A Homebrew Friedman Smallbox

[FuzzMonkey]

Put this one together over the Christmas / New Year's break; a clone of the Friedman Smallbox using a board from PedalPCB.





I prefer it over the BE-OD. Which, in my opinion, has too much gain and is way to noisy as a result.

~ Blake.

[jeremyb]

BE-OD is noisy AF, I turned the trimpot down a ton on mine and its better, still sounds like a cranked marshall too! Will check out some smallbox reviews!

[FuzzMonkey]

BE-OD is noisy AF, I turned the trimpot down a ton on mine and its better, still sounds like a cranked marshall too! Will check out some smallbox reviews!

I had a Deluxe for a while and turned the trimpot all the way down and that was still too much.

[Molly]

The Smallbox amp itself has a percussive chug-chug at high gain settings that's like being punched in the face. Great amp.

[chur]

I built one of these using the PedalPCB board a while back, still my goto for a Marshall sound, great pedal! I popped the toggle onto a second footswitch for the different gain levels, which seemed very usable without having to adjust other knobs, but rarely do it.

Re the BE-OD, I build the PedalPCB variant with the added active mid control also (forgotten what they call the model), and while higher in gain I never thought of it as overly noisy. The joyo version of the BE-OD I tried was thou.

Never tried the real versions of either...

[Molly]

I'm guessing they work out a fraction of the price?