by Five Cats Pedals | Jan 14, 2022 | General Pedal Building
Here’s our completed test box! If you’re going to be venturing into building guitar pedals – one of the most valuable things you can build is a test box. Not only will it help you with your soldering skills, but it makes testing and debugging your...
by Five Cats Pedals | Dec 22, 2021 | General Pedal Building
A quick and easy calculator for all your nF / uF / pF conversions uF / nF / pF Calculator Enter your uF value here Enter your nF value here Enter your pF value here Guide to cap numbers… Seen those numbers on the caps and wondered what the hell they are? me too!...
by Five Cats Pedals | Oct 30, 2021 | General Pedal Building
Using sockets on your builds is a must and it’s something we can’t stress enough. We’ve all been there and built a board without using sockets…and either put the wrong part in or put in in backwards…or fried it with too much heat – it happens...
by Five Cats Pedals | Oct 29, 2021 | General Pedal Building
So you’ve finished your board, everything’s working…but the back of the board looks like a flux induced crime scene. Here we’ll go through the simple steps of cleaning off that excess flux to get your board looking all shiny and professional....
by Five Cats Pedals | Aug 16, 2021 | General Pedal Building
You’ll need a multimeter for this – we’ve been using Amazons own “Amazon Commercial 6000 Count Compact Digital Multimeter” which you can buy through the link – we can’t say its better than any other but we like it and...
by Five Cats Pedals | Jul 31, 2021 | General Pedal Building
Laying out a pedal, especially when you’re on your first few builds can be a pain in the … yeah… and even now the pro’s still make mistakes! We’ve created a series of Free SVG files to help you layout your pedal in Illustrator (or any software that...
