Take the Bypass - P2 Clone - Now With Cornish Bypass

A little less than a week ago, I posted a build of the Cornish P-2 as traced and published by Effects Layouts. For that first build I used a PCB Guitar Mania 3PDT stomp switch board as I wanted to make sure that the PCB itself actually worked. That build quickly became one of my favorite pedals, so I wanted to take the next step and try it with the actual Cornish Bypass (originally traced as part of Effects Layouts G-2 project). I am hoping to offer a few of these for sale in the not so distant future, so I wanted to make sure the board worked properly with and without the Cornish Bypass.

Old School Big Muff Pi - Or Hold My Beer, I'm Gonna Try Something

I know, I know, yes - it's another Big Muff Pi clone. I like them, a lot. There will be more in the future. For this one, however, I decided to do something a little different. I'm still using the AionFX Halo board for this build - largely because I wanted a rock solid PCB for this experiment. If it ended up not working, I wanted it to be because of an issue with components rather than an issue with the board itself. The difference comes in my component choice. If you look at a lot of the early BMPs (like the one in the photo below), you'll see a lot of carbon resistors and ceramic capacitors. My first BMP build used older Allen-Bradley resistors, but all modern film capacitors. Later, I built a Ram's Head variant on a home-etched PCB - again with old school resistors but the capacitors were Panasonic film capacitors (not new by any stretch of the imagination, but not ceramic either). So this time around, I decided I'd try and go with ceramic capacitors across the board to see how the sound changed.

Early V1 BMP - Photo from Kitrae's page