{"id":550,"date":"2016-07-11T12:06:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T17:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theaudiomagazine.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2016-08-29T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T15:50:38","slug":"effects-pedal-kits-from-start-to-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theaudiomagazine.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Effects Pedal Kits – From Start to Finish!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I fondly recall the experience of building a fuzz box back when I was 13 years old (definitely a bit of time has elapsed since then) and just starting to play guitar. It was a BNB Electronics “Fuzzy.” Crude by today’s standards, it came in a plastic box and didn’t even have a footswitch. I think that I might have the circuit board somewhere that I saved after the plastic box shattered.<\/p>\n

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In the 30 odd years since then, it’s clear that the DIY pedal market has changed in a good way. Modern designs have true bypass switching, top shelf parts, and seem to encompass a much more boutique approach to pedals compared to the mass market.<\/p>\n

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In this article, we’ll take a look at the process of going from box of parts to finished product!<\/p>\n

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Here are the first three manufacturer’s units that we will be building up:<\/p>\n

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First up is American manufacturer 4ms (website is http:\/\/www.4mspedals.com).<\/p>\n

We will be building the Mini Noise Swash pedal kit. (http:\/\/www.4mspedals.com\/miniswash-kit.php) This thing looks totally demented…in a good way!<\/p>\n

Here is what it looked like out of the shipping container:
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From the UK, we have Jed’s Peds (website is http:\/\/www.jedspeds.co.uk) who have provided the Ritual Fuzz kit (http:\/\/www.jedspeds.co.uk\/_p\/prd1\/4535181171\/product\/ritual-fuzz-pcb-kit)<\/p>\n

Here is what it looked like out of the shipping container:<\/p>\n

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Next up is Das Musikding from Germany (website is http:\/\/www.musikding.de). They were kind enough to send along two kits The Muff Triangle (http:\/\/www.musikding.de\/Der-Muff-Triangle-Distortion-kit) and The Sentient Machine (http:\/\/www.musikding.de\/Sentient-Machine-Lowpass-Filter-kit)<\/p>\n

Here is what they looked like out of the shipping container:
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Check back soon to see the builds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I fondly recall the experience of building a fuzz box back when I was 13 years old (definitely a bit of time has elapsed since then) and just starting to play guitar. It was a BNB Electronics “Fuzzy.” Crude by today’s standards, it came in a plastic box and didn’t even have a footswitch. I think that I might have… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories-reviews","category-guitar-reviews","category-processor-reviews","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theaudiomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theaudiomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theaudiomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theaudiomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theaudiomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theaudiomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/www.theaudiomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theaudiomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theaudiomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theaudiomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}