How did I not know about this vid! So Cool!! You really took this idea to the next level. I just watched your vid on adding diode pairs to the circuit. It sounded much better with them. Great work! Seriously, I was getting a lot of new views on the that 1 dollar fuzz video and was wondering why. Thanks for the shout out. I subscribed to your channel.
Haha I don't know UA-cam is not very good at promoting videos you have to see😉 I think the diode makes it better too but my favourite is the one where I built it together with a tremolo 😁 I have som more I ideas for things I can do to this chips so hopefully it will bring more views to both our channels 👊 thank you for all the inspiration you bring and the kind words hope you weren't too weirded out from the video 🤣
I was just telling myself last week that I wish someone would make a video on adding a switch option to that video and BOOM, here it is. Thank you brother!
On top of this being an excellent video on "hacking" the amp boards into an awesome fuzz pedal, this is also one of the best explained videos on how to wire up pretty much any pedal. You were very thorough and detailed in the whys and hows of doing things, like routing the bypass, setting up both battery and dc in and grounding things. I am going to use this video as an example in the future when people have questions about these things. Heck I wish I had seen thing video years ago when I started messing around with doing this stuff and was confused as to what goes where and especially why. Thanks!!!
Thank you for all the positive comments it means a lot 😊 I try my best to make my videos make as much sense as possible so know you like it makes me smile 😁 and reading your name makes me think you'll enjoy Monday's video so hopefully I'll see you there take care 🎃👍
@@zurowetz I just found this channel. You got an instant sub from me. I'm a bass player that's been searching for "my fuzz" for years. I'm probably going to need to learn to build it. I'll binge at work this week. Thanks!
@@JLeppert awesome to have you here you will fit in well with all the other bass players😆👍build it and slowly mod it till its perfect and exactly what you want 🤟
Really thankful for you guys sharing these cheap circuits. I use them all the time. For testing things. Making things etc. Slam a LPB1 boost into it and it gets really heavy
Thank you I glad you like it 😀Yeah your right there's even more you can make out of them sometimes I think I'll be making videos with them for the rest of my life 😆
I had actually bought 10 of these last year to reuse the radio pcb of a broken old portable TV. It was cheaper buying the ten of them than only one unit. Might try it. Also gonna make a headphones amp, with a simple fet preamp
In addition to cleaning soldering iron & surfaces to be soldered, rosin core solder & soldering flux makes soldering secure connections 10 times easier, by preventing oxidation from forming in the joints simultaneously with the soldering.
There are loads of these little modules on Amazon that do different things. The possibilities are endless to designing your own pedal. You don't need Josh Scott or Brian Wampler anymore. 😂
I think it might be worth building if you lowered the initial voltage and added dual gain control and swapped the opamp chips and added a tone stack . On second thought 😂
Hey I've built this pedal using a 2.7k resistor for the led, today I've discovered that whenever I turn off the pedal it takes a while before any clean signal comes through it :/ What do you think might be the problem? I've wired the footswitch a bit differently than what you have showed, following a schematic I found on reddit but it is very similar, just the led is not in the middle row but at the top row. I'm also thinking about adding a resistor to the max volume because it is VERY loud and not usable if you want to switch between clean and fuzzy. Do you have any recommendations for this problem? Thx a bunch! Love ur videos!
Thanks for the love 🤗 put a potentiometer like a volume control on your guitar on it going from the out of the circuit to the switch them you can find the volume you want then if you don't want to keep the pot you can switch it out for a resistor with the same value as what the pot is set to once it is where you like it 👍it is hard for me to know if there is something wrong with the wiring for the switch but I built the same pedal again yesterday and I used a 3,3k resistor and I don't have any problem so either there is something wrong with the borde or you need to change the wiring to the switch. Good luck let me know how it goes 🙂👍
I built one today and had this high pitch squeal that wouldn't end, but I'll try again soon. I assume I had a ground issue. I also tried 2 tone pots which was overkill. You can also get tiny heat sinks for the chips if you really want to maintain consistency in control. I also found the chips drive an 8 or 16 ohm speaker, best. 4 just rolls off with no real boost. Anyway, that was my journey so far! .Hope you're all doing well!
Where does the tone stack and control go? I use a 1950s valve amp tone stack circuit for the pedals I have made. Thank you for the video and help. Awesome
you could experiment with putting it before or after and see what you like hopefully this video can help ua-cam.com/video/_6_-KGiS3yc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=zurowetz le me know if it helped 🙂
Thanks for the awesome video. I gave this a try. When I connect the 1k pot I find the volume is very low and it never really distorts. If I increase the value of the pot to say 10k, I get better distortion but at some point when sweeping the pot, I get a lot of noise. I don't have it soldered yet, I'm using jumpers with alligator clips to make the connections. Any help would be appreciated.
Yeah its very noisy if you use 2 and leave the trimpot on one you can adjust it so you get less noise but you will not get everything done also having short cables inside the pedal will help and if you can use insulated cables that would help too 🙂 thanks for the comment and good luck 👍
@@zurowetz When I combined two, I was able to go back to the 1k pot. I'm assuming the 1k with just one board was not enough gain. Two in stages is over the top...lol. So, I cut the trimpot down to almost off on the first stage. That lets me control the overall volume with the single pot. Still have a degree of hiss but I attribute that to gain.
you have done this be for....... lmao rof nice job ....... i built 2 pedals neather work lol ... compressor, reverb,,, now im trying a fuzzz ... so far 2 No Gozzzzzz..... will try my 3rd ....
Hi, thanks for this great tutorial.. Is this wiring schematic saving battery in bypass state? Do i need to make physical connection between ground terminals for battery and dc connector?
thank you 🍻 this only saves the battery when the jack is not plugged in because the physical ground connection is created between dc in and the battery ground once the plug is inside that's why I use a stereo jack. I'm unsure this is what you mean but hopes it helps 😀
I was just wondering, what is the actual advantage of linking 2 of these LM386s together like this. I've made a few different ones using just one. Started with that one simplest version with no footswitch, or gain control, or anything like that (like from that 1st original $1 fuzz video I saw). Then I started doing more tweaking with them. Added the gain control, the footswitch, and the LED, like in this video. I just did one last night where I also added a volume knob. I've just been using little plastic containers to put them in cuz that's all I really have around the house that works for now. They are all pretty noisy and simple, but I'm just getting into pedal building, so these have all just been practice until I work my way up to building some real, usable, stage-ready pedals. So yeah, I've got 2 of these LM386s left and was just wondering how linking them together would be different from any of the other ones I've already made.
Well to me they sound bigger,lauder and more like a "real pedal" should if that helps if you have to just like them and see what you think the benefit of having 2 in 1 is just less canles so noise will go down witch is good on something so noisy
@@zurowetz OK. I kinda figured it would make it sound a little louder and fuller. I was wondering how it would affect the noise level, so anything that might help that would be a bonus. Other than the noise I actually like the way they sound, especially for what it is. So yeah, I'll give that a try, but find something better to put it in rather than a cheap, plastic box. Thanks for responding!
@@JESSEALLEN77 twisting wiers inside and seting one trimpot lower than the other will help with noice I forgott to tell you i also made another one called killer fuzz I think it turned out better so maybe have a look at that video before you deside what you wanna do🙂
In the original $1 fuzz video by MarkGutierrez, he linked them together to create something similar to an EQD Acapulco Gold since that pedal is really just two LM386s in series and not much else.
Can you make a video of wiring the 2 lm386 boards in parallel with a toggle switch instead of in series so that there will be an option to switch from 1 lm386 board to 2 lm386 boards for different levels of fuzziness if that makes sense? Hahaha
The trimmer pots were supposed to be 1 K, it's even written on them (103 means 1 K :) ) They're just of crappy tolerance that's why you measure 750 ohms :)
the other pot is just set to taste so it not to over powering :) yes! you can add a volume I already have two different videos on how to do this one just came out 2v ago ua-cam.com/video/Y647lx8JPX0/v-deo.html&ab_channel=zurowetz
My man. I am wild about your guitar. And your cable. Do you have any more info on either?? For some reason its never occured to me to just take my favorite body shape and put my favorite pickups sound in it.
Thank you glad you like the guitar 😊 I built it myself so I can answer any questions you have 😁 not sure what cable you are talking about there is nothing special 🙂
Halloo its not a jazzmaster its a guitar of my own design with fanfrets I used it cuz Its the only guitar I have that fits in a video inspired by Mark no ones ever asked about it before so its only in on other video and thats the 8 different finishes for guitars but if there's something you'd like to know about it just ask I'd be happy to tell you 😊
Hi mate, yesterday I had fun making one of these (I burned two before the good one), I add the volume pot, but I couldn't make it work, the pot doesn't work or anything. Is just like if it doesn't exist. I based the volume thing on you other video. I hope you can guide me and point me on the right direction. Sorry for the horrible english, I'm from México 😊
your English its good don't worry 😃 look at this video and see if it helps if it doesn't just let me know 😁ua-cam.com/video/ExdEWIdOrPU/v-deo.html&ab_channel=zurowetz
I love pdals/effects, but I have OCD and only like Boss compact or twin pedal designs. I'm looking for broken/cheap Boss pedals to use the housings to build my own pedals into them.
@@scramblesthedeathdealer ooh cool check the inside and see if its surface mounted or through hole if it's through holes you can mod it there are so many cool mods for that pedal 😍
@zurowetz Yeah, even though it's in rough shape, I think this one is still surface mount, but I'll be keeping an eye out from now on for deals (I'm trying for a full Boss compact pedal collection one day, anyway, so I'm always looking).
I built one of these and it worked for a day and then stopped working. Used the rest to the same result. The boards just output white noise now! I wonder if these are just bad boards or if I missed something
They are cheap parts from china so there are most likly bad boards but not in a bag of 10s its hared to say if you dig something wrong but it sounds like there is a problem with the power in
@@janktunes oh you mean 3pdt I thought you wanted to have a on/off 😆 yeah you could do it that way too I just didn't because I never really use battery 🙂
Can anyone explain to me the difference in potentiometer values? For this lm386 module, what would be the difference if i use like a 100k or maybe 250k pot instead of 1k.
One of the fun parts is trying things out and see if you switch out the 10k pot for a 1k it wouldn't be able to restraine it as much anything under 10k you already have in it so just use a multimeter to set it to one 1k and you will see 🙂👍when it comes to 100k maybe it will let more gane through or maybe it will go to 10k and then be nothing more after because it is its limite 🤷♂️ try it and see I don't know what I used in all my lm386 pedals but if you want to I can check 🙂
@@HarisIsk the stutter distortion reverb that I built a month ago has a 100k so look at that video and see what you think but I don't think it will do you much good but star there 🙂
Sorry to hear that I have made more videos on the lm386 so check them out and see if you find what you need there and if not let me know and we can look into it together 🙂
Genuine question: If this is really all that a stompbox is inside, and any schmuck with a screw driver can put one together, how are manufacturers putting 3 digit price tags on these things?
Well this is just one pedal and some are more difficult and also it can take a lot of time to design a pedal and make it perfect . Also there are other costs to manufacturing that you don't see when you just do diy pedals. I tried to start my own business building guitars that were hand made and luxury quality but super cheap and after going through all the extra cost I just couldn't make it for less than 3k$ hope this helps 😊
Depends on what you mean you can use to stereo Jacks and just use on as a mono by not conecting anything to the right side output. But you can't make it in to a stereo pedal at least not White what I'm showing you in this video
Dude I did this literally 5 times with the same boards, not mixed together like yours just the one, and did this step by step. Can't get it to work. Literally the l.e.d worked for a five second period even and quit. I can show you a picture. I'm telling you I followed this perfectly. Now that said I've built pedals from veroboard, I made pre laid out pcb, I bought diy pedal kits, and something everyone on UA-cam is sharing doesn't work regarding pedals, so I looked up words and not video, followed multiple offboard wiring diagrams.... still no pedal I make works despite how closely I follow yours or anyone else's directions. So what do I do? Well I go to the one person in person in a small shit town town I reside in... what does he tell me to do? Well to follow the same diagrams I already have for 2 months....offer to show him a picture oof what I'm doing tells me there is no need. Sends me the offboard wiring diagram like yours only the ground and the l.e.d spot switched which is commo and is the "easiest" offboard wiring diagram. Literally nothing I'm doing works. I'm 600 dollars into a hobby with over 10 pedals "built" and once I introduce a l.e d light and footswitch it won't work. Even the diy pedals kits with instructions that I then looked up 3 different youtubers building step by step to like your video where I can almost recite it word for word... still nothing. I'm not trying to come off angry at you, but there is something the youtube community is missing as far as info because I'm not a stranger to a soldering gun and electronics. I've built multiple synths, lofi mics, I can get these lm 386 boards to work when following marks video.. not yours, and no one making diy pedals on UA-cam and I literally have no one in person to help me trouble shoot. I thought this would be a fun musical hobby and I've never had anything musically related piss me off more. I know whatever I'm doing is something small because it acts like it wants to work, and it tries, but then the led will work once and die, and I'm using a 2.2k resistor and then no sound sounds like it's coming from the input, and again I'm not a stranger to doing this kind of thing... so ... 🤷♀️ I'm about to throw all my pedal related shit in the garbage. All the electrical components and veroboard, the wire, the soldering iron... I just wasted a ton of money on a hobby I can't for the life of me figure out, and have no helpful way to trouble shoot. 2 months of nothing but frustration
hallo I'm sorry to hear you are having problems with your builds, believe me I have bin there too it can be vary frustrating but once you figure it out it will be even more rewarding for you. so please don't give up. it sound like a power issue I'm in EU and we have standardized powers so it might be different for you? if so maybe looking in to how that works might help. do you get another respond when using a 9v battery? check the power adapter and see if the + and - are the same as on the power in. the way I do it in the video is the way it is in most cases but you might have to flip them if your power adaptor is not made for guitar pedals. check continuity with a multimeter and make sure all solder joints are clean and well connected. measure the resistor and make sure it works as it should and try the LED with a 1,3 battery to see if it burned, if it did you need a higher resistor. last thing that I can think of is see if you are making a ground loop by putting on the lid, it happens some time with DIY pedals that something is touching something and so what I do and you can see it inn other videos of mine is that I putt the PCB in a plastic bag on the inside and put tape on the lid so nothing can touch the metal. I really hope this helps and that you won't stop building pedals good luck and take care!
I'm afraid it's part of the hobby, I've been building and selling pedals mixers and drone synths for a few years and I have "The Shel of Shonk" put all of the "failed items on it, once you think you can't go any further. One day you'll learn something new, have a flash of inspiration or new vigour and return to an item with fresh eyes. You'll fix the item. It'll work properly and you'll feel like the big Kahuna solder King. It's just part of the process. Never throw anything away. Always be prepared to walk away.
