One Dollar DIY Amazon Fuzz

[@MarktheAirsoftPrimate]

Feel like I’m gonna put this inside one of my guitars

[@almostliterally593]

Great idea

[@maxgellner1569]

Did this myself and it’s so fun! I installed in the rhythm circuit of my jazzmaster. Though I do have to open it up and place it before the volume and tone pots because it gets loud! And since I don’t really need it to clean up I’d rather be able to control the overall volume/tone of the fuzz going full bore. It’s been such a fun project

[@patrickmcmanus5373]

Make a bazz fuss instead. Very easy and you can modify for you

[@d1tchwasher]

this was literally my first thought when seeing this! do you have it rigged up so the rhythm circuit switch turns the effect on and off?@@maxgellner1569

[@whatilearnttoday5295]

Works great as an inbuilt headphone amp. Add an MP3 player module for backing tracks.

[@robert___t]

I used this same board but with an inductor as the input. It works as an EMF sniffer. Great noise project when coupled with a multi-effects pedal. Also good for checking if your house has been bugged.😅

[@heavychonkerssteviek8691]

Damn dude, thanks for the heads up. How do I make the bug detector thing?

[@CMC-NFG]

just used 2 of these to build an acapulco gold. run the gain pot full on the first and adjust the sound at the second to taste. sounds absolutely identical to the eqd pedal

[@Bruisewillies]

So, do you run the O/P from one into the other with that?

[@seanmcguire6998]

Stole my idea! About to build a talkbox, too

[@CMC-NFG]

@@Bruisewillies yep, dead simple - no soldering except the jacks

[@chriswakfer4473]

That's like what I was planning! I have an old 2 button foot switch I don't need. I can use that

[@ltcm5052]

@@CMC-NFG nice! does it hold together ok with no soldering inside a case?

[@simonlinser8286]

You can build this into a guitar and even put a speaker in it. Then you can turn it on and off (if you add a switch). If you have an electric guitar you can use it as an effect because you can play through your amp, and then turn on the guitar speaker to get more gain or just a different sound. If you place the speaker slightly behind the strings (like part of the speaker not all of it, then you can get crazy feedback effects at the flip of a switch in a tasteful manner

[@cheapskate8656]

Not only was that hilarious and so fun I think I'll try it. BUT, those solderless ribbon jumper wires are exactly what I have been looking for to complete my moveable pick up project. Thanks.

[@albertogregory9678]

Commonly called “dupont wires” or “breadboard wires”

[@mrc25381]

What are they called? I’m trying to search for them.

[@alreadystillagain]

I've used these things before and they do sound pretty sweet with two or three in series. The issue I found was that the signal is so hot you can't run it with your amp set to normal volume without risking damage to your amp (and hearing), so you really need to find a way of attenuating the output signal to make it very useful, especially if you want to introduce a bypass switch and chain it with your other pedals.

[@impossibletruffle]

volume pot time!

[@TriangleWaveRecords]

Yea I was going to say, run the signal thru a resistance to limit the max volume or even add a potentiometer (or both) and you’re set.

[@stbloch]

Im completely new to this topic, how do I know how strong the resistor has to be?@@TriangleWaveRecords

[@martinheath5947]

Nice. With a stereo jack socket using the centre pin to complete the battery power circuit, you could make it so unplugging the guitar cord from the input jack turns off the battery

[@Zantrop64]

There are some 3 pins sockets that instead of stereo have a built in switch, I think I'm going to add some to combo amps to be able to plug heads into them or plug cabs out of them without requiering a cable to play it just as a combo

[@xanataph]

It's all the bits around the circuit that would make a finished pedal expensive. Once you have some nice jacks, decent panel mounting pots. 3PDT foot-switch, barrel socket, die-cast enclosure the one buck pedal becomes a whole lot more!

[@kmoecub]

Not if you know where to shop.

