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Finally, here's a little light cover I made from a bit of a squirty cream can rolled into shape and soldered together. Idea is to permit tweaks to the trim pots with the back off without ambient light influencing things. It's probably not ideal being shiny inside but at least it looks rough.

OK, here's some gut shots.

Right, apologies for the delay, Christmas and New Year rather got in the way and by the time that was over, I'd forgotten what exactly I'd done so needed to open it back up again! First off, let me note that the pedal in the original post was a Christmas present for my brother and I didn't get...

Hahaha, that's fair. I'll come back with some details of the mod shortly but in essence it's taking the LFO signal to a bi colour common anode LED and modifying the switch to send the blue or red cathode to ground.

Built an Electrovibe in a cream enclosure. Did a bit of modding to get the speed LED flashing with the LFO and changing colour. Used correspondingly coloured speed knobs. Hadn't seen this before but seemed a fairly obvious way of providing a visual indicator. Not convinced I've dialed it in...

Robert, I have purchased another FV-1 (and a bunch of other things...). If you could include the EEPROM that would be greatly appreciated.

You guys are making me feel a lot better. 😂

Robert, just wanted to update this. I've been through the schematic and pcb continuity checking and inspecting and all is well except a lifted pad for the 3.3v regulator output. I can deal with this using a small jumper wire. All things considered I have been extremely lucky but I think this is...

Robert, thanks for the kind offer. I'm going to do a continuity check of all the pads and visual inspection first. Will let you know if all is well.

Thinking further, I guess the EEPROM may not have enjoyed the brief excursion either and the safest course of action might be to bin it and start again?

Apologies, I should have been clearer. I have taken the chip off the board (after removing just about every other component) to make absolutely sure where the problem was, so the short is definitely in the chip. I had wondered if it had triggered some sort of internal protection in the chip...

I think I've managed to kill an FV-1 before getting any sound out of it! I ordered a Deflector board with a pre-soldered chip and populated it in the normal manner EXCEPT I used an SMD 3.3v regulator on an adaptor board. I checked orientation on the datasheet but missed the critical note that...

You're too kind, thank you very much!

Looks really nice Matt, especially in that enclosure. I feel bad for asking but if you wouldn't mind me stealing your work, I'd love a copy of the gerber for my own personal use. Oh, and nice solder pads for the diodes on v2.1 I see. 😂

Hi all, This is a thread summarising my experience building MattG's v5.1 relay switching system, and some information I thought might help others. For those who are not aware, MattG has done a huge amount of great work designing a relay switching system which is all open source and hosted...

Hi all, This is my first Pedalpcb build, and the first pedal I have built in about 20 years! Midlife crisis demanded a new hobby... I built 2 of the original Chop Shops, one as a gift. Part selection was based on aesthetics more than anything. J201s are SMD and selected IDSS values were...

OK, thank you for the swift reply. Looks like I got 0/3 there, sorry for littering the thread.

I have a few questions that I haven't seen on this thread. Apologies if I'm covering old ground. - Looking through relay datasheets it seems like current draw reduces with increasing coil voltage, which is to be expected. Given the current passes through the 555 which can't tolerate too much...

Hi folks. Newbie here, reached the precipice and about to fall into the pedal building world as a hobby...! Like many, I have been spending time researching and trying to make some sense of things whilst contending with differing opinions, misinformation, etc. Steep learning curve but I feel...