Greetings Zurowetz, The idea to make a distortion pedal out of a couple of LM386 board is interesting. However there are 4 major flaws in your pedal. 1 - If you wish to be compatible with other pedals, you will need to wired the guitar input on the left side, not the right side. 2 - I would suggest to make the wiring longer so you can make things tidy. 3 - It is extremely important to pay attention to the soldering. I noticed some cold solders. This can make your circuit intermittent or not function properly. 4 - There is a gain pot on one of the PCB. This will need to be adjusted to 1 volt on the output. If you fail to do this, you may end up burning the LM386 on the second stage (second board). The nominal output voltage must be 1 volt since this is going to your amplifier. Do not exceed 2 volts because you may blow your power amp input stage on a long run.
How did I not know about this vid! So Cool!! You really took this idea to the next level. I just watched your vid on adding diode pairs to the circuit. It sounded much better with them. Great work! Seriously, I was getting a lot of new views on the that 1 dollar fuzz video and was wondering why. Thanks for the shout out. I subscribed to your channel.
Haha I don't know UA-cam is not very good at promoting videos you have to see😉 I think the diode makes it better too but my favourite is the one where I built it together with a tremolo 😁 I have som more I ideas for things I can do to this chips so hopefully it will bring more views to both our channels 👊 thank you for all the inspiration you bring and the kind words hope you weren't too weirded out from the video 🤣
I was just telling myself last week that I wish someone would make a video on adding a switch option to that video and BOOM, here it is. Thank you brother!
No problems and thank you for the lovely comment bro👊 marry christmas 🎄
That's pure Fuzz love! Love it ❤❤
On top of this being an excellent video on "hacking" the amp boards into an awesome fuzz pedal, this is also one of the best explained videos on how to wire up pretty much any pedal. You were very thorough and detailed in the whys and hows of doing things, like routing the bypass, setting up both battery and dc in and grounding things. I am going to use this video as an example in the future when people have questions about these things. Heck I wish I had seen thing video years ago when I started messing around with doing this stuff and was confused as to what goes where and especially why. Thanks!!!
Thank you for all the positive comments it means a lot 😊 I try my best to make my videos make as much sense as possible so know you like it makes me smile 😁 and reading your name makes me think you'll enjoy Monday's video so hopefully I'll see you there take care 🎃👍
Most helpful. I just ordered those parts.
Awesome! Its a lot of fun to build so hopefully you find it fun to and if you need help just let me know 😀👍
You’re a genius, my friend!
I'm just a dude but thank you friend 👍
Great video. Thank you very much!
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I'm going to need to watch this multiple times, and really slow, but thank you, very much.
Cool hope it keeps being good through the times you watch it😃 I have a play list called LM386 pedals if get tired of the same video over and over
@@zurowetz I just found this channel. You got an instant sub from me. I'm a bass player that's been searching for "my fuzz" for years. I'm probably going to need to learn to build it.
I'll binge at work this week.
Thanks!
@@JLeppert awesome to have you here you will fit in well with all the other bass players😆👍build it and slowly mod it till its perfect and exactly what you want 🤟
Really thankful for you guys sharing these cheap circuits. I use them all the time. For testing things. Making things etc. Slam a LPB1 boost into it and it gets really heavy
Thank you I glad you like it 😀Yeah your right there's even more you can make out of them sometimes I think I'll be making videos with them for the rest of my life 😆
😂😂@@zurowetz I sent you a message on Instagram so I could share the pedal I made. I'm not a UA-cam star like you haha.
@@DeformedDevices hahaha I'll take a look at it but maybe your a Instagram star 😉😉😉
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Cool man
I had actually bought 10 of these last year to reuse the radio pcb of a broken old portable TV. It was cheaper buying the ten of them than only one unit.
Might try it. Also gonna make a headphones amp, with a simple fet preamp
Sounds like a good idea go for it👍 I wanna build a headphone amp too but it will have to be its own video 😁
@@zurowetz you can use that board as a pre made power section. It's even loud enough for a small practice amp
In addition to cleaning soldering iron & surfaces to be soldered, rosin core solder & soldering flux makes soldering secure connections 10 times easier, by preventing oxidation from forming in the joints simultaneously with the soldering.
Connect two and build a really usable acapulco gold!
There are loads of these little modules on Amazon that do different things. The possibilities are endless to designing your own pedal. You don't need Josh Scott or Brian Wampler anymore. 😂
Still need them as eye candy 😉
I want to do this as a guitar onboard circuit!
I think you should do it👍 use a stereo jack to split the ground so you can turn it off 🙂
I just realised that you basically made a low budget acapulco gold.
This is really cool
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@@zurowetzI don't get what you do at 4:33
Why do you do that?
@@truffeltroll6668 you can think of it like two pedals one goes to the next so the first "out" to the next "in"🙂
@@zurowetz ah, got it. Thank you!
