mybud
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A long and perhaps obsessively detailed report. Hope it's useful to those about to take this on.
I spent the weekend building this wonderful machine. (Happy Thanksgiving to our US-based friends meanwhile.)
About two months ago, I ordered some special low height elcaps from Mouser as recommended, ensuring that they met the detailed height specs in the parts list.
Mildly daunting, not so?
One board at a time is best for me. I wanted to try some test fits beforehand, to make sure that the bottom board is lying flat and true.
First step (Saturday), I almost completed the BBD board, leaving off the pots and headers for the time being to give myself some space to work with for later.
Fitting the headers was less difficult than I assumed. There's a trick.
I've built a couple of Eurorack modules with stacked boards before. What I learnt there was to assemble the headers and then solder both ends when satisfied that the two boards are well aligned and lying flat, crucial here because of the space constraints around the height of 'the sandwich.'
In testing there was no sound initially because I had waited to solder the final six pin header joining the top board to the footswitch till last. Once this was done, some awesome flangery sounds emerged, as if by magic. Before assembling though, I'd also set the trimmers halfway-ish beforehand (one of @Betty Wont's great tips for noting) and this helped to get in the ballpark and get the flanging going from the outset.
And the box closes without issue. Hooray!
Almost there. I'll address the LED fitting later (for which I have soldered some extended leads), some trimming and tweaking as necessary, and finally the PSU assembly and jacks.
The nearly finished product. Had to be purple in honour of the original, naturally. I used a pre-drilled enclosure with the LED space different from the drill template, hence the need for the extended LED wires.
Anyone who's had the patience to read this far must be chafing to know how it sounds. Absolutely amazing to my ears. Rich, juicy, harmonic sweep and some outlandish stuff at extreme settings. Besides all that, it's an extraordinary engineering feat on the part of @Robert to realise this circuit and make it so DIY-friendly. I also gained a lot (as usual) from @MichaelW's previous build reports and his detailed pics.
'Nuff said. Thanks for reading and best to all. NGBS: a flanger (or two, if you like).
I spent the weekend building this wonderful machine. (Happy Thanksgiving to our US-based friends meanwhile.)
About two months ago, I ordered some special low height elcaps from Mouser as recommended, ensuring that they met the detailed height specs in the parts list.
Mildly daunting, not so?
One board at a time is best for me. I wanted to try some test fits beforehand, to make sure that the bottom board is lying flat and true.
First step (Saturday), I almost completed the BBD board, leaving off the pots and headers for the time being to give myself some space to work with for later.
Fitting the headers was less difficult than I assumed. There's a trick.
I've built a couple of Eurorack modules with stacked boards before. What I learnt there was to assemble the headers and then solder both ends when satisfied that the two boards are well aligned and lying flat, crucial here because of the space constraints around the height of 'the sandwich.'
In testing there was no sound initially because I had waited to solder the final six pin header joining the top board to the footswitch till last. