Troglodyte Reverb

[Erik S]

Another cool one from @Aleph Null !

Definitely the most fun of the Belton verbs I've built. The Sway and Saturation controls are particularly nice.

Nice layout, great build docs, the only hiccup in the build was that the output jack location lined up the jack tip with one of the tabs on the back of the Decay pot. Snapping off that tab with a pair of needle nose solved that.

 

[jessenator]

I gotta get mine boxed

Nice work. What finish is that?

 

[Erik S]

I gotta get mine boxed

Nice work. What finish is that?

Thanks!

Pretty sure that's a Tayda matte violet, and then it's got a matte clear coat epoxy spray paint over that.

 

[jessenator]

The knobs shadows give it a chimeric fade. Very nice.

 

[Erik S]

The knobs shadows give it a chimeric fade. Very nice.

I had to look that one up. ha!

I did my last big enclosure batch all in matte clear. Looks better than gloss most of the time, and is easier to photograph 100% of the time.

 

[Aleph Null]

I had the same jack issue on my build...I might have to add that to the build doc somewhere. Your build looks classy!

 

[owlexifry]

ay great work!
looks excellent.

many thanks for taking one for the team and warning us about the jack fitment. (yet to build mine )

 

[Erik S]

ay great work!
looks excellent.

many thanks for taking one for the team and warning us about the jack fitment. (yet to build mine )

Thanks!

I might even have got away with pushing on the jack while I tightened the nut to make some room, (it didn’t need much) but this way I don’t have to worry about it moving later.

 

[falco_femoralis]

How do you get your handwriting to come out so nice! Paint pens are hard to use with how easily they slide across the surface

 

[pricklyrobot]

The market seems to be crying out for some dual-gang pot prophylaxis.

I tried to trim a regular one to fit, when I built my Pitch Pirate, but it didn’t stay on very well.

 

[Erik S]

How do you get your handwriting to come out so nice! Paint pens are hard to use with how easily they slide across the surface

It’s all lies! My real handwriting is atrocious.

Post in thread 'What’s on *YOUR* workbench?'
https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/what’s-on-your-workbench.13146/post-350834

 

[Erik S]

The market seems to be crying out for some dual-gang pot prophylaxis.

I tried to trim a regular one to fit, when I built my Pitch Pirate, but it didn’t stay on very well.

I trimmed one and hot glued it once but it wasn’t pretty.

Robert sells one that looks pretty slick, but in this instance I think one of those would have made the clearance issue worse.

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[Aleph Null]

I just put some electrical tape on the back of the pot. Also, there's plenty of room for the jacks if you place them closer to the bottom of the side wall and not in the middle.

 

[Erik S]

I just put some electrical tape on the back of the pot. Also, there's plenty of room for the jacks if you place them closer to the bottom of the side wall and not in the middle.

Absolutely. A tiny move toward the lid would have totally kept me out of trouble. I think it also might have been possible to move the audio jacks in towards the DC jack landing the audio jack tips between the pots.

In any case, not your fault at all.

I used your paper template for the face holes, but grabbed one of Robert’s standard jack layouts without giving any thought to how the two would line up.

It was possible to make contact where mine lined up, but it was very light. Even a slight change in how I taped the template on might have kept me in the clear.

 

[jessenator]

I think I have this in 3D... let me check

 

[p_wats]

Nice! I'm short a few pots to finish mine (and the Tape Delay), but am very excited to get this one boxed up

 

[Erik S]

Nice! I'm short a few pots to finish mine (and the Tape Delay), but am very excited to get this one boxed up

Tape Delay is great too.

 

[jessenator]

I've had decent luck with doing things this way, but as always, YMMV.

the pink/magenta transparent plane is the inner lip elevation

Obviously, the trick with those KLBM3 jacks is the shroud being asymmetrical, there's a tradeoff. But this is kind of the best compromise. There is enough wiggle room (for Tayda's =/-1mm margin) that it should not hit that dual-gang pot nor the lid lip. YMMV.

Apart from the jack position tweaking, all I've really changed is moving the foot switches slightly up to avoid collisions in my model, but if yours works, it works

 

[Aleph Null]

There's also always the 1590BB2. That would solve all those problems as well.

 

[Feral Feline]

... but the 1590BB2 doesn't solve it if you place your jacks in the same place as per this build in the 1590BB.



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