Moonn Muff Mess & Lo Fran

[Fuzzonaut]

Two things from Moonn.

The MUFF MESS has two LM386 opamps (replacing Q1, Q2 and Q4) and a transistor (Q3), doing the muff thing with a pair of GE diodes.
It has its own flavour and sounds pretty good, also on bass.
It was a bit noisy on higher Sustain and bright Tone settings, especially in Havoc mode, so I tried different LM386 (N1, N3), but that didn't change anything.
Then I started trying other transistors (BOM calls for a 2N5088), going down in hFe. 2N3904 was a bit better, 2N2222A (metal can) was really good and then I tried an AC127 ... and left it.
Tried a "plain look" on a colored enclosure for a change ... not too thrilled with the result, at least in "bright light conditions", but it's fine.



And another LO-FRAN (Frantone Lo Tone). I already built one of those and love it. There is so much bass on tab, it's ridicolous. I'm not sure, if I actually ordered this PCB again or if Nils just sent it as a freebie. Doesn't matter though. As for the GE diodes, I used some of the funky Mullard ones (CV 7049) I have lying around, just because.
Graphics are an taken from a Swans concert poster (part of it).

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

I love seeing more lofrans, even if you already have one. It's just back up thiccnass.

 

[VanWhy]

I really like the Moonn stuff from what I see on the site. But not having drill templates is discouraging. Are you measuring everything out for drilling or are you using templates?

 

[Fuzzonaut]

I really like the Moonn stuff from what I see on the site. But not having drill templates is discouraging. Are you measuring everything out for drilling or are you using templates?

I always measure things on a PCB, it's part of my workflow, either to double check a drill template or to even have one, like with Moonn.

No big deal?

 

[jwin615]

I always measure things on a PCB, it's part of my workflow, either to double check a drill template or to even have one, like with Moonn.

No big deal?

do you go center pin to center pin then offset or have some other trickery?

 

[Erik S]

do you go center pin to center pin then offset or have some other trickery?

I’ve never laid out an enclosure manually from measuring a board either. Sounds like a pain! Now that I’m thinking about it I guess I could figure out how to do it, but it seems like the chances I would make an error and Bork an enclosure would go up.

 

[Fuzzonaut]

do you go center pin to center pin then offset or have some other trickery?

No trickery involved.
I measure the distance between the pots/switches. Point of reference can be whatever, pin 1 or center pin for example.
Then I put those numbers into the "coordinate system" of the template size of the enclosure (125B, BB, JJ).

Take the Muff Mess for an example, (it's 125B, so 62x118mm): measuring takes like 20 seconds.
x axis: distance between sustain/havoc and volume/tone is 33mm
y axis: distance between sustain/volume and havoc/tone is 33mm
Which leads to this, circled numbers are coordinates:


Edit: I'll add that I have templates with "drill points" ready for all enclosure sizes in Photoshop, so I can just place those drilling points into the right spots for the project at hand and am ready to go. The Muff Mess was made within 3 minutes I'd say.