Anyone have some recommended resources for learning this stuff? I know there are commonly recommended electronics books like "The Art of Electronics" and "Practical Electronics for Inventors" but are there any resources that are focused specifically around guitar pedals? Ideally some sort of progression that introduces analog circuit basics through a set of increasingly involved projects and results in something that actually sounds good and that I would use as a musician.
One of the first PCBs that I have tried to build as a 16 year old was a guitar pedal circuit from a German electronics magazine (Elo?).
I used the sun as a UV source for the photoresist exposure, boiled iron chloride in my mom's Pyrex containers, stained bunch of her towels permanently yellow in the process. And the circuit didn't work. It is still a sore point from my youth that I remember occasionally.
Also, Small Signal Audio Design by Douglas Self is really good, but probably not as a first EE textbook, and you have to really want to go into the weeds, as an electrical engineer would. But there is an entire chapter (chapter 12) on just electric guitars (pickup, preamps, effects, direct injection, etc.)
