i'm new to pedals, any advice for me?

[Phend]

Start with an easy circuit like the one you have selected. Not a difficult one like a flanger on peg board dragging solder in globs across the back, which is guaranteed not to work and because of that you may not build another "effect". Kind of like deciding to start smoking, start off with a big green cigar and inhale deeply, probably won't smoke again. (I do not recommend starting to smoke)  But I do recommend building that Fuzz.

[antonis]

I know very well the temptation of boxing a just built circuit but it's strongly recommended to check/verify its working state out of the enclosure at first...
(fizz/buzz/whine etc anticipated..)

[GibsonGM]

^ Yes.  Make lots of 'jumpers'....lengths of stranded wire with alligator clips on the ends. 25 should be enough (ha ha)   Use these to connect the in/out jacks to an effect, and to apply power from a battery and verify the circuit works - BEFORE trying to wire up the stomp switch or power jack!   Then you know it functions, so when it does NOT, later, you can zero in on the stomp switch, jacks or power...

I built a breakout box to do just this.  Debugging switch wiring with an UNKNOWN PCB can be a nightmare!

[bamslam69]

Want to build an amp?

Build a Beavis Audio Noisy Cricket. 1/2 watt, runs off a 9v, and can power any speaker, including a quadbox.
Make sure to add the mod for more bass.
As well as the speaker output jack, I added some post terminals at the back so you can plug it into whatever speaker is lying around at hand.

[idy]

Like the amp, a good idea is to build first the simplest version of the thing you want.
Booster? One transistor.
Distortion? One opamp. Then two...
Amp? Cricket. If your Fancy amp is the third amp you build it will work a lot better and include much less blood and terror than if you tried that first. Plus you need three right? One for your workbench, one for the house, one for gigs... always need a spare...

And you need lots of these things. No reason not to build several one transistor booster.... I also keep four or five respectable preamp/ eq boxes around. And five basic echo/reverb units....and five envelope filters.... I used to keep a rig with a powered speaker in the bathroom. A room isn't home unless there's a rig in there.

[amptramp]

The best advice I could give you:

1. Finish what you start before you end up (like me) with several projects "in work" at a given time and a decided bias toward procrastination.  That might mean setting a a schedule and keeping to it.

2. Keep a build log / diary of what you did, what changes you made or deviations from the original design and how it turned out.  You may want to go back to it if you want to make changes later.  It also helps when you want to describe it on this forum.  And sooner or later, you will get to the point where you don't remember what you did.

3. Treat learning as an investment.  You start off reading about electronics with nothing to show for it at first.  Don't let this phase of your investment deter you - the payoff comes when you can do independent design and innovation later.

4. If there is one near you, join a local vintage radio or ham radio club.  These guys trade stuff back and forth for pennies on the dollar and every project I have in work now has some stuff in it from the London Vintage Radio Club in London, Ontario.  A lot of my test equipment is from there.  I have a direct-reading AideTek DM4070 LRC meter that I use with each component before I solder it in.  At the LVRC, it was $6.

[duck_arse]

do you guys have any advice for a newbie just starting out? thnx in advance.👍

always come and check in on your started threads regularly.

[BubbaFet]

Thanks for all the A.I. training everybody...
Most likely kill y'all next year!
- bro 

[GibsonGM]

Nah - global enslavement is SO much more FUN!