Friday, 13 August 2021

Abasi Pathos Distortion

 Turned out a bit big but it will fit in a BB enclosure...

Based on the schematic avaiable at PedalPCB.




17 comments:

  1. Ohhh that’s soooo good …. At the next month I will try to build it
    Pathos ( Πάθος ) in Greek mean passion .. :)

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  2. Hi Fuzzhead, I checked the layout with the schem an found a few mistakes:
    - From VCC there should be 2 100µf in // to gnd (maybe you omitted the 2nd intentionaly, may be worth replacing by 1 220µf for better filtering ?)
    - You inverted R10 and C9 before IC3.2
    - You linked IC2.2 pins 5 and 6 whereas they are not connected on the schem
    Otherwise great layout as usual, hard to make it smaller I imagine

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    1. Hey Alltrax!
      There are two 100uF caps across VCC and ground; one is is the horizontal one a row B. The other one is just left to pin 1 of IC3.

      For the inverted cap and resistor at IC2....it doesn't matter. It is inverted just for the flow of the layout and keep thing compact as possible.

      Fo pin 5 and 6 at IC2....I can't see that they are linked together?:-/

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    2. (1) and (2) right, but you have a double link under IC3 on your layout connecting pins 5 and 6, which corresponds if i'm right to IC2.2 on the schem where the same pins are not connected

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    3. Gotcha! Double link is now removed.
      Thanks for taking a look, Denis!

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    4. Glad I checked the comments! I'm building this one now and will have to go back and remove the double link from under the IC. I'll report back later once I finish it!

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    5. hey Chris! Don't forget to move the top leg of the 470k resistor left to IC3 down one row. It is now a 3 row resistor....

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    6. Yep, should be good to go now, thanks.
      @Chris, please report back once built :)

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    7. SIr the 470k res you mentioned here is the res below right side of ic2?

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  3. Got it built up and the signal is getting cut off somewhere before making it to the output. I can hear that the volume pot is working but no sound. Going to try and debug this in the morning after I get some rest.

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    1. Spoke too soon - builder error. I had a jumper going from under IC2 to the wrong row. Found it. Fixed it. You should tag this as verified. I watched a couple demos of the original and I think this does the trick!

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    2. Awesome Chris! Much appreciated. Tagged.

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    3. That's great, so how do you like it ? Any squeal issue ?

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    4. When you max everything, it wants to feedback but doesn't quite get there. Output is a tad bit on the low side for me. I'm building this for a friend who plays in power violence/hardcore band, so I'm going to add a switchable boost of some kind in order to bring the noise if needed. Thanks again for the notes on the link and the 470k resistor, guys!

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  4. Fyi this is the pedalpcb schematic. Traced from my own pathos. Its the wampler triple wreck with a capacitor changed.

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    1. Cool. I'll have to try it on my Triple Wreck. It has a 1nf where the 330pf in the middle right is on this one. More/less mids?

      I see another difference on the Pedalpcb schematics. The 6.8k on the bottom left here is a 470k on the TW, as are all the other VREF resistors.

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