If you are thinking about building your own guitar pedals, a wonderful place to start is by building DIY guitar pedal kits. A guitar pedal kit allows you to understand the basics behind building guitar pedals, without having to have a vast knowledge of how circuitry and effect pedals work. You will still have to know how to solder electronics and follow instructions, but a guitar pedal kit eliminates the need to source components and create a guitar pedal from the ground up.
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Guitar Pedal Kits
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DIY guitar pedal kits can function as an entry-level challenge to ease you into the pedal building world. After you have put together a few kits, then you can really start planning, designing, and building DIY guitar pedals.
Plus, building pedal kits can be a great way to save money on buying pedals while learning a new hobby in the process! Be sure to check out our DIY Guitar Pedal Building Guide for a list of everything you need!
With this in mind, we wanted to go over a few fantastic DIY guitar pedal kits that you should definitely check out if you’re interested in building guitar pedals!
The Best DIY Guitar Pedal Kits
Divided Octave Guitar Pedal Kit
This kit is an octave up/octave down pedal with a dry mix feature to help mix your instrument’s clean signal with the pedal’s effect. This DIY pedal kit is based on the Mutron Octave Divider pedal with a modern overhaul. The Divided Octave kit features a much smaller enclosure than the old Mutron Octave Divider, and also has been upgraded with a standard 9VDC power adapter so it fits perfectly on your pedalboard.
This kit is a bit of a challenge, since there are a lot of parts – however with patience and a bit of skill, you will end up with an amazing finished product!
DIY Tremolo Pedal Kit
This kit is a fantastic entry-level DIY pedal kit, and who doesn’t love tremolo pedals? This DIY Tremolo Pedal Kit offers all the parts and instructions necessary to build it. With a simple three-knob design and printed circuit board, this is a great little beginner’s pedal kit to build as a weekend project!
DIY Fuzz Machine Pedal Kit
Fuzz pedals are very fun to use, and they are even more fun to build! The Fuzz Machine kit is a germanium-based fuzz pedal with a raunchy, 70’s sound. The kit includes all of the parts you will need to build the pedal, however you will need to buy your own wire and knobs. This kit also allows you to experiment with different transistors to customize the sound of the pedal (germanium transistors are included, but you can use your own germanium or silicon transistors)! This is definitely a cool fuzz pedal kit to put together!
DIY Delay Pedal Kit
We love delay pedals. In fact, we wrote about the best delay pedals here. Chances are, you already have a delay pedal in your collection. However, a DIY delay pedal can be a very fun pedal to build, and it could make a great addition to your pedalboard (having two delay pedals rules). This DIY Delay Pedal kit includes all of the necessary parts and components needed to build the pedal, and even includes a pre-drilled and custom designed aluminum enclosure. This is definitely an interesting delay pedal kit that you should check out!
DIY True Bypass Looper Kit
A truly easy DIY pedal kit option is a true bypass effect looper pedal. A looper pedal allows you to loop a series of pedals together to turn them all on/off at the same time. These can be extremely handy when you start adding a large number of pedals to your board. This kit is very entry-level, but is an incredibly resourceful tool to add to your pedal arsenal once it is complete!
There are also a lot of wonderful online stores that supply their own DIY effect pedal kits! Here are a few you should check out!
General Guitar Gadgets – GGG offers a large collection of DIY pedal kits. They also offer schematics and wiring diagrams!
Mammoth Electronics– Mammoth Electronics is mostly known for supplying high quality pedal parts to pedal builders, however they also have some awesome pedal kits available on their site!
Build Your Own Clone – BYOC offers a large collection of DIY pedal kits on their site!
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DIY Guitar Effects
Pedals, effects and other cool projects related to guitar effects
Super Hard On
Rated as one of the best guitar boosters, this classic and simple DIY project is the Super Hard On. The gain is a negative-feedback control styled after classic 60's recording console inputs. It is perfect to obtain the best of a classic amp and guitar.
Mini Guitar Amp
This mini guitar amplifier is based on the Ruby Amp (runoffgroove.com). It can yield ½ Watt at 9V, being perfect as a home practice amp. It has gain and volume control, offering a very dynamic sound on any speaker.
Distortion Plus
The Distortion + has the ability to generate various personalities of overdrive, distortion or fuzz, depending on the way you play the guitar. This popular pedal is one of the DIY classics.
Les Lius
The LES LIUS simulates the sounds of the vintage Fender amps. It has a toggle switch that allows you to change tones from Tweed Fender Deluxe, High Power Twin and Master Volume. Also includes a footswitch to increase the gain and emulate the cracking of t
English Man
This pedal emulates a VOX AC amplifier working at the limit. It has the ability to work as a clean boost or an overdrive depending on the volume and gain control, offering a great dynamic response and open sound.
Eternity
This guitar pedal offers a very smooth type of overdrive similar to the saturation generated by a vacuum tube. It is perfect to play blues and rock, adding a smooth saturation and good sustain.
Plexitone
This pedal can generate every tone you need. The Crunch channel provides from soft overdrive to hard rock distortion. The High Gain channel offers from rock gain stages to high-gain shred. Additionally a Boost will add extra volume to your pedal output.
Box of Rock
The Box of Rock pedal emulates the JTM45 tone, a remarkable classic distortion sound. This pedal has very high headroom and you will be able to control the distortion tone by using your guitar volume knob.
Linear Power Booster
This pedal is the original LPB booster that introduced the overdrive era in 1968. Use the LPB to obtain extra boost and definition to any pedal effect. This pedal will definitely increase the gain and saturation of your amp.
Bass Booster Hogs Foot
This bass booster is the Hog's Foot or Mole. It is a Linear Power Booster tuned for bass, it will give the lows you need.
Treble Booster Screaming Bird
This treble booster is the Screaming Bird. It is a Linear Power Booster tuned for highs. Whether it's overdriving an amp or just adding some highs to your sound, it will make your guitar cut through any mix.
Treble Booster Brian May
This pedal boosts your treble with a very nice sounding. It is a very classic DIY project very close to the Rangemaster using silicon transistors. You can use it to add some treble or overdrive your amp with a great sound.
Electra Distortion
This is very simple and effective distortion circuit used in multiple designs like Lovepedal Woodrow. It emulates the tone of a cranked Fender 5E3 Tweed Deluxe amp. You can use this pedal to obtain many different tones and gains.
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COT50
The COT 50 gives a boost to the guitar with a unique tube-like sound. It can be used as a clean boost, crunch boost or overdrive. It has only one knob which controls the amount of overdrive.
One Knob Fuzz
This is the One Knob Fuzz, a high gain silicon fuzz with a very smooth response. This pedal is a classic DIY project, it is very easy to build and has a great fuzz sound.
EP Booster
EP Booster is perfect to boost the guitar adding some sparkle and definition. It sounds great over all the frequency range.
Purple Plexi 800
The Purple Plexi is a powerful distortion pedal with plexi-style amps tone. It is very dynamic and touch-sensitive distortion, perfect for rock music.
Distortus Maximus
Distortus Maximus is a high-gain distortion pedal with three-band equalization. It produces rich harmonics and massive amount of gain ideal to play metal.
Fuzz Factory
The Fuzz Factory is a five-knob fuzz pedal with huge range of sound possibilities. This is classic DIY pedal project that can be built with either germanium or silicon transistors.
Guv'nor
This is the classic Guv’nor, a high-gain distortion pedal. It has a vintage valve amp sounding, with a wide range of distortion and three knobs to control the tone. It is a perfect pedal for blues, rock or metal.
Fuzz Face
This is the Fuzz Face, the legendary fuzz distortion pedal. With this PCB you can build the original or many other variants using either Germanium or Silicon transistors.
JFET preamp
A preamplifier with Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET) makes your guitar sounds great, operating in similar manner to the vacuum tubes. This circuit is very simple to build and can be used as a booster.
PCB for 1590B enclosure
Ep Booster Circuit Breaker
This board will definitely help you to build your DIY guitar pedal in the 1590B enclosure. Led, jacks and footswitch are mounted on the PCB, being only necessary to wire the battery and the effect PCB.
Tubescreamer
The Tubescreamer is probably the most built overdrive pedal in the DIY community. The pedal has a characteristic mid-boosted tone perfect for soft rock and blues. Also, for rock and metal, it can be used before the lead channel of amplifier to make distor
RAT
This is the RAT, one of the most popular distortion effects from the 80´s. It performs very nice high-gain distortion suitable for metal, grunge or rock.
Dual Looper
The Dual Loop allows you to alternate between two different effect loops. It provides two switchable loops (send / return) with a single foot switch.
Sunn O))) Distortion
A simple distortion pedal based on the legandary 'Sunn Model T' amplifier.
Modular PSU
Triple rail regulated power supply for any modular synth with little distribution board.
Klon Buffer
This simple and effective buffer improves the high frequency degraded by long cables or pedal chains.
OCD overdrive
Thi popular DIY pedal produces the dynamic feeling and harmonics typical of tube amps. It incorporates a switch to control the bright and thick of the overdrive.
BSIAB2 Distortion
The most popular DIY high-gain distortion pedal is here. The Brown Sound In A Box version 2 (BSIAB2) is the excellent distortion pedal. It performs Marshall-type distortion that sounds great with low or high drive.
SMD Transistor PCB
Ep Booster Circuit 3
Quality through-hole FETs are becoming hard to find, replacing them with their SMD version is the best solution. This PCB is designed for placing SMD transistors and easily substituting the through-hole ones.
Protoboard for 1590B enclosure
This board will definitely help you to build your DIY guitar pedal in the 1590B enclosure. Just built your effect circuit on the preperforated area of the PCB. Led, jacks and footswitch are mounted on the PCB, being only necessary to wi
Shred Master
The Shred Master is a classic high gain distortion pedal from the 90s. It provides a good range of gain and has three knobs to control the tone. It is a perfect distortion for playing rock or metal.
PCB for 1590BB enclosure
This board will definitely help you to build your DIY guitar pedal in the 1590BB enclosure. Led, jacks and footswitch are mounted on the PCB, being only necessary to wire the battery and the effect PCB.
Orange Squeezer
The Orange Squeezer is a classic DIY guitar project. This simple circuit provides an effective and smooth compression effect. It is perfect to control and shape the dynamics of the guitar sound.
Stratoblaster
This classic DIY pedal is the Stratoblaster, a simple and effective booster. It is perfect to drive a tube amp or give presence to the solos. At high boost levels, it will give a nice and warm saturation.
Charge Pump
With this charge pump you can have -9V and +18V from a +9V voltage source.
Rangemaster
Ep Booster Circuit
The Rangemaster is the most classic treble booster from the 60s, used by Eric Clapton or Brian May. This pedal produces a brighter tone and adds color to the signal.