drgonzo1969
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I have taken the plunge into vero board and have been delving through dirtboxlayouts.blogspot.com and tagboardeffects.blogspot.com. What are some other sources for vero board layouts?
Vero board Layouts sources?
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temol
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SillyOctpuss
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Edit - lol that'll teach me to read the OP properly.
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mkstewartesq
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BuddytheReow
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Just be careful going down the vero route. Since boards are so cheap you’ll probably make 48263859372636 circuits and never put them in enclosures. At least that’s what happened to me. After a year I started cannibalizing them for parts (mostly ICs, sockets, and pots)
SillyOctpuss
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Me too
drgonzo1969
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that's kinda the plan hahaha i will box em up eventually.... until then.... all guts no glory! or something like that
jimilee
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The next step is learning to etch your own boards. Then you can add to that number. MH. I have so many builds around here, it’s ridiculous.
drgonzo1969
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I think I am going to try turret board next. still looking for a good source for those. I've got about 8 projects going on vero right now. i just need to order a few components to finish them. Amplified parts has some reasonably priced turret board. is this the best stuff to start building turret board pedals with? any other suggestions?
andare
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I recommend their pseudo eyelet boards instead. Easier to solder to and lighter. They already come with mounting holes and they are sized for 125b, 1590bb boxes.
I use them in my fuzz builds. Easy to make your own layouts. Look at my Fuzzrite build reports for an example.
Of course turrets have the benefit of a hollow shaft but I find eyelet boards more practical and they still look vintage.
Another option is tag boards. You can solder multiple components more easily and the central hole is great for jumpers rather than cramming 8 leads in one eyelet.
drgonzo1969
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excellent! Thanks for the info.
Oh I always put them in a box. It's just that I do tend to take them out again for different circuits if I don't like them.
One thing I love about Vero is designing my own layouts. At first I thought there's no way I could do that. Then gradually I'd start modifying them and eventually designing them from scratch. I admire the amount of work Mark at Tagboard Layouts has done but I don't like stretching box caps over 5 rows or having the gain pot wires coming from all over the board. Often it's surprisingly easy to make the boards a fair bit simpler.
Also I'm not obsessed with making the board as small as possible. I'm happy to make them all 19 rows wide because that fits into a 1590B fine, and the extra width can look neater than a narrower board.
PCB is fantastic if you don't plan on any modifications. It's the neatest solution and the fastest to build, and better than Vero for larger circuits. I guess I use Vero the way some folks use a breadboard.
I have quite a collection of Vero layouts, mainly fuzz and overdrive. Lemme know if there's something in particular you're chasing - I might have it.
drgonzo1969
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What are your favorite fuzz’s you’ve done on Vero so far? I’m really just exploring circuits I’ve been curious about but couldn’t find from PPCB.
https://vero-p2p.blogspot.com is forum member andy-h-h's vero and tagboard layout blog. He does his research and goes in depth with a lot of testing. I'm a big time Dirtboxlayouts builder too.
I quite like the Baby Blue Overdrive - it's a quite fuzzy overdrive. It didn't make sense until I tried it with a Les Paul and it works really well then.
My favourite of all the Tonebenders is easily the Marshall Supafuzz. I'm sure you could build one on a Tonebender PCB because the originals were made by Solasound for Marshall with just a few bigger caps. PedalPCB do a board for the Scarab Deluxe by Basic Audio which is killer, but I like theFuzzdog Pitbull a bit better - it's not a Scarab Dlx but based on the same principle. It has a different tone which I happen to like. I haven't checked to see if it could be built using the PedalPCB board but I can post the Vero if not.
I really like the Brian May Boost Deluxe. Not a Fuzz, more a treble booster but a great sounding one:
Other than that they're mostly available as PCBs right here. The Skreddy Big Muffs are all generally excellent - the P19 is available here and is a great Muff variant.
drgonzo1969
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I am going through the fuzzhead fx stuff right now. I think that is his own designs. They all seem like really cool versions of the circuits they are borrowing from. He does longer descriptions for those too which is maybe why they seem more interesting. but ya i have been blasting full steam ahead through some dirtboxlayouts. I have a Deadend fx Hooke(spaceman Orion) that wasnt working but im just gonna pull the parts off that board and do the vero layout without the momentary switching. Now i can fit that reverb in a much smaller enclosure.
drgonzo1969
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NIce! I will give the Baby Blue and Brian may boost a try. The big muff variant section on dirtboxlayouts is insane. talk about option paralysis haha. I have an op-amp muff so I want to check out some of the other variations.
owlexifry
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same here.
vero is pretty much the main reason i haven't even bothered playing with a breadboard yet.
i get that breadboard allows for quick easy modifications, but I haven't really felt compelled to mess with a circuit so intensely that i couldn't easily do it with a vero layout/build.
The Muffs which use four transistors are generally a much better sound (IMHO) than the op-amp Muffs. The Russian Black is a good one but it really is worth trying some of the Skreddys. And using lower gain transistors can sound great too. A lot of Muffs call for 2N5088s and they sound cool, but building the same Muff with boring old 2N3904s can make it a smoother sound.
The Skreddy Supa Tone is based on the old Colorsound Supa Tone and is a cool variation on Muffs. It has one less clipping stage so is not quite as saturated sounding. As for Skreddy Muffs, I would recommend the P19 and the Pig Mine. Skreddy often includes a midrange switch which can help the sound getting lost in a mix. I'll usually just use the extra mids option. If I have a switch which can add or subtract mids I'll never use the less mids option!
The Skreddy Supa Tone is based on the old Colorsound Supa Tone and is a cool variation on Muffs. It has one less clipping stage so is not quite as saturated sounding. As for Skreddy Muffs, I would recommend the P19 and the Pig Mine. Skreddy often includes a midrange switch which can help the sound getting lost in a mix. I'll usually just use the extra mids option. If I have a switch which can add or subtract mids I'll never use the less mids option!
Feral Feline
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If you want some crazy fuzz and other crazy circuits check out Parasit's vero-stuff.
It's not all crazy, though — Fredrik has some other great vero layouts that are more mainstream circuits.
PS: Also, if you visit the FORUM of tagboard, there are a lot of great layouts that don't show up on the main page. Forum doesn't seem to be working for me right now.
Neither is Aaron Nelson's amazing repository, hmmm.
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I've seen alot of people wanting microcontroller-free relay bypass boards. There's a few designs out there, but most of them seem overly complicated, so I designed this one. It uses two 2N3904 as a...
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It's not all crazy, though — Fredrik has some other great vero layouts that are more mainstream circuits.
PS: Also, if you visit the FORUM of tagboard, there are a lot of great layouts that don't show up on the main page. Forum doesn't seem to be working for me right now.
Neither is Aaron Nelson's amazing repository, hmmm.
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