The Screamer - Overdrive kit

Great kit. Quite easy to build. Nice overdrive sounds.

Jean-Marc M., 28.02.2015

This is my first kit from Musikding... The components arrived in less than a week... I mounted the pedal in a day and it has a really great sound! Very efficient shipment and excellent product!

Lorenzo S., 04.03.2015

Overdrive very flexible , perfect sound

Alessandro P., 25.03.2015

Even a beginner as me has been able to build everything. The stomp sounds magnifically, very warm and bluesy
Ive used a small enclosure: may be a bigger one would be better and easier to assembly. A very thin tin soldier must be used for the PCB.

MALCOTTI B., 12.04.2015

Very good product,fast delivery,maximum german seriosity.
My only problem was with the DC socket,faulty (cheap quality),but I bought a Lumberg socket for other project and I used that one.
My advice for Musikding is to include by default a good quality DC socket,is not so big difference of money.

Claudiu I., 24.05.2015

Vero good

Luca B., 27.05.2015

Spedizione precisa e puntuale, la realizzazione è abbastanza semplice e il risultato finale è superiore alle aspettative. Grande suono!

Francesco F., 11.06.2015

A great starter project for a rainy afternoon, with not much to fail. Almost solderable by numbers.
Great sound. Low noise. Surprising versatility.

Still there are some annoying things:
- is hard to bend the resistors to correct pitch (theyre bent so close to the body that the bending gauge is practically useless - with the next kit I am making myself a custom bending gauge) - But I understand this, as all the projects are very space saving
- I would be very happy to have a list of individual components with values somewhere - it is annoying and time consuming to search for each and every components value in the schematic. I know you dont support soldering by numbers, but I also dont see a point really in this. It wouldnt do any harm really if you sent a print of instructions with the kit.
- there are some resistor numbers omitted and it is not documented anywhere - It was not until I finished the soldering to PCB that I was sure, I didnt omit something.
- It would be great if you posted an idea /illustration for less experienced makers how to suit all the stuff in the (quite small) chassis
- on the PCB there is no indication of the transistor orientation (there is it on the wiring diagram, but not on the PCB - but you can figure it out from the schematic) - for the builders, its a D (not a C)


what I changed:
- used 1nF Mallory, 33pF and 100pF mica caps (probably a straight overkill)
- used ribbon cable (solid) for the pots (much less mess around the PCB)
- LED is amber (red is soo generic)
- for the output I used insulation washers so the only grounding contact with the chassis is at the input
- output is grounded straight to input, not to the pcb
- header pins for the DC in (+ and gnd)
- connected LED with color coded female jumper wires

Jernej K., 16.06.2015

I love it. Fast delivery, easy to assembly (its my second Musikding kit), I chose for the TS-9 and I think it has a very warm sound. Great pedal and a great service.

Piero S., 19.08.2015