The Enchanted Boost bread

OD is Glorious

OD is Glorious

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What I’m wondering is if there’s anyone on here who has time to breadboard the PedalPCB Enchanted Boost and take a picture of it. I really like the circuit and I’ve spent hours trying to figure out what happens when I get to the transistor. I was only able to successfully breadboard a Boost pedal from watching a YouTube video. Thanks much for considering if you did.
 
JHS has a series of videos on the LPB-1 and Electra circuit, which are similar to this. They go in depth about tweaks to the circuit and are enjoyable to watch. It's on their "Short Circuit" playlist
 
i would but i’m about 4.9 thousand miles from my workbench atm.

i’ve got a tip for ya though, look up the pinouts for the BS170 and carefully examine where these are located.

S - goes to ground
G - goes to vol, pin 1 (and x3 other components)
D - goes to a resistor tied to Vcc (and x2 other components)

you can do it 💪🏻
 
falco_femoralis said:
JHS has a series of videos on the LPB-1 and Electra circuit, which are similar to this. They go in depth about tweaks to the circuit and are enjoyable to watch. It's on their "Short Circuit" playlist
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Thanks, that is the one I followed and I was able to successfully build it watching JHS. This transistor seems to do something else because no matter how much I messed with it I couldn’t get anything to happen once I got to the transistor.
 
owlexifry said:
i would but i’m about 4.9 thousand miles from my workbench atm.

i’ve got a tip for ya though, look up the pinouts for the BS170 and carefully examine where these are located.

S - goes to ground
G - goes to vol, pin 1 (and x3 other components)
D - goes to a resistor tied to Vcc (and x2 other components)

you can do it 💪🏻
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Thanks for that. Guitar guitar players used to turn around when they played a tricky lead because they didn’t want anyone to steal their licks. I’m trying to steal some licks.
 
Sometimes parts are bad, and sometimes the breadboard tracks can wear out and not connect to your part leg well. You can test those two possibilities if you have extra parts or extra space on the breadboard. In my experience, it usually comes down to a mistake I made though.

You could post your pic and see if anyone case spot anything. Also could Check for the voltage level on the D and G.
 
phi1 said:
Sometimes parts are bad, and sometimes the breadboard tracks can wear out and not connect to your part leg well. You can test those two possibilities if you have extra parts or extra space on the breadboard. In my experience, it usually comes down to a mistake I made though.

You could post your pic and see if anyone case spot anything. Also could Check for the voltage level on the D and G.
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Thanks. It is a new board, but from jamming potentiometers and toggles into it. I may have worn out a couple things I’m on the road to Nashville at the moment but when I get back… I’d really like to play with this circuit like changing caps maybe adding a clipping stage? When I look at this schematic, it has two separate parts. I should probably just take that wampler course?
 
Guardians of the analog said:
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There are no shortcuts in learning, simply have to put the work in. It's takes time and patience. I still don't know shit about fuck🤷
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I’m aware. Seling pedals is just a byproduct of making pedals. But most of them are gifted to my friends. I’m on my way to Nashville right now with some pedals that I built for my friend who is a producer there. I have the kids at the local music stores test them out for a week and when they tell me they like when I tell them they can keep it. I’m just gonna keep making them and I can’t keep them all. They are a beautiful byproduct of the hobby and they’re just painted by numbers at this point. The creativity is in whatever I do for the graphics or the parts I choose. I just hope to understand this one beautiful circuit that I loved. I don’t intend to go to night school to learn, but I’ll just keep poking wires into this brieadboard until I figure it out. Lol I don’t know shit about shit, but I’m gonna learn shit by doing shit.
Edit; I talk to text, especially when I’m driving
 
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Breadboarding isn't hard. You just have to do it and think a bit differently than "solder by number". There's a bit of a puzzle involved. For a simple SHO it won't be difficult. There are tons of pics in the Test Kitchen to go from schematic to breadboard. It's a good skill to learn if you're the "good" kind of tweaker.
 
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