Erik S
Well-known member
Better late than never! I started working on this ages ago, but I forgot to order one part which pushed it back, and then I just started skipping over it. Once a project gets stuck in procrastination purgatory I have a hard time ever getting it going again. I was also pretty intimidated by the scope of it. Probably good that got a few more pedals under my belt before I started this.
There's some challenging stuff here - SMD parts, switched jacks, all kinds of pots to line up, and lots of wiring. The fact that I didn't screw anything up is mostly thanks to the excellent build doc @jjjimi84 and @benny_profane put together for this. Whatever questions I had, the answers were there.
I went for the "Alternate locations" for the mode switch, LED, and 9v through jack. I also implemented the mods listed here:
Because I knew there was going to be some flexing and stuffing involved, I went with stranded wire on this one. I hadn't used stranded in quite a while, and I don't know how you stranded guys do it. Lots of fighting with strands not going where I wanted them to.
I added the shrink tube on some of the bundles thinking it was going to make it look a little neater and help keep things together when I flipped it to solder, but doing that with single color wire was pretty dumb. Once they were bundled I had to use a meter to figure out what went where.
I've had a few different setups for late-night headphone jamming, but this is by far the slickest. Major props to @jjjimi84 and everyone who helped out with this - @cooder , @benny_profane , @Chuck D. Bones. Really cool project, and I'm glad I got to build one.
There's some challenging stuff here - SMD parts, switched jacks, all kinds of pots to line up, and lots of wiring. The fact that I didn't screw anything up is mostly thanks to the excellent build doc @jjjimi84 and @benny_profane put together for this. Whatever questions I had, the answers were there.
I went for the "Alternate locations" for the mode switch, LED, and 9v through jack. I also implemented the mods listed here:
Because I knew there was going to be some flexing and stuffing involved, I went with stranded wire on this one. I hadn't used stranded in quite a while, and I don't know how you stranded guys do it. Lots of fighting with strands not going where I wanted them to.
I added the shrink tube on some of the bundles thinking it was going to make it look a little neater and help keep things together when I flipped it to solder, but doing that with single color wire was pretty dumb. Once they were bundled I had to use a meter to figure out what went where.
I've had a few different setups for late-night headphone jamming, but this is by far the slickest. Major props to @jjjimi84 and everyone who helped out with this - @cooder , @benny_profane , @Chuck D. Bones. Really cool project, and I'm glad I got to build one.
