Dirty Freeman

Based on Friedman’s Dirty Shirley

Overdrive - Distortion

By PCB Guitar mania Mania

Project link

PRES 1 9V TREBLE 1 GND BASS 1

D9 R23
LED3

LED4

R15 C11 C16

C10 C15 R24 C13
R30
R12
R31
C9 R16
R14 R17

R22
I C3

I C4
C8
R13 C12

1 R18
R10

R21
R11

R20
L ED2

L ED 1

D3

D1
D4

D2

TRIM

GAIN R7 MID R25 VOL C20

1 1 1
C7

C3 R9 C23 R19
C1 4

R5 R35
R26
R6

R4 R36
IC2

SW1

IC1

R3 R32
C4

C1 R37
C2 R33 C27
R34
R8

R2

R1 LED
C25
C5

C6
C28

C26
IN GND. CTRL OUT

The Dirty Freeman overdrive pedal crams all the British-style grit, supple touch
sensitivity, and tonal flexibility of its namesake all-tube amplifier head into a
pedalboard-friendly enclosure. It includes a tight switch to reign in your amp's low
end when being pushed.

 This board has been designed for on-board pots and switches, and keeps
your project tidy without long cables around.
 Works using four TL072.
 Internal Trimpot to set the max amount of gain at taste.
 Fits on a 125B enclosure with top mounted jacks.

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BOM
Resistors Capacitors
R1 1m C1 22n
R2 330k C2 47p
R3 10k C3 10n
R4 22k C4 1n
R5 39k C5 100n
R6 22k C6 47p
R7 10k C7 47n
R8 22k C8 120p
R9 22k C9 220p
R10 22k C10 10n
R11 22k C11 4n7
R12 220k C12 22n
R13 27k C13 220n
R14 10k C14 2n2
R15 2k2 C15 10n
R16 33k C16 220n
R17 33k C20 100u electrolytic
R18 2k2 C23 100n
R19 470k C25 100n
R20 2k2 C26 22u electrolytic
R21 22k C27 100n
R22 2k2 C28 22u electrolytic
R23 100k
R24 3k3 Diodes
R25 18k D1 1n4148
R26 3k9 D2 1n4148
R30 10r D3 1n4148
R31 10k D4 1n4148
R32 20k D9 1n5817
R33 22k LED LED 3mm
R34 2k2 LED1 LED 3mm
R35 20k LED2 LED 3mm
R36 22k LED3 LED 3mm
R37 2k2 LED4 LED 3mm

Pots Ics
GAIN 1m A IC1 TL072
TREBLE 100k B IC2 TL072
VOL 50k A IC3 TL072
BASS 100k C IC4 TL072
MID 100k C
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 PRES 10k C Switches
TRIM 100k SW1 SPDT

Shopping list

Resistors Capacitors
1 100k R23 3 10n C3, C10, C15
9 22k R4, R6, R8, R9, R10, R21, R33, R36, 1 1n C4
R11
1 330k R2 4 100n C5, C23, C25, C27
2 33k R16, R17 1 2n2 C14
1 39k R5 2 220n C13, C16
1 3k3 R24 1 220p C9
1 3k9 R26 2 22n C1, C12
1 470k R19 1 120p C8
1 27k R13 1 47n C7
6 2k2 R15, R18, R20, R22, R34, R37 2 47p C2, C6
2 20k R32, R35 1 4n7 C11
1 220k R12 1 100u electrolytic C20
1 18k R25 2 22u electrolytic C26, C28
1 1m R1
4 10k R3, R7, R14, R31 Pots
1 10r R30 1 100k TRIM
1 50k A VOL
Diodes 1 100k B TREBLE
5 Red Led LED, LED1, LED2, LED3, LED4 2 100k C BASS, MID
4 1n4148 D1, D2, D3, D4 1 1m A GAIN
1 1n5817 D9 1 10k C PRES

Ics
4 TL072 IC1, IC2, IC3, IC4

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General Building notes
To populate the PCB it’s recommended to follow this order.

1. Resistors & diodes

2. IC Sockets (set up the proper IC at last)
3. Capacitors, starting with the smaller ones and the ceramic ones.
4. Electrolytic capacitors (always check the polarity)
5. Transistors
6. Wires
7. Potentiometers
8. Off board wiring

Drilling the enclosure

This Project has been planned to fit into a 125B enclosure type.

Check the Attached “Drilling templates” to drill the box properly. The files are on Scale 1:1,
ready to print in a A4 page.

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 Schematic

D1 D2
1n414
1n41 4148
481n81n4 148

D4 D3

C8

120p

2
VR

1
3

R11
TRIM
100k
220k 2 20p

R2
TL0 72

330k
IN C1 10k R12 C9
3 IC2 _A C3 TL07 2
R7

R14
10k
R3 1 5 IC2_ B C7
22n 2 7 R10 6
10k

R1
C2

1m
10n 27k 10k C

47p
6 22k 7 2

18k
47n PRES R15

R25
5 1

3
1
R13

C4
1n
47p IC3_B 3 2k2

2
39k 3
TL0 72

LED 4
GN D GND TL 072 IC3 _A

C10
10n
2 IC4 _B

LED3
R5 TL07 2 5
C6 R 18

1
3
7

100k B
GN D

R4
R9
TREBLE

22k
22k
VD VD 1 6 2k2 3

R6
R8

22k
22k
TL 072

2
GND 2 2k2 3 IC 4_A

SW1
C12 C 16
4n7

3k3
C11
VOL

1
50k A

LED 1 VD R 20
1 2 R24
VR

C5
LED2 OUT
R19

22n 220n
470k

100n
R16 R17

R26
3k9
R23
100k

GND
1m A 33k 33k
GN D GAIN VD C14
C13
220n

VD

1
3
VR GND

2
2n2
3
1
R22
2k2

2
BASS
100k C

2
MID

Dirty Freeman
1
100k C

L ED 3
R3 1
10k CTRL GND
22k
R21

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9V D9 R3 0
C15
10n

8
8
8
8
1n5817 10r

C20
C23
20k
20k

R32
R35

100u
100n
072
TLVR TL072

- IC3_ PWR +
- IC2_ PWR +
- IC1_ PWR +
- IC4_ PWR +
R34 3 IC1_A R37 5 IC1_B GN D

4
4
4
4
2k2 1 2k2 7 VD
2 6

22u
C26
R36
22k
22u
C28

R33
22k
C25
C27

100n
100n
GND

GND.
GND GND

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