[@nuberiffic]

@@kmoecub Let's say you got the cheapest componets available (not good for pedals, but we'll go with it)I'd have to guess that's gonna be at least 20 - 30 bucks. Then you have to pay someone to assemble it; let's say it takes half an hour, so another 20 - 30 bucks in wages. Add in some overheads / documentation / shipping: This pedal would easily work out to be around 80 bucks if he were to sell it in shops.

[@metal_maniak_productions]

En Aliexpress son más baratos los componentes*

[@wesdizz6297]

@@nuberiffic pay someone to assemble it? The whole point is this is a DIY project.

[@nuberiffic]

@@wesdizz6297 then why not make the circuitry yourself?

[@afreezaphorogiancossack2194]

Cool, I bought a pack of 386 preassembled units like this before, I just figured I'd find something cool to do with them and here it is. Everybody always tells me I should try running my drum machine through a fuzz pedal, I think this will be it right here.

[@bswalem]

This music is absolutely insane. I love it.

[@stevennagycreative]

I love my little Smokey Amp. I keep it in my guitar case with a short guitar cord and I’m ready to practice anywhere.

[@scramblesthedeathdealer]

I've been interested in getting a Little Smokey amp since I read an interview with Munky and Head where they said they used one to record. I found a company that makes these currently, they're called like Nicotene Amps or something, I wonder how they compare.

[@MiguelPaulettePerez-bj8ml]

I cant believe that it actually sounds good. Id like to figure out a bypass for this so it isnt just on or off.. i did buy a 9v box with a switch so at least im not always disconnecting the battery every time. When that red light turned on, i was so happy

[@NoLuckTheBand]

This is awesome, now im gonna Have presents for my buds for Christmas!

[@gtrmike32]

This was a super cool electronics project. It works well also for a Fuzz sound. Thanks for this knowledge!

[@TechnoRiff]

@MarkGutierrez - Very neat idea! The Altoid box as an enclosure would be a cheap and easy way to shield these electronics from EMF noise.

[@jasonsullivan4584]

2 in series, lpb 1 circuit before, and replace every resistor with a trim or potentiometer and 9v sag

[@Frankinsteinguitar]

Try adding a potentiometer been the battery and the board; dropping the battery output can and will change the tone to the fuzz. Or add another battery for 18 volts input if you wanna go crazy.

[@xanataph]

If you want to pop it. Most LM386 chips have a maximum supply voltage of 15 volts. There is a version that will go up to 22 volts, but unless you know that's the one you have..well...

[@Bleats_Sinodai2]

Coolest part is you can push a speaker directly from that circuit's output. Because it's a half-watt amp. And if you wanna dabble in SMD soldering, you could mod it into any of the LM386 Runoffgroove projects (Little Gem, Grace,/Big Daddy, Ruby), which have been known to sound pretty alright. Also, fun fact: Many pedals use the LM386: Lovepedal's Black Magic, Purple Plexi and Jubilee, DAM's Sonic Titan, even Frantone has used it! I too remember that the 90's Vox AC1 miniamp used that chip as well, and a few years ago I saw that circuit cloned into a Benson branded mini-amp (that looked like a Marshall MS4 mini stack). So the "not so great" sound from this particular board is more likely a fault of an inadequate implementation for guitar use than a fault of the chip.

[@whatilearnttoday5295]

Have used these chips as headphone amps since a kid. These modules make it even more accessible. Great sound.

[@AndySquid1999]

I'm highly impressed by the tone of this, especially how cheap and simple it is. The tone reminds me of the band Bush. 🤘

[@riffrigerator666]

Awesome Video! Could you do a video adding a switch and put it in an altoids box or something? Would be very cool. Thanks for the awesome content! ✌🏼

[@MikeGervasi]

Wayne McPherson did a mod of this. Remove C1 and run it into a gain pot. Remove the blue variable resistor and add 2 caps, one for filtering to ground, one for increased line capacitance. Run input to volume knob then out to LM386 card.

[@Agitated_Scientist]

Do you have a link to this mod? Thanks.

