Roland - AD-50 ( Double Beat )  [schematic]

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Schematics have been at GEOFEX for a long time.

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R.G. wrote:Schematics have been at GEOFEX for a long time.
I couldnt find them at GEOFEX ...I mus have looked in the wrong place...but I found what I assume is your schematic at Free Info Society. If you post the link to your site, I'll remove this one....

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/electron ... lebeat.pdf

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has anyone found a layout for the fuzz section of this design? i recently heard a clip and it's a beast!
if none is found, i could try and do a vero-

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RnFR wrote:has anyone found a layout for the fuzz section of this design? i recently heard a clip and it's a beast!
if none is found, i could try and do a vero-

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I've been looking around for a layout but I think this is going to be my first attempt at designing a PCB. Ambitious I think. Fail pending.

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i think i might have to try a vero layout then...
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so i've got my vero layout almost finished, but i'm stuck on one thing. on the schem, there is a gain pot, and a 3way switch. but in videos such as this one:

there is clearly another pot visible. i'm guessing it's a volume pot, but does anyone know the value?


another thing, would it be possible to wire the 3 outs with a on/off/on dpdt? or must you use a rotary?
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RnFR wrote:so i've got my vero layout almost finished, but i'm stuck on one thing. on the schem, there is a gain pot, and a 3way switch. but in videos such as this one:

there is clearly another pot visible. i'm guessing it's a volume pot, but does anyone know the value?


another thing, would it be possible to wire the 3 outs with a on/off/on dpdt? or must you use a rotary?
Im looking at some photos and there is definitely a 50kb pot for output level and from what I can see its just wired in after the tone selector. There is only the 10k gain pot on the schematic Im looking at which tells me its probably just a final master volume after the tone selector at the output. I guess that's considered obvious in the world of schematics? I wouldn't have thought about it until you brought it up really. I didn't really know so I guess that makes two of us.

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great thanks a lot.

also, i've read a few comments about how this box sounds good with your guitar volume rolled back. this could easily be remedied by putting a "pregain" pot on the front end. i'll include that mod on my layout.
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alright, here's what i've got. i think i got it pretty tight, all the parts on a decent sized board. i'd appreciate it if somebody could double check this one for me. it's probably my most in depth vero layout yet, but it looks good to me.

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RnFR wrote:alright, here's what i've got. i think i got it pretty tight, all the parts on a decent sized board. i'd appreciate it if somebody could double check this one for me. it's probably my most in depth vero layout yet, but it looks good to me.

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Looks pretty good at first glance. All the value listings are pretty hard to read though. Might help a little to put those in a regular font and space them out a bit. Looks good otherwise. Have you built it?

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i haven't built it yet. and as for the font, it took me fing forever just to write them out to begin with, so i doubt i'll be doing it over. is there a better way to do lists in DIYLC than just placing text for every single component? maybe i'm an idiot, but i haven't found any.

but, i did just find a 3way rotary i cannibalized from a radio a while back... 8)
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Sustain pot is on early units 50kA on 1976 units 10kC
Output pot is: 50kB
Wah pot is always: 100kA

Beside the missing output poti in the old schematic floating around, there is missing on the Wah-section a 10µF electrolytic from + to gnd, and a 4k7 resistor between the 220n capacitor (coming from the slider of the wah pot) and the base of the second transistor.

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thanks for the corrections, AG. maybe i'll draw up a correct schem one of these days if you haven't.

one more question- do the outs on the schem correspond with sine, square, and triangle top to bottom?
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Didn´t have time to redraw it - only made correction remarks in my files yet.

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here is the accurate (i believe) schem.

AG, if you could give it a look that'd be great.

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that's a lot different than RG's wah schem. he had the inductor coming off the 2nd transistor. i'll fix it up and change the link.
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so, does anyone know how the outputs correlate to the sine, square, triangle switch? i'd like to label the schem properly.
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here is my updated schem.
Roland Double Beat AD50 schematic
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