Death by Audio - Echo Master (gut shots)
Hi guys,
I have bought this and I am really curious to better understand how it works.
just dismounted but I don't have the skills to track it down.
I am sure someone will have the knowledge!
Anyhow hopefully someone will just find the gut shots interesting
cheers
I have bought this and I am really curious to better understand how it works.
just dismounted but I don't have the skills to track it down.
I am sure someone will have the knowledge!
Anyhow hopefully someone will just find the gut shots interesting
cheers
- Dirk_Hendrik
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Thanks for this set of photos showing a fascinating set of mixed signals.
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I may take some time for this to get traced, but the only way to guarantee this is to use the attachment function.
Thanks still
Thanks still
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Using plated thru-hole slots would increase reliability in a big way. in well-featured layout tools, it is a simple dialog window assignment in the pad stack. Great purple solder mask.
"Quality" DBA solder job, as usual.
- thetragichero
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that was my first thought as well... yikes!basicchannel wrote:"Quality" DBA solder job, as usual.
dig the pot labeling
- Dirk_Hendrik
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It may be me but I fail to see which slot's you're referring to.mookyj wrote:Using plated thru-hole slots would increase reliability in a big way.
The whole board shows the job from someone who learned to use the tool but has limited electronics knowledge.
- Ice-9
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The thing that I see first is the wrong type of pot mounting, long legged pots shoved through the solder pads by about half an inch.
It's fairly straight forward, if you want to start it , press start. You can work out the rest of the controls for yourself !
No silicon heaven ? preposterous ! Where would all the calculators go ?
No silicon heaven ? preposterous ! Where would all the calculators go ?
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... Define wrong. That's the difficult one. If the device works, can one conclude the design is good?
So, in general, the aim for a decent PCB design is to place all parts and connections in the most optimal way. After taking that into account this aim is immediately challenged by all other constraints that interfere. Jack positions, pot positions, non-optimal pin layout of parts... name em. That's where the challenge starts and the fun for the layouter begins. However it also means that the layouter is free to rearrange all other parts for the most optimal placement. What does not fit in such an arrangement, which is completely evident in this board, is that the layouter considers it more important to place all parts in an even spacing or ensures the rotation of all polarized parts it the same. The time pick and place machines placed in grid are far behind us and the polarization thing comes from the time boards were manually populated. Its' almost 2020 gents. Not 1985. The idea that "it looks nice" must prevail over optimization of the design is just plain odd. It's engineering, not free art.
Similar, when done (all is connected n an optimal way) spend some time doing design optimization. As an example look at R13 and wonder how the layout is simplified around that part if it were rotated 180 degrees. Just as well the copper polygons are full of open areas which could have been filled by moving traces a little bit or adding some stitching vias. Five minutes of work for better shielding and less chemical waste. To name a few.
But yes, the purple is nice indeed
So, in general, the aim for a decent PCB design is to place all parts and connections in the most optimal way. After taking that into account this aim is immediately challenged by all other constraints that interfere. Jack positions, pot positions, non-optimal pin layout of parts... name em. That's where the challenge starts and the fun for the layouter begins. However it also means that the layouter is free to rearrange all other parts for the most optimal placement. What does not fit in such an arrangement, which is completely evident in this board, is that the layouter considers it more important to place all parts in an even spacing or ensures the rotation of all polarized parts it the same. The time pick and place machines placed in grid are far behind us and the polarization thing comes from the time boards were manually populated. Its' almost 2020 gents. Not 1985. The idea that "it looks nice" must prevail over optimization of the design is just plain odd. It's engineering, not free art.
Similar, when done (all is connected n an optimal way) spend some time doing design optimization. As an example look at R13 and wonder how the layout is simplified around that part if it were rotated 180 degrees. Just as well the copper polygons are full of open areas which could have been filled by moving traces a little bit or adding some stitching vias. Five minutes of work for better shielding and less chemical waste. To name a few.
But yes, the purple is nice indeed
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slots instead of the oversized holes for the potsDirk_Hendrik wrote:It may be me but I fail to see which slot's you're referring to.mookyj wrote:Using plated thru-hole slots would increase reliability in a big way.
