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Build Your Own Effects Pedal:
Building your own effects pedals is fun and rewarding way of adding to your arsenal of guitar effects. There are several companies selling kits of various pedals, the best known is Build Your Own Clone. They sell a variety of clone kits for popular pedals, their most well known is probably the B.Y.O.C. Large Beaver, which is a clone of the famous Big Muff. The kit includes parts to build either the "Triangle" or "Ram's Head" versions, and has been reviewed by many people. Another interesting one is the clone of the Proco Rat which features the classic circuit and 5 other distortion modes making it a truly versatile pedal.
The pedal kits range in difficulty from very easy to quite complex. It helps to have experience in soldering or building kits, but if you don't have any experience, first time buyers get a free confidence builder kit to practice on. [...]
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