My Take on the MBP Phase 90 (nomnom)

[genXslacker]

Build Rating

4.00 star(s)

Aesthetically, it's hard to beat a 1590B. This one is a Love My Switches CNC Pro. I'm not CNC-equipped, but I dig the rounded edges on their box. It's my current favorite enclosure, and I look for boards that fit.

Apologies to Fairfield Circuitry for jocking their style. It's quick to mimic, and I like the look.

The 2N5952's are a tight match, and it phases deep, yo. Glad I read Keen's matching article.

If I was more of a phaser guy, I would have busted out the WIMAs, but I did test every part for tolerance. (Chorus is my true modulation love, with flange a distant second.)

My manageable (but real) OCD makes me hyper-aware of every cap with off-center leads, but, as usual, I sacrificed looks for tolerance.

That said, tear me up. I consider myself a decent paint-by-numbers builder (no deep EE understanding), but I'm ready to hear how to make better builds.

 

[dcfvgb]

Looks great, clean build, love the graphics esp "phase 73", nothing wrong here. Have you ever looked inside an 80's boss pedal? *Cringe*

My GF has OCD. She says my builds look like a box of candies. She looked at the gut pic and said that is a very pretty box of candy.

 

[genXslacker]

Looks great, clean build, love the graphics esp "phase 73", nothing wrong here. Have you ever looked inside an 80's boss pedal? *Cringe*

My GF has OCD. She says my builds look like a box of candies. She looked at the gut pic and said that is a very pretty box of candy.

Thanks to you both for the kind words. I've had an '80s DM-2 since the early '90s. I'm going to have to open it now and take a look... or maybe I shouldn't.

Hopefully your girlfriend's OCD is as manageable as mine. Mine leans heavily toward the O side, meaning that it's not obvious to those around me that I have it till I mention it. A low-dose head-med script and reminding myself that I'm obsessing over something with no real-world consequences when I catch myself in a perseveration loop keeps me on an even keel.

I can laugh at myself when I have thoughts like, "Well, this whole build is scrap," if I solder a resistor in with the tolerance band the "wrong" way around. But it's a safe bet I'm going to spend whatever time it takes to desolder it neatly and put a new one in the "right" way. God help us all if I melt the corner of a box cap.