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How do you know what these go to? The GND i understand cuz of the pot ground, buw how do you know the 10u + goes to left pot lug and those 3 other components go to middle pot lug?

Ok, thanks all. I will test those points with DMM once my new C5K pot arrives from stompboxparts.com. So the moral of the story here is that a PCB that has pads on both sides for SOME components (seems the 4 pots are the only ones with pads on both sides) it may be OK if one of the pads is...

Ok, cool. So they are called "pads". The board has traces connecting the pads and the trace is going to be on one side, look in good light for the trace. And then I can actually get my meter out to test that each colored dot has continuity. Music6000 - how do I know what contacts to test...

First off, what is the silver stuff around the "traces" called? Are they called "PADS"? Solder rings? What is the non idiot way to refer to that? On my melter, I f'd up (but learned a lot!) and had to redo the pots, one of them more than once. The one that really got me was the BOOTY pot...

It is going into a white powder coated enclosure that I bought and hackily drilled the holes into. My first pedal was a huge success and I learned a lot while doing this!! My next one will be cleaner and I will carry over all of the lessons learned!

Well I will be darned, fellas. So an LED = a DIODE. So when you said clipping diodes you meant LED's. Ok, phew. Now here is what is blowing my mind. The fact that (allegedly, apparently) different color and size LED's SOUND different?!?! WAAAAAAAAAT! I put 2x green 5mm in there cuz that is...

Yes, I sure did. And once I saw those things flash and growl when playing some savage riffs I knew the pedal was an "LED clipping" pedal. now I know what that actually means because I had no idea before. I put in 2x green 5MM LED's in the pedal where the A and K were right below the toggle...

Aye! I am using black elec tape as a temporary measure but did order a bunch of these: https://stompboxparts.com/pots/16mm-potentiometer-dust-seal-10-pack/

And yes, the RED caps are a BIG TOO BIG! Hahah. Lesson learned. As someone said, it takes more time to build the BOM and find the parts than it does to actually BUILD the thing!

Here it is, but not yet in the box!

I just did my first build ever, the Face Melter. It worked on first boot up and sounds GREAT! Would have been wise to mount the mini toggle first before installing the caps that surround it. I did all resistors first, then diodes, then caps. I did not know the toggle would be hard to install...

ANDY JAMES Dunlop Flow. Once you use them you won't go back to anything else.

Finished my Face Melter build (first build ever) and on first boot up, it worked! Great feeling. This pedal sounds K I L L E R, by the way! What is the appropriate size "stepped" drill bit needed for enclosure holes? I have a 3mm I will use just for LED openings but I had to keep going up in...

What do you mean by e3 and e6 and decades?

Great! Thanks, all. 380C it is! What a HUGE difference a good iron makes.

AH!! Yes, yes. Great point. I have a wonderful DMM that is auto sensing that I use mostly to measure guitar pickup resistance and vol/tone pot values (looking for the best tolerances). I will employ the DMM post haste! Thanks. Great community here. The Melter will be a very fun build indeed.

I spoiled myself and bought a new iron. An X-TRONIC 4000 series with digital adjustment. It is so much nicer than my 30 year old Radio Shack iron that it makes me giddy. I'm using a mega fine point tip and it fits perfectly into the PCB trace hole. A pleasure. WHAT IS THE MOST APPROPRIATE...

Thanks for all of the great help. A buddy of mine and I are both building face melters and I have the first set of 6 resistors soldered in and was then pulled away. Ordered a nice pair of very small micro snippers since my other snippers sucked for the micro lead snipping work. My pal did...

Dude - RIGHTEOUS! Thank you!

Right on. Thank you. I will use Tayda and painstakingly compile the component list to build the melter. The biggest pain in this all really does seem to be ordering the components. Not to mention the diff values and some sites may represent a value differently than a build doc would call out...