noob building a tonebender

[stagefrite]

So I want to build a pedal, and I really want a tonebender

so I was wondering, does anyone have a good schematic to a 2-knob Tonebender (germanium) and maybe some videos/soundfiles ?
preferably a Stripboard schematic but I could work my way through almost anything.. no PCB work though.

also some transistor suggestions would be nice 

thanks.
-Stagefrite

[Taylor]

Welcome to the forum. 

A couple of things to get you started:

- schematics are images which show the electronic connections between components. They can be arranged in any way physically in the image, as long as the connections are shown properly. What you're looking for is a stripboard "layout", which shows the physical arrangement of these parts on a piece of stripboard. Stripboard is also called veroboard or just vero.

-The search function here works very well. Towards the top of the page lies the search button. Between that, the layouts gallery (in small text right below the "DIYstompboxes.com" banner at the top) and Google, you will find enormous gobs of info on building a tonebender, what transistors people like in them (with plenty of discussion) and probably several different usable stripboard layouts.

Enjoy your first build, and of course when you hit a roadblock with it, and you've read the debugging links at the top of the page, searched and can't find the answer you need, ask here and people will be very happy to help.

[stagefrite]

thanks!

tomorrow will be parts-shopping-day 

- Stagefrite

[stringsthings]

thanks!

tomorrow will be parts-shopping-day 

- Stagefrite

a good question to ask yourself at this stage is:  how confident am i with a soldering iron? ... debugging problems is half the fun ... you are aware of that fact, right?

[stagefrite]

well I've swapped quite a few pickups and pots so I think I'll handle myself.

- Stagefrite

[Electric Warrior]

Here you go:

schematic:



layout:



OC75s work well in this circuit. You need something that leaks a fair bit, at least for Q1.