Here's a collection of vero (stripboard) and tagboard guitar and bass effect layouts that we have put together covering many classic and popular effects in growing numbers. Many of these have been posted on freestompboxes.org, so check that site out for great discussions on building your own effect pedals. Enjoy the builds and please also visit us on Facebook and Twitter
Right, this one's verified and it's hmmm, how can I say this? Interesting. You can probably tag it as 'overdrive' as well as a booster, at maximum gain it's verging on distortion. Roll it back a little and it's quite a useable dirty booster with decent EQ control and with the gain set low it's pretty much a clean boost but with the options of adding more treble or bass. The bass and treble dials seem to work by having a flat eq with both dials fully counter clockwise and boosting the frequencies when increased rather than cutting when turned back. With the treble maxed there's definitely a Rangemaster flavour to it but you can go the opposite too and warm things up a bit. Definitely worth a look if you're after a booster that WILL colour your sound.
Oh and at the moment both the bass pot and the gain pot work backwards so I think they need reversing on the layout.
No problem, thanks for the layout. It's got a nice sparkly tone, even with the bass up, better than I was expecting. FYI it definitely needs that reverse log pot, I've had to use a linear and it jumps from clean to distortion with the smallest turn. I'll add one to my next Tayda order as soon as they post a frickin' discount code.
I just built this and having a few slight issues. When I have the gain maxed and I try to turn up the bass pot it starts clips insanely to the point of cutting out even with just a touch of bass but when the gain pot is turn lower and I'm using it just as a clean boost it's fine..?? I'll not that I used 250k pots for both treble and bass. It's got me stumped any help with be greatly appreciated. Cheers Mitch
Right, this one's verified and it's hmmm, how can I say this? Interesting. You can probably tag it as 'overdrive' as well as a booster, at maximum gain it's verging on distortion. Roll it back a little and it's quite a useable dirty booster with decent EQ control and with the gain set low it's pretty much a clean boost but with the options of adding more treble or bass. The bass and treble dials seem to work by having a flat eq with both dials fully counter clockwise and boosting the frequencies when increased rather than cutting when turned back. With the treble maxed there's definitely a Rangemaster flavour to it but you can go the opposite too and warm things up a bit. Definitely worth a look if you're after a booster that WILL colour your sound.
ReplyDeleteOh and at the moment both the bass pot and the gain pot work backwards so I think they need reversing on the layout.
Fixed the labels and tagged it!
DeleteThanks for the info Madferret!
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No problem, thanks for the layout. It's got a nice sparkly tone, even with the bass up, better than I was expecting. FYI it definitely needs that reverse log pot, I've had to use a linear and it jumps from clean to distortion with the smallest turn. I'll add one to my next Tayda order as soon as they post a frickin' discount code.
DeleteI just built this and having a few slight issues. When I have the gain maxed and I try to turn up the bass pot it starts clips insanely to the point of cutting out even with just a touch of bass but when the gain pot is turn lower and I'm using it just as a clean boost it's fine..?? I'll not that I used 250k pots for both treble and bass. It's got me stumped any help with be greatly appreciated. Cheers
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