tagboard

A tagboard is a rigid board with terminals or grommets through which components can be point-to-point wired, used as an alternative to a printed circuit board in pedal construction.¹ In a rig context, it appears in both vintage-style builds and DIY projects: pedals such as the Terry Audio White Rabbit have no circuit board, with components wired via grommets inserted in heavy tagboard,¹ and the Toetags Supa Fuzz is hand wired on phenolic tagboard from the UK.² Historic fuzz designs like the Buzzaround were constructed on tagboard,³ and the Arcane Analog Buzzsaw reproduces that approach with germanium transistors hand-wired on a tagboard like the original.⁴ The term also names a format of DIY build documents: sites such as tagboardeffects publish vero (stripboard) and tagboard layouts for many classic and popular guitar and bass effects.⁵