Fingolfen
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It's been at least five or six weeks since I finished a Boss pedal clone, so I must be going through withdrawal or something... This is officially the second PedalPCB board I've finished (others are in progress...) with the first one being the Thermionic Deluxe. One of these days I'm going to do one of the easier boards... no really!
As you can see from the (very) crowded PCB above, this is a complex build like many Boss pedals. Like the Thermionic Deluxe I built last month, the board has all of the values actually silkscreened on the board itself. That makes it harder (but not impossible) to screw things up. For PedalPCB builds, I tend to have the BOM next to me so I can count out how many individual resistors, capacitors, or other components I need of each value. I then go hunting on the silkscreen for those values and populate them. I'm using all high-end components for this build. The resistors are all Yageo or KOA Speer 1% tolerance. The film capacitors (of which there are surprisingly few!) are WIMA or Kemet. The electrolytic capacitors are mostly Nichicon with a couple of Panasonics thrown in. All of the ICs are sourced from Mouser, so I know they're all legitimate. Interestingly enough, the build called for "germanium" diodes - but doesn't specify. I ended up using 1N34A diodes (with the blue stripe near the center and left hand side). While challenging because of the tight confines and large part count, the board was otherwise straightforward with very little in the way of exotic components.
The enclosure itself is one of my "second generation" Boss style enclosures - with an homage to the "Waza Craft" line of Boss pedals. I'm really happy with how the graphics came out. Unfortunately you can't get a brown (or in this case, bronze) enclosure from Tayda - so I sort of had to fake the look of the Octave pedal as to make it match the original. I think it gets close enough to the mark for government work! I may eventually add a black dress nut to the stomp switch, but I'm out at this point... time for another Love My Switches order...
A little more at the blog...
As you can see from the (very) crowded PCB above, this is a complex build like many Boss pedals. Like the Thermionic Deluxe I built last month, the board has all of the values actually silkscreened on the board itself. That makes it harder (but not impossible) to screw things up. For PedalPCB builds, I tend to have the BOM next to me so I can count out how many individual resistors, capacitors, or other components I need of each value. I then go hunting on the silkscreen for those values and populate them. I'm using all high-end components for this build. The resistors are all Yageo or KOA Speer 1% tolerance. The film capacitors (of which there are surprisingly few!) are WIMA or Kemet. The electrolytic capacitors are mostly Nichicon with a couple of Panasonics thrown in. All of the ICs are sourced from Mouser, so I know they're all legitimate. Interestingly enough, the build called for "germanium" diodes - but doesn't specify. I ended up using 1N34A diodes (with the blue stripe near the center and left hand side). While challenging because of the tight confines and large part count, the board was otherwise straightforward with very little in the way of exotic components.
The enclosure itself is one of my "second generation" Boss style enclosures - with an homage to the "Waza Craft" line of Boss pedals. I'm really happy with how the graphics came out. Unfortunately you can't get a brown (or in this case, bronze) enclosure from Tayda - so I sort of had to fake the look of the Octave pedal as to make it match the original. I think it gets close enough to the mark for government work! I may eventually add a black dress nut to the stomp switch, but I'm out at this point... time for another Love My Switches order...
A little more at the blog...
