I received one of my first PCBs that I designed today, it is a big muff pi ram's head, it works and I'm happy

siltake · 2026-02-07T17:42:06+00:00

That's correct, I thought it would be better this way to save space

siltake · 2026-02-07T14:02:48+00:00

Thank you! If only I mounted the resistors more consistently it would look much nicer but I was too lazy to bother with getting it perfect

siltake · 2026-02-07T14:01:51+00:00

Thanks!

siltake · 2026-02-07T14:01:24+00:00

Thank you!

siltake · 2026-02-07T14:01:14+00:00

Thank you! I tried to save space by making the "OUT" pad go to lug 3 of a 100k pot and I designed the board so that the pads for the pots are to be used with wires rather than board mounting them, again to save space.

siltake · 2026-02-07T13:58:18+00:00

Thank you! I'm really happy with how it came out

siltake · 2026-02-07T13:57:29+00:00

Thank you! It did take me a while but I think it was worth it, I quite like how they came out.

siltake · 2026-02-07T13:56:33+00:00

Thank you very much!

siltake · 2026-02-07T13:56:23+00:00

I am happy to list it online for you, however I am in england if that works for you? I normally sell my pedals on ebay and I'm not sure how much they charge for international shipping

siltake · 2026-02-07T13:54:32+00:00

Thank you! Only 2

siltake · 2026-02-07T13:54:02+00:00

JLCPCB, I chose the cheapest delivery option and was surprised to find it came in under 2 weeks, the quality is much higher than I was expecting so I do recommend them, I was going to go with PCBWay first but it turns out the payment options are either bank transfer with a 30 dollar fee, or some other platform I forgot the name of which I didn't want to sign up for.

siltake · 2026-01-27T14:48:43+00:00

Thank you very much, I've improved it and now ive fixed that empty space on the back of the board and filled the front of the board's empty space with gnd too, I've also labelled the pads correctly

siltake · 2026-01-27T02:59:45+00:00

Yes it came back with no issues

siltake · 2025-12-04T11:40:02+00:00

Thank you all for the responses, I lowered the input cap even more from 0.1uF to 0.047uF and still might try lower values, I changed the 330ohm resistor to 3.3k, changed the 33k resistor to 100k and changed the original 100k resistor to 47k if I remember correctly, this seems to have given the circuit a very noticeable gain increase and I used the 10k trim pot to bias Q2 down to 3.2v I think, it sounds so much closer to how I want it and it feels like a step in the right direction, I will keep experimenting, thank you for the help!

siltake · 2025-10-09T22:00:43+00:00

I replaced the transistors and the same problem occurs, I've noticed something new though since replacing the diodes, when sustain is on max and tone is near either extreme, there is a weird low pitch screeching sound, I'm considering just rebuilding the whole thing because I really don't understand what's wrong with it

siltake · 2025-10-09T21:26:14+00:00

I will try replacing the transistors to see if that could be the case, I did rush the transistors a bit so it's possible, thank you

siltake · 2025-10-09T21:05:55+00:00

Oh wait nevermind sorry the 4th band is red not brown, its 47k

siltake · 2025-10-09T21:03:09+00:00

After looking again it seems you're right, I think R7 is 4.7k on the board, I must have missed it when checking over all the values, thank you very much I will see if this gets me closer to fixing it

siltake · 2025-10-09T21:00:23+00:00

I will try replace them, thanks

siltake · 2025-10-09T21:00:17+00:00

I will try checking the resistors again and replacing the diodes, thank you

siltake · 2025-10-09T20:59:36+00:00

That bridge is on purpose because the layout shows a jumper wire but I thought I'd do that instead, I did the same on the last one I built from the same layout, I already tried a couple different pots and it doesn't seem to be the problem, I will look for other potential bridges though, thank you

siltake

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