Joe Gore BadAss Distortion, Breadboarded*
This is a tiny vid of Joe Gore’s BadAss Distortion circuit from way back when I was first learning how to build guitar pedal. It’s just a quick test to make sure I had the circuit working before committing it to a circuit board.
If you have any interest in building guitar pedals, his DYI projects are fantastic. It’s how I got started and now I’m building octave fuzz, chorus, delay, reverb, you name it.
* Breadboarding, if you are unfamiliar with the term or process, is a way of “test” building a circuit. Instead of soldering all your stuff to a circuit board and finding out it doesn’t work, with a breadboard you have a nifty little plastic (usually) slab with connections underneath going in one direction (for the power bus and the ground plane), but not the other. Instead of soldering you use jumper wires to make the connections. These are just little wires with bare stiff ends that go in the little breadboard holes to make the connections between power, various components, and ground.