The whole board shows the job from someone who learned to use the tool but has limited electronics knowledge.
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I don't think it is "plain odd" when everything (pedals too, but let's not start about guitars!) are sold on instagram or facebook. There is even some fetishism about gut shot with the facebook pedal builders...Dirk_Hendrik wrote:Its' almost 2020 gents. Not 1985. The idea that "it looks nice" must prevail over optimization of the design is just plain odd.
we are so old:
2004: start of facebook
2005: start of youtube
2007: start of freestompboxes
2010: start of instagram
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Lets define right rather than wrong and more specifically attention to detail when designing anything, you should use the correct part that the thing was designed around or design the pcb for the part you want to use. In this case while it doesn't stop the thing from working the potentiometers used are long legged parts pushed through oversized hole with poor soldering /pad design, they didn't even trim the leg length off. A good solder joint isn't about filling a hole full of solder for an incorrect component. This is also a thing seen often with many big name pedals when using 3PDT footswitches with 3mm round solder holes to fill.Dirk_Hendrik wrote:... Define wrong. That's the difficult one. If the device works, can one conclude the design is good?
So, in general, the aim for a decent PCB design is to place all parts and connections in the most optimal way. After taking that into account this aim is immediately challenged by all other constraints that interfere. Jack positions, pot positions, non-optimal pin layout of parts... name em. That's where the challenge starts and the fun for the layouter begins. However it also means that the layouter is free to rearrange all other parts for the most optimal placement. What does not fit in such an arrangement, which is completely evident in this board, is that the layouter considers it more important to place all parts in an even spacing or ensures the rotation of all polarized parts it the same. The time pick and place machines placed in grid are far behind us and the polarization thing comes from the time boards were manually populated. Its' almost 2020 gents. Not 1985. The idea that "it looks nice" must prevail over optimization of the design is just plain odd. It's engineering, not free art.
Similar, when done (all is connected n an optimal way) spend some time doing design optimization. As an example look at R13 and wonder how the layout is simplified around that part if it were rotated 180 degrees. Just as well the copper polygons are full of open areas which could have been filled by moving traces a little bit or adding some stitching vias. Five minutes of work for better shielding and less chemical waste. To name a few.
But yes, the purple is nice indeed
R13 like you mention could be so easily routed better like most of the components, it looks quite auto routed rather than having just a quick human eye over the routing which would also explain the pot pads being oversized from a predefined pattern. Routing is nasty.
It's fairly straight forward, if you want to start it , press start. You can work out the rest of the controls for yourself !
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if someone could trace this and draw a layout that would be just swell.
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The basis is basically a Rebote/PT80 delay, one of the oldest DIY echo circuits aroundathdimitris wrote: ↑22 Jan 2020, 15:37 if someone could trace this and draw a layout that would be just swell.
There is a schematic of the DBA Echo Dream 2
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Reviving an old threat here. Even through this was identified as a rebote delay... how would you go on about the mic preamp, send/return and output sections?
Would be great to have a starting point. I guess there is at least some gain staging and impedance matching involved.
Would be great to have a starting point. I guess there is at least some gain staging and impedance matching involved.
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Agree! It could be cool to expand the concept and make a seperate interfacing box for guitar pedals of all sorts for vocals.seele wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 08:44 Reviving an old threat here. Even through this was identified as a remote delay... how would you go on about the mic preamp, send/return and output sections?
Would be great to have a starting point. I guess there is at least some gain staging and impedance matching involved.
- Visualdistortion
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- Visualdistortion
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So it'is my first attempt ever to trace a schematic, it was long!
Maybe I can be wrong but if you have some modification, I can check them!
Schematic updated
Maybe I can be wrong but if you have some modification, I can check them!
Schematic updated
Last edited by Visualdistortion on 11 Jun 2023, 17:41, edited 1 time in total.
I wanna make it
I wanna make it wit chu
(again and again and again)
French... sorry
I wanna make it wit chu
(again and again and again)
French... sorry