DEMO Doomed to Repeat - Hydra Delay

[kerryfine]

Build Rating

5.00 star(s)

Doomed to Repeat - PedalPCB Hydra 4 head FV1 Digital Delay

Controls:
Time = Speed
Years = Swell (number of repeats)
Age = Age (how degraded repeats are)
History = Volume
Past/Present = Mix (full dry/full wet)
Dimensions 1/2/3/4 = Delay heads

Blue sparkle enclosure looks great in the light!

Demo video:

This pedal sounds amazing. My first true delay pedal which I built to get my old H2O echo off the board and I love the sound and versatility of this. Sounds especially incredible and spacey with my recent Flanger build before it.

 

[DailyDovetails]

Nice build! I like the concept and am a sucker for clear knobs. On the gut shot it looks like the shielded output cable might cause a short if it touches the side of the case.

 

[kerryfine]

Nice build! I like the concept and am a sucker for clear knobs. On the gut shot it looks like the shielded output cable might cause a short if it touches the side of the case.

Thanks! Short the input/output to ground you mean? I tried to pull the shielding back a bit more from when I took the pictures so it looked ok when I closed the box. If it causes a problem I’ll change the wire out. Thanks for looking out!

 

[DailyDovetails]

Thanks! Short the input/output to ground you mean? I tried to pull the shielding back a bit more from when I took the pictures so it looked ok when I closed the box. If it causes a problem I’ll change the wire out. Thanks for looking out!

Yes. It looked like the outside was touching the lug in the picture.

 

[kerryfine]

Demo video:

 

[kerryfine]

Yes. It looked like the outside was touching the lug in the picture.
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Yea you are right! Good looking, I caught that when I wired the grounds to the jacks and pulled back the shielding a bit on all sides!

 

[Brett]

Very nice looking enclosure! It looks like you got your FV-1 soldering issues resolved, but I have a question, what's the point of running shielded wire if the shield isn't connected to anything?

 

[kerryfine]

Very nice looking enclosure! It looks like you got your FV-1 soldering issues resolved, but I have a question, what's the point of running shielded wire if the shield isn't connected to anything?

Probably nothing, I just think it looks nice and holds its bend to frame the PCB.

 

[Brett]

How are you grounding your jacks?

 

[chris.knudson]

This thing is beautiful and it sounds amazing. Very nice job on the design, the build, and the demo is fantastic -- makes me want to build this one.

I do have to agree with @Brett though.

Very nice looking enclosure! It looks like you got your FV-1 soldering issues resolved, but I have a question, what's the point of running shielded wire if the shield isn't connected to anything?

Without grounding at least one end of that shield, it's only cosmetic. It's not actually doing anything to shield your signal.

 

[kerryfine]

How are you grounding your jacks?

As I stated in a response above I took the pics prematurely before I wired the jack grounds. They’re wired now to the jack ground connections on the PCB