The Iron Man - A £5 PCB make your own version of a SS/BS Mini £5 Leeds

[LukeFRC]

Short version:

A PCB with a circuit like a Smallsound/Bigsound Mini ... which is itself very like the Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop  in terms of circuit if nothing else...

I have 9 8 7 6 3 of them up for grabs

 

For sale posted to your door in the UK for the price of a pint!

(My pints are £5 from Amity brewery down the hill in Farsley)

 

 

Long version:

Years back I got into building pedals, then sold them all and forgot it. Then I got into it again.
Sometime in 2022 I tried to make my own PCB. It was an utter disaster of a process let down by me not planning ahead... fast forward a bit and I get a load of premade PCB from PedalPCB and other places, build more stuff and learn more... One of the ones I made was a Barbershop overdrive clone - I loved it - Mild JFet overdrive is my happy place. The Barbershop sounded a lot like Beta pedal without the Beta's baked in bass boost... A barbershop with EQ would be cool I thought... "look for a SS/BS Mini" someone on talkbass said... well I couldn't afford that but I found someone else layout and figured I could make my own - but redesign the PCB to fit in a 1590b... 
Which would get me a pedal I wanted to try AND tick the "successfully design a PCB" item off the bucket list.... 
I almost did it .... 
So it's not a perfect, there's two traces missing that you have to do manually... and if you've never made a pedal before JFETs aren't like ICs that are plug and go... and fitting it in a 1590a is not the easiest thing you will have done with your life... and I'm not offering support beyond the build doc (and being a nice guy) But if you've built the odd pedal before none of this should be a problem... 

 

There is a build document here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tmyy3kRHbvgvlTAjUWAN9k2UuxKYZ2yRWj447h42MhM/edit?usp=sharing 

I am not sending you anything till you've looked at the build document and understand what you'll get  -

 

If you want to build your first pedal pick a Aion Electronics or PedalPCB kit from Musikding,

If you want a SS/BS Mini pre built buy one - or a Noise Space Audio Piggy , I did get asked if I would build these up and sell them... it's not something I'ld be massively keen on...
So I figured sell them, price of a pint including UK postage. 

I have 10 PCB, and @jimbobothy is having one of them for his first pedal build - so that leaves 9 9 8 7 6 3 left if anyone wants them. 

Edited May 9 by LukeFRC

[LukeFRC]

some of my build shots.... 

 

[LukeFRC]

Homage to Ted Hughes on the PCB too... it seemed cool at the time!

Edited February 25 by LukeFRC

[LukeFRC]

 

 

Someone asked me for clips of my MiniXO - while I had everything setup  I made some soundclips of it too ....

Edited February 25 by LukeFRC

[LukeFRC]

Oddly enough, I like it low gain in barbershop type territory, but it feels more alive than the barbershop clone I made. 

Edited February 25 by LukeFRC

[LukeFRC]

I may have gone a bit overboard on the caveats!  

[tauzero]

Partly populated the board and looking at ordering in some pots. I just wanted to check - for the 1M bass pot, is the C taper an anti-log taper?

[LukeFRC]

27 minutes ago, tauzero said:

Partly populated the board and looking at ordering in some pots. I just wanted to check - for the 1M bass pot, is the C taper an anti-log taper?

correct

 

one of these https://www.musikding.de/Alpha-pot-angled-pc-mount-1M-rev-log 

[warwickhunt]

Well that was an expensive 'click'!    

 

I now have to go off and buy that book as my wife never read it as a child.  However, hats off to you Luke that your circuit board will cost less than the 2nd hand book!  LOL

[LukeFRC]

btw I've added Musikding references the the BOM ... obviously other caps and suppliers exist. Red is not in stock currently

[LukeFRC]

If anyone would be interested in a PCB with a kit of parts, drop me a line. 

[LukeFRC]

(everything you would need to make the above except wire, solder, time and stamps. Knobs probably different style. Enclosure could be drilled for you too) 

[LukeFRC]

3 left. Making a few up myself as ppl have asked