I'm currently in the building process with this guide and that's where I'm stuck
@@truffeltroll6668 good luck! Let me know how it turns out 😃
I think it might be worth building if you lowered the initial voltage and added dual gain control and swapped the opamp chips and added a tone stack . On second thought 😂
Haha 🤣
@@zurowetz thanks for sharing . This pedal building is not for the of faint of heart . Keep up the great work . Looking forward to the next video
@@silkysmoof5697 thank you but this pedal is easier to build than it might seem give it a go and you will be surprised 😉👍
Hey I've built this pedal using a 2.7k resistor for the led, today I've discovered that whenever I turn off the pedal it takes a while before any clean signal comes through it :/ What do you think might be the problem? I've wired the footswitch a bit differently than what you have showed, following a schematic I found on reddit but it is very similar, just the led is not in the middle row but at the top row. I'm also thinking about adding a resistor to the max volume because it is VERY loud and not usable if you want to switch between clean and fuzzy. Do you have any recommendations for this problem? Thx a bunch! Love ur videos!
Thanks for the love 🤗 put a potentiometer like a volume control on your guitar on it going from the out of the circuit to the switch them you can find the volume you want then if you don't want to keep the pot you can switch it out for a resistor with the same value as what the pot is set to once it is where you like it 👍it is hard for me to know if there is something wrong with the wiring for the switch but I built the same pedal again yesterday and I used a 3,3k resistor and I don't have any problem so either there is something wrong with the borde or you need to change the wiring to the switch. Good luck let me know how it goes 🙂👍
I built one today and had this high pitch squeal that wouldn't end, but I'll try again soon. I assume I had a ground issue. I also tried 2 tone pots which was overkill. You can also get tiny heat sinks for the chips if you really want to maintain consistency in control. I also found the chips drive an 8 or 16 ohm speaker, best. 4 just rolls off with no real boost. Anyway, that was my journey so far! .Hope you're all doing well!
Cool I'll have to experiment more 🙂 it can also be a lead and a grund that are touching 🤷♀️
@@zurowetz I am going to try again this weekend. I had some long additional wires that may have acted like antenna. I'll be back!
@@Jenisonc yeah that could be it let me know how it gosse 🙂
@@zurowetzhow did it go?
@@-TheZilvers-7812 I don't know man I'm waiting for him to come back and tell me too🙂
Where does the tone stack and control go? I use a 1950s valve amp tone stack circuit for the pedals I have made. Thank you for the video and help. Awesome
you could experiment with putting it before or after and see what you like hopefully this video can help ua-cam.com/video/_6_-KGiS3yc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=zurowetz le me know if it helped 🙂
@@zurowetz thanks. I have to check where I located them on the effects I make. Cheers
thank you im going to go down an take a look at what you just did a comair what i did then ill let you know thank you
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Thanks for the awesome video. I gave this a try. When I connect the 1k pot I find the volume is very low and it never really distorts. If I increase the value of the pot to say 10k, I get better distortion but at some point when sweeping the pot, I get a lot of noise. I don't have it soldered yet, I'm using jumpers with alligator clips to make the connections. Any help would be appreciated.
Yeah its very noisy if you use 2 and leave the trimpot on one you can adjust it so you get less noise but you will not get everything done also having short cables inside the pedal will help and if you can use insulated cables that would help too 🙂 thanks for the comment and good luck 👍
@@zurowetz When I combined two, I was able to go back to the 1k pot. I'm assuming the 1k with just one board was not enough gain. Two in stages is over the top...lol. So, I cut the trimpot down to almost off on the first stage. That lets me control the overall volume with the single pot. Still have a degree of hiss but I attribute that to gain.
you have done this be for....... lmao rof nice job ....... i built 2 pedals neather work lol ... compressor, reverb,,, now im trying a fuzzz ... so far 2 No Gozzzzzz..... will try my 3rd ....
If you want to you can send me pictures over at Instagram and maybe we can figure out what whent wrong 🙂
Hi, thanks for this great tutorial.. Is this wiring schematic saving battery in bypass state? Do i need to make physical connection between ground terminals for battery and dc connector?
thank you 🍻 this only saves the battery when the jack is not plugged in because the physical ground connection is created between dc in and the battery ground once the plug is inside that's why I use a stereo jack. I'm unsure this is what you mean but hopes it helps 😀
@@zurowetz thanks for answer.. I mean, if i use battery, is battery lowering if pedal is bypassed?
@@igormarinkovic9252 yes the guitar cable basically is the on/off switch so if you leave it plugged in it stays on
@@zurowetz Thank you very much! i just started with DIY, and i'm confused about too many things. But it is normal :)
@@igormarinkovic9252 awsome just let me know if you need help with something and I'll try my best 👍😁
I was just wondering, what is the actual advantage of linking 2 of these LM386s together like this. I've made a few different ones using just one. Started with that one simplest version with no footswitch, or gain control, or anything like that (like from that 1st original $1 fuzz video I saw). Then I started doing more tweaking with them. Added the gain control, the footswitch, and the LED, like in this video. I just did one last night where I also added a volume knob. I've just been using little plastic containers to put them in cuz that's all I really have around the house that works for now. They are all pretty noisy and simple, but I'm just getting into pedal building, so these have all just been practice until I work my way up to building some real, usable, stage-ready pedals.
