Show your pedal guts!

[Kinski]

 Well that's just too damn good, Travis!
And where do you find those ground tabs coming off the vero?

[Travis]

Thanks Chris and Kinski. Took me long enough to get done  

You can find that tab at smallbear. Also worth a look through whatever local hardware store you've got. I've found some useful stuff in a hardware store, including these Davies knobs that I used on this build

[Frank_NH]

The Workhorse overdrive.  A really nice Klon variation by Harald Sabro.  See Harald's site for the vero.

[Travis]

That's a beauty! Nice clean work Frank

[Frank_NH]

Thanks Travis.  I could have given myself a little more room for the jacks...

One thing I'm starting to do more with my builds is to use non-polar electrolytic capacitors for large value capacitors that are used in the audio path (the yellow ones above are 1 uF).  I don't know if they sound better or not than ordinary polar electrolytics, but the one's I get from Smallbear are high quality, are of reasonable size, and perform well.

[tabbycat]

Frank_NH wrote

The Workhorse overdrive.  A really nice Klon variation by Harald Sabro.  See Harald's site for the vero.

it's like, how much more straight could those jumpers be?

and the answer is none. none more straight.

[rocket88]

Dude. Looks like a little city. I can just imagine little guys coming out and moving the audio around making the distortion when'd you're playing. Lol

Awesome work man. Btw, you haven't been converted to top mount jacks yet? In surprised.

[Sensei Tim]

Thunderbird!

Not the prettiest, but it works!

[Frank_NH]

Thanks all.   I do try to make my jumpers straight, and I use jumpers from a breadboard jumper wire kit.  I also use pliers like these to straighten the wires as I install them (which is before any other components are soldered).

[Travis]

Wow Tim. If franks build is a little city, yours is like mini Tokyo! That's insane. How's the noise level?

[Sensei Tim]

lol, Thanks Travis.

I was following the thread on the Thunderbird being noisy and I was bracing myself for something really bad.   I used shielded wire for the input and output and tried to keep all of the pot wiring as short as possible, but it wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be.

I think it's as good as or better than the dr boogie, black forest, diefet, or other high gain amp sims as far as noise.

[Frank_NH]

Re: Thunderbird.   Great build, Sensei Tim.  I used the 1776 Effects PCB, and though it IS a little noisy if you turn the volume all the way up, it's no more noisy than your average tube amp.  

Having built several "amp-like" effects now, I'm of the opinion that they make great mild to high gain overdrives but should be used as stand-alone pedals into a clean amp.  For live use, you want to dial in a particular sound then set it and forget it.  They also don't seem to like to have anything but a clean guitar signal at the input, but others may have a different experience.

[Sensei Tim]

Frank, I haven't tried all of the amp sims, but I know from direct experience that the Dr boogie loves od and boost pedals.  I've used it with a Timmy, klon, zendrive, boss fa-1, Tc spark. All outstanding.

I have another diefet in the queue right now and a klon. I'm also redoing the enclosure for my madbean zero point delay...

[Travis]

Boom. After much despair with my vero build, a Mutron Phasor II in a 1590B. The sound.. So watery and sweet

[Frank_NH]

Very nice Travis!  Even with those standing resistors (ha ha ).

(Actually, I have no problem with standing resistors, especially if they make the board footprint smaller).

[Travis]

Thanks Frank! This build felt really triumphant for me after so much trouble with my vero build. I'm happy!

You could use 1/8W resistors with this board if you need everything to lay flat. I wasn't bothered

[johnk]

nice phasor II! I tried building one with the single yellow LED/6 photo-resistors but unfortunately the tone was nowhere near as deep and full sounding as my original, so I ended up modifying it with 3 VTL5-3-2's and I nailed it.

[Travis]

Thanks John. What LDRs did you try? I used the ones from Tayda and it sounds fantastic, but I don't have an original to compare to

[johnk]

Travis wrote

Thanks John. What LDRs did you try? I used the ones from Tayda and it sounds fantastic, but I don't have an original to compare to

I tried the tayda ones, and while it did work, they just didn't compare to the original's tone and depth.

[johnk]

not boxed up yet but I did draw up, etch, build & test a Durham Crazy Horse clone and it sounds great. 4 of the 5 pots are PCB mounted to make wiring and mounting it A LOT easier.