Binge-read the complete Coda Effects archives! Learn how to build DIY guitar pedals, master circuit theory, and discover vintage gear history.
Menu
- 1. Getting Started & Practical DIY
- 2. Hardware, Wiring & Enclosures
- 3. Components & Electronics Theory
- 4. Pedal Builds
- 5. Digital Circuits & Microcontrollers
- 6. Theory
- 7. Vintage Gear & History
- 8. Behind the Scenes & Philosophy
1. Getting Started & Practical DIY
Tutorials & Debugging
- How to build your first DIY guitar pedal (step by step tutorial)
- Tutorial: how to prototype with a breadboard
- Guitar effects and reliability: 5 things to improve to make your pedals longer lasting
- Debugging DIY guitar pedals
- Troubleshooting guide for DIY guitar pedals: the audio probe
Tools & Suppliers
- Resistors for guitar pedals: which one to choose?
- Cheap resistors pack for prototyping and testing
- Capacitors for guitar pedals: which one to choose?
- What tools do you need to make DIY guitar pedals?
- Hakko FX888D: a $100 high quality soldering station
- 14 electronics suppliers for guitar effects (with pros and cons)
PCB Design
Repairs & Mods
- Ditto Looper repair (how to fix a broken switch)
- Electro Harmonix Soul Food diodes mod (step by step)
- Modding the Behringer UV300 Vibrato : tutorial
2. Hardware, Wiring & Enclosures
Pedal Assembly & Wiring
- Ultimate guide to guitar effect wiring: how to wire DIY guitar pedals properly?
- 3PDT and true bypass wiring
Enclosure Craft & Design
- Enclosure art: how to make good looking DIY guitar pedals
- Why you should NOT paint your guitar pedal enclosures yourself
- Laser engraved plates
Guitar & Patch Cables
- All you ever wanted to know about guitar cables (but were afraid to ask)
- How to make guitar cables step by step tutorial
- How to make patch cables: step by step tutorial
3. Components & Electronics Theory
Signal & Audio Theory
- What is guitar signal?
- Ground loops and guitar pedals
- Stabilization of the power supply, voltage inverter
- Make your own DIY power supply: yay or nay?
Components Deep Dive
- All you need to know about resistors in guitar pedals
- All you need to know about capacitors in guitar pedals
- Potentiometers and guitar pedals
- The different types of diodes
4. Pedal Builds
Overdrive & Boost
- JHS Superbolt clone PCB and the missing JFETs
- JHS Superbolt clone / ROG Supreaux (with circuit analysis)
- Jan Ray in a 1590B with Coda Effects PCB!
- Other Vemuram Jan Ray builds with Coda Effects PCB
- Vemuram Jan Ray build (with circuit analysis)
- Another Jan Ray clone!
- Klon Centaur Clone and mods (with history and circuit analysis)
- LPB1 boost (with circuit analysis)
- LPB1 mini PCB!
Fuzz & Distortion
- Coda Effects Black Hole : Sunn Model T preamp
- Development Hell: multiple fuzz pedal
- Big Muff mods and tweaks
- Black Keys's Big Muff: dealing with mids frequencie(with circuit analysis)
- Big Muff Ram's Head clone (73 version, with circuit analysis)
- Black Keys's Big Muff: dealing with mids frequencie(with circuit analysis)
- Black Arts Toneworks Pharaoh Fuzz clone
- Analogman Sunface Build
- Analogman sunface DIY clone #2
Modulation, Time-Based & Amps
- Tap tempo tremolo DIY: a complex project! (with circuit analysis)
- Rub-a-Dub Reverb (with circuit analysis)
- Dead Astronaut FX Chasm Reverb PCB
- Dead Astronaut FX Chasm Reverb
Custom & Utility Builds
5. Digital Circuits & Microcontrollers
- Relay Bypass: conception and relay bypass code
- Relay bypass with anti pop system: noiseless and clickless true bypass
- Relay Bypass: final code
6. Theory
- Jan Ray (Timmy) Overdrive
- EHX Big Muff
- Sunface (Fuzz Face) Fuzz
- EHX LPB1
- Rub A Dub Reverb
- Dead Astronaut Chasm Reverb
- JHS Superbolt / ROG Supreaux
- Klon Centaur
- Tonebender MkIII
- Coda Effects Montagne Tremolo
- Coda Effects Black Hole
7. Vintage Gear & History
- The different types of fuzz
- Vintage Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ1-A (1966)
- Univox Superfuzz (1970)
- Vintage Colorsound Supa Tonebender (1973)
- Boss DD2 (1984)
- ProCo RAT White Face (1985)
- Boss Hyper Fuzz / Boss FZ-2 (1993)
- Sovtek Bubble Font Russian Big Muff (1995)
- Vintage transistors overload!
8. Behind the Scenes & Philosophy
- Create your own guitar pedal company: good or bad idea?
- Why I publish my circuits schematics (and why you should do the same!)
- Top 5 guitar pedal facts that should light a « warning » sign, from a DIYer
- Crowdfunding campaign for the Montagne Tremolo and Dolmen Fuzz
- End of the crowdfunding campaign: what's next?
- Klon Centaur buffer boards
- Big Muff circuit going to fab!
- Big Muff PCB available!