About Leyland Pedals

Here is the short version as you’ve probably heard it all before.
Handbuilt pedals - founded and run from one room, by one person. That’s me. I’m the person. Hello.

My pedals are the culmination of many sleepless nights obssessing over circuit design, and many days sat in front of loud amplifiers - making a racket.

I hope you enjoy anything created here.

 Long Version

Working at a desk sucks the juice out of my brain. I can’t ever concentrate, and when I eventually get my head down I usually do something wrong anyways. So I decided to take an electronics GSCE to try and learn more about the workings of my hobby, which was (and still is) audio and music - I’d soldered my own guitars and put a couple of kits together, but I really wanted to know what went on inside of pedal circuits. To the internet I went.

After searching up ‘boost pedal schematic’ to build for my GCSE practical assessment, I happened upon a simple transistor boost. I built it, and it worked! More volume acquired. At the time, one of the kits I had built (a MOSFET style boost) lived in my guitar, so I turned that on for Even More Volume.

HUGE fuzz sound occurred - I had no idea that I’d accidentally created some sort of weird, half FET fuzz face. That combined circuit was what I ended up building for my GCSE, which spawned me looking for more and more electronics to build and learn about. Coming up to December 2020, I finally started taking orders. My goal is still learning and making cool pedals for people to make music - and above all, loud noise.

Thanks for reading! now go do something more productive

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