TTONE DIY Compressor Effect Pedal Guitar Stomp Pedals Kit

Most reviews complain about a lack of instructions and that's fair, it doesn't come with instructions. It comes with a well labeled circuit board, if it says "10k" put a 10k there. For anyone who's worked on stuff like this before it's super easy, but this is NOT an ideal first project.As far as the compressor, it works well with no added noise. It's comparable to other low-mid level comp pedals.

Great Kit for Money. I waited to review the kit until after I finished it. There are complaints about the directions, but actually everything you need is there if you study it for a while, with the exception of the idea about shrink tubing the LSR and Led together. Things I missed the first pass were the added wire connecting a couple of capacitors and wiring the barrel dc jack. PCB PCW and POS go to the barrel jack and from PCW , wire to the ring of the input to power the the PCB. I found there are templates on line if you look for drill 1590B enclosures for this configuration.(make sure you cheat the switch hole towards the back a bit so the board fits in the enclosure, I debated giving the the 5 star rating. But the kit is cheap and sounds really impressive when finished and it forced me to learned a bunch about pedal construction which is whole point.

This was my first pedal build and I found it to be a lot of fun. The instructions are not step by step, but rather a blown up image of the board and the various components. A couple of quick google searched for orientation for beginners is all you need to figure out proper orientation for all of the components.I had an issue getting it to work initially, thinking I may have wired something incorrectly, I contacted the seller asking for a wiring diagram. The seller responded very quickly with not only a diagram, but a couple pictures showing the board wired up for reference. It turns out that I just did a poor job soldering one of the 4558 legs, and after quickly fixing, it worked perfectly.As far as the pedal's actual performance, it sounds great, has very good sustain and has virtually no noise.

Optocoupling Compressor using a LED and a LDR. Similar to Colorsound Supa Sustain or DOD 280. As others have mentioned, instructions are a single photocopied sheet showing component layout. There's no mention that you'll need a piece of heat shrink to fab up your optocoupler. If you have some experience you can figure it out. Wire was not supplied.That said, I really like the thing. It's silent at idle and sounds good to my ears. I prefer it to my Boss compressor. It's sig. different than my Jangle Box. (considering two comps on a board?)

As everyone else stated it is confusing to assemble. The photos on Amazon to hel The photos on Amazon do help. Make sure you install the 9 V power connector before soldering the wires to the board. Other than that the compressor works great. Did get some noise if I attached using a daisy chain. Very little or no noise if a test using an isolated power supply

No instructions make this a difficult build. I’m relativley new to DIY electronics but have an okay understanding of them. I can’t get the thing to work and I know there’s something I’m missing but haven’t been able to figure out what it is yet. The other review mentions heat shrink wrap which I do have but I’m not 100% on where it needs to go in this instance. Over the LED and photoresistor to block outside light from tripping the photoresistor? When I plug mine in I get a pulsing noise and nothing else. My LED does not light up. I fear that I got one with a damaged IC and am going to have to order a new one to replace it. All in all some directions would go a long way. Perhaps it was my fault for cheaping out and getting this pedal instead of a BYOC or something with a little more customer service to help a begginer like myself. If the vendor helps me out and I get it working I’ll change this to a 5.

Very nice, everything made since on the board,the only gripe is the diagram was extremely fuzzy. Glad there was the pictures on the item list to go off of

This is a true DIY pedal. Limited to a single sheet layout, I suggest using the photos here to understand the way to set up, however, its a decent pedal and I enjoyed building it.Pros. Tight small package that fits everything provided. Good components and a nicely printed circut board. All wires come pre tinned, and each resister is labled by hand wich is nice if you cant read resister bands. Other components are large enough to read unless you need a magnefying glass.Cons. Altgough a 9V plug is supplied, there is simply no room in the box to have it and everything else. There also were no build instructions, so know how to wire a pedal, or be familiar with electronics enough to make good guesses.If you are willing to figure out how to build this, its a great box. The volume is dead on and the sustain does last a bit longer, but its also got some decent distortion without being over whelming. It has a built in line detector to determine of your connected to your guitar and it works well. The power requirements are the same as other pedals, 9V 1A, but nowhere does it tell you that.