Electric Mistress Flanger in a Hammond BB????

[psst]

Hi!
Did anyone manage to make a PCB for the Electric Mistress so you can build it in a Hammond BB box?

[Mark Hammer]

There is a bit too much to fit into a 1590BB, unless one uses vertical mounting of resistors, small caps, and maybe SIP-style op-amps.  It *could* be done, but the only DIY layout I have seen is based on the assumption that people are using "normal" chips, caps, and resistors laying flat on the board - too big for a 1590BB.

[StephenGiles]

Sorry, but am I missing something here? Why should an effect fit into this tiny box? Surely it should fit into an Electric Mistress sized box. :lol:  :evil:

[Mark Hammer]

Not necessarily, Steve.  For example the Retrosonic clone of the original Boss CE-1 - itself a pedal much larger than the original DEM - is packed into a 1590BB (and that's BB not B).  Fortunately, relocation of power-supply related components to a wall-wart, and the decreased footprint of many components (e.g., caps, stompswitch), relative to their size in 1978, makes this possible.  For purposes of a pedalboard, it is desirable for many to have a smaller package, so that a player can stand in one position on the sort of  tiny stage available in many drinking establishment, and reach all their pedals.  My belief is that it *would* be possible to do this with the DEM, since it is feasible with the CE-1 - a pedal of just as many components - but that the layout to accomplish this has not been produced....yet.

[psst]

laying flat on the board - too big for a 1590BB.

Thanks, Mark.

Sorry, but am I missing something here? Why should an effect fit into this tiny box? Surely it should fit into an Electric Mistress sized box

That doesn't make any sense.
Did you see a Fuzz Face box? I fitted it in a type B box (much smaller than a BB). Same with a Big Muff box, the original one is much bigger thatn the one you can build with tonepad's layout.
And so on with a lot of effects.

[StephenGiles]

I see what you mean - I never use a pedal board so size is not important, but don't tell Errol Flynn!
Stephen