My First Build.

[shiner_man]

Did an SHO clone from a vero layout I found on this site. 





It sounds great!  I didn't get a chance to really crank it since the kids are sleeping.

I just wanted to thank everyone in this community for all the help I was given.  Without places like this I never would have been able to do this.

Now, for better of for worse, I'm hooked.  Time to order some parts for a Dirty Little Secret clone.

[Manny]

Congrats on your first build!
It's always good when first builds go well, you best free up some space now for the hundreds of effects you're going to be building! 

[nocentelli]

I'm hooked.  Time to order some parts for a Dirty Little Secret clone.

Dirty Little Secret is awesome: Formula No5 is really cool, too...



... and another soul is claimed by the dark lord of DIY pedal building.

[olivero1]

My very first build. I used a PCB from Tonepad and graphics from an instructable that peaked my interest.


By olivero1 at 2011-03-17

By olivero1 at 2011-03-17

[blooze_man]

I knew I had seen that mickey mouse somewhere before..

[wavley]

Great job guys, now just hand over your wallet to Mouser and Small Bear and get used to smelling like flux!

[Greenmachine]

Those are very good first builds.  Mine didn't look that good.   

[Gyrofist]

Technically this is my first build, an A/B/Y switcher that I've housed in an old lozenges container. I have since painted the container, but then in my process of testing it out for a while, I noticed that, unless I matched the two outputs very closely when in the Y mode, it would feed back like crazy, so I decided to use the parts and just make a true bypass box, which is all I really needed, so that I can bypass my Zoom 505II, which doesn't have a bypass. So I've got it all wired and everything, just waiting for the paint to dry and then it's done.

A/B/Y lozenges switcher:


And my newer true bypass switch, before paint:


Also was curious of possibly using Lego for an enclosure, so I gave that a dry run, but I'll be using that for a later build, when I get around to it:


I have the parts for a tremolo pedal, a copy of the Demeter Tremulator, that I don't have the time at the moment to build. That'll be my first "actual pedal", so I'm looking forward to that.

[deadastronaut]

my first build was a dr boogey..yes!. .. that was a baptism of fire and hell.....seriously..

but i'd heard clips, and that was the 'one' to build.. (and still is imo)

i made the pcb 4x bigger to see what i was doing...(after learning how to etch too)...

i had no idea what colours resistors were..and meant..

i'd never really soldered before apart from leads...what a 3dptpdtddpt switch was i had no idea...

but @#$% me it worked....that was it i was thrown into the realms of diy for good....and things have never been the same since!.....

every other project was a lot easier after that mega project...

i put it in a massive box, and was very proud...ive since refined things...much better...

and have proper tools to do it all with now..including a magnifier lamp...no more massive pcb's.....but yeah, good learning curve for sure!..