[@imsteinrecording]

Groovy and inexpensive! Nicely done!

[@bigbasil1908]

With a stereo amplifier board you could probably run the line in through one channel, and then the output from that channel to the input of the other channel. And between channels have a volume pot and a tone pot.

[@hadleymanmusic]

I got about 6 little stereo phone circuits from wish not much bigger than my thumbnail. I need to get jacks. My favorite is to take a cassette walkman type and mod it into a pedal box

[@fuzexi]

That sounds brilliant! I'm gonna try it!

[@hellspark]

As soon as you mentioned Little Smokey amps, I remembered that's exactly what mine sounded like!

[@ppprime98K]

A distortion pedal idea would be picking some old stereo speaker that works on 9V. How? Run the output of Left (Just to name a channel) on the Right Input, Left Input being your FX Input and Right Output being your FX Outpit. In some cases would be a 0$ effect due to old speakers can be found even in the trash or given by someone who doesn't need them.

[@Mp3acid]

You can build distortion pedals using just the lm386 chip ..a simple schematic is the "dead easy dirt"

[@rot_studios]

Didn't think the ol' LM386 would make a fuzz but here we are. I think I should have a play with the ones in my parts bin lol

[@7down278]

I've put it into my Kay LP as a volume boost, really fun !

[@billhart4710]

I'm thinking about placing a small value capacitor at the input of one of these babies to make a "treble booster" type gadget. Probably have to tinker a bit to find right value cap; might wanna put several small caps on a switch . Ordered 3 of these little devices. On a slow boat from China at this time ...

[@DaisyHollowBooks]

The two amp version sounds a lot like Sun 0)))! Love it!

[@davedavem]

this is awesome! would be good to add a switch. great playing too!

[@dcthegreatest24]

Had to subscribe, you are a real one for this! Very cool. This will be my first pedal build. If I wanted to give this an on/off footswitch, what would I need to do? If I wanted to add a 9v center neg input for a wall wart what would I need to do?

[@TinSammich]

Congrats, you made pocket fuzz!! XD I actually may give this a try, cheap and simple, I like it!

[@ewillyp]

super rad video, holy shit that doubled up tone was MONSTER!

[@livekaos]

Have you tried the LM358 module, the LM358 is a proper preamplifier module with 2 stages. You can mod it by adding the clipping diodes and a tone control. The LM386 is a power amplifier so not so flexible for what you want. The LM358 will work very well as a built in booster or a buffer.

[@abrajmek_zalilov]

Is it enought just to solder out 386 and solder in 358?

[@patrickmcmanus5373]

Thanks for the video. You could have a mini pedal by using a power supply jack instead of battery

[@scramblesthedeathdealer]

I just scored a five pack of LM386 chips. I just breadboarded my first pedal, a Fuzz Face clone kit by Copper Sound Pedals, I wonder if I could add an LM386 after the second transistor before the volume potentiometer.

[@JohnShalamskas]

Sure, but why?

[@joelongstaff7601]

Thankyou so much for a great video. I've been trying to build an audio translator with an Arduino, it's like a color organ, for my Christmas lights. I want six of them so they need to be cheep. I built FM transmitter & receivers from you tube but needed a low cost amp and now with your help I have that. I just ordered the parts and with luck it will be ready by the end of October when my lights go up.

[@javierlobo49]

Genial me gustó tu vídeo, te pregunto se puede conseguir otro sonido de guitarra con los mismos componentes? Muchas gracias, saludos desde argentina

[@realcygnus]

Nifty. Way back in the day(pre-surface mount & multi-layer PCB's) I copied the OG MXR Distortion+ several times, which was(perhaps still is) one of the best IMO. Its just a 741 op-amp & a few support components. The 2 diodes being the most crucial to match. They are very simple circuits, the hardest part to find was the DPDT PB toggle(AKA stomp) switch. Would usually just steal them from other broken pedals. That could use one too & I'm sure they're practically a dime/doz nowadays.

