BluesBaby

This is the first stompbox that I ever made. It's a bluesy overdrive pedal (based on a vintage Marshall BluesBreaker) with gain (red), volume (brown) and tone (white) controls.

Check out some other pictures of the BluesBaby Here.

The board etching and component soldering went well - I used solid core wire for the pots so it was tricky getting the three to go where I needed them. Once I thought I was done, I tested the pedal and was getting no output. I realized I hadn't insulated the pots from the enclosure so the volume pot was grounding out all the time. I put a couple pieces of paper in between them as insulators, and it works great now!

Sound samples coming soon!

All schematics and PCB layout used courtesy of http://www.tonepad.com/