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Anyone have some recommended resources for learning this stuff? I know there are commonly recommended electronics books like "The Art of Electronics" and "Prac

Anyone have some recommended resources for learning this stuff? I know there are commonly recommended electronics books like "The Art of Electronics" and "Practical Electronics for Inventors" but are there any resources that are focused specifically around guitar pedals? Ideally some sort of progression that introduces analog circuit basics through a set of increasingly involved projects and results in something that actually sounds good and that I would use as a musician.

throwaway31131 1y ago
The Lantertronics YouTube channel has a bunch of good stuff. https://www.youtube.com/@Lantertronics https://www.youtube.com/@Lantertronics Also, Small Signal Audio Design by Douglas Self is really good, but probably not as a first EE textbook, and you have to really want to go into the weeds, as an electrical engineer would. But there is an entire chapter (chapter 12) on just electric guitars (pickup, preamps, effects, direct injection, etc.)
tuatoru 1y ago
Rod Elliott's sound-au.com[1] has a wealth of information about audio. But guitar effects pedals would be one exception. Microphones, amplifiers, filters speaker crossovers and so on - all explained failry nicely. The site has two main areas, projects and articles. 1. https://www.sound-au.com/ https://www.sound-au.com/
thenthenthen 1y ago
Not specifically about guitar pedals, but cute sound hacks nevertheless: Nicolas Collins, Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking, https://www.amazon.com/Handmade-Electronic-Music-Hardware-Hacking/dp/0415998735 https://www.amazon.com/Handmade-Electronic-Music-Hardware-Ha...
bsoles 1y ago
One of the first PCBs that I have tried to build as a 16 year old was a guitar pedal circuit from a German electronics magazine (Elo?). I used the sun as a UV source for the photoresist exposure, boiled iron chloride in my mom's Pyrex containers, stained bunch of her towels permanently yellow in the process. And the circuit didn't work. It is still a sore point from my youth that I remember occasionally.

throwaway31131 1y ago

The Lantertronics YouTube channel has a bunch of good stuff. https://www.youtube.com/@Lantertronics https://www.youtube.com/@Lantertronics Also, Small Signal Audio Design by Douglas Self is really good, but probably not as a first EE textbook, and you have to really want to go into the weeds, as an electrical engineer would. But there is an entire chapter (chapter 12) on just electric guitars (pickup, preamps, effects, direct injection, etc.)

tuatoru 1y ago

Rod Elliott's sound-au.com[1] has a wealth of information about audio. But guitar effects pedals would be one exception. Microphones, amplifiers, filters speaker crossovers and so on - all explained failry nicely. The site has two main areas, projects and articles. 1. https://www.sound-au.com/ https://www.sound-au.com/

thenthenthen 1y ago

Not specifically about guitar pedals, but cute sound hacks nevertheless: Nicolas Collins, Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking, https://www.amazon.com/Handmade-Electronic-Music-Hardware-Hacking/dp/0415998735 https://www.amazon.com/Handmade-Electronic-Music-Hardware-Ha...

bsoles 1y ago

One of the first PCBs that I have tried to build as a 16 year old was a guitar pedal circuit from a German electronics magazine (Elo?). I used the sun as a UV source for the photoresist exposure, boiled iron chloride in my mom's Pyrex containers, stained bunch of her towels permanently yellow in the process. And the circuit didn't work. It is still a sore point from my youth that I remember occasionally.