[@petecritchell]

Sounds like a fun project! Would you know of any resources to build something like this now?

[@chrissturley823]

I would also love to know more. I’m trying to get into building pedals and amps. I work at Guitar Center and I plan to make this “$1 fuzz” a Christmas present for my guitar playing co-workers. I’m probably gonna use legos or toy cars as the enclosure. Not sure yet. But I love this and want to do more stuff like it. I hope to incorporate a stomp button into the project.

[@statc0313]

Its almost like a shoegaze or doom type sound when you use 2

[@jsmxwll]

aliexpress also has them for around four for a dollar at the moment with free shipping on orders over ten dollars. a bunch of variations with various pots and such as well. might be worth a look for those that don't mind the wait.

[@theother526]

Awesome! Say you want to add a Tone Control to this, where you should place it? What do we need for that?

[@grimreapybones2875]

would love to see you try and mod it to see how to sound can be changed

[@Centar1964]

Basically your just matching impedances as most amps have a higher impedance than guitar pickups...if they are all ready matched this will lose volume...loss if frequency response is due to the transformer design.

[@K-Kil]

So gritty, I have some trash small amp boards to go mess with now

[@erlannderrantem6972]

I think you‘re overwhelming the circuit with too much bass, these are normally power amp to drive speakers and have a more linear response, guitar circuits on the other hand are designed to give the best distortion, which is achieved by reducing the bass before and between amplifier stages. So if you put a highpass (usually a capacitor is enough, the smaller the capacitence, the less the bass) before each circuit you get much more pleasing distortion.

[@MarkGutierrez]

I agree. The good thing is this pre-built circuit is a great platform for modding and experimentation.

[@peterschmidt9942]

You could turn the volume down of one circuit when cascading into the other which might yield better results. Another option would be run them in parallel with one distorted and the other clean. Then you'd almost have a Klon style pedal.

[@derekf1111]

6:33 This cut made me lol - crazy sound!

[@abril8596]

Genial Marcos .muy grande .podrías agregar como poner un foot switch y un potenciómetro de volumen? Muchas gracias por tu aporte

[@TechRedstone]

I built one of these recently and it worked great for a few minutes, next time I plugged it in… no sound, just static. Built another one where I even added reverse polarity protection, same result. Any recommendations as to how to fix this?

[@FollowTheCloud]

Is it possible to add an on off switch?

[@alfredbbp]

Great video...how could I put a gain control (clean or dirty) and tone control....thanxs!!!!

[@feech2]

You should try and do that for a chorus pedal now. If you would be so kind

[@feech2]

From one Texan to another

[@camenskycameron8413]

Yea but how do I connect knobs instead of those screw turn things? 😂

[@mrc25381]

Just swap it out.

[@livefreeordie1776]

​@@mrc25381I found a video that shows how to put this in a pedal box and one where they were two of these together. It looks way easy I ordered the parts today.

[@vincentthienpandey9853]

@@livefreeordie1776could you link it please? Super excited to try it out

[@rickkowalski7624]

@@livefreeordie1776 link please? Thank you.

[@9mmtheater]

That sounds like a sound I would like to so people could say, "what the hell is that!"

[@TriangleWaveRecords]

That’s pretty neat! I’d still want to put it in a small case with a foot switch though

[@emiledc6064]

did you already build it cus i am searching on how to put a on off switch on these things

[@TriangleWaveRecords]

@@emiledc6064 I didn’t, but I believe I saw a video from another user that shows how to encase it into a proper pedal. It’ll probably pop up in the suggestions

[@BeastOTD]

Hey Mark; thanks for the great video, especially for those of us that have never built a pedal, etc. I'm trying to cascade two of them together as you had near the end of the video, but for some reason (which I believe to be the wiring) they appear to be "separate", despite connecting the out of the first to the in of the second. Any insight would be appreciated; would have loved to see a bit more detail as far as chaining the two in the video - been having to pause to look. It also looks like your "out" (blue wire) isn't connected to the jack? Just curious and thank you again.

