Re: First layout attempt

Posted by rocket88 on Jun 26, 2017; 12:16am
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/First-layout-attempt-tp38811p38827.html

No worries man, you're on your way. Keep at it. Like I said it all comes with practice. A lot of my first layouts were way oversized. The more you do it the better they become. You've got to visualize components and try to think what's the best place for them so you can get things neat and little cramming.

Like I said look at it as a puzzle. You may have to change things around as you go, and change you're initial plan for components. When I did this layout I thought to myself I want the trimmers out of the way, cause they take up a huge amount of space, so either too or bottom of the layout. Then I thought I want the input away from the power, and need the components from the FETs to layout flat to ground, which told me that I need to be at least 4 rows. Then everything else sorta fell into place in between.