There aren’t many pedals out there that an astute DIY enthusiast can’t build. However, if there’s one company that keeps pushing the envelope away from the same tired, easy to build overdrives and fuzzes it’s Electro Harmonix. Case in point,…
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Dog Is Blue Fuzz Pedals Are Here (Video Demo)
I’ve been teasing this for a while, but the first batch of the limited run of custom Dog Is Blue fuzz pedals is finally ready! The design is basically a more efficiently laid out version of the kickass little Bazz…
DIY Effects: Delay Pedal in a Fossil Watch Tin with Gas Can Amp
I’m a sucker for delay. Some guys can’t get enough fuzz or will pay a gazillion dollars for the ‘perfect’ overdrive, but my weakness is for anything that let’s my guitar get repeated ad nauseam in all manner of zaniness*.…
Dog Is Blue Fuzz Pedals?
Here’s a tease of an idea we’ve been toying with lately—custom Dog Is Blue fuzz pedals! They’ll be really small in size, but big in destructive fuzz sound. The photo to the left shows the initial prototype circuit boards we…
DIY Effects: Cookie Tin Paramix Pedal Video Demo
I’ve been building a few crazy pedals lately, so expect a lot of video demos in and around things like our upcoming animated music video for “People”. Case in point, the very versatile and useful Paramix circuit from Guitarpcb.com (designed…
Gadgets: DIY Blinking Band Sign
I cobbled this blinking band sign together a while back (painted using a similar spray-paint method as shown in our video for “Raise Your Dead (Reprise)”), but it’s one of my more precarious DIY efforts so it’s often out of…
DIY Effects: Video Demo of Stutter Tremolo Pedal
It’s been a while since I built a new guitar pedal. Putting together that gallery of all the ones I built in 2011 made me realize that I only finished a half-dozen or so the whole year. I guess that…
DIY Effects: Homemade MKC1 Mini Klon Pedal
With all the hype the Klon Centaur pedal gets I couldn’t help but try my hand at a project based on its likeness. This isn’t really a clone, as guitarpcb.com (where I get a lot of circuit boards for these…
DIY Effects: Homemade Blackstone Mosfet Overdive Pedal
It’s been a while since I had any time to build a pedal. In fact, I probably shouldn’t have taken the time to build this one…but I couldn’t resist. A friend of mine recently picked up a secondhand Blackstone Mosfet…
For a limited time you can get these one-off pedals (each one is painted differently by Paul) for the measly sum of $50, but that price is going up soon, so act now!
Buy them off the stage at our shows or get in touch with the builder himself to get one delivered!
Tortoise (2011)
Hot Air Balloons EP (2010)
...Makes Ghost Noises (2009)
