Wednesday, 20 July 2016

BYOC 27V Boost

Taken directly from BYOC.

Possibly the World's cleanest, most transparent boost. It utilizes the 7660S charge pump's ability to take a standard 9v power supply and output both +18v and -9v. The op-amp based boost circuit takes advantage of the whopping 27v differential to produce 20dB with an amazing amount of headroom. It doesn't matter if you're using active pickups - you will not get any clipping from this boost. Slam it with another boost, it still won't clip! The treble control allows you to cut/boost frequencies above 3k3Hz by 6dB.

To be honest, it's not as small neat as I would like it due to the three different power connections, but here she is. 



On the site it says it uses a 7660s for the charge pump, but the schematic shows a MAX1044, remember the two are interchangeable. 
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37 comments:

  1. Unknown21 July 2016 at 13:21

    Vol 2 to output?

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    1. Zach21 July 2016 at 18:27

      Correct. I forgot to put that in the build notes. I'll fix that when I get home.

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  2. Mark22 July 2016 at 20:19

    Thanks a lot, Zach!

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  3. Unknown23 July 2016 at 08:46

    hi zach
    its 17/16 and not 18/16
    is there a mistake?
    thanks

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  4. Unknown23 July 2016 at 13:42

    Yeah, first verification of mine incoming :D
    You can tag it, nice Boost. I made it for Bass and its really transparent and stays pretty clean. It even boosts my active 6 String Bass without to much clipping.
    Great stuff, thanks for that.

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    1. Mark24 July 2016 at 03:30

      Can I ask what you did to change it for bass? Increase the input cap?

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    2. Zach24 July 2016 at 05:53

      you shouldn't need to do anything, it was designed for bass.

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    3. Unknown24 July 2016 at 09:16

      I just upped the Input cap to 22nF I think, but thats it :D

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  5. Convergent Sound24 July 2016 at 02:01

    Got this one working with a MAX1044, thought with the treble controls up high, there is a very high pitched tone that is constant. Still a very nice, usable boost that takes signal from other pedals with ease.

    I experimented with a 7660s and got a pretty nasty whine from it.

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    1. Zach24 July 2016 at 05:54

      i think i found the source of the whine. if you look at the 10uF cap that goes from pin 4 to ground, right next to the 3.3M is reversed. the negative should be on ground and the positive at pin 4.

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    2. Convergent Sound24 July 2016 at 16:08

      Thanks!! Flipping the polarity of the 10uF you described cleared up the whine on the MAXX1044. Sounds great(er)! I still have a nasty oscillation with 7660s, but then again, I might have a few bad 7660s'.

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    3. Zach25 July 2016 at 01:14

      Well glad the cap was the issue. I can't believe I had it reversed, probably happened when I was moving stuff around and didn't realize it was flipped. Also, really happy it sounds good, since there's no videos samples to hear I wasn't sure if this was a worthwhile build.

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    4. damdam11 November 2016 at 07:42

      So. I build it. It works. And it works very powerful. Thanks Zach!
      But I have that constant noise, that Brandon describes (and other too).
      Zach, did you manage to correct the layout or I must connect the 10uF cap reversed? I am now connecting the negative of the cap to Ground, but still have that noise.
      It goes off when I turn the Treble full ccw (at zero I think). But it comes again if I start to lower the volume of the bass guitar.
      The noise is present event before I connect the bass.
      I play on active bass if that matters.
      The same is with the lead guitar, though.

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    5. damdam11 November 2016 at 19:53

      I accidentally touched the board under the MAX1044, somewhere between 7 and 8 leg, and the noise gone. Where I go wrong? What to add to compensate my finger?
      p.s. Excuse my English

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    6. Zach11 November 2016 at 23:00

      Note sure what's going one, maybe a bad chip. The layout was fixed. Your finger is acting as ground. Form what I see in the schematic pin 7 & 6 are not connected. Maybe adding a ground to pin 7? And your English is fine.

      If you add the ground to pin 7 and the noise goes away let me know and I'll add it to the layout.

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    7. damdam12 November 2016 at 00:49

      I don't see any logic, but putting a jumper between legs 6 and 7 solved the problem (for me). No noise. Works perfect.
      Before that I test it with second chip and the noise was still there.
      Thank you!