[@MarkGutierrez]

I posted a wiring graphic on my Discord: discord.gg/xwzaaYZSVN

[@NatureofCircuitry]

Sounds like a sound garden guitar

[@BoojayDeeth]

The Smokey Amps were even less complex than this tiny circuit, just the chip and two 47uf caps.

[@volpir4672]

LM386 is the beast behind the legendary mid/late 2000s pedal by an English company, made on perfboard 3 knobs, happy hunting :)

[@heavycoughin6665]

with two of them its a pretty thick doom tone!

[@cosmofm4684]

mark, in your video on the $1 amazon fuzz, you played a demo song at 2:38. what song was that?? i cant get the tune out of my head and i really want to know what the song is

[@barrychristian4050]

Acapulco gold 🤔 hmmm heard of that somewhere but pretty sure it was nothing to do with electronics 😁

[@MarkGutierrez]

LOL. I'm pretty sure Earthquaker Devices named their pedal specifically for the stoner metal folks.

[@danielprivate7442]

6:38 Now just add a little feedback and you're in business. lol

[@npegg]

now i need to look up how to wire the on/off switch

[@XenochronyBrain]

Hi, sorry to bother but I am trying to find the wiring schematic and I cant find a working link in the comments. If you see this could you send one? Also great video.

[@MarkGutierrez]

Here is an invite to my Discord Server. A basic schematic is in there somewhere. discord.gg/xwzaaYZSVN

[@art4259]

You have to use one dollar guitar with this.

[@Csartreweghhgf]

The lm386 is actually an amp so you could run directly into a small speaker and have an amp

[@neslesman6708]

Just ordered some. Sofa king cool! BTW nice how you made that guitar talk with that fuzz.

[@j.jester7821]

It sounds about how a 1 dollar fuzz should sound. its sounds Like gas station sushi tastes.

[@nojuanatall3281]

Leave it to EQD to design a pedal where the case and graphics cost 20x what the components cost.

[@Bubu567]

Check out the similar board meant to be used as a mic amplifier. Should be cleaner.

[@rareform6747]

Any 9volt Battery can push a speaker .

[@johnvonachen1672]

Smashing Pumpkins. Nice.

[@Denver_Risley]

Use a 9VDC socket and ditch the battery. Now you can put your weed in there!

[@lonelyboy6864]

Thanks i really appreciate that

[@Crunchy_Black]

Haha his voice is identical 😂

[@bobsbarnworkshop]

To make it useful all you need to do is add a 100k pot on the output add a stomp switch. Of course a tone control circuit would be a bonus which schematics are available on line for passive designs, just pots, resistors and caps…. The LM386 is actually designed to drive an 8 ohm speaker directly. Years ago I hooked up a small speaker to one, plugged in my guitar and mic’d up the speaker! My bandmates nick named it the Ted Nugent amp!

[@Crunchy_Black]

Hey man, How do you add a footswitch to this? I’m running two of these together, and I like the sound I’m getting, but the only thing I don’t know how to do is add the footswitch or which one to add it to?

[@vincentthienpandey9853]

@@Crunchy_Black kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYCndXiplsmdns0si=xumkdaJK70gp9riK

[@bobsbarnworkshop]

@@Crunchy_Black a double pole double throw switch is needed. Basically connect it so the input is switched to the fuzz circuit or to bypass directly to the output. You need a double pole so that when the bypass mode is selected, the fuzz output is disconnected so it doesn’t load down the output signal. hard to explain in words. The 100k pot would be on the output of the fuzz circuit to control volume.

[@Crunchy_Black]

@@bobsbarnworkshop First off l, thanks for taking the time to answer a random question on here I appreciate it. And yeah I think I follow you

[@Crunchy_Black]

@@bobsbarnworkshop if I understand you correctly the switch I need is actually disconnecting only the one side I am using for fuzz while continuing to allow signal flow through the other side?

