Quality of guitarpcbmania pcbs?

[comradehoser]

I built the DAM meathead clone (meh as specced, needed a gainier transistor), and the Sunn beta, which is a HELL of a pedal when I finally got it going after the version 1 révisions and workarounds. I liked the sound of TL072s much more than the stock RC4558s, especially in the clean range--it's not the "Orthodox" sound, but I'm okay with that, and the switch from bass to lead [edit for clarity: the toggle switch between lead and bass] versions is pretty nifty.

Love their selections, but they seem to push things out without enough QC and testing. Very happy so far with all of my ppcb builds, and this forum is really the shiznit. (You don't want to know how many ppcb boards i ordered over the holidays).

 

[mcluff]

UPDATE: Their King Centaur now works after they discovered an error (bad resistor values) in their build docs.

 

[comradehoser]

Yeah, that is the type of thing that seems to be a not uncommon thing at pcbgm, and indicative of lack of attention to testing out things. Not so much a problem to buy a new PCB, but VERY frustrating to troubleshoot.

 

[micmac]

Hi all,

I just boxed up a Vandal From Hell from them recently and I love it, it's brutal (once you boost its input a bit). Small nitpick, you need to bend one resistor a tiny bit to have enough space for the 220u cap next to it.

The pedal was a tight fit into the 125b, but now I'm happy that it's nice and small as pedal board real estate is limited for me



Wish you well!
Seb

 

[Riccardo Turacchio]

Hi guys I was going to post a thread about pcb guitar mania but since there's already this thread, I will simply ask here:
I recently received as a gift a board for the Corruption Device(EQD data corrupter clone)
Before I even start to order parts, there's a way this board could actually work or it's a total waste of my time and money??
Mine is purple and I think is version 1v1
I can count 7 ICs (like the pedalPcb version)
Peace

 

[Feral Feline]

Check to see if other people have built one successfully — this forum, other DIY forums such as FSB DIYSB MUFF-WIGGLER, Reddit, musician forums such as Talk Bass, Bass Chat etc...

Compare the PCBGM schematic with PedalPCB's, MadBean's any others you can find.
Socket the ICs — at least that way if it doesn't work you can buy a PPCB board and use them on it...

Only way to know fursherfursher is to try to build it yourself.

 

[leadfoot]

I've only had one PCB guitar mania board that I couldn't get working: The Flaming Ring, which is a DBA Flaming Lips Space Ring. The quality of the boards are definitely suspect and a few just sound nothing like what they're supposed to be a clone of. The build docs are ok-ish but the PCB layout is a little odd and I often found myself going back to the schematic and following traces to make sure I was orienting components correctly.

Chances are the board will more than likely work. At the end of the day, the data corrupter is a pretty straight forward PLL circuit so if it doesn't work, you're really only out a handful of resistors and capacitors and some ic sockets. Then you can buy the PedalPCB version and know that that one will work....