Anasounds Full Story FX Teacher electronic kit

The Anasounds Full Story FX Teacher electronic kit is a do-it-yourself kit for a fuzz pedal: you get the components and the printed circuit board, and you solder the pedal together yourself. Anasounds positions the FX Teacher range as a way to learn electronics at the same time, describing the kit as one that "will allow you to assemble and customize a legendary effect yourself, while learning the basics of electronics"¹.

The circuit the kit builds is a massive disto-fuzz. Anasounds says the Full Story "takes the sound of the legendary massive disto-fuzz created in the United States in 1969"², and the same lineage is given on the electronic kit's own page³. Once built, the result is a standard-sized pedal with three pots and two switches³.

What comes in the kit

The electronic kit is the components and PCB alone: Anasounds lists it plainly as "The Full Story electronic kit alone"³. The enclosure is not part of it, so the kit is aimed at builders who already have a box or want to choose their own.

The full kit is the version with everything in one package. Anasounds lists its contents as⁴:

• One Full Story enclosure with FX Teacher design and all holes already drilled
• One kit with all the necessary components
• One Full Story PCB
• One Tone Cards PCB
• One true bypass kit with 3PDT
• Three transparent knobs
• One bag of bonus components to better customize it

A separate enclosure kit is also sold, containing a Full Story enclosure with the Anasounds design and all holes already drilled, three transparent knobs, and a power supply jack screwed and glued to the box⁵. Anasounds notes it does not include a tester for the FX Teacher method, soldering tools, the Full Story electronic components kit, or a true bypass kit with 3PDT or relay⁵.

The versions sit at different prices, which makes the choice between them fairly clear:

The assembled version is described by Anasounds as "One Full Story pedal assembled, tested, adjusted, with an assembled Tone Cards FX Teacher. In short, completely finished"², plus a bag of bonus components. Anasounds also runs masterclasses around the kit, where the kit price is included and builders are supervised, coming home with a working pedal¹.

Controls and clipping

The pedal keeps its control surface small: three pots and two switches³. Both switches are three-position, and both are about shaping the saturation rather than adding features.

The "clip" switch selects the kind of clipping the disto-fuzz uses. Anasounds describes the three positions as³:

• 1N914 diodes, like the original circuit
• Your own diodes, fitted via a terminal block
• No clipping at all, for a more natural overdrive

The manual adds detail on the included clipping cards: red LEDs "for a wider and modern sound with a large and rich spectrum," or an asymmetric clipping with a 2N7000 mosfet transistor that Anasounds describes as a compromise between the original clipping and the LEDs⁷. On the upper position of the Clip control, the manual specifies 1N914 diodes "for the original clipping of the pedal that inspired the Full Story"⁷. Anasounds' own technical analysis of the circuit explains that the clipping stages "will each amplify the signal, then clip it with the clipping diodes"⁸, and that the 1N914 clipping is selected with the CLIP switch down on the FX Teacher⁸.

The "mid" switch changes the texture of the sound. Its three positions are the original position, with a deep midrange for what Anasounds calls the "wall of sound" aspect, a position that boosts the midrange, and a "custom" position where you choose a capacitor via an internal terminal³. Anasounds describes the clip switch's effect in the same terms: it changes the compression and dynamics of the saturation⁹.

Tone Cards

Tone Cards are the Full Story's modular hook. Anasounds describes them as "mini-circuits that allow you to radically change" the pedal's personality, and the FX Teacher Full Story is compatible with all of them². The electronic kit comes with the most popular version as standard³.

Beyond the stock cards, Anasounds sells a Tone Cards kit that contains a Tone Cards PCB, all the components of the Tone Cards FX Teacher, and additional components to modify the circuit and create a unique sound¹⁰. A full pack of three Tone Cards, including the two Anasounds versions and the FX Teacher version, was listed at 99,00 € in October 2026, down from an original price of 129,00 €¹¹.

A circuit from 1969

The Full Story's lineage is the constant across every version. Anasounds' product pages all describe it as taking the sound of "the legendary massive disto-fuzz created in the United States in 1969"³²⁵. The finished Anasounds Full Story pedal carries the same circuit, and the FX Teacher version is the DIY route to it, available as a kit or pre-assembled².

Anasounds frames the kit as more than a build: the masterclass program and the FX Teacher method are part of the range's identity, with supervised sessions where builders leave with a working pedal¹. The bag of bonus components included with the full kit⁴ and the extra parts in the Tone Cards kit¹⁰ both push in the same direction, toward modifying the circuit rather than only assembling it.

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