stripboard

Stripboard, also called Veroboard or vero, is a construction board with copper strips on one side used to build effects circuits, with components mounted on the non-metal side and solder applied to the copper side¹². Cuts in the strips separate connections, and on some layouts these cuts are marked with red dots³. In effects history, pedals such as the Sola Sound Tone Bender MKI and MK1.5 were assembled on stripboard, with the MK1.5 using a brown compressed fiber board mounted on a folded aluminum bracket that acted as a grounding point⁴. Some circuits, like the John Hornby Skewes Zonk II, later changed from stripboard to a dedicated printed circuit board⁵. Stripboard remains common in DIY effect layouts, including vero layouts published on Guitar FX Layouts⁶⁷.