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Custom Guitar Pedal

Kent Pham

Project Timeline

Jul 2025 - Aug-2025

OVERVIEW

Built an analog guitar effects pedal by assembling a pre-manufactured PCB and installing all electronic components, wiring, and hardware into a ready-made enclosure. The project strengthened practical electronics skills, including soldering, component identification, circuit debugging, and integrating audio hardware into a functional signal-processing device.

HighlightS

Successfully assembled a full analog effects circuit using through-hole soldering on a pre-made PCB.

Achieved clean and reliable audio output by optimizing solder joints, wiring paths, and grounding.

Integrated all components including jacks, footswitch, LEDs, and potentiometers, into a commercial enclosure.

Improved soldering precision and confidence by working with resistors, capacitors, transistors, and potentiometers.

SKILLS

Soldering PCB AssemblyWiring & Layout Basic Circuit Debugging Component Identification Audio Electronics Hardware Integration

Additional Details

DETAILS

Populated the PCB with all electronic components and soldered each connection while ensuring correct polarity and orientation.
Wired the bypass footswitch, audio jacks, power jack, status LED, and potentiometers according to the pedal’s schematic.
Tested and debugged the pedal using a guitar and amplifier signal chain until the output matched expected behavior.
Used continuity testing to confirm correct wiring and eliminate unwanted noise or grounding issues.
Gained hands-on experience reading wiring diagrams and identifying component values for proper circuit function.

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