How to Build Clones | DIY Guitar Pedals
Channel: Pougnet Pedals
Date: 2020-12-13

Hey all! 

This is a step-by-step guide to making a guitar pedal clone using a purchased PCB. I go through the best sequence in populating the board, how to complete your offboard wiring, etc. I even touch on how to make an optocoupler. I use a PedalPCB Delegate Compressor as the example, but these steps can be used for all PCB builds. 

Hope you find it useful!

02:40 - Workstation and parts
04:25 - Soldering resistors
05:35 - Soldering diodes
06:05 - Soldering IC sockets
07:08 - Soldering capacitors
08:00 - Soldering Transistors
08:27 - Soldering/ Building the LDR and Diode (Optocoupler)
11:43 - Soldering power (On/Off) Diode
12:28 - Soldering potentiometers
15:50 - Affixing the LED Bezel
16:20 - Wiring the 3PDT Switch
17:00 - Connecting the main board to the switch board
20:25 - Installing the DC jack
22:42 - Installing the audio jacks
23:49 - Socketing the ICs
24:20 - Adding the control knobs
25:30 - Closing the case
25:38 - A quick sanity test

Check out how I add graphics here:

https://youtu.be/WXnGe68dGCY

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