Cheapest place to get DIY pedal kits

[fenderhutz]

I am curious where the cheapest place to get the DIY kits are?

I know of

http://www.buildyourownclone.com/ (seems a little pricey)

http://olcircuits.com/ (seems reasonable to very good)

http://www.runoffgroove.com/ (on the OLC site, not kits but schematics, looking for kits)

Any others?

[bongomania]

Depending on how many kits you want to make, you can save some $$ by buying breadboard or stripboard blanks instead of pre-printed circuitboards, and dozen-or-more quantities of each component needed from a supply house like Mouser or Jameco. Jameco has some good starter kits of resistors, caps, xtrs, etc. too; they are not "cheap" but you get a lot of value per dollar on parts you will use in pedal building.

[Sir Edward V]

Originally Posted by bongomania

Depending on how many kits you want to make, you can save some $$ by buying breadboard or stripboard blanks instead of pre-printed circuitboards, and dozen-or-more quantities of each component needed from a supply house like Mouser or Jameco. Jameco has some good starter kits of resistors, caps, xtrs, etc. too; they are not "cheap" but you get a lot of value per dollar on parts you will use in pedal building.

+1

I buy from www.effectsconnection.com

[astralis]

Most people feel some indescribable force to start with kits, but I say bs.
You'll save $$ getting your components through mouser, getting your boxes and perf from small bear, and getting your stomp switches from the diystompboxes store (they also have nice stripboard).
If you go the way of the parts sourcing, you'll learn a lot more about what your doing, what parts you're using, what you can substitute for what, and so on and so forth.
It's also nice to buy like triple the value that you need and have enough for a project that you find and just have to test (a lot of really great projects don't have a company making a 'kit' for them) =]
Good luck, however you end up diying

[bassman251]

I really don't think the B.Y.O.C kits are that bad price wise. Some of the kits, like the compressor which are good quality are cheaper then what keeley & anologman cost. And are being constantly improved & some even are added better quality components in them.

[Mingus Addict]

General Guitar Gadgets is another site that has kits. I don't how it compares price wise. It has a lot more stuff then the others I think. I'm pretty sure their muff kit can be built into four or five different versions.

[jongor]

What's 'breadboard'?

[bongomania]

It's a fixture which is used for prototyping circuits:



I used it above to mean a sheet of circuitboard material with a fine grid of holes punched in, similar to stripboard/Veroboard:



(but without the copper traces)