One Dollar DIY Amazon Fuzz

$1.16 DIY solderless fuzz. Cheapest DIY fuzz on Amazon.
Acapulco Gold, Sun O))) Stoner metal, LM386

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LM386 Mono amp

Panel Mount 4 Pin 1/4" Mono Jack

Solderless Ribbon Jumper Wires

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[MarktheAirsoftPrimate]

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

[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.😅

[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

[simonlinser]

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

[cheapskate]

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.

[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.

[martinheath]

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

[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!

[afreezaphorogiancossack]

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.

[MiguelPaulettePerez-bjml]

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!

[gtrmike]

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.

[jasonsullivan]

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.

[Bleats_Sinodai]

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.

[AndySquid]

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

[riffrigerator]

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! ✌🏼