Bring out yer Diptrace

I drew this up - it's the same circuit as before (Mastema Drive) but laid out on a 1590bb with everything mounted to the board. If this were a pedal I would make, I would use the audio jacks that have a collar nut that secures from the outside. The power jack would be recessed, and the LED trim knob would be accessible by removing the jewel lens I use in my pedals.

I tried to keep everything on the top board and the bottom is a solid ground plane
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Monty layout thread. Best thread.

Here's an OD series I've been playing with.

The OD-1, Adam Overdrive:
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TS-808, Hey let's add a tone control!
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Let's crank it a bit with the SD-1
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Yamaha won't be left behind, shifting the mid hump down with the OD-10!
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And on and on it goes in the pedal world. An overdrive is just an OD-1 with a different tone control.. kinda makes you wonder what else you can do with it. Add a boost? Different diodes? Refine the tone section? What's next? Tune in to find out what will come up in the never-ending OD-1 overdrive collection story!
Add 7 unnecessary buffers?
Maybe a overly complicated power section that will run off any laptop charger or stepdown transformer?
 
Here is a Resinite OD (Amber Overdrive), probably my favorite distortion circuits. While making this I learned it's a big muff, and I don't know how I feel about that.

I wanted to make it without any off board components. It uses these jacks which are smaller than the Neutrik style. I was watching a review of the Prince of Tone and noticed it was built with these so I'm going to try them out.

It uses tall leg PCB pots. The plan for the power jack is to drill round access hole for the plug and keep the rest of the jack behind the enclosure, rather than using a square shaped hole.

I kept the length below 100mm. I -think- there is enough room for everything. I wanted the audio jacks as far away from each other as possible. To deal with the angled side of the enclosure I'm going to install the audio jacks into the enclosure and then lower the board down onto them so I'll be able to set the angle and then solder it in.

The top layer is power and ground, while the bottom layer has the signal traces and another ground pour. I'd like to put component values on the bottom as well

The layout was a pain to work out. It's not the prettiest but the traces are as short as possible and there's nothing too crazy. For trace width I used .025 for everything.

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I just got my first order from JLC in, and when it's built and in a pedal I'll send this in for production
 
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I spent some time with the data sheets updating the pad and hole dimensions for the jacks, as well as some cut outs in the board for the enclosure screw bosses. I think it's ready!

(in this pic the in/out audio jacks are reversed)


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