Great Course!!

Well done and easy to follow. You will love it!

prerequisite for all stomp tinkering

useful, even for an experienced DIYer

Incredible Course

Brian really breaks down how to read circuits and think of circuits in blocks to stimulate creativity. I would highly recommend this course. There is nothing out there comparable!

Tons of fun!

I had a lot of fun building my own stuff, and learned on the way. I appreciate this course's focus on motivation and experimentation.

Awesome!!

This is such a great course! The concepts are laid out in a very logical way, and you don't have to have an engineering degree to understand things. If you enjoy tinkering or just want to learn about the real magic mojo in sound...Just do it!

Amazing value

Save the forum digging for later, start here! This course is perfect for a beginner. Access to the community is a major bonus as well, it's pretty cool to get advice from the man himself.

Beginners Basic Course

I almost didn't take this course because I have some electronics and pedal experience, but this course provided knowledge where I've been week, particularly about transistors. I have primarily worked with Op Amp circuits, but tried to avoid transistor circuits, as I have had little knowledge regarding them. I now have a bit better understanding of transistors and am now confident that I can work through those types of circuits.

Greater experience than I even thought I would have

I am very pleased by how enjoyable this course was and how inspired I feel to pursue this hobby over a long period of time. The last two sections were very fun and I am extremely excited ft of the available courses. I am also looking forward to using the book as well for learning more circuits but please please please make more video courses like this if you can, this was incredible and I would definitely partake in additional courses.

An amazing guitar pedal building course

I've been assembling pedal circuits for a few years but didn't understand what was actually going on in the circuit. After completing this course, I know have a good understanding of how to modify these basic circuits and make them my own. It also makes it much easier to follow the circuit when building. Understanding where I am at and what comes next makes it easier to avoid mistakes and to troubleshoot when something is not working correctly. I look forward to the intermediate course that I will be starting next. Thanks Brian.

Loved it!

I loved the course. It allowed me to go at my own pace to understand and then implement the examples. I finished wanting more. Thanks Brian for creating this course!

Great Course

This course was really informative. I went in with just enough electronic knowledge to be dangerous. At this point, I believe I could put these concepts to use.

Outstanding course

This course is incredibly good for beginners, everything is clear and concise. Brian explains every part and how to put it together perfectly making it easy to learn how to build your own guitar pedals. I highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to learn to tinker with guitar pedals.

Awesome Course

I highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to learn more about guitar pedal circuits. It is very well put together and is very easy to follow. I am looking forward to the intermediate course next.

Great Beginner course

This is a great introduction into pedal building for the complete beginner. No experience necessary.

Welcome to guitar pedal electronics.

An easy intro to the world of guitar pedal building and designing your own circuits.

Perfect Way to Begin

If you've ever built pedal kits but wanted to learn more about circuits, how they work, and how to design them, this is the course for you! Everything is taught and explained very well. I never felt confused or overwhelmed. I had a lot of fun with this course and it really helped me take a big step toward understanding and being able to create my own circuits!

A Must-Take Course for Aspiring Pedal Builders!

Brian Wampler's "Complete Beginner's Guide: How To Design Your Own Guitar Pedal Circuits" is an absolute gem for anyone interested in building guitar pedal effects. As someone who has been dabbling in pedal design, I found the content incredibly accessible and informative. The step-by-step instructions are clear, and Brian does a fantastic job of breaking down complex concepts into easy-to-understand lessons. The practical examples and hands-on projects make the learning experience both engaging and enjoyable. I highly recommend this course to all aspiring pedal builders!

Perfect and worth the money and time

Brian has done an amazing job at laying out the basics of pedal building. I myself went through all the advanced electronics programs in the Navy and I understand how all of the components and theory works, But as you can imagine, they dont show you how to actually build something, What the physical lugs are on a pot compared to a schematic, Or what a BJT sounds like. So this course was so perfectly put together. Thank you so much for the time and effort and willingness to share. You are the man. And yes I will only buy Wampler pedals now : )

Amazing course!

Simply put, this course packed a ton of experience-based knowledge from an expert. Brian Wampler took the time to share his passion and insights from decades of experience to accelerate my understanding. I found it focused and without a lot of confusing, unimportant, information. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in building their own pedals.

Amazing Course

I loved this, as Brian says at the end, there just aren't a lot of books or resources out there that teach you this sort of thing. I like to learn from books but learning from the master himself in these videos is pretty damn cool. The schematics are all here and he goes through the breadboard for each circuit clearly. Above all this course encourages you to experiment and leads you along paths and gives you the confidence to do that. I have to go now and start the intermediate course ... bye.

