Aion Oceanid - Cornish OC-1 Optical Compressor Adaptation

Here's a project I literally finished up last night. Granted, the PCB had been populated a couple of weeks ago, but it took me a while to get the enclosure to a point where I was happy with it. The Aion Oceanid is quite a bit more complex than Acapulco I detailed in my previous blog entry, and is an adaptation of the Cornish OC-1. This brings me to one of the major benefits of building your own guitar effects pedals. The cheapest I've seen a Cornish OC-1 for sale is about $750. Some Cornish pedals blast through the $1000 mark. The Aion PCB will cost you $12, and the rest of the components (assuming you get good quality ones) should run you $50-$60, meaning you get a boutique pedal for an order of magnitude less cost - assuming you're willing to put the time in to build it.

An Easy One - The Acapulco Overdrive Kit

So I figured I'd start out the blog with a simple one, the Acapulco Overdrive kit from Das Musikding based on the Acapulco Gold from EarthQuaker Devices. I included links in case you want to go searching for this and forget to include "guitar pedal" in your Google search (insert winky face emoji here). In the interest of full disclosure, this is not the first pedal I built, or even built successfully, but it is an awesome little afternoon project!

Welcome to Steggo Studio Productions!

Welcome to my new blog covering one of my more recent interests - all things guitar. I've played music in one form or another for as long as I can remember, but guitar was never an instrument I'd picked up - well until COVID hit. With a lot of extra time at the house, I decided to take the plunge and pick up the electric guitar, and with the electric guitar suddenly comes "The Quest for Tone"! The dizzying array of tone and effects pedals available, and the prohibitive cost of many of the more unique ones, has led me down another rabbit hole - building my own effects pedals!