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On a Saturday evening, I found myself losing all grip on reality, my mind deteriorating from watching Downtown Abbey with my engrossed wife. My right arm was completely numb from her leaning into me with all her weight despite the presence of many perfectly good couch cushions. In my left arm was salvation; the Super 70’s Drive PCB and a printout of its build document.
According to Barry, the circuit fits easily in a 1590DD. Perhaps it was third glass of prosecco or the searing boredom, but I asked myself, why not a 125B? Figuring out how to cram the whole thing in couldn’t be any more painful than watching dry English drama with my beloved, right?
LOL, you get a 10 for cramming. Holy Cows.
Now where others may be missing the point is that would actually be a great DeskTop pedal for going straight to your DAW because you get 3 killer circuits in a 125B size. If you think about it that is pretty dang good when desktop real estate is so valuable.
I mean you cannot share your Ratt with a Mouse.
Thanks for sharing!
here i am with this Atari sized enclosure and a blank super 70s drive pcb and can’t get this image out of my head. omg, this is wonderful, man. i’m quite the novice and following the kiss method, but this is inspiring. cheers, man!
did you use the shrimp-o-matic 5000 shrink ray to get it all to fit?
very nicely done!
Thanks for the comments! I am a novice myself and only started making pedals a year ago. As Barry mentioned, real estate is valuable whether it’s your desktop or pedal board.
It is not too difficult to fit this into a 125B but your options in terms of layout and component placement is limited. What I found to be extremely useful was the use of 22 AWG solid core hook up wire. You can bend it any way you want and stays in place. It is also strong enough to support the weight of any pots or switches it is soldered to so when a component is bent into place, it won’t move. So it really was a matter of measuring twice, swearing once, and popping the whole thing in.
I may want to try this again with 9mm PCB mount potentiometers
Impressive! Especially with only one working arm… :-p
I also love to use solid copper wire as well. You can easily make the wiring neat and/or artistic, and it holds everything in place super securely. Nice cramming man!
Beast mode activated!
Glad to hear you talking about solid core wire. I’ve used it on my guitars for a long time and it’s so easy to work with. I’m still pretty much a pedal makin’ noob myself and had seen elsewhere on the webz where other pedal makers were hesitant to use it out of fear of breakage, which didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.
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