Build Your Fuzz Effects Pedal Kits DIY Electric Guitar Stomp Box Kit (chrome)

Great value for the money and an amazing learning experience. Sounds just like I wanted it to. Dialed in the fuzz tone I was looking for quickly. I will say this for those who are looking to build, get a magnifying glass with an LED light on it to clamp on your soldering station. It will help you a tone when having to identify some of the parts. Build went very smooth even with the black and white instructions.

It doesn’t come with instructions, but it’s pretty easy to figure out if you’ve worked on stuff before. It doesn’t come with everything you need though, you’ll need to get some small garage wire to install the led and to connect to the 1/4” jacks.

I made a few mistakes when soldering wires onto the pots. Once I zoomed in on the colored instructions I realized I put them on the wrong lugs. Once I swapped those, the pedal worked. I had fun putting it together. Looking forward to putting some fun graphics on the box and putting it on my pedal board. Would recommend.

TLDR; Hit the back button immediately. This is not a nightmare you want. Let me preface this by mentioning that I have been building complex electronics both personally and professionally for over 20 years. This is not my first rodeo. I purchased this to build with my son. He expressed an interest in building a pedal and figured this would a nice way to get started without overwhelming him with schematics and breadboards. While they did mention this was not a novice kit, with an annotated PCB and my help, I was not concerned. What I should have done is spent more time reading reviews. The included components are simply garbage, and the "instructions" laughable. The sentence "Install switch, input, potentiometer, LED light" is not an instruction (seriously, that was the entirety of Step 4). Beyond that, the complete lack of a wiring schematic makes it nearly impossible to triage when something goes wrong. And something _will_ go wrong when working with pots and jacks as cut-rate as these. In summary, stay away from this hot mess.

First off, I would like to say I had a lot of fun building this. Also, my hat goes off to the person that hand wrote all the tiny labels on the parts. With that being said, I couldn't get it to work. No sound at all, and only the light came on when I hit the switch. Now the fact that it didn't work could totally be an error on my part, but who knows. Now what I didn't like about this product is this: the casing is pretty small, so everything is pretty cramped (which may also contribute to why I wasn't able to get this to work, although, if you read other reviews, which I recommend for further useful information, some managed just fine), some pieces were mislabeled (There is a review that sorts this out), and the directions aren't very clear...well I thought they were clear enough, but look where that got me, so be ready for that. So 3 stars for fun, good price, and faster than expected delivery.

Very happy with the kit. I just followed the picture and took my time. Just be sure not to use too much heat. The sound is very vintage fuzz face type.

The seller had great communication and went out of their way to help me get everything I needed. 5 stars!

The picture is the sum of documentation I received with the pedal. I had a full set of colored wires and the parts were labeled fine. A photo copy of the pcb layout was hardly sufficient. I am a newcomer to electronics but populating the board was pretty straghtforward. However, the bad photocopy had labeled the jacks completely wrong and the 9v jack was unreadable. I highly recommend testing before you put in the enclosure. I think some of the reviews that said it flat didnt work may have run into the same issue. When it didn't I looked at the picture here and then looked at the jack itself. Th elabels for tip and ring are wrong. Some rewiring and it's good to go. It sounds neat. I can't really tell what kind of muff it is, it takes a lot of noodling to find the sounds I'm after, but it's a fun experience in problem solving and head scratching. I would not recommend.