Skills

Skills You Need To Build Stompboxes

Here are links that can help you make your own Guitar Stompboxes. Read through these sites then come back here for more info for beginners.

You should understand what a circuit is. Read about it here...

You should be able to identify basic components such as resistors,capacitors, diodes, transistors and integrated circuits like op amps.

Please read this page as well.

Check this great page for basic electronics!

You should be able to read resistor values. Resistor color codes and primer is here.

You should be able to read capacitor values. Here's a page on capacitor values.

Soldering. You need to know how to solder. Here are some links:

Basic Soldering Guide by Alan Winstanley

Soldering guide photo gallery by Alan Winstanley

Soldering Basics by Jack Orman

Tips on Soldering.

Here are tips on how to make a circuit board.

Making circuit boards. I do #2, Perfboards.

Easy PCBs by Al Williams

R.G. Keen's book on PCB Layout

Tips on how to package your circuit.

Effects packaging.(GEO)