The Piledriver Power Boost Effects Pedal Kit

This was a great beginner pedal to build. I look forward to buying more kits from AmplifiedParts. I am a satisfied customer!

This pedal was easy to build and sounds great. It also comes with a little book with other interesting pedals to build.

Does what it says. There are a lot better products on the market I would spend my money on. no light, and no power supply port.

The components are kind of cheap. I wound up using a few of my own parts. The lack of a 9v in is a big negative. Good quality case though.Only sounds OK. More of a fun project than usable, for me anyway.

amazing amount of boost. be careful with the bs170 transistor, as they are very sensitve to static electricity. easy kit. have a soldering gun? solder? get it.perfect compainion to my fender princeton

We just received our DIY Piledriver. The kit seems complete and contains what seem like good components. The box is a let down though, the volume knob hole is about 1/4 inch off center. Stuff like this bothers me a lot. The kit should include an external 2.1mm power jack too.We'll see where we are after the build.

This was my first DIY electronics project so I was pretty hesitant to buy this in the first place. bu t the instructions were easy to follow. I don't like the decal so I didn't put it on. Instead I just painted the box myself. As I said the build wasn't hard and it was pretty interesting too. Great boost for a $25 pedal. All my freinds keep asking me "what brand is that??"

I bought this as a self-serving gift for my dad's birthday: I wanted an excuse to try building a pedal and I figured my dad may actually find a use for a boost in his set up.I've only done some very minor soldering in the past but this was easy: the instructions were clear but the downside is that I didn't really get any insight into what function each component performs and how they all work together to do what they do. The other negative was that the included potentiometer had a ton of resistance and a lot of static when turning it - DeoxIT helped but didn't totally resolve the static. I should also note that I mounted the terminal strip to a piece of wood and did most of the soldering outside of the project box, which made things easier.As for performance, I've never used a boost before but the pedal doesn't seem like it does much until you turn the knob to about 3:00, at which point the boost becomes apparent at bedroom volumes and it adds some grit to notes. I haven't tried using the boost with any other pedals so I can't comment on how it plays with an overdrive, distortion, fuzz, or anything else.Now that I have the instructions I may try sourcing the necessary components and playing around with them to see what happens. I'd also like to add an LED indicator and a 9v jack.Also, FWIW I received the version of the pedal that includes a sticker for the top and the enclosure was painted primer white.