So yeah, I've got 2 of these LM386s left and was just wondering how linking them together would be different from any of the other ones I've already made.
Well to me they sound bigger,lauder and more like a "real pedal" should if that helps if you have to just like them and see what you think the benefit of having 2 in 1 is just less canles so noise will go down witch is good on something so noisy
@@zurowetz OK. I kinda figured it would make it sound a little louder and fuller. I was wondering how it would affect the noise level, so anything that might help that would be a bonus. Other than the noise I actually like the way they sound, especially for what it is. So yeah, I'll give that a try, but find something better to put it in rather than a cheap, plastic box. Thanks for responding!
@@JESSEALLEN77 twisting wiers inside and seting one trimpot lower than the other will help with noice I forgott to tell you i also made another one called killer fuzz I think it turned out better so maybe have a look at that video before you deside what you wanna do🙂
In the original $1 fuzz video by MarkGutierrez, he linked them together to create something similar to an EQD Acapulco Gold since that pedal is really just two LM386s in series and not much else.
Parabéns pelo vídeo, esquema eletrico, poderia disponibilizar. Obrigado sou do Brasil
Can you make a video of wiring the 2 lm386 boards in parallel with a toggle switch instead of in series so that there will be an option to switch from 1 lm386 board to 2 lm386 boards for different levels of fuzziness if that makes sense? Hahaha
Makes total sense and I'm working on it already so it's coming 👍😁
@@zurowetz thank you so much! Can't wait to see it! Love your videos!
Should i connect the battery to the first chip or second one? and do i have to connect the two vcc parts?
Both vcc are for the battery and both need power so make a jumper from one to the other 👍 you also need a ground between them. Good luck!
The trimmer pots were supposed to be 1 K, it's even written on them (103 means 1 K :) )
They're just of crappy tolerance that's why you measure 750 ohms :)
i wonder if it is posable to put one of these in a guitar for an onboard fuzz that can be turned on with a push pull ?
Yeah super easy👍😊
So the other potentiometer inside the pedal, what is that set to? And also, can a volume pot be added?
the other pot is just set to taste so it not to over powering :) yes! you can add a volume I already have two different videos on how to do this one just came out 2v ago ua-cam.com/video/Y647lx8JPX0/v-deo.html&ab_channel=zurowetz
My man. I am wild about your guitar. And your cable. Do you have any more info on either??
For some reason its never occured to me to just take my favorite body shape and put my favorite pickups sound in it.
Thank you glad you like the guitar 😊 I built it myself so I can answer any questions you have 😁 not sure what cable you are talking about there is nothing special 🙂
The guitar at the end, is it a Jazzmaster body with strat controls? Is it featured in any of your other videos? Thx
Halloo its not a jazzmaster its a guitar of my own design with fanfrets I used it cuz Its the only guitar I have that fits in a video inspired by Mark no ones ever asked about it before so its only in on other video and thats the 8 different finishes for guitars but if there's something you'd like to know about it just ask I'd be happy to tell you 😊
@@zurowetzI like it. I've been thinking of doing something similar. A Jaguar body with 24 inch scale neck and strat pickups and controls.
@@pmd7914 do it! It will turn out awesome!😁
Hello, would it also make sense to add a volume knob, which could limit the volume but not the sound of the amp? Thank you!
Yeah you could do that something I'm thinking of doing is adding a bosst pedal to it think it would be cool 😎
I already have a video btw called killer fuzz its this pedal with a tremolo kit
Yeah thanks
Hi mate, yesterday I had fun making one of these (I burned two before the good one), I add the volume pot, but I couldn't make it work, the pot doesn't work or anything. Is just like if it doesn't exist. I based the volume thing on you other video. I hope you can guide me and point me on the right direction. Sorry for the horrible english, I'm from México 😊
your English its good don't worry 😃 look at this video and see if it helps if it doesn't just let me know 😁ua-cam.com/video/ExdEWIdOrPU/v-deo.html&ab_channel=zurowetz
What type of snipper did you use to cut the lugs off the trimpots?
Flush wire pliers
ну да по звуку получился прям таки Дарктрон))
How did you print the front of the enclosure ?
Thanks great video.
I just printed out a picture and used double sided tape to stick it on its just ganna be a joke for the video but it's still on there 😆
Thanks for that, I use water slide and it can become a pain.
Cheers Dean
@@superconductorchip9072 yeah I know exactly what you mean try mod podge maybe better for you?
Just saw your UA-cam……… I know this video is a bit old but I’m still curious, is it a Dunlop Echoplex chassis?
Sorry I don't know why I didn't see your comment until now 😖 its not and I think thats good because the echoplex is to good looking for a remake 😃👍
with this also take 12v to get more headroom? or is it strictly 9v ?
