I made this pedal sandbox prototype because I wanted to..

The idea is to isolate the offboard controls from the onboard circuitry.

The pedal housing has Volume, Tone and Gain controls, but has no native effects onboard. Effects are pluggable, like cartridges.

The effects circuits are super cheap.

Could build like a million effects for the cost of one pedal housing.

Dickerbox has a female connector with four pins that supply the effect circuit with ins/outs and power.

Use the handy dandy homemade adaptor to connect the pedal to a breadboard.

Once the effect circuit is created and tested, it can be assembled onto a circuit board (or something) and plugged in.

Below is a simple fuzz circuit I soldered directly to a connector.

Ugly little shit indeed, but it works.

Dickerbox with modular effect attached

* Terrible audio quality alert. This is not what the pedal really sounds like. It's been gimped during video encoding. Just know that it is epic, panty melting quality.

Here, we connect to a breadboard

This is where the dickering comes in. I love dickering.

Slightly different version of the above circuit I've been dickering. It sounds a little better.

Here's the effect schematic .. the infamous Bazz Fuss circuit. The pin colors correspond to the pin colors in the pedal body schematic.

There's literally five components ..

The inside

The next iteration will be on a circuit board, so it won't be a rat's nest.

Yes, it's made out of an old iPhone box. Don't judge me.