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Sounds good, I think I could use an overdrive/gentle fuzz of some description? I have a wooly mammoth clone but even turned low it sounds like sunn o))) or monolord. Something a little brighter might be nice.
For reference I’m playing an orange micro dark with 1x8 cab. Only really play at neighbour friendly volumes most of the time.
If you could recommend a pedal that would give a little biy of zz top trebly sizzle that would be ace.
Sorry, I know nothing about pedals or amps…Seems jedspeds.co.uk has a huge range of kits and pretty popular :)
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Jedspeds is good yeah. They used to have a doc that listed their pedals and what they’re clone/similar to but couldn’t see it on a quick glance there. Might be worth looking at their ‘mul-tique’ range of pedals and see if there’s one that sounds interesting for what you’re after.
I like FuzzDogs too. They also have some really good guides as well I find. This is where they line up their kits with the inspiration but might be a bit dated - https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/blog/what-are-our-kits-inspired-by
If you’ve got an idea of a pedal you want to replicate this site is good to provide a list of kits that you can get for them from different sites. https://diyeffectspedals.com/diy-pedal-kits/
I’ve made one pedal from Musikding as well which was also good. But their enclosures are a different standard (or at least the kit I made is) so that’s kind of annoying to fit on my DIY board as it’s longer and wider which is the main reason I haven’t done another from there yet.
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If you could recommend a pedal that would give a little biy of zz top trebly sizzle that would be ace.
The Mythos Chupacabra is sold as "ZZ Top in a box" and happens to be a copy of the Way Huge Red Llama, which Fuzzdog sell as the Llamatron. Seems like it might be a good place for you to start!
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stappard
Some simple but great sounding pedals/circuits are boosts (SHO, EP boost) or something like a Dist+/DOD 250 which are great sounding distortion pedals, or a Red Llama for a slightly more ragged option.
A lot of people lately have gone head over heels for the EQD speaker cranker, which is just another Electra variant - super simple but great sounding little circuit, in many ways similar to the 250/Dist+ but transistor based. If a lower gain OD sounds like something you might need/want, the Bluesbreaker/King of Tone circuit sounds great too and is quite simple as well.
Once you start looking at modulation, delays etc circuits get quite a bit more complicated. Ultimately if you're going with a kit on PCB more than EE skills per se what you really need is decent soldering technique... and a bit of patience when it comes to the wiring!