Biggus Rubbermaid (MattG Way Huge Saucy PCB)

MichaelW

MichaelW

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Ok, when I typed in "biggus" in the title I got a lot of responses of a more vulgar "Biggus" pedals hahaha.

This is @MattG's Gigantic Sauce Container PCB that he was so kind to send me. Based on the Way Huge Saucy overdrive that I had never heard of.

It's very rare for me to build an overdrive that impresses me so much that it goes right into my signal chain as a resident.
Thats what happened after I built this one. Man, I LOVE this pedal. It's right up my alley.

The drive is kind of a loosey goosey lo fi-ish medium gain drive. It sounds great with both my Strat and Les Paul.

There's a touch of Klon to it but it's not the main feature. It has a mix knob that blends the clean signal in (I think), which makes it somewhat Klon-ish.

But the gain voicing is really very cool sounding and not the usual hard/soft clipping fare.

I haven't looked at the schematic so I don't know if it's based on anything else but it's just a great sounding overdrive.

This is Matt's first stacked board and I think he knocked it out of the park. The second board has his electrical switching schema and it's pretty sweet!

So when I first put it together, I noticed the tone knob was kind of "crunchy" to turn, like I could feel the wafers. But I decided to box it up and try it anyway.
The tone knob didn't work. Sigh, so I had to take the beast apart to take a look and this is what I found, first time I've ever seen this.....like WTF?

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Anyway, I popped a new pot and voila, it works perfect,

I know in Matts report he had some issues with making sure he had low profile caps and the DIP strip socketing he used to connect the boards.

I've done a number of stacked boards and I've always just used standard molex type connectors and they were the perfect height.
(Very much like @Robert 's and @dan.schumaker 's stacked boards.

The only issue I had was the 470uf power filter cap. The BOM called for a 220uf but Matt said going higher would be better so I went with a 470u.
It was "just" right to get the back cover on.

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Aside from those two sphincter clenching moments, everything else about the build went perfectly.

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What a great sounding overdrive! Thanks again so much @MattG !
 
VanWhy said:
That's wild the pot broke like that.
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well, look at the legs.

gotta be careful when bending, cos all of the force that gets put on those legs goes into that piece of brown phenolic plastic, so it is subject to quite a bit of stress.

learned the hard way one day when i was trying to bend all 3 at once by prying against the bench and snapped it off (similarly to the above image). now i do them one by one.
 
That looks absolutely fantastic! I try to clean all the flux off my boards after I'm done soldering, but they still don't look half as neat as @MichaelW's builds (or, frankly, most of the other builder around here).

If he had to bend the pot legs to make them fit into an enclosure, then that's entirely my fault. I told him I'd send the enclosure drilling template/offsets, but then forgot to actually do it... and those pot locations don't follow any common offsets (at least not intentionally).

Great build! It's really rewarding and satisfying when someone does a build using my PCB (particularly when it works and looks as nice as this build)!
 
MattG said:
That looks absolutely fantastic! I try to clean all the flux off my boards after I'm done soldering, but they still don't look half as neat as @MichaelW's builds (or, frankly, most of the other builder around here).

If he had to bend the pot legs to make them fit into an enclosure, then that's entirely my fault. I told him I'd send the enclosure drilling template/offsets, but then forgot to actually do it... and those pot locations don't follow any common offsets (at least not intentionally).

Great build! It's really rewarding and satisfying when someone does a build using my PCB (particularly when it works and looks as nice as this build)!
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Yah I had to do some pot bending to make it all work. That was MY fault for not measuring first, I eyeballed it and it looked like Robert's standard layout, it wasn't haha.
 
owlexifry said:
well, look at the legs.

gotta be careful when bending, cos all of the force that gets put on those legs goes into that piece of brown phenolic plastic, so it is subject to quite a bit of stress.

learned the hard way one day when i was trying to bend all 3 at once by prying against the bench and snapped it off (similarly to the above image). now i do them one by one.
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Yup for sure. I usually use a pair of needle nose to bend the legs to the shape I need one pot at a time. I obviously didn't do it enough on this one. I imagine when I forced it in what I thought was the threads catching on the hole was actually the phenolic giving up the ghost!
 
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