lm386 pedal with volume, tone, and distortion control

[@ltcm5052]

I agree. The people need a vid showing what two LM386 PCBs would do with clipping diodes! 👍

[@zurowetz]

I guess I'm building another one then 😊

[@JonDeth]

I built an LM386 based pedal about 20 years ago. It performed great except it didn't; nothing I did modding it would let punch harmonics through! Using a 3-band tone stack, switching it to a single tone control, various clipping diodes including germanium, high pass network etc., and it didn't matter what amp I used it on. *Fortunately, I moved onto my own designs a few years later and to outstanding success.* If you don't need to squeal, snarl and the sleaze of p.h., it makes one hell of a pedal and an even better mic preamp.

[@louderlouder]

I love love love pedal experimentations......especially with fuzz. great work on showing all the details with your walk-through brother. thank you and cheers.

[@zurowetz]

Thanks brobro 😁🍻

[@brentstewart59]

Ok im totally doing this. Thanks a million for sharing

[@JLeppert]

Yeah, thanks for the "use what parts I have" mentality. I have a spare Jazz Bass harness I'll be using. You're very intelligent and super creative.

[@zurowetz]

Thank you, you are far too kind but I'm not intelligent or particularly creative I'm just a dude 👍😉😎

[@ltcm5052]

So cool! Thanks a million for posting.

[@zurowetz]

You're welcome 👊

[@madzpanda]

Man... so a few days ago im looking at your diagram and watching the other videos you have around these lm386 boards. I have 2 bullet strat pickguards loaded and was about to recycle that to do this... but i went extra man. So one day on a whim about 4 month's ago i bought a few passive volume, treble, bass boards. So i did one 386 into another like you did on the one pedal. I added the eq, and volume section on the output. I adjusted the input 386 not on max but pretty close, and i added the external trim pot on the 386 output board that goes to the e.q.. i think i bought like 3 or 4 of these e.q. sections from aliexpress for pretty cheap. The pedal sounds amazing to me. Playing with my volume on my guitars and synths and playing with the trim pot on the pedal goes from an aggressive drive, distortion, to almost eqd doomy fuzz pedal. Man i wish i could show you. Maybe ill make a video but i consider a trial run because i have a buff and blend circuit i think im adding to the next one for a clean blend. Your videos even when they dont help me directly still inspire me, so thanks for existing man. I have a pedal ive never seen anyone use or play that i feel is pretty unique and i owe you for it.

[@zurowetz]

Wow that sounds amazing 😲 you have to make a video I wanna see it 😀 thank you so much it means the world to me that the videos I make can be of any use ❤️

[@madzpanda]

@@zurowetz I'll make a video soon. So I figured it would be all doomy sounding so I made a pink enclosure with hello kitty art work as a joke and now I regret it because I find it way more versatile and it's in a stupid hello kitty enclosure

[@zurowetz]

@@madzpanda love it 🤣🤣

[@scramblesthedeathdealer]

Cool, I just had 5 LM386 chips dropped off from Amazon today, can't wait to start playing with them!

[@zurowetz]

Awesome! Good luck to you 😃👍 did you see my last video its also a lm386 pedal 😜

[@scramblesthedeathdealer]

@@zurowetz I watched several of them at work today. Great work!

[@zurowetz]

@@scramblesthedeathdealer thank you 😁

[@willflint5014]

Thank you!

[@zurowetz]

You're welcome 👊🍺😁

[@truffeltroll6668]

Hey man, awesome stuff. Do you have a simple plan for building this? I have difficulty with the watch order of your LM386 videos and am not really sure whats supposed to go where😅.

[@zurowetz]

There is a old community post with everything drawn up check and see if it helps 🙂

[@truffeltroll6668]

@@zurowetz I found it, but it's kinda confusing. I'll try to decipher it with the videos

[@zurowetz]

@@truffeltroll6668 if you want extra help I have an Instagram for helping🙂

[@madzpanda]

Man this is cool. I wanted to do this eventually when i understood more about this stuff. You did a good job explaining as usually but my brain doesnt get it. This is why i wish you had some other way to talk to you so i could be like "can you draw and put it in words" because to me a newbie it just looks fuckin nuts wires everywhere and when you describe it and point i cant really see it all that well. I think more normal people will understand this though. We have a similar way of playing guitar.

[@zurowetz]

Hey man you need to start being kinder to yourself it is hard to film inside pedals I'm trying to figure it out 😀 but I can make a drawing and do a community post tomorrow if you think it could help 🤗

[@madzpanda]

@@zurowetz it would definitely help me out thank so much man. You're the best

[@zurowetz]

@@madzpanda you too

[@ltcm5052]

🔥🔥🔥

[@zurowetz]

🫕🫕🫕

[@igrayu_v_roblox]

What is the green capacitor on the potentiometer?

[@zurowetz]

Its a 022uf from a guitar so again don't think too much about it ( I didn't 😅)

[@igrayu_v_roblox]

@@zurowetz thx, man.

[@igrayu_v_roblox]

What values ​​of variable resistors have you set?

[@zurowetz]

Dis 10k vol 250k and tone 250k but it's recycled from a guitar so don't think too much about it 😊

[@igrayu_v_roblox]

@@zurowetz thx, man.

[@igrayu_v_roblox]

⁠@@zurowetz Can I ask another question, marking of potentiometers A or B?

[@zurowetz]

@@igrayu_v_roblox well I'm unsure as its from a guitar but I would use a A for volume and a A or B for tone it's not a big deal but I hope I have a A for volume in the pedal 😅

[@igrayu_v_roblox]

@@zurowetz Okay, every little thing matters.

[@TheLapanElektro]

the schematics please..

[@zurowetz]

There is a community post and a video called volume and tone control for beginners see if that helps you out 😊👍

[@danielwillingham4493]

It would be easier to explain and show the circuitry if you didn't have it already in the enclosure. I have quite a bit of experience with circuit bending and this is just pointing in a birdsnest.

[@danielwillingham4493]

Cool ass pedal btw