Engineer's Thumb #2 -- paging stecykmi!

[midwayfair]

It fits!

Not too long ago I posted this thread with a call to fill a box that I had already drilled ...
http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=5790.0

stecykmi suggested the Engineer's Thumb but we both realized that the etch and my previous perfboard layout (if you can call it a layout ... that one was done pretty much on the fly from the schematic before I discovered DIY Layout Creator) were too big. Then he suggested the Dr. Quack. Well ... Nurse Quacky was on my build list, and I decided that I was still going to want to do a 1590A build for my next envelope filter, so I was determined to make a layout of the Engineer's Thumb that would fit in the box. Took a few tries and a few jumpers, but I got it pretty darned small. For anyone interested in my layout, you can view it here: http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=97123.msg864545#msg864545

And since stecykmi used his 500th post to celebrate his victory, I had planned on using my 500th post on this build report. Instead I ended up commenting in a damn Klon thread. Sighhhhhh.

This is my second Engineer's Thumb (MerlinB's compressor). I built this one with the stock ratio pot value (1M), though I still think that anything over 500K is overkill in this circuit.




I did have to cut up the perf a little to accommodate the toggle. Obviously it would have been preferable to have the board oriented 90o ccw, so that the hookup wires were facing the right direction.

That was my last 1776 Effects 3PDT board. I'll probably pick up a Rub-A-Dub when I restock. I haven't had much interest in building a Reverb for guitar use, but I'm thinking of making a vocal effects board, and I like the sound of the Rub-A-Dub. I was trying to hold out for the new delay, though.

I've actually got a bunch of stuff done but not boxed. I've got a Bumblebee, Honeybee, Cupcake, and Bosstone all fighting over the two 1590A boxes I have left. Not sure I'm actually going to box up the Bosstone, though.

[nzCdog]

I lol'd.  So this sounds like a Klon then?  Nice layout.
Is there about to be a thumb chopped in that painting?  Sux to be that guy

[nzCdog]

and congrats on 500 posts Jon woo! 

[gtr2]

haha

That paintings great 

Yeah, unfortunately.  I'm looking at an October release for the multiplex.

Josh

[stecykmi]

your builds are always boss, jon. i got your pcb in the mail a couple days ago, i'll do a build report when i get it boxed up.

i also started building a perfboard nurse quacky / dr quack hybrid (taking the best features from each, attack control, input buffer, etc). i may add an output buffer too if i can fit it on the board.

[midwayfair]

your builds are always boss, jon. i got your pcb in the mail a couple days ago, i'll do a build report when i get it boxed up.

i also started building a perfboard nurse quacky / dr quack hybrid (taking the best features from each, attack control, input buffer, etc). i may add an output buffer too if i can fit it on the board.

Cool, looking forward to the hybrid (and the Biscuit!). Might give me some inspiration if I haven't finished mine by then.

Thanks for the kind words, guys.