Pedal Building Made Accessible

This course is pure gold. Brian’s causal and conversational style combined with his “Lego block” approach made me feel like I can do this. In the past, I’ve worked through multiple books on the topic, but always hit a brick wall. This course not only breaks down those barriers, but Brian also shares little nuggets of wisdom throughout on how to tinker and experiment with the designs. I highly recommend for anyone wanting to get into pedal building.

Worth Every Second

I wsa completely blown away at how thorough this was for a beginner course. I went in knowing almost nothing and left feeling confident that I could read and build off schematics, adjust component values for differnt tones in basic circuits and have a whole new appreciation for what's actually happening to my tone when adjusting knobs on pedals. The course was unbelieveable and I can't wait to get started on the intermmediate course. Thank you so much for putting this together and I can only hope there is enough interest to have more come in the future.

Wampler Pedal Course for Beginners

At last something that you can get your teeth into without choking on mathematical formulas, well structured and well thought out, is helping me to find a lot of the answers to the questions that were bogging me down and has helped pointing me in the direction i needed with a better understanding of what i was looking at

fantastic

This course was very empowering. I'll be signing up for the intermediate course very soon - but before I do I'm going to build a few circuits and swap out some values to see what happens - because that's something I can do now... and take what would have been a "clone" of a circuit, but make it my own with what I've learned here. Thanks so much, Brian and team!

My intro to electronics and DIY guitar pedals.

As a complete beginner to electronics, this course was great in helping me begin to learn reading schematics, understanding the signal flow in guitar pedals, and so much more. I recommend this course to anyone who has an interest in getting into building their own guitar pedals. I'm excited to begin the Intermediate course next.

Worth every penny

As an EE student, I had doubts about this course because I figured I could easily find this information online by searching through forums. Little did I know the specific details and knowledge I would gain from Brian through his experience in this field. That's what you're paying for, and it is sooo worth it. Took the information from this course, expanded on it, and I'm working on my own overdrive design. Could not have been done without this course.

Fantastic Course! I Highly recommend this to anyone curious about getting into pedal design.

This was great! Truth be told I was not a complete beginner, but I'm definitely a beginner. Brian's explanations were very easy to follow and very informative. If you are looking to break into building and designing pedal circuits this is a great way to do it. I will likely reference this material for a long time. Thank you Brian for putting this together!

Boosting and overdriving your knowledge

I just finished this course and have learnt so much - Brian has got the course just right, with a progressive building of your understanding, reinforced by the practice of breadboarding each step, so you can really understand and experience what you are learning. Thanks Brian, great fun, and really easy and accessible for someone starting from zero !

A must for those wanting a start into the inside world of guitar pedals

I can't say enough about this course. I learned all the basic building blocks to create may own distortion. Brian covers all the important topics needed to get a grasp on what is inside these little boxes we are addicted to using.

This course is for you

Think you can't build a electric guitar pedal? This course will have you breadboarding real working circuits. Brian and team are there for you to excel in guitar pedal building. I thought l had a real good understanding of guitar pedals, after getting into the course l realized l don't. I think everyone that wants to improve their knowledge of pedal circuits will get a lot out of the course. Enjoyed it.

Super Helpful!

Very detailed for a beginner course but all was explained in a way that made sense and was simplified. Learned a ton and can't wait for the intermediate course -Joe M

Well Done

This course was great fun and very informative. I think Brian did a great job of determining exactly how deeply to go into each subject along the way, which couldn't have been easy. I had built a number of pedals from kits and pcbs, but I never understood what I was doing. Now, I can look at a schematic and actually identify the purpose of most of the components in a circuit. On to the next course!

Great course for anyone wanting to design audio circuits

I recently completed the Beginner's Guide: How to Design Your Own Guitar Pedal Circuit and I have to say, it was a fantastic experience! Whether you’re a beginner just starting or someone with a bit of background in electronics, this course does a great job of breaking things down. Brian is really knowledgeable and had a way of explaining complex concepts in a simple manner that made everything easier to understand. I appreciated the hands-on projects that allowed me to apply what I was learning in real-time. It really helped solidify my grasp of the material. The Guitar Pedal Course community is a great asset. I get to connect with fellow builders who are just as passionate about audio design. Sharing ideas and troubleshooting together made the learning experience even better. Overall, I’d highly recommend this course to anyone interested in audio circuit design. It offers a great mix of theory and practice, and I walked away feeling much more confident in my skills!

Total confidence boost.

Brian hits the nail on the head in as simple of terminology as you could hope for in a course. The video lengths and topics are all laid out and explained exceptionally well making it easy to go back and forth within the course. I have built numerous pedals in the past from kits and while cool I still had no idea what was going on so I took it even further purchasing great PCB’s, sourcing all of my own parts, enclosures etc… and building alongside supplied documentation. Basically painting with numbers. You simply find “R19” on the parts list page and you plug that value into the board and solder it in, learning nothing about why or how the part or value effects anything. Schematics still resembled cave paintings to me and troubleshooting was a nightmare when a build was finished and something was wrong. I might as well have been looking at a completed circuit from another builder as I still had no idea where to begin or anything that I had done aside from soldering parts. Long winded but if you happen to be a Tinkerer and want to know why something ticks I cannot recommend this course enough. Well done Brian W.!

