JSA Effects

Something extra cheeky; this is my "Little Treble Maker" with a twist - a buffered bypass. "But Simon, buffered bypass guitar pedals suck!?" I assure you this one not only doesn't suck, it makes everything sound fuller and clearer. This is now the perfect tone maximiser

Cheeky two-in-one; germanium fuzz face with external bias control and vintage spec Tube Screamer with SRV mods. This is an absolute beast and nails Eric Johnson tones

A custom "Horse Whisperer" - my discrete op amp reimagining of the legendary Klon "Centaur". This particular version also has a switchable buffered bypass and battery snap

It's been a long time since I built one of these; the "Horse Whisperer" is a discrete op amp reimagining of the legendary Klon Centaur

As tenet 1 of the Tone Mantra clearly states; "Acquire more pedals, achieve true happiness"

RF Potts is an electronics shop in sunny ol' Derby, and is nearly 100 years old! Because it's so close to Rolls Royce, over the years, they have acquired huge amounts of spare parts from them. This means when you go diving through their old stock, you find genuine treasure

Semi-vintage nonsense today. A Mk 1.5 Zendrive, by which I mean a 1:1 original Zendrive, but with the 'correct' tapers for the voice and gain pots, updated op amp, and the input stage from the Nobels ODR-1 added

"Lady Garden" - a modern fuzz built around delightful vintage nonsense. What would happen if you slammed a MOSFET style boost in to a vintage Muff Fuzz? In a word; awesomeness! The bias control takes you from sweet drive to earth shattering fuzz to gated velcro

"Palilalia" 2025 - a high voltage reworking of an OCD style drive

Breaking FET's and taking names

Same circuit on both sides. The person really just wanted to be able to quickly go between a slapback and then a longer delay in the same pedal without having to adjust any settings

Delay all the things! A custom "Auld Spark" delay with two channels/modes. It's kind of like a preset thing, where you can get two separate delays with totally different settings and swith between them. It also has tails bypass and an infinite repeats momentary footswitch

Aggressive glow in the dark fuzz

Cheeky little Germanium Fuzz Face rehouse

Making all your tubes scream

Some more tones from the "LNS Screamer" - the best tube screamer style drive ever made ever

The BD-2 is a weird one; yes it's got blues in the name, but it has way more gain on tap than any blues guitarist would ever need 😀 The Tera Echo is whacky but can be wrangled to do some interesting ambient sounds

What about the Tera Echo and/or the BD2?

YouTube video by Simon Andrews "LNS Screamer" - the best tube screamer style pedal ever made ever #boutiquepedals #guitarist

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It's taken 9 months and many failed attempts, but I've FINALLY made a second "LNS Screamer" that sounds as good as the original! This is literally the best tube screamer in the world ever, and that's a hill I'm willing to die on

At the end of last year, I built the best tube screamer ever (a hill I am willing to die on). However, as it's all vintage components, trying to build a second one that sounds the same has been a nightmare! Hopefully this is the one

Wanna build an awesome sounding overdrive with a simple layout, no weird parts, and lots of room for mods? Introducing the "Simple Drive 2025"!

Big riffs from this teenage inspired fuzz machine

Welcome to "Teenage Angst"

It's been long time since I built a delay, but I was recently asked for one, so decided to revisit my old design and clean it up a bit. This thing absolutely slaps

Here we have a very special "Simple Drive" that I built recently to demonstrate the circuit. The updated "Simple Drive" circuit is designed to be a beginner build with plenty of room for growth, mods, and experimentation

What's this? Oh, it's just some fuzz, that's all

Exactly! I mark the bottom left corner and then every 10 rows to help orientate myself 😀

*sings* todaaaaaayyyyyyyyy I'm a rock'n'roll star!

This is definitely the raddest "Hot Toddy" I've built to date 🤙😎🧷