LET’S TALK ABOUT
A COUPLE OF THESE
COMPONENTS.
Your LED has two legs. They don’t tell
you this, but the shorter of the two
legs is the negative leg. This will be
important to remember. The resistor
in the materials list will attach to the
positive leg, while the negative leg will
be wired to the switch (which will be
connected to ground).
The input and output jacks will have
two lugs. The one that protrudes
outward closest to the insertion point
is the “tip lug” and the other is the
“sleeve lug,” which is a ground point.
The DC jack’s three lugs consist of two
positive and one negative. The two
lugs facing the same direction are both
positive, while the odd man out, so to
speak, is negative. I tend to wire the
two positives together in some way,
and I’ll be instructing you to do so.
The footswitch wiring is where many
people give up when building pedals; it
looks much more complicated than it is.
We’ll make it through, trust me!
READY?
LET’S GO!
STEP 1: Mount the footswitch, DC
jack, input and output jacks and LED in
bezel. I place my input and output jacks
like so because you will need to wire the
jacks to the switch and this minimizes the
wire distance.
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