Technically it can take 12v but if it gives you more headroom I haven't experience
@@zurowetz ahh good to know thanks! :)
What kind of switch is that? What is it called if I order one? I’m new to all this.
3pdt switch 👍
I love pdals/effects, but I have OCD and only like Boss compact or twin pedal designs. I'm looking for broken/cheap Boss pedals to use the housings to build my own pedals into them.
Yeah I've been there too it's hard boss pedals never break 😅 but good luck! keep checking ebay 😃
@zurowetz I grabbed a beat to sh*t DS-1 from a pawn shop for like $21 after tax... just gotta keep an eye out for more.
@@scramblesthedeathdealer ooh cool check the inside and see if its surface mounted or through hole if it's through holes you can mod it there are so many cool mods for that pedal 😍
@zurowetz Yeah, even though it's in rough shape, I think this one is still surface mount, but I'll be keeping an eye out from now on for deals (I'm trying for a full Boss compact pedal collection one day, anyway, so I'm always looking).
I'm not modding my original 1997 DS-1, though, another will come by one day.
I built one of these and it worked for a day and then stopped working. Used the rest to the same result. The boards just output white noise now! I wonder if these are just bad boards or if I missed something
They are cheap parts from china so there are most likly bad boards but not in a bag of 10s its hared to say if you dig something wrong but it sounds like there is a problem with the power in
@@zurowetz my headphone jacks were actually bad! Ground was touching positive on the input
@@TechRedstone so you fixed it? 🙂
Why don't you have the 3pst switch cut the power to the chips when bypassed?
Just seems unnecessary and I would have to flick it when I want the effect on 🙂
@@zurowetz Don't you already have to engage the switch to activate the effect?
@@janktunes oh you mean 3pdt I thought you wanted to have a on/off 😆 yeah you could do it that way too I just didn't because I never really use battery 🙂
@@zurowetz Yes, my mistake 3pdt
@@janktunes don't worry about it I think that it you split the dc ground to go to the switch instead of the led you would get what you want 🙂
Those are 10k trim pots. It says right on them. 103.
nice video, thanks. it would be a lot easier to follow with a simple schematic and a parts list.
A schematic from a guy who doesn't even know what 103 means on the trim pot.
I'm guessing... that your enclosure is from an iRig Stomp?
Omg! Yes! Your right! How did you know?🤯 You get 10 life points!!
Can anyone explain to me the difference in potentiometer values? For this lm386 module, what would be the difference if i use like a 100k or maybe 250k pot instead of 1k.
One of the fun parts is trying things out and see if you switch out the 10k pot for a 1k it wouldn't be able to restraine it as much anything under 10k you already have in it so just use a multimeter to set it to one 1k and you will see 🙂👍when it comes to 100k maybe it will let more gane through or maybe it will go to 10k and then be nothing more after because it is its limite 🤷♂️ try it and see I don't know what I used in all my lm386 pedals but if you want to I can check 🙂
@@zurowetz im curious as to how the lm386 would sound with a 250k pot as i think that would be the easiest to find where im from
@@HarisIsk the stutter distortion reverb that I built a month ago has a 100k so look at that video and see what you think but I don't think it will do you much good but star there 🙂
@@zurowetz alright, will check that out! Thankyou!
Just made this. Not sure why it isn't working but all I get is buzzing :/
Sorry to hear that I have made more videos on the lm386 so check them out and see if you find what you need there and if not let me know and we can look into it together 🙂
Genuine question: If this is really all that a stompbox is inside, and any schmuck with a screw driver can put one together, how are manufacturers putting 3 digit price tags on these things?
Well this is just one pedal and some are more difficult and also it can take a lot of time to design a pedal and make it perfect . Also there are other costs to manufacturing that you don't see when you just do diy pedals. I tried to start my own business building guitars that were hand made and luxury quality but super cheap and after going through all the extra cost I just couldn't make it for less than 3k$ hope this helps 😊
@@zurowetz fair enough, thanks for the reply!
Can the jacks both be stereo jacks?
Depends on what you mean you can use to stereo Jacks and just use on as a mono by not conecting anything to the right side output. But you can't make it in to a stereo pedal at least not White what I'm showing you in this video
@@zurowetz Okay thank you, i am very new to this
@@christophermagdadaro3564 thats awsome 😁 I have a lot of other videos om making pedals take a look and if you have any questions just ask 👍
@@zurowetz Thank you!
Anything is a fuzz pedal if you’re brave enough
Yeah!!🤟
I tried to make this pedal with 1 circuit board instead of 2 but i keep frying the chip (no led in my pedal btw). Anyone has the same issues?
Maybe something is touching something like a lead to a ground
@@zurowetz I'll try and rectify, thankyou!
@@Hxris43x awesome let me know how it goes 😉👍
@@zurowetz will do! Thanks ✌️
small enough to fit inside a guitar
Sure if you want to go for it 👍😉
Dude I did this literally 5 times with the same boards, not mixed together like yours just the one, and did this step by step. Can't get it to work. Literally the l.e.d worked for a five second period even and quit. I can show you a picture. I'm telling you I followed this perfectly.
Now that said I've built pedals from veroboard, I made pre laid out pcb, I bought diy pedal kits, and something everyone on UA-cam is sharing doesn't work regarding pedals, so I looked up words and not video, followed multiple offboard wiring diagrams.... still no pedal I make works despite how closely I follow yours or anyone else's directions.
So what do I do? Well I go to the one person in person in a small shit town town I reside in... what does he tell me to do? Well to follow the same diagrams I already have for 2 months....offer to show him a picture oof what I'm doing tells me there is no need. Sends me the offboard wiring diagram like yours only the ground and the l.e.d spot switched which is commo and is the "easiest" offboard wiring diagram.
Literally nothing I'm doing works. I'm 600 dollars into a hobby with over 10 pedals "built" and once I introduce a l.e d light and footswitch it won't work. Even the diy pedals kits with instructions that I then looked up 3 different youtubers building step by step to like your video where I can almost recite it word for word... still nothing.
I'm not trying to come off angry at you, but there is something the youtube community is missing as far as info because I'm not a stranger to a soldering gun and electronics. I've built multiple synths, lofi mics, I can get these lm 386 boards to work when following marks video.. not yours, and no one making diy pedals on UA-cam and I literally have no one in person to help me trouble shoot. I thought this would be a fun musical hobby and I've never had anything musically related piss me off more.
I know whatever I'm doing is something small because it acts like it wants to work, and it tries, but then the led will work once and die, and I'm using a 2.2k resistor and then no sound sounds like it's coming from the input, and again I'm not a stranger to doing this kind of thing... so ... 🤷♀️
I'm about to throw all my pedal related shit in the garbage. All the electrical components and veroboard, the wire, the soldering iron... I just wasted a ton of money on a hobby I can't for the life of me figure out, and have no helpful way to trouble shoot.
2 months of nothing but frustration
hallo I'm sorry to hear you are having problems with your builds, believe me I have bin there too it can be vary frustrating but once you figure it out it will be even more rewarding for you. so please don't give up.
it sound like a power issue I'm in EU and we have standardized powers so it might be different for you? if so maybe looking in to how that works might help. do you get another respond when using a 9v battery? check the power adapter and see if the + and - are the same as on the power in. the way I do it in the video is the way it is in most cases but you might have to flip them if your power adaptor is not made for guitar pedals. check continuity with a multimeter and make sure all solder joints are clean and well connected. measure the resistor and make sure it works as it should and try the LED with a 1,3 battery to see if it burned, if it did you need a higher resistor. last thing that I can think of is see if you are making a ground loop by putting on the lid, it happens some time with DIY pedals that something is touching something and so what I do and you can see it inn other videos of mine is that I putt the PCB in a plastic bag on the inside and put tape on the lid so nothing can touch the metal. I really hope this helps and that you won't stop building pedals good luck and take care!
I'm afraid it's part of the hobby, I've been building and selling pedals mixers and drone synths for a few years and I have "The Shel of Shonk" put all of the "failed items on it, once you think you can't go any further. One day you'll learn something new, have a flash of inspiration or new vigour and return to an item with fresh eyes. You'll fix the item. It'll work properly and you'll feel like the big Kahuna solder King. It's just part of the process. Never throw anything away. Always be prepared to walk away.
Greetings Zurowetz,
The idea to make a distortion pedal out of a couple of LM386 board is interesting. However there are 4 major flaws in your pedal.
1 - If you wish to be compatible with other pedals, you will need to wired the guitar input on the left side, not the right side.
2 - I would suggest to make the wiring longer so you can make things tidy.
3 - It is extremely important to pay attention to the soldering. I noticed some cold solders. This can make your circuit intermittent or not function properly.
4 - There is a gain pot on one of the PCB. This will need to be adjusted to 1 volt on the output. If you fail to do this, you may end up burning the LM386 on the second stage (second board). The nominal output voltage must be 1 volt since this is going to your amplifier. Do not exceed 2 volts because you may blow your power amp input stage on a long run.
I must be from another universe because the guitar input of all of my pedals are in the right side...
same@@0b5qRa
@@0b5qRa , way back in the day, mine were on the left side. It is very possible they changed the side over the years. my bad
Yeah, almost every pedal I own goes right to left. There are a few outliers, but it's definitely the convention these days.
Why the excessive cutting? I keep thinking I'm having an epileptic episode.
My English is bad so I have to cut out all the mistakes I make
You mentioned need a resistor to use with the LED what value is needed? Sorry total pedal electronics noob
2.2k, if I saw correctly.
Yes 2,2k
@@Jenisonc thank you for helping me☺️
@@zurowetz No, thank you for all the work you do and for showing us!
@@Jenisonc 😊
QUE PORQUERIA!
Yo . desolder R1 if I remember correctly and the gain drops from 200 to 20
i'll check it out 👍