- Build Rating
I must say, that board was the most intimidating I have ever bought. It's a fact, some people here dont like AionFx daughter board concept and I do not wish to start that debate again. To me it's never been a problem and I'll deal with it if I ever need to. My greatest fears was having to troubleshoot that board that is really crowded with components. I was almost certain it would have at least one problem.
So I kept my time building it, almost procrastinating if truth be told. When I did work on it, I would go value by value, following the bom and marking every value placed. Every value was tested with my multimeter before selecting nearest values and I even found a dead film cap doing so.
The only value I replaced is the master volume pot. I could not get my hand on a A20k so I put a 25 instead. I may or maynot replace it if I ever get the correct one.
The drilling was not that much a challenge, but there is so many holes!!! I made a small mistake, nothing serious.
When I finally put everything together, I needed to set the trimmers, for that you need to inject a sine wave of 1khz at 30mv... I always wanted to make a better audio probe, now was the time to upgrade. The tool now could be used also to inject the signal. I delayed the first power up until I had no choice... it powered fisrt try and calibrating was not so hard once you get set up.
Long story short, that monster of a pedal ended up working on the first try ! It can be loud, I still need to play with it to get it to a sweet spot, but that was a really rewarding build.
Now, the 25$ weller iron will need to be replaced, maybe I'll treat myself after xmas. I'm thinking weller 1010 or hakko.
So I kept my time building it, almost procrastinating if truth be told. When I did work on it, I would go value by value, following the bom and marking every value placed. Every value was tested with my multimeter before selecting nearest values and I even found a dead film cap doing so.
The only value I replaced is the master volume pot. I could not get my hand on a A20k so I put a 25 instead. I may or maynot replace it if I ever get the correct one.
The drilling was not that much a challenge, but there is so many holes!!! I made a small mistake, nothing serious.
When I finally put everything together, I needed to set the trimmers, for that you need to inject a sine wave of 1khz at 30mv... I always wanted to make a better audio probe, now was the time to upgrade. The tool now could be used also to inject the signal. I delayed the first power up until I had no choice... it powered fisrt try and calibrating was not so hard once you get set up.
Long story short, that monster of a pedal ended up working on the first try ! It can be loud, I still need to play with it to get it to a sweet spot, but that was a really rewarding build.
Now, the 25$ weller iron will need to be replaced, maybe I'll treat myself after xmas. I'm thinking weller 1010 or hakko.
Is the build worth it, I guess time will say. 
