We’ve just completed our first builders competition over at r/diypedals. If you have a moment, we’d love your input in the community voting round

[kylewetton]

View the entries, watch the demo videos, read the build reports and vote on them to help us pick a winner

The idea is to score each entry, take your time, you can save your progress and come back another time too. Voting ends in 7 days.

Cheers!

Vote here

 

[kylewetton]

Also @Robert any interest in sponsoring a prize for the next round? They’re two month durations, you could pick between sponsoring Best Overall, Best DIY Approach, Best Aesthetics or Best Demo Video

 

[Robert]

Man, there's some nice looking builds in there.

Also @Robert any interest in sponsoring a prize for the next round?

Absolutely.

 

[kylewetton]

Man, there's some nice looking builds in there.



Absolutely.

The Brick Vs Face is my humble contribution, but I bet Im being smoked by that Spectral Delay for good reason. Check out their build report when you get the chance, it’s a great read,

 

[Brett]

The Brick Vs Face is my humble contribution, but I bet Im being smoked by that Spectral Delay for good reason. Check out their build report when you get the chance, it’s a great read,

I haven’t dug into any of it yet, but your graphics on that one are fantastic.

 

[ICTRock]

any of them actually DIY or is this a bunch of boutique brands flexing on each other?

 

[jcpst]

any of them actually DIY or is this a bunch of boutique brands flexing on each other?

Based on how they present themselves, I counted 6 out of 27 entries as brands.

 

[ICTRock]

and the jokes hold up ... wonderous

 

[kylewetton]

I haven’t dug into any of it yet, but your graphics on that one are fantastic.

Thanks man!

 

[kylewetton]

any of them actually DIY or is this a bunch of boutique brands flexing on each other?

So you know how there’s a theme? This round was “anything goes”, which means that there are two who clearly had been working on them for a while. But next rounds will have a specific theme and a more strict rule about starting the build within the time frame, the theme will make it harder for them to submit their existing project.

I’d say all of them are DIY, they all populate or design their PCBs themselves or use veroboard, all their graphics are done themselves. I think only one board is a collab, the rest is a single person like you and me.

I think that there’s a few there that are DIY builders that have aspirations of selling their work and building a brand for themselves and I think that’s fantastic, could you imagine discouraging that?

To answer your question more clearly: no, no boutique companies here selecting a pedal from their catalogue to try move stock so they can win a $50 voucher

 

[KR Sound]

Very cool!

 

[kylewetton]

Based on how they present themselves, I counted 6 out of 27 entries as brands.

I think it’s an important distinction here to make that stamping your mark on your pedal and wanting to sell it to help grow yourself as a boutique brand is a different thing to a boutique company putting one of their offers in the competition to advertise their company. Zero pedals did that.

There is only one pedal that clearly was an existing pedal that was just submitted for advertising (it’s not the spectral delay), and I’ll have stricter guard rails around that.

The idea has always been that the pedal needs to start being planned out only once the round starts