Things With Strings

Background I was talking to my brother-in-law last December and mentioned that I was hoping to re-ignite my electronics hobby, mainly with the intention of building myself some guitar effect pedals. A month later, my brother and sister-in-law kindly gave me an Amazon gift card for my birthday (always appreciated), so I had the idea that come his birthday, I would repay the gift with a boutique, hand-made effect pedal. And so the story of the "Chafer Drive" begins. I thought a simple overdrive (mild distortion) with a single control knob fitted into the smallest possible enclosure would be appropriate, and it would be named the "Chafer Drive" because that, coincidentally, is his surname. The name has a triple meaning though, since a Chafer is a variety of beetle, and there is a party-game called a Beetle Drive , so we have Chafer - Beetle - Over - Drive, get it? Never mind! I though I'd also document the whole build process too, so he (any anyone else who...