Builds

Complete build guides, each with a bill of materials that links to Parts sourcing and the cost calculator.

• Fuzz Face

  A 2-transistor Fuzz Face is the classic first self-planned build: small enough to hold the whole signal path in your head, and a direct application of the transistor clipping and input-loading behavior covered in the Effects book's Fuzz chapter. This guide covers parts selection, the workflow order to build it in, and the bias-check every Fuzz Face needs before it's finished.

• Hothouse / Daisy Build

  The Hothouse platform turns a digital pedal build into two separate projects — a real soldering job with a fixed, documented hardware layout, and a software project that decides what the finished pedal actually does. This guide covers the assembly steps, toolchain setup, and a sensible first-firmware target that exercises the whole signal path end to end.

• Tube Screamer Clone

  A Tube Screamer clone is a direct build of the in-loop clipping topology covered in the Effects book's Overdrive and Distortion chapter — an op-amp gain stage with diode clipping wired into its own feedback path. This guide covers IC and diode selection (the two parts most worth socketing for easy comparison), the tone-stack wiring, and the build order that keeps a multi-stage circuit like this one checkable stage by stage.