Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
We always recommend trying the boards out before soldering everything in to the enclosure. Main reason being that if you have an error on your build, it’s about a hundred times harder to find it inside the otherwise finished build. Like Madbean says – Build it, Rock it, Box it. There is a reason for … Read more
This question comes up frequently and many of the articles you read about it online can be a little difficult to get your head around sometimes, so I thought I’d just do a short write up on negative and positive ground effects and the problems associated with mixing them. I am writing this in a … Read more
Part 2 of the component guide by Miro, this time looking at active components. A good read particularly for someone new to the hobby may have a lot of his questions answered. Part One | Part Two Builder’s components, part two – Active components Good day to you all. This article here is the part two … Read more
From Schematic to Stripboard September 2012 © http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com Updated 23rd September 2012 A lot of people have asked me if I could do a guide to show the methods I use to convert a schematic to a layout so I thought it was about time I came up with one. I’ve always been of the … Read more
I thought that some sort of debugging guide would be a useful addition to the blog. I get a lot of requests about non-working builds and always have basically the same answers, so this is a first port of call for anyone having problems. The build I’m using in this guide for simplicity is an … Read more
A number of people have asked me to do a build guide for one of these effects, but I noticed the other day that one of the guys here (timmy) had already done a very nice one which was posted on the Ultimate Guitar forum, so I asked Tim whether we could use it here … Read more
A few people have commented on posts asking about offboard wiring. I use a daisy chained power supply, so for things I build for myself I rarely include a battery snap unless it’s a positive ground effect which can’t be daisy chained with more common negative ground pedals. This should help people who may be … Read more