Building Guitar Pedals Workshop

## Building Guitar Pedals Workshop

Thanks to everyone who came to the first workshop it was great meeting all of you, I’m looking forward to helping you create a successful project!

If you have questions contact me through the Noisebridge discord. We have dedicated channel: general > #pedal-building. Use this link to join:

https://discord.gg/kj2dkV3Pcv

You can also contact me through me blog:

http://www.super-freq.com

### Populating your PCB?

This second session will cover identifying the parts you need for your project and how to add parts to the PCB in the right location! This session will be more hands on!

Noisebridge has lots of parts available for use. We can get started with those parts. We will take a look a look at what's available in the electronics room and how to identify the values of common parts.

### What do these pedals sound like?

I’ll bring some pedals to demo you can try them out and get an idea of what these sound like.

Feel free to bring some of your own and your instrument!

### Who should do this?

Anyone with an interest making electronic projects, and an interest in guitars or electronics and music!

### What can I Make?

Anything you want! I’ve built boosters, overdrives, distortion, fuzz, delays, phase shifters, and more! The schematics for all of the classic effects like the Big Muff, Fuzz Face, Tube Screamer, and many of the newer pedals are available on the internet. If you can find the schematic for something and the parts you can build it.

But don’t stop there! If you can the schematic for something and like to experiment you can modify it as much as you like to make something new!

### About me:

Hi my name is Mitchell, I teach front end web development and have a hobby making things! I have built many guitar pedals, and synthesizer modules. Full disclosure, I majored in art in college, and am not an electrical engineer.

Take a look at my blog: http://www.super-freq.com/

### When will we be making guitar pedals?

The first session is scheduled Feb 4.

### Where will we be making guitar pedals?

At noisebridge 272 Capp Street, in the electronics room.

### What Tools and materials do you need to make some guitar pedals?

Noisebridge has a lot of electronics parts on hand, much of it looks like it would be great for analog projects. That said they don’t have everything. There is probably enough onsite to get started, you may have to order some parts in the future, talk to me I can help you out ordering parts if you have questions.

You’ll solderless breadboard for prototyping, solder iron, wire cutters, and a multimeter for debugging. Noisebridge has most of these things on-site.

Please donate to help us run the space if you can, but no one is turned away from lack of funds. We suggest a sliding scale donation of $10-30 going towards the maintenance of and new equipment for the space.

Payable to our cash box, or by Venmo, Paypal, or Credit Card. See Donate to Noisebridge for more information.