|
Post by blandguitar on Jan 30, 2010 9:21:26 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by Mayhem Guitars on Jan 31, 2010 1:23:26 GMT -5
You lied. Wheres my pictures?
|
|
|
Post by blandguitar on Jan 31, 2010 9:29:53 GMT -5
Haha, hit a snag, somethings funky with Q1. I did the first babylon not the second, just grabbed a scheme. I was tired. Editing the titles now, then loading onto photo bucket.
|
|
|
Post by blandguitar on Jan 31, 2010 10:10:05 GMT -5
First step, Find a schematic Then my setup is a tray table, when I work I go into the kitchen; when I'm done i put the tray table back in my room and put it all away, kind of a pain, but then my shit isn't everywhere. Notice the mason jar of tea on the table, I like having the ability to take a quick swig without getting up and losing track of my work. I start by getting all of the caps and sockets out. I'm not able to read resistor codes, so I wait until I need 'em to get them out Close up of the board in caps/sockets. I used SIP snap off sockets from smallbear. I don't like the round ones, they're a pain since most trannies are made to fit in SIP nowadays. I hooked up the power filtering section up first, Gets a cap and the diode out of the way, and gives me a good base of where to set the components. I also have the input cap hooked up and sockets laid out. Good rule is to build around the IC, but since this is based off of transistors, we'll build around them. I used a ground bus rather than a wire from every ground to the other. Your ground and power supply lines are low impedance so it's not much of a concern(if their not you've got a whole 'nother set of issues ), you don't wanna put your signal lines long and stretched out. This makes it real simple to hook something up to the ground. Bottom of the board thus far, with the power filtering in and Ground bus laid out. Everything mounted on the board except the Pot wires, just gotta finish it up. Pot Wired up, soldered to the jack, basically read to roll A different view of the almost finished project. Something is weird with the first transistor, gotta trouble shoot it tonight or sometime this week. Should be simple enough to figure out. I'll also add in a switch to select between fuzz and distortion circuits later on. (The only real difference between the two schemes are the clipping diodes.) I'll drill an enclosure sometime this week as well. I could've fit the project on a much smaller board, but it wouldn't've been quite as picture friendly.
|
|
|
Post by blandguitar on Feb 3, 2010 19:18:01 GMT -5
She works. I reversed the pinout of the transistors, probably gonna play around with different trannies this weekend, then mod for clipping diodes for the babylon 2. Pretty easy build, probably good for a first or 2nd project. Sounds like an Overdrive though, not so much fuzz. Might add a bypass cap on Q2 to give a little more kick too. Updates this weekend, looks like snow, so I'll have plenty of time to play.
|
|