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    8. Unknown4 December 2016 at 14:44

      If you join pin 6 & 7 voltage doubling won't work.

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    9. Zach4 December 2016 at 18:24

      i don't think that will happen, i could be wrong though. in the schematic pins 6&7 aren't connected to anything, which they're not currently. according to the datasheet pin 6 is the low voltage output, and pin 7 is the oscillator control output. when you read the datasheet it shows in one of the schematics for voltage doubling a possible connection of pin 6 connected to ground (Fig.9). pin 7 should be left unconnected, but maybe connecting pin 6 to ground should be done for this build.

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  6. Unknown29 July 2016 at 20:39

    I have just finished 27 v boost. It works, but i have noise sound when i turn the treble pot.

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  7. Unknown19 September 2016 at 11:22

    I'm trying to build this one. I have several 10uF 35v bipolar (non polarized) electrolitic caps lying around, can I use them as well?

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  8. Unknown19 September 2016 at 19:45

    Ok, it works! There's a lot of volume output, but it's not clean. It starts clipping with volume at 9 o'clock and it gets more crunch and loudness until full scale. The clipping is fine but again it's not clean at all, it sounds more like an overdrive than a booster....

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  9. Unknown23 October 2016 at 21:20

    Hi, I am building my own preamp for a marshall combo which preamp is dead (luckily the power amp is alive). I tried with a ready made preamp delivering a nice amount of gain though I would like to get still a bit more power from it. Would you recommend to use this booster to send a bit more input to the preamp stage? Would it boost all the frequencies? Thanks in advance!!!

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  10. Sensei Tim18 November 2016 at 14:56

    Does the MAX1044 need to be an 's' model like the 7660 or will a mx1044CPA work without whine?

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    1. Zach4 December 2016 at 18:26

      just saw this tim. didn't know there's a max1044s. maybe using a 7660s instead will not have any wine. i'm only guessing, since i haven't built this effect, but know that 7660 will wine, 7660s will not, and max1044 is interchangeable with 7660s.

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  11. Unknown4 December 2016 at 11:31

    Looking the schematic the capacitor from pin 2 of the 7660/1044 to D1-D2 is reversed

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    1. Zach4 December 2016 at 18:16

      hey rob. the diodes are correct. in the schematic the line side of the diodes points away from the the charge pump, which id does on the layout.

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  12. Unknown4 December 2016 at 19:36

    Look here at the schematic page (rather the end):
    http://byocelectronics.com/27vboostinstructions.pdf

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    1. Zach4 December 2016 at 22:06

      re-read what you wrote rob, i missed that you were saying the cap was reversed, and you're spot on. made the correction. hopefully that was the cause of the whining for people in their builds.

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  13. Sensei Tim18 December 2016 at 15:33

    Tag it. This updated layout is verified.

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  14. Bobby15 July 2017 at 10:23

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  15. Bobby31 July 2017 at 09:42

    Built with an ICL7660SCPAZ and had an issue with whine, grounded pin 7 of the IC and the whine went away. The issue could also have been due to my inexperience.

    My first ever build and working great!

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  16. Chance11 January 2018 at 09:24

    If you jumper pin 6 & 7 of IC2 or ground pin 7 voltage is no longer doubled, for my test this measured only 7.9ish volts, but yes it is quiet and does work but without the voltage it is supposed to be. I built this with a MAX1044 from Tayda and get a very loud whine which gets worse when you turn up the treble, ear piercing! I use a very good power supply too. Hmm... Apart from that it does work well. If we could just eliminate the whine. When you touch IC2 it does use you as a ground it seems and the noise is reduced. I'd like to figure this one out. Maybe I try some other MAX1044's or get the 7660s.

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  17. Chance5 February 2018 at 10:58

    Well I tried replacing the MAX1044 with 7660S; no change. There is a loud whine/whistle at all pot settings. Hmmm, I'd really love to solve this one, hope someone does

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  18. ADoyle4 November 2019 at 11:12

    My first build! It works great. Only thing is: it can't handle my active bass eq above half on bass, mid, or treble. Causes it to distort. Is this normal or should i start troubleshooting? Also i used a 100k for volume could this be an issue? Thanks

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  19. 10010101100110101001110010101110100010013 October 2024 at 20:22

    Does anybody have an updated/corrected version of this layout?

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