Built my first fuzz pedal from a kit and it actually worked on the first try

Honestly, I picked up a $30 fuzz kit from a shop in Portland last month and soldered everything together in about 2 hours. Plugged it in expecting it to be dead or sound like garbage, but it fired right up and had that nasty, spitting tone I was after. Learned that taking my time with the transistor placement and double checking the polarity made all the difference. Has anyone else had a first build go smooth or was I just lucky?

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sarah_hart27d ago

Man, that brings back memories of my first build, a fuzz face clone I messed up because I used the wrong resistor values from the get-go and it just hummed like a dying bee. I ended up leaving it on my bench for a week and came back to find I'd actually swapped the input and output jacks, which was a real facepalm moment after all that frustration.

jordan_webb4927d ago

Had a buddy who built a treble booster kit and it worked perfectly first time, he was so stoked he called me at like 11pm to play it over the phone lol. Took him forever to realize he'd wired the battery clip backwards but it still fired up somehow, lucky dude.