Favor: batw blacksheep

[rocket88]

Got a favor to ask. Vince over at FSB took apart his black arts toneworks black sheep, and traced the board, and I put together the schematic. I don't have time to put a layout together for it and said I would. Would be very appreciative to say the least if someone could make a layout, I'll do my best to verify it as soon as I can. Just some things came up today that's thrown everything out of wack for me, and will be for awhile.



Forgot to mention all transistors are 2N5089's.

[ξεναγος νεκροπολης]

hi mate! i'm on it!
could you please tell me what the cap after input is?
is it a 470pf or 430pf?

and 2 more things
-from the ase of the 1st transistor is it 18k or 10k to ground?
-and from the same base we have a 330pf but i can't see the other cap witch goes to ground

[Ciaran Haslett]

Updated to include unknown values, fixes caught by Savvas and errors in schematic

[rocket88]

470pF after the input
18k from base to ground of Q1
47uF cap from base of Q1 to ground

Thanks guys.

[ξεναγος νεκροπολης]

hi Ciaran Haslett!!!
as i see we where both working on this!you did a nice layout!
but i can see 2 small mistakes in your layout.i think you've missed a cut after the small link at the right of q2 cause now collector connects with the sustain 2, and also you have to move the uper leg of the second 1uf one hole up cause it starts from collector of q2 and not from base.
here is mine too.i thought i should post it too.

cheers
Savvas

[rocket88]

Awesome guys. Thanks a lot. The next couple of months are going to be crazy, and I may be going back to college now so to say things are upside down is an understatement........

[Ciaran Haslett]

That's excellent Savvas!  

And good man for the heads up.  AND thanks for the english phonetic spelling of your name.  Google Translate failed me and I have no idea what to call you

I'm constantly looking through the Requests section for schemes to work from as practise for drawing my own layouts.  When someone with your expertise posts one too it's great.  Gives me a chance to compare and see where I can improve (which seem to be everywhere )  So again thanks!

And sorry to hear that Zach.  I've learned a lot from reading your posts/comments.  I hope your never too far away from here.

[rocket88]

No worries, I going to far, just may not have the time to build and make layouts as often. Just the way the education system is going in New Jersey sucks, and isn't going to improve the achievement and understanding of the kids, plus I'm tired of being treated like a villain. So I've decided to head in a different direction as a career. And believe it or not I'm seriously contemplating going for electrical engineering, and I have this hobby to blame for it. Lol

[ξεναγος νεκροπολης]

thanks man for your kind words!

and zach...when i was 19 years old i passed in an electronics university here in greece...back then i didn't liked it and choosed too give it an other try for an other unioversity...(physics)...
now i regret it...but who knows!maybe it's better this way!good luck bro!

[Silver Blues]

I agree, good luck man.

[Beaker]

Best of luck Zach!

I know exactly what you mean about the college system - I have the same experience here in the UK.

[rocket88]

Well, I've been teaching high school, secondary to those of you on the other side of the world, and things are just becoming a shit storm of craziness and stupidity. Luckily, I'm turning 30 this year so if I'm going to make a change now is the time. Thanks for all the support guys, I know things will be fine, just have to figure the right direction for me, I can't stand the idea of not being happy in my job, and this year was just the breaking point, ya know?

I've got a few things in mind, so I'm researching it all now. Figure I'll be back in college in the fall so I could take the summer to work more on building my pedal business and just regather myself mentally. It's been pretty rough on me. But, don't worry I'm not leaving here. On the plus side, going back to college will give me a little more time in the end.

[dbat69]

Good luck Zach - I'm sure things will work out for you bud.
My thoughts are with you

[rocket88]

An error was caught in the schematic, not sure if it's going to make a difference in the vero. The 47uF should be connected to the 10k/100k/1k junction.

[ξεναγος νεκροπολης]

it's not a problem at all...it's really easy for someone to fix it in both layouts.
in mine you have to take the + leg of the 47uf and put it in the hole above the - leg where 1k/10k/100k are.

and in ciaran's layout you have to take out the 47uf and place the +leg in any hole next to 1k/10k/100k and the -leg to ground in the row above.

[Ciaran Haslett]

Sorry lads.  A bit late to the party.

As Savvas said it is an easy fix in both layouts.  I've updated mine exactly as he described.

Cheers again.

[anders]

Here is my take according to this schematic over at FSB
http://www.freestompboxes.org/download/file.php?id=26045&mode=view

I'm not that familiar with rotary switches yet so I decided to replace it with i Input Filter pot.

Verified vero

[rocket88]

Nice one buddy. And that's my schematic too. Lol

[rocket88]

Savvas you can consider your layout verified with one major change. The 47uF cap had to go from the 1k/10k/100k junction on the first row to ground (positive leg on row 1, negative leg ground). Thanks buddy.

[ξεναγος νεκροπολης]

that's great zach!!!

i finally found time to correct the cap's place in my layout.
so now it's updated and verified!

i'll post it in the Contributions!

thanks man!
savvas