Enjoying it! Reminds me of a fun college class!

I recommend taking notes as Brian is speaking. I know how to breadboard so the detailed explanation of that is less interesting, but his explanation of how each component affects the sound, gain, tone, etc. is important. Writing down the key points as he speaks will aid you in reviewing the work later. I have made a notebook of the circuits with diagrams and notes. Treat this like a college course - make calculations for the filter stages, identify the signal path, calculate the gain. When bread boarding the circuits, use your oscilloscope and probe the paths. Look at the signals and see how the components change things. Use a sine wave input signal too. This makes it easy to see the changes. This brings me right back to college! Love it!

First time through

Went through the course just listening first. Im getting ready to start ordering parts to get building. I enjoyed the course a lot. I really missed electronics and this is going to be a good hobby along with playing guitar for me to dig into. Thanks for making this easy to get started on.

Excellant course

If you want to understand your pedals and your tone this course is necessary. You aren't going to find this information at Guitar Center.

Truly One Of A Kind Masterclass

This course has everything you need to start building your own guitar effect circuits. Highly enjoyable, incredibly educational, and exceeded my expectations in every way. Cannot recommend this course highly enough.

Finally, learning DIY pedal in a logical step by step process

If you are interested in getting your start in DIY pedals, then I urge you to take this course. It's a very well formulated step by step jumping off point and will give you the confidence to look deeper into the world of guitar pedals without spending hours going over countless "Easy projects" trying to figure out where to start and what you need to know or how to continue to improve your knowledge.

No Experience Required

Brian's Guitar Pedal Course is so perfect for anybody who loves their gear and is just curious how it all works. There is no better source than Brian Wampler. His ability to describe complex things in easy to understand ways is his master still. Taking the course can lead you to make your own things. But more than anything, it taught me how to better understand the the pedals that I have. This feels like a college degree course you wish existed if or when you went to school. Brian is my guru for all things pedals and I'm grateful I got to experience the class. He is sharing some serious knowledge for all of guitar nerds around the world. I highly recommend it.

Go beyond the kits

My goal in taking Brian's course was to go beyond assembling kits. I wanted to be able to understand what the pieces were doing together, whether I was looking at the schematic or the circuit board, and change things if I wanted to. I can say this course went above and beyond that for me and I have already begun designing some circuits myself, and have modded a few friends pedals. If you are at all interested in whats going on under the hood of your pedals, want to dive into the building blocks of audio circuitry, or build and mod your own pedals, I highly recommend this course. Go at your own pace, have fun, and experiment!

I cannot explain how much this course did for me

I’m 72 years old, slept through electronics in high school and later kind of felt like was missing out on something. Schematics were Sanskrit to me. I started building kits and realized the schematics were useless to me if I had a problem. I saw a Facebook ad for Brian’s course and figured I’d give it a shot. What I have learned from his engaging and highly informative course cannot be overstated. I now design and build my my own pedals from what Brian has taught me. I would pay for the pedals I’ve built. Highly recommended. Mores please!

A must-do for pedal enthusiasts

Even if you don’t want to build your own pedals, this course gives you a lot of knowledge to better understand pedals, and steer away from the mountain of false information floating around the internet. Highly recommended.

Finally Learning The Basics

I spent 2-3 years trying to build a couple of thngs peicing together info from Youtube. Go great to have a single source of truth to get it right

Perfect

Great work

Very well organized

Grateful

Great Course

I am glad I took this course. Now I can better read a schematic and experiment changing the components of my favorite pedals

Beginner's Guide: How To Design Your Own Guitar Pedal Circuits

Great introduction course

Brian Wampler’s course got me going. This course is a great start. It’s well worth the money. The forum is great and Brian’s a great guy.

Great Resource!

This was so much easier than trying to consume random Youtube videos and blog articles. Everything was presented in a clear fashion with lots of explanation. It's given me a solid foundation to build on.

Pure Gold!

This is just great. A must have for DIY guitar pedal enthusiast. I'm looking forward for more courses like this one from Brian.

Great entry point into pedals!

Wampler did a great job of providing examples of circuits to slowly build upon. Really easy to follow along, taught me how to read schematics and mess around with diagrams on the web, so I can continue on my own. An empowering course!

Perfect for complete beginners

If you're thinking about getting into this but have no idea where to start or what to do, this course will be great for you.

Excellent!

Pay attention and watch it as many times as you need to.