Friedman BE-OD / Dirty Shirley Pedal Clone Build

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The BE-OD and the "Dirty Shirley" are almost identical pedals - both designed to emulate high-gain amp designs.

Both are referred to as "amp in a box" pedal types. The BE-OD in particular earns for itself the designation "BSIAB" or brown-sound-in-a-box.

I own the Friedman BE-OD and it's hands down the best overdrive/distortion pedal I've ever played.

The BE-OD is missing a midrange control, but the Dirty Shirley has a midrange pot. The BE-OD has a "tight" control pot, whereas the Dirty Shirley only has an on/off toggle for the tight control, used to tighten up the bottom end.

The concept of this built is to combine the two pedals into a single stomp-box enclosure with all the controls of both.


drilling template, center punched for pilot holes:

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drilled enclosure:

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This guy does a real good side-by-side demo of both pedals.

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Dude you are on fire with builds lately...........

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Dude you are on fire with builds lately...........

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Rustoleum Hammertone Brown - 5 coats:

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Waterslide decal for control knob labels. 2 coats clear gloss:

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Project schematic :

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components:

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The BE-OD and the "Dirty Shirley" are almost identical pedals - both designed to emulate high-gain amp designs.

If my FM3 didn't match incredibly well, I would have kept that pedal... nothing else sounds like it (BE-OD Deluxe).