Big Muff PCB 3 Clipping Stages

Started by tuckster, November 12, 2010, 12:12:34 PM

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tuckster

Hi :icon_biggrin:

I would really appreciate it if one (or two) of you would be so nice to glance over this scheme and pcb I created.
Just to be shure that I don't waste a lot of material :P

It's nothing new. Just a Violet Ram's Head with 3 clipping stages.
The 2nd and the 3rd clipping stage are switchable. Both of them have one entrance and one exit on the board to wire the switches.
I messed it up with SPDTs but there should be DPDTs so I can completely take out a clipping stage with one switch.
The pots, switches (dpdt) and the power jack are wired to the pcb.
Please be kind if I messed it up to hard :D

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Meanderthal

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 Looks nice... except that the 2 clipping stages are identical and the 3rd is a slight variation on clippers. To what end? Ability to switch in an extra clipping stage? Wouldn't it be easier to just add clippers to the last stage of a standard BM and then just add switches for all the diode pairs? SPDT would be all ya need then anyway... Just a thought. You could take it further with dpdt switches to switch between different types of clippers as well, all without actually adding an extra gain stage.

Will be extra super mega saturated either way ya know...

I am not responsible for your imagination.

tuckster

Thanks for your thoughts about it.
The values in the scheme are from a violet ram's head that I want to change to different values so I can build three totaly different stages.
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tuckster

#3
Ok i checked it a few times and built it. It works.
The transistors may be printet in the wrong direction on the pcb :D

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