Rocket Booster
Welcome to my new blog through which I will take you with me on my journey to create my first DIY guitar pedal. My motivation was, to learn a bit about electronics. While I already have a good understanding of simple electronics and theoretically know what a transistor, capacitor or resistor does, I always felt totally lost, when it got practical or I tried to understand what these electronic components do in a schematic – especially if it is an audio schematic. To overcome these shortcomings, I followed a tutorial I found on barbarach.com on how to build a clone of the LPB-1 pedal , a simple boost pedal, which works as a simple signal amplifier. To make things more thorough, I wanted to make my custom etched PCB and electricity etched Aluminium housing. Breadboard prototype Before I started to design my PCB, I made a simple breadboard prototype: PCB Layout I then continued with DIYLC to create my first PCB layout: After some hours shifting things in Adobe Illustrator I was able to g...