Revisiting and restoring my old DIY Big Muff pedal.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:


Since the original circuit-board in my Big Muff pedal is getting a bit crusty (same like me...hahahaha.....*snort*...*snort*), some of the copper tracks are starting to lift as well, I've decided that this fortnight I'm going to make a new circuit board using a piece of pad-per-hole board that I happen to have in my stash of bits and pieces, I did a quick Google search for a suitable layout and found a good one for the Ram's Head Big Muff circuit, so, looks like I just got myself a new pedal project to work on this fortnight, I'm going to be paying a visit to my local Jaycar Electronics shop tomorrow to buy some parts for another pedal build project I'll be working on this fortnight, so I'll have plenty to keep me busy....whether that's a good thing or not is wide-open to debate, but I digress....if anything, it'll be fun anyway.


Here's a link to the layout I will be using for the re-build:

http://effectslayouts.blogspot.com/2...-big-muff.html

Here's a link to a webpage detailing all the different versions of the Big Muff circuit:

http://www.bigmuffpage.com/Big_Muff_...ics_part1.html



Here's a pic of the new pad-per-hole circuit board I'm making for my Big Muff pedal, I took this pic after cutting the board to size and marking the component positions using a black sharpie pen, I'm going to be using some tinned copper wire to form all the tracks joining the components together after they are all soldered in place, one day i might do a mini-tutorial about how to build circuit boards for pedals, using pad-per-hole boards, anyway, here's what I've managed to get done so far:




For those wanting to do the same, you need to cut the pad-per-hole board so that the board is at least 18 by 23 holes, you can make the board wider so you have plenty of room for making mounting-holes for circuit6-board standoffs, which I've done here.