Affectronix The Pink Verb

The people over at FSB are working on a layout for the Affectronix The Pink Verb and I thought I would take a stab at it. I found some pictures from the maker and decided to trace his PCB with in Sprint-Layout.

Info about the Pink Verb

The Pink Verb is a tube style, analog reverb and tube overdrive pedal.  It uses one preamp tube (12AX7/ECC83) instead of those complicated Fender tube reverbs which use 3 tubes and a transformer.  This pedal gets right to the point of what it’s intended to do.

If you didn’t know, most reverb pedals are digital, but this one is analog which makes it sound natural.  Digital reverbs use digital programmed chips to model the sound that reverb tanks make.  Analog reverbs, like The Pink Verb, use reverb tanks to create a natural and real sounding reverb.  For those of you who don’t know what a reverb tank is, it is a larger component with 2-3+ springs with a transducer on either side.  When your guitar is played through one, the springs vibrate and create a sort-of echo sound to fill out the tone.  But, the reverb tank must be driven and recovered to keep up the volume and to have sound.

Here is what I got so far.

Here are the schematics by a FSB member.

This is the photo that was released by the maker.

I cropped and flipped the image in Adobe Photoshop.

Next I take it in to Sprint-Layout and trace it out. Here is the transfer at 600 DPI

 

Now I just need to figure out the layout. I am bad at this and just need more practice reading schematics.

BOM:

R1 1.5M
R2 3.9K
R3 1M
R4 1K
R5 100K
R6 1M
R7 100K

C1 47nF
C2 1uF
C3 10nF
C4 22uF
C5 1uF
C6 1uF

Q1 2N5458

GAIN 10KA
DWELL 100KL
MIX 1ML

OP LM386M

Reverb Unit 1FC2A1B

Tube 12AX7/ECC83