pedal kits

James1214 · July 23, 2012, 01:17:18 PM

where's a good place to start? I'm getting a lot more proficient with my soldering and feel I'm ready to tackle something more serious.... gimme some tips

clockwork green · July 23, 2012, 01:32:27 PM

BYOC (build your own clone) and GGG (general guitar gadgets) make the best kits I've tried. Fuzz pedals are the easiest to start with.

dunwichamps · July 23, 2012, 02:03:53 PM

madbeans is solid for boards

RAGER · July 23, 2012, 02:11:29 PM

I've built a few of the byoc. Good quality components, stellar instructions, and a forum for troubleshooting. If you can solder and have a bit of theory it's really easy. The leeds fuzz is quite a populated board though. Wouldn't call it a really easy one but easy enough.

MichaelZodiac · July 23, 2012, 02:29:46 PM

I've found Musikding kits to be cheaper than BYOC for the same amount of service. They're German as well so I don't have to pay the same amount for shipping compared to ordering from BYOC, depends on where you at of course.

Lumpy · July 23, 2012, 07:30:31 PM

I've heard Dwarfcraft offers a Great Destroyer kit, Devi Ever might have a kit (?) and Catalinbread offers a couple kits now.

http://www.catalinbread.com/Kit

xayk · July 23, 2012, 08:52:03 PM

Devi has some kits, yeah. Almost all of them can make one of a number of pedals. If you're looking to get everything, though, her kits don't include an enclosure (the kits that show an enclosure don't include prefabbed pcb's, fwiw.)
http://www.etsy.com/shop/deviever

Mammoth is offering kits with guitarpcb.com boards, too:
http://www.mammothelectronics.com/category-s/118.htm

I used GGG for my first build or two, and that went well.

Lumpy · July 24, 2012, 12:20:28 AM

I'm guessing once you do enough kits, you'll be able to read schematics and source the parts yourself. At that point, basically every pedal ever built has it's schematic posted online.

As for myself, I have two BYOC kits sitting on my shelf unbuilt, they have been sitting there for years