BYOC Pedals

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BYOC stands for Build your own clone. It's a pedal company that sells pedal kits for the tinkerers and hobbiests, and i was wondering if any one had bought any of their pedals? I know of them through a news letter from a online dealer here in canadia.
Now that I've got myself a soldering Iron and such, i'm probably going to be buying one after i get my new pups for my squier, and will be sure to review it.
http://www.buildyourownclone.com/ they have a sale going on right now too, buy 3 and get a phaser free. (some deal)
 
Yes I have experience with them. My friend has built several of their pedals. I haven't heard them all, but the Tube Screamer clone was very sweet.

I just bought the RAT clone, and I got the free "Confidence Booster" boost pedal (free for first time buyers). I've built a treble boost pedal from Weber, but this will be my first BYOC build. It's especially nice because they come with step-by-step instructions.
 
Those look pretty awesome! Unfotunately I couldn't solder my way out of a paper bag but it seems like they really make it dummy-compatible. I'm interested in their compressors, especially the 5-knob. Cuz, you know, that's like 1 knob better than my current compressor, and 4 knobs better than those MXR ones :D
 
The guy that runs that company is from a town very close to me. He sells some of his kits at a local store that I frequent.

One of my buddies that works at the store bought one of the kits. He got stuck in one spot and he had to call the guy from byoc. Apparently he was really easy to get a hold of and really helpful. My buddy loves the pedal and plans on getting more.
 
I actually used quite a few of the BYOC pedals during a recent recording session and I was pretty happy with how they performed. We had a lot of fun playing with the phase, delay, wah, boost, tremolo, etc pedals from them. Excellent quality pedals. And what's even better...if something does happen, you can fix it yourself.
 
You might be surprised at how many boutique pedals have their roots in BYOC kits.
 
Just wanted to give an update.

I just built one of their Mouse kits. It's a RAT clone, but with 5 different additional distortion voicings for a total of 6 (standard RAT voicings and then 5 variations).

Here are my thoughts:

1) Extremely easy to build. It's almost too easy in my opinion, because you don't really learn anything in the process. They pretty much make it as easy as paint by numbers.

2) Nice enclosure with plenty of room for all the components.

3) It sounds great. I couldn't be happier with it.

4) It was a lot of fun. I'm in the process of painting my enclosure right now.

5) The price is pretty good. This depends on what you're trying to do. The Mouse cost me $92. If you wanted to get an original vintage RAT, you'd be looking at around $250 or $300. If you want one of the reissues with the LM308 chip (which the Mouse has), you're usually looking at about $150. If you're wanting the cheapest flanger you can get your hands on though, you're probably better off buying a DOD for $20 or something though. But if you're looking at building a clone of a classic vintage or a boutique pedal, it's almost always considerably cheaper to build your own.

6) Fast shipping and good service.
 
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