CONTEST What? Another Contest?

[PapaBear]

I don’t have a bread board, so maybe I’ll just socket the entire PCB haha.. is that dumb??

Or socket the areas you plan to experiement

 

[PapaBear]

I don’t have nearly the time to tackle this contest but what a cool idea Chuck! Good luck everyone. Looking forward to seeing the results

Not sure I do either, but I've been planning to get into breadboarding, so I figure even if I don't make the deadline, it'll get me on my way to better understanding circuits

 

[Robert]

I don’t have a bread board, so maybe I’ll just socket the entire PCB haha.. is that dumb??

I joked with a friend about doing this a while back, if you actually do I'd love to see a pic.

 

[thesmokingman]

free hint, you could probably build the wampler plexi drive on a muffin board ... by extension maybe the benson preamp ... box of rock/distortron ... would be interesting to see someone tack on a couple amz mini boost boards and build a bsiabII

 

[fig]

Thank you for a great contest and a great prize!
I've been reading a lot of posts about folks interested in breadboarding, and this would be like learning to drive in a '67 floptop Eldo ....smooth as glass and all the bells and whistles you need.

I had several ideas before bed last night. I was supposed to be populating the Terrarium.
Muffy board order placed, game on!

 

[jimilee]

I don’t have a bread board, so maybe I’ll just socket the entire PCB haha.. is that dumb??

I’ve seen it done before with a madbean muff style board.

 

[Dan M]

Thanks for the contest. I have an idea.

1. Will it work? Probably not. Maybe in bypass.
2. If it does, will it sound good? Not likely
3. Will I injure myself? Possibly
4. Will I have fun? Already am

1 out of 4 isn't bad

 

[Blooze]

Time to breakout the breadboards. I ordered a Muffin board, but curious if I could get a doodle of the board that shows the traces?

 

[jimilee]

Maybe a tube screamer, maybe I could build a tube screamer….

 

[jubal81]

Maybe a tube screamer, maybe I could build a tube screamer….

well.....
You honestly could about do a 'discrete' tubescreamer kinda thing - one stage of feedback clipping.
JFET boost on input, 'muff-ish' stage, jumper the third stage, low-pass filter for tone control and output buffer in 4th stage.

 

[Betty Wont]

I'm looking at a chopped Roland BeeBaa ala the BAT Black Sheep.

 

[fig]

I'm looking at a chopped Roland BeeBaa ala the BAT Black Sheep.

You could call it....The Black Sheep Bat

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

"It's Ozzy Osbourne!"

 

[Paradox916]

I really have no Idea what I’m doing but, but I have already learned a lot and have only been able to work on it for an hour or two... I guess when you don’t know that much it’s easy to learn a lot

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

I'll throw out a broad hint: Any pedal circuit with no ICs and four or fewer transistors is a potential contest entry. Get it working, then worry about how to fit it on the Muffin Board. You can put parts in sideways, put resistors where caps go, install jumpers, stick parts on the backside, it's all fair game. Install as many controls as you like. The winner might have seven pots, it might have zero. The trick is to not over-constrain yourself.

 

[Paradox916]

I'll throw out a broad hint: Any pedal circuit with no ICs and four or fewer transistors is a potential contest entry. Get it working, then worry about how to fit it on the Muffin Board. You can put parts in sideways, put resistors where caps go, install jumpers, stick parts on the backside, it's all fair game. Install as many controls as you like. The winner might have seven pots, it might have zero. The trick is to not over-constrain yourself.

Sweet, that’s kind of how I am attacking it.

 

[fig]

The trick is to not over-constrain yourself.

No problemo I just need to work out how to attach the biofeedback loop into the envelope filter.

 

[BuddytheReow]

No problemo I just need to work out how to attach the biofeedback loop into the envelope filter.

Don't forget your flux capacitor either!

 

[fig]

Call me crazy, but I never have liked flux on my capacitors.

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

No problemo I just need to work out how to attach the biofeedback loop into the envelope filter.

Don't laugh! When I took a class in Electronic Music in college, the professor had composed a piece of music where part of the synth control came from EEG electrodes stuck to his head. Needless to say, it was a trippy piece.

Call me crazy, but I never have liked flux on my capacitors.

We always call you crazy.