Golden Dragon Overdrive

[Xavier]

I'm building one of these right away, I'm impressed with the sound samples.

Once again, here's my too-compact perf layout in my gallery. I like the small vero layout also above in the thread

http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/main.php/v/Xaviers-shrine-of-noise/Layouts/Golden+Dragon.gif.html

It's a tiny 6x11 holes perf. BTW, nokaster, mine is smaller than yours, mine is smaller than yours..................er...............wait a second 

[Renegadrian]

Is that verified???

[sweetwilly]

My (totally) unverified vero layout for your consideration...

Suggestions/corrections very welcome!



Messed up the Volume pot wiring originally - fixed now!

[Renegadrian]

Wily, it seems quite correct - the previous layouts were wrong about the JFET pinout...while the original schem drawn by Dragonfly shows the fets to be DGS from the top, actually S is the middle pin. So it had to be interpretated and not visually followed...Your layout is correct about pin orientation, for what I see...
Had to try it, thx for the effort.

[sweetwilly]

Cheers Adriano.  I'm just practicing reading schematics and the process of "building" the circuit using the Layout Creator has helped a great deal! 

[Dragonfly]

Wily, it seems quite correct - the previous layouts were wrong about the JFET pinout...while the original schem drawn by Dragonfly shows the fets to be DGS from the top, actually S is the middle pin. So it had to be interpretated and not visually followed...Your layout is correct about pin orientation, for what I see...
Had to try it, thx for the effort.

That s correct.

Fets are always shown in schematic form as DGS.. in reality they can have different pinouts...a NTE458 is DGS, a J201 is DSG, etc...

Just thought i would clarify for those who havent messed with jfets much....

[Renegadrian]

Yes, Andy, surely it helps to refresh these simple notions...Sometimes you see a schem and try to make a layout out of it, and the usual jfet representation is somehow misleading...So you have to check the pinout first...I learnt it on my creations...

[Renegadrian]

Willy, tried it on my breadboard but unsuccessfully..I know it's late at night and good guys like me shoud be sleeping, but damn I checked every piece 5 times...mmm...


EDIT
I just left out C5 in my experiment...I guess it should work anyway...It seems just a dc filter (am I wrong, Andy?!)

[sweetwilly]

No joy with this layout still Adriano?  Will have to re-check it!

Thanks for trying it - I haven't got most of the parts to hand.

[Renegadrian]

No joy with this layout still Adriano?  Will have to re-check it!

Thanks for trying it - I haven't got most of the parts to hand.

Willy, I am not saying its wrong, I just tried to put the parts in the breadboard following your layout - maybe I went wrong...Did you build this? Is your layout verified by yourself?

[sweetwilly]

Not yet, but next in list after a Phase 45 and my Twincaster/Pentaboost beast are done.

Only my 2nd go at a layout so may well have made an error somewhere!