Tips & Trix and Thoughts...
What to antisipate when having this as a
hobby
Sometimes
things can
get difficult.
Murphy
’s Law is always
applicable when it comes
to tiny things that
are
suppose to be put
together in
a certain order or
fashion. A
grate thing is that
you can
learn from
others
mistakes.
Here you can find
some of my
mistakes and
what
I
have learned from them.
Its
also
here on this page
I
will
express my own
personal view
and opinion on
things arond the
subject.
I love to make my own PCB boards. I hate to drill all the holes. Use a special dimond tipped drill bit. It will stay sharp and last longer than you kan keep it from snipping of by misstake.
About
Germanium transistors.
In my opinion
they are highly
overestimated
and do not give the
value back
for money or time
spent
to
hunt
a AC128 mojo
low
leakage
pair down. Sorry
aNaLoG Man
and
others that
worship
the holy
Ge macaroni.
I
thing the guitar player
is
more important to
the sound
(witch
probably explains why I
don’t
like the sound)
then the
temperature or
correct
hFe for
the sound.
Check with
Clapton.
Gossip
says that he
played one
on Hot
wheels/Crossroad??
And
others. If you how ever want
to build a Fuzz Face or
other Fuzz:es Use low
hFe (60-90) Silicon ones.
It will sound as nice
as
if you used Ge.
The trick
is
to use low
gain
transistors like
the NPN
2N2222 or
PNP
2N2907A.
So, do you still make place for batteries in your
boxes...
Well, of cause
its up to you what you
want to use the limited
space
inside a box for.
Personaly i
rather shrink
my
boxes
to make place for more
of them on my
pedalboard then use a lot of
costy batteries.
If I
need batteri power I
have
built an
external 12V to
9V power
supply
that I can feed
with ONE rechargable
battery
for
all 12
effects on my
board.
About where
to put In and
Output.
I
like to think that space
is
important. I dont
like to
mess
with to
much cables.
These are
the two
main reasons
why I
always try to use
Hammond BB sized
boxes.
110
X
60
X
Don´t trust the PCB transfer. This shortage in a PCB costed me 5 hours of trubble shuting and gave my gray her. It is the PT80 and the pad is all to close to the trace and will cause a schort circut when making youre own PCb:s. It´s f-n impossible to finde. I spent at least 3 of the 5 ohrs looking at the solderingside with my magnifiing goggles on befor i find it.
Tired of wiring up effects for testing befor boxing? I
Am
It all gets in to a tangel and a
mess and shortens out
and hard
to ajust puts etc. Do
you recognice this situaltion
when testing
to tveak
or befor
boxing? This will fix the problem for you. Build one of
thease and all your worrys are gon. Connect
your effect fast and easy
to
the world outside the
PCB. Use as many connection as
you please. I
get by
with 4, (+V,
GND,In, OUT)
Like to test the sound of a lot of different clipping
diodes fast and without trubble?
Build your self a
test bench like the one
below. Connect it to a rotary switch and you have
instant sound test at your
finger tips. I have
rigged mine to
handle both symetric and
asymetric clipping. It can handel up
to 3
clipping pair to
compaire at the same
time.
(Mind the scale on the PCB when
printing)
