Tonefiend DIY Club: Projects & Resources

Here’s the current archive for all Tonefiend DIY Club projects, plus some helpful resources and links. Getting Started

• Tools and Supplies
• Great Intro to Soldering Video
• Great Intro to Soldering Article
• A great generic stompbox wiring diagram from tonefiend reader Gerald Good.
• Taylor Tomita at pedalhaven.com put together this nice overview of DIY resources for beginners. (Thanks for letting me post here, Taylor!)

Project #1: Bad-Ass Distortion

• Project #1 Demo
• Project #1, Part 1: Breadboarding the Circuit
• Project #1, Part 2: Controlling and Modding the Circuit
• Project #1, Part 3: Constructing the Circuit on Perfboard
• Project #1, Part 4: Boxing and Finishing the Project

Project #2: Bulk Fuzz

• Project #2 Demo
• Project #2 Project Files
• A great article on this circuit

Project #3: Booster + Buffer

• Project #3 Demo
• Project #3 Project Files

Project #4: The Fiendmaster (a Dallas Rangemaster spinoff)

• Project #4 Demo
• Project #4 Project File
• About Rangemasters
• About germanium components

Project #5: The Super-Fiend Fuzz Face (a vintage-style Fuzz Face project created by Mitchell “Super-Freq” Hudson)

• Project #5 Intro & Demo
• Project #5 Project File [19MB PDF]
• About the Super-Fiend Fuzz Face (please read before starting)

Additional info

• Three Useful, Easy & Cheap DIY Tools

Recommended DIY Guitar Sites

• DIY Stompboxes
• Free Stompboxes
• Gauss Markov
• Beavis Audio Research
• Experimentalists Anonymous
• Super-Freq
• Runoff Groove
• Fuzz Central
• GEOFX

Recommended Parts Suppliers (good prices and service for general parts, but may not carry specialized stuff):

• Jameco
• Mouser
• Futurlec
• Allied
• Digi-Key

Recommended Parts Suppliers (stompbox specialists):

• Mammoth
• Small Bear
• Pedal Parts Plus
• Banzai (Germany)

Recommended Parts Suppliers (guitar and bass specialists):

• Stewart-MacDonald
• All Parts

Complete Stompbox Kits:

• Build Your Own Clone
• Guitar PCB
• General Guitar Gadgets
• Officially Licensed Circuits

Stompbox PCBs (bring your own parts)

• Mad Bean
• Tonepad