[@spooky3120]

Only kidding. You did a great job!

[@davidbock201]

Interesting. I wonder, you think this could amp up the line signal of my contact mics? Trying to push those directly into FX pedals doesn't seem to work too well.

[@jeffwigle9154]

Hey cool video does anyone know we're to get the color no solder wires from or what there called iv been trying to find them all day please n thanks

[@MarkGutierrez]

I added them to the description.

[@gunkman_man]

hey Mark! is there any place i can listen to that music that you put in the background? It reminds me of music Inio Asano makes too really love the electronic mysterious whimsical melody, wanna listen to it while making art... needless to say, video and idea was also great!

[@MarkGutierrez]

Thanks! I compose all the background music. It's not available anywhere else.

[@gunkman_man]

@@MarkGutierrez aww that's a pity. hopefully you change your mind and upload it sometime 🙂‍↕️ interesting stuff! actually, could you recommend any similar artists or inspirations for this song? 🤔

[@frankmortensen5956]

What is the chip/board called?

[@kyzor-sosay6087]

Excellent video,man.Gotcha new subscriber.Keep up the good work.The last example sounded like me trying to dial in the Fuzz Factory fuzz,before returning the pedal for a more traditional fuzz. Not saying the FF is a bad pedal,it’s just not what I wanted.

[@MarkGutierrez]

Agreed, the Fuzz Factory is a bit wild.

[@bennettdrew]

So cool, thanks!!

[@MyPruha]

Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.

[@AV-fh7rp]

You should do a guitar install video

[@moominosaurus]

You could fit one of those into a guitar!

[@d.j.9961]

When you built your $1.00 DIY Amazon Fuzz, where did u get those specifically pinned wires & what exactly are they called! I am sure that I need those in my life! I use to have a 12v powered personal amp which was a small, 1 inch by 2inch black cube with 1 knob, 1 switch, & 1 red light. It only had clean channel though. It also had a belt clip built into it. I want to build one!!!

[@MarkGutierrez]

The links to those wires should be in the video description.

[@ApusApus]

can try breadboard jumpers, dupont cables or something along those lines. Might be fun to get a breadboard to test the circuit as well, not sure for lm386, but lm358 is available in a dip-8 case that can be soldered on a prefboard or put in a breadboard

[@GahMehGrrrr]

Always with the cool ideas. :)

[@kadenshoemaker6669]

Can you replace the lm386 chip with another chip like a ne555 or a lm324

[@THEREDSAMUEL.]

I wanna do flanger like this

[@rpandocchi]

I loved the video, but really wish you would’ve elaborated on those wires that you used to connect everything. Or just would’ve done a simple explanation on what type of wire you were using, and possibly done a more thorough examination of the DIY amplifier. Just for the people out there who watch this video and who are not well versed in doing this sort of thing is all I’m saying. Either way though, I still enjoyed the video and think it’s a great idea! Thanks for sharing

[@ThePuffGD]

How do these input/output jacks work? I followed the wiring in the video but all i hear is buzzing. I think its the jacks but im not even sure how they work to begin with

[@MarkGutierrez]

There are two sides, two sets of pins. Use the side that the jack actually touches. One of the sides, if you follow the pins, has a metal that floats above the actual jack and doesn't make contact. Ensure you use the pins that actually touch the jack.

[@awittypilot8961]

Impressive Mark! No idea how you figured that out but cool!

[@comunidadeclimax3809]

Amazing dude! Thanks a lot!

[@FollowTheCloud]

Wow. I need to make this

[@qaximi]

I dont understand how this circuit is distorting/clipping? Usually you need to put some clipping diodes at output for it to work as distortion. The only way for it to distort is by input distortion only. I see fellas putting all sort of leds and diodes on output for deferent kind of disrtotions

[@JohnShalamskas]

If you drive an op amp with a high enough input signal, the output will reach the voltage rails and start clipping.

[@hardlines5472]

No solder?