Me too - all too often I see (or rather, read) pics of pedal guts followed by an insistence by some that the pedal get traced asap. When it doesn't, we get the bump-bump-bump action going on, one or two people (tops) actually trace it, then the veros come, and the masses consume, build, debug, and move on to the next "unknown."TheLemon wrote:I always appreciate when people take words and already gathered ideas and try to put them into a schematic.
If we take some time to analyze what we are about to trace, then analyze it before the mad rush to build one and box it up, we will obviously get some insight before tackling the next "mystery."
Since it is exceedingly rare to get a distortion design that isn't a quiltwork of existing circuit ideas, understanding the "building blocks" is a great ability to have. You can also typically "extend" it to having a visual idea when you "see it" BEFORE you do any hard core tracing.