Links

Vendors

These are added as we think if them. Omissions are unintential and the links aren't in any order. If a valuable site is missing, please feel free to add it.

Forum Member Suppliers

• General Guitar Gadgets There's so much here. A very cool site to purchase pedals and view schematics. Fantastic!
• Tonepad Projects, Layouts, a very cool site!
• Aron's DIYS store A large selection of parts including pre-tested 3PDT switches. Purchases support the forum and the Wiki.
• Small Bear Electronics Purchase parts for your pedals here. Steve is a great guy to do business with!

Boutique Suppliers

Smaller shops generally dedicated to stompbox parts

• Pedal Parts Plus Friendly, fast service. Occasional brand substitution (Neutrik vs. Switchcraft for example), so be specific if you're particular about that sort of thing.

Large Suppliers

• Mouser Electronics Great general source for bench stocking. The carry lots of PIC micro parts but not AVR's. No minimum order.
• Digikey Electronics Great general source for bench stocking. The default source for AVR micro supplies. $25 minimum to avoid $5 shipping charge.
• Allied Electronics Cheap source for Vactrol Optoisolators. No minimum order. Fast shipping. Weighty catalog.
• Farnell InOne Not mentioned as often as some of the others, but they carry Analog Devices chips, so they're cool.
• Newark InOne Newark InOne is the American equivalent of Farnell InOne. As with Farnell, they carry a full line of components including Analog Devices.

DIY Sites

• AMPAGE Fantastic site for all types of electronics!
• AMZFX Great place with fantastic projects!
• GEOFEX The guitar effects oriented web page. One of the best and greatest DIY pages out there!
• Runoffgroove.com Sounds, projects, info, this site offers a ton of stuff!
• Mark Hammer's place on AMPAGE Tons of stuff from this great DIY guy!
• Topopiccione Electronics Inc. VERY COOL website with lots of info! Check it out!!!!!
• Plate to Plate Cool info, some stuff you won't find anywhere else!
• The Tone God's Domain Fantastic site with TONS of info! There is so much info on here that it is a MUST READ site!
• Doug's DIY Pedals and Amps Doug has made some classic DIY projects that lots of people have made. Check out the source!
• Tim Escobedo's Circuit Snippets Amazingly simple projects that pack a punch!
• DIY Analog Guitar and Bass Music Effects An incredible site with tons of cool circuits and a Traynor amp info site as well!
• Fuzz Central Website with lots of projects, project pictures, and schematics devoted to one our favorite effects...Fuzz!
• Synthesizer Circuits Full of interesting circuits.
• Jim Radmer's DIY site Jim has built a number of our DIY pedals and has samples and pictures.
• Jeff's Guitar Effects Small site, but check out the links.
• Peter's Guitar Effects Projects Page Nice site with good links and info
• Stellan's Site I love Stellan's site! I build quite a few pedals off of his site!
• Tonefrenzy.com Nice, nice site! If you're looking for a sound clip, this is a good place to start!
• Blueguitar.org Of the best guitar sites on the web!
• Pedro Freitas Stompbox Page From the site: "Hi there, in this page you will find information about electronic music effects for electric guitar (stompboxes :o) I tried to mind the newbies, using as much pictorial description as possible." Looks good!
• Stompbox Stuff - E.G. Hensel Eric's Page! Check it out.... he has pictures too!
• John Hollis - Assorted Circuit Designs A gifted designer. Amazing abilities. Check out his site.
• Effectronics One of the first places I checked out. His beginner project was my first DIY pedal.
• Music Electronics µArchive Jamie's site. The first site?? of schematics. Very cool!
• GM Arts I love this site! His distortion is very good. GREAT articles!!!!
• Paul Marossy's page Great info, check out this site.
• Treble Booster Schematics Links to different treble boosters.
• Robin Tomtlund -The Electronic Pages Another amazing site!
• Marjan Systems Homepage Various circuits - all kinds of stuff
• Old Harmony Central message archive Take a peek into the past....
• Fix your wah Photo-style essay on how to maintain your wah. Very nice.
• Gillcar's Site Very nice website, good pictures and samples.
• Kazuhiro Sunamura DIY site Excellent site with TONS of DIY information including some work on the LM386.]
• Jethro.Dog website Very nice! PCB, Layouts, a very cool Wah!
• Analog Alchemy Home of all things Joe Davisson. I am proud to host this site. Amazing, great sounding pedals!
• PCB : Link PCBs and more
• Laurier's Handy Dandy Little Circuits Interesting page here. Lots of snippets that you can use.
• Riccardo Ferranti's site A/B switchers, effects loop pedal etc.. etc... Nice site!
• Fatboy Effects Very nice stuff on this page. Also the home of the HMP - check it out!
• Andreas Möller's Stinkfoot Sight Stompbox Mods and DIY. Click here to go straight to the diy stuff.
• gaussmarkov: diy fx Eagle layout software stuff: component libraries, layouts of popular projects, and some how-to.
• Beavis audio research Nice site with good articles. Check it out!

Sounds

• AMPAGE Sound samples Sounds of pedals. Some of my stuff is online here as well.
• Old Sounds Mirror Wow, still around.... Old site of sound samples.

Amps

General

• DIY Tube Amp guitar page Nice schematics and links here.
• AX84 A fantastic resource for building your own amp. The AX84 site is incredible and for first time builders too.
• Schematic Heaven Lots of amp schematics here.
• Steve's Tube Pages FANTASTIC reference re: tubes.
• SSGuitar.com A place for solid state guitar amps. Check it out!

Fender

• Fender Field Guide Lotsa old Fender amp schematics.
• Fender Bassman Mod Page Information about the many circuits used in this popular amp.

Marshall

• 18Watt.com Focused on the 18-watt Marshall circuitry.

Reference

• Transistor Database Lots of listings.
• Semiconductor Data Sheets Very nice!
• How to read capacitor codes Capacitor code page
• Resistor Calculator Colors to value.
• Basic Guitar Setup Tips Site with info on setting up your guitar.
• Shure Technical Publications Tons of articles on mic technique etc...
• Basic Electrical Engineering Lessons Looks good.
• All Datasheets Tons of datasheets
• The Free Information Society Tons of info.
• From Schematic to Veroboard (Stripboard) GREAT!