Ando Effects

20/01/2025

Pedal problems? No fix no fee, free estimate. Drop me a message on here, Facebook or the website andoeffects.co.uk , maybe I can help?

16/01/2025

Up on the site now, should you be interested....
Built to order....limited stock, nice and cheap until the end of February 😎

Selling to the UK only for now, sorry!

14/01/2025

A Fat Boost for a Strawberry Thief....

Essentially a MK1 Fat Boost (with a few tweaks).

Jfet based goodness.

If you'd like a powerful, clean boost that drives amps beautifully but also somehow adds a bit of thickness (whatever that means), drop me a message, happy to do them cheap for the next few months.

Built to order. Up on the site soon. 😎

30/08/2024

The one on the left was a real......pleasure to work on.

Two fuzzes in for switch problems, the Nine of Swords needed a new toggle for it's hard clipping and the Keystone needed a new footswitch.

Not sure if a harmonic percolator is a fuzz or a distortion, also not sure how to spell the plural of fuzz....

26/08/2024

Had a good ole Tubescreamer come in for a new LED and it's (modified) cousin came along for the ride as it was squeeling when it shouldn't have been...

New LED put in the screamer and the Maxon got a small value cap near it's input to remove the squeeling (higher frequency oscillations), without rolling off any useful high end.

I did take some test videos (gotta test EVERYTHING, even if it was just an LED change) but I'll spare you the ordeal of hearing my attempts to play the blues recorded on an ancient smart phone....

18/08/2024

For anyone in the UK or Ireland who has pedals that need fixing...

Feel free to drop me a message (here, on Facebook or through the website), maybe I can help?

I can service/fix a number of different types of pedals and I can give some kind of discount when people send me multiple pedals to repair.

14/08/2024

NP(CB)D!
Gotta love .

These boards should hopefully let people 'express' themselves ....

12/08/2024

It's not easy being green.......
May Drive, a build to order this week.

27/07/2024

Had some old blender PCBs going spare so made some 3-output buffered splitters with a few slight modifications....and now understand why people like playing through multiple amps so much.

I would highly recommend going through a bass and guitar amp simultaneously, really adds a 'fullness' you don't even realise is missing. Not sure your band would thank you though.....😎

SILVER SPLITTER ALREADY SOLD, CREAM SPLITTER UP ON EBAY.... auction ends tomorrow, selling for interest so get a steal if you're into amp splitting.

tone

10/07/2024

4 extra fuzz types and a couple more bells and whistles. Hopefully will have a splitter built before it sells as it sounds great through a guitar AND bass amp.... but I haven't had chance to try it through both at the same time.

17/06/2024

Fixed then modified DS-1. Now sounds pretty damn good on some settings and kinda nasty on others, but generally a big improvement on the original (IMO).

Mods include:
1.Transistor gain reduction (less nasty clip).
2.Mid-scoop reduction switch.(more mids....obviously).
3. 3-way clipping diode selection switch :
(RED LED+ 4148,NO DIODES,2X GERMANIUM DIODES). Gives 3 new distortion options to select from.

Thanks to and for the mod suggestions (the amount of potential mods out there is insane....)

It was a fun exercise and has reinforced my belief that adding a pair of germanium diodes to any circuit has an 80% chance of making it sound better.

On eBay soon.....

12/03/2024

Refurbished Small Stone Phase Shifter from the mid 70's, including audio and timelapse of reassembly.

A brief demo of a recently refurbished/repaired Small Stone.The video is a time lapse of reassembly and the audio is of the pedal in the video.Gear.Gibson Le...