Devi ever electric play and disaster fuzz

[ninemag]

Anyone know where to find a pcb layout Of something “very similar” Or a “compare to” of either, or preferably both of these?

 

[Betty Wont]

Not that I know of, but tagboard layouts are out there, these are very small circuits, and they are quite similar to other Devi Ever circuits in which pcbs exist. It would probably be pretty easy to compare schematics and build them on existing boards.

 

[Elijah-Baley]

Torgoslayer is right!

I don't know well these two pedals, but the Devi Ever Electric Play are two pedals in one: http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/deviever/cymru/electricplay, The Electric Brown and Lets Play.
I guess the switch exclude the LP, but I can't be sure.

If you like stripboard:
The Electric Brown veroboard layout is here: http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2013/01/devi-ever-electric-brown.html
And the Lets Play (LP) veroboard layout is here: http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2013/01/devi-ever-lp.html

And the Disaster Fuzz is here: http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2012/03/devi-ever-disaster-fuzz-krackle-fuzz.html

 

[ninemag]

Thanks for those!
noob question about he DF layout... I’m not clear on how the in/out and pots are routed? Am I missing something? I’ve read about this circuit only working along side another... is like to be able to have this solo-
Thanks!

 

[Mcknib]

In and out and pots info is in the layout notes bottom left

So board in goes to control lug 2 with lugs 1 and 3 to the board (green wires)

Volume lug 2 is board output 1 goes to ground and 3 to board (blue wire)

Basically you just attach your in and out wires to the pot lugs indicated

Just in case you don't know, pot lugs are numbered like this

You can build and use it as a stand alone pedal

Have you built on vero before?

 

[ninemag]

Thanks- first build on vero. I was able to get it built and woring... only had a bag of A100k pots, no clue where all my lin pots went. Hopefully it doesn’t change the sound too much

 

[Mcknib]

Great, that was quick! I was just going to say soldering on vero was a wee bit different with no solder mask it flows and pools a lot faster

Log pots will work, the range will just be different over the pot rotation more gradual I think

The control pot just looks like it alters signal input ie turn it up it lets more signal in and down dumps more to ground via the 1K resistor like a pre gain type thing, volume's basically the same up let's more signal out to your amp down dumps more to ground

Both are wired as voltage dividers

 

[ninemag]

I socketed it to try diff transistors- id like to make it a bit more aggressive and maybe a little more present in the lower end- not sure if the krackle is correct, almost like an oscillator that come through when playing stops. Never played the actual DE pedal. I’ve been etching pcbs, toner transfer- this was super fun! Ordered a bunch more srtip
Board lol

 

[ninemag]

Also used a small scrap of vero to make a simple ground buss, so I could get it loud before I committed to an enclosure

 

[Mcknib]

So you know what you're doing then, I took it you were a complete beginner hence my unsure ' just in case' bit with pot lugs!

The krackle is an oscillator mode so it's defo correct

This guy does a good review

Devi Ever: Disaster Fuzz Review

If you want a Big Muff or Fuzz Face clone to play Hendrix or ZZ Top with this isn't for...

www.ultimate-guitar.com

 

[ninemag]

Thanks- are these safe with a standard dc adapter? Curious about the npn/pnp polarity

 

[Mcknib]

Looks like a standard +9v so yeah centre negative standard boss type

 

[ninemag]

Thanks !!!!