiting for the wire, I started soldering the components to the board. As others have mentioned, the instructions are laughably terrible. A photocopied sheet shows where most of the components go, but even after looking at the photo on Amazon, I still had to guess and use Google to determine where some of the components *may* go. There is no online reference, and I could not find a similar fuzz board layout anywhere else. Some of the hand-written resistor values were illegible, so I had to Google the bands to verify what they were. So, finally, after getting the wire in (and some fresh solder), I finished up the pedal assembly. I popped in a fresh 9V battery, plugged in my guitar and amp, and... nothing. There is sound when in bypass, but the effect doesn't work at all. At this point I think I'm just going to call it a lesson learned, strip off the wire, save the enclosure (the only nice thing about this kit really), and toss the rest. I'm going to get some electronic component kits, order a couple boards from GuitarPCB (discovered in my search for assistance with this, they have nice documentation and forums for help), and see how that works out.

The picture is the sum of documentation I received with the pedal. I had a full set of colored wires and the parts were labeled fine. A photo copy of the pcb layout was hardly sufficient. I am a newcomer to electronics but populating the board was pretty straghtforward. However, the bad photocopy had labeled the jacks completely wrong and the 9v jack was unreadable. I highly recommend testing before you put in the enclosure. I think some of the reviews that said it flat didnt work may have run into the same issue. When it didn't I looked at the picture here and then looked at the jack itself. Th elabels for tip and ring are wrong. Some rewiring and it's good to go. It sounds neat. I can't really tell what kind of muff it is, it takes a lot of noodling to find the sounds I'm after, but it's a fun experience in problem solving and head scratching. I would not recommend.

The seller had great communication and went out of their way to help me get everything I needed. 5 stars!