Rock in the new year with a guitar pedal you built yourself. [Doug Kovach] took the time to share his project with us in the video after the break. He starts with a bit of history of the artists that ...

Available as PCB-only or with matching enclosure and components, the new kits include designs inspired by vintage Tone Bender and Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face circuits and more When you purchase through ...

No soldering experience required, because this kit, with its step-by-step manual, will teach you everything you need to know, and offers a primer in soldering and basic electronics When you purchase ...

Instructables user and Community Manager [Randy Sarafan] recently put together a tutorial on how to build an ages-old musical standard, the “Fuzz Pedal”. He says that the secret to rocking out is fuzz ...

From subtle tube saturation to unapologetic sonic mayhem, here’s how boosters, fuzzes, overdrives and distortions create their signature guitar sounds ...

Then, at age 12, he found instructions for building a fuzz pedal, complete with a circuit that had to be transferred onto a copper sheet using an iron, in an issue of Popular Mechanics. “I was just ...

Most of us are aware of harmonic nodes. You get the strongest one at the 12th fret, which is exactly halfway along the string length. There’s one at the 5th, which is a quarter length and another at ...

Some of the most recognizable guitar sounds in rock music were created with the fuzz pedal. The predecessor of distortion and overdrive pedals, it alters your guitar’s sound wave into a square wave, ...

At 70 years old, Rick Crownover finds himself closer to the electric guitar than ever. A lifetime tinkerer, he now builds his signature fuzz guitar pedals made from eclectic tin containers found in ...