This is a library of perfboard and single-sided PCB effect layouts for guitar and bass. I'm not an electrical engineer by any stretch of the imagination, just a DIY'er who likes drawing layouts. It is meant for the hobbyist (so commercial use of any of these layout is not allowed without permission) and as a way to give back to the online DIY community.

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Earthquaker Devices Tentacle

Had several requests for the Tentacle, but it's just more or less a Dan Armstrong Green Ringer clone. But I had the idea of making a Green Ringer layout with the bypass footswitch board-mounted so we'll just call this layout the Tentacle. Should fit easily in a 1590A. If you'd rather a fabricated PCB to build on, check out the Darkmantle on the store.


13 comments:

  1. Hi, the image to transfer is in the drill templates section. Regards.

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  2. Verified! It works great, it's the second octave that I do!! I have a request, REVV G4 please! Thank you!!!

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  3. Any advice to adapt it for bass?

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  4. Is there a schematic for reference? Thanks in advance!

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    1. http://guitar-fx-layouts.42897.x6.nabble.com/file/n34610/EQD_Tentacle_schem.png

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  5. best replacement for 2N5089?? thanks for the great work!

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    1. Anything medium to high gain hFE should be fine. 2N5088, MPSA18, BC549C etc

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  6. Thank you for the layout! I used it to create a double octave up with selectable Si/Ge clipping diodes in both circuits. Sounds beautiful. In this demo I played an acoustic Martin into a 65 Princeton Reverb: https://youtu.be/1euyGmRCjUA

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  7. Hi, noob question, but there's a 47n capacitor in this schematic that is not in the layout. Is it better to omit it and just go ahead with the layout template?? http://guitar-fx-layouts.42897.x6.nabble.com/file/n34610/EQD_Tentacle_schem.png

    Thanks!

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  8. Try BS170 (same position) or 2N5088 (inverted) in Q2. They sound amazing! Q1-Q3 2N3904.

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    1. Personally, I prefer the 2N5088. But give it a try!

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  9. Hi, it's the third time i try to build it, every time with a different pcb, checked everything, and it doesn't work, just no sound, build it with 2n5087, 2n3906, 2n5088, bc549c every possible combination, changed the 100nf next to q1 for a 47nf ad nothing, i don't know what i'm doing wrong, i even tried out one i found in stripboard, and nothing, and it's not my first build, i've built nearly 10 pedals here, all perfect, this pedal hates me :,v

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    1. I dare say your transistors could die from static during soldering. Google this moment. I have faced this problem myself

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