First project

[the_only_rhino88]

This is my first time building a stompbox or anything this complex and electronic.  I was wondering what a good start up project would be.

Thanks,
RHINO

I may be a Newb now, but I won't be for long!

[Mike Burgundy]

Welcome to the club!
check out the beginners forum.
Aside from that (if the beginners project doesn't take your fancy) there's a lot of projects out there that are verified, simple and have lots and lots of people here that have experience with it. The perennial FuzzFace comes to mind (Easyface!), Rangemaster, minibooster, etc.
Do some browsing here and see what you can/want to do.

[the_only_rhino88]

What would you say is the best one to do. Say your personal fav


RHINO

[Ansil]

lpb1 for anyone who is a beginner.  but you could make the ez face..  that is the first transistor pedal  i ever made.  i think.  i dont' know thats been years

[petemoore]

I always say LPB1. Can't beat the uses, low parts count, no fussy biasing, EZ debug.
 However because I just did a Blackfire Stage, and it's the smoke with no crossing wires in the ckt...uses those High Gainer [2n5089's or MPSa 18's] transistors, fired right up everytime I got the right parts and connections made [I built 9 stages so far and haven't had a biasing issue]..
 You will want to mess with FF's though...just find a schematic that has a trimpot [variable resistor] on the last transistor, and be ready to do hours of trying out Q's and twekin the bias and caps and guitar volume and gain setting and boost it and try Ge's and Ge/Si combinations or an extra gain stage...whoops
 Disregard above paragraph...simple single transistor booster...I use at least ... one ~all the time !

[Jered]

Do this:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/sboxforum/viewforum.php?f=6&sid=453358fd3e57b2f1cdc6fbe2a3222a91

  Not only will you get a great sounding circuit but, you will actually learn what is going on and why, how parts effect the sound, and you won't have the pitfalls that often occur with newbies.
 Trying to debug something is a time killer, sometimes the circuit will never work because the new builder isn't aware of the problem/s.
 Using this step by step "how to" will save you hours of frustration and you will learn instead of just building a box that makes noise.
  Aron spent a lot of time putting this intro together just for this exact purpose, check it out, you will be glad you did.
 Good luck and have fun,  Jered