Overdrive / Distortion Pedal - Beginner Project

[vihnisilva]

Hi, I'm new here and i'm interested in building pedals. I've been searching the forum, but I didn't find any topics about this, so here it goes: I'm looking for an schematic of any distortion/overdrive pedal that's easily done, just like the beginner project (boost pedal).

[drk]

try for example the MXR Distortion Plus http://tonepad.com/project.asp?id=2

[BAARON]

You might also be interested to try building from a kit.  General Guitar Gadgets and Build Your Own Clone have been in the kit business for quite some time, so you might see what they have to offer.  ToneClone Pedals is an option as well, and they're a bit newer so their product selection is smaller.  OLCircuits is out there too, but they don't offer very many of the usual "commercial clone" kits: a lot of their stuff comes from RunOffGroove designs instead of commercial pedals.

I would suggest that pretty much any of GGG's overdrive/distortion kits are pretty straightforward and could be built by a beginner.  A Tube Screamer is always a good place to start, because you can perform so many mods on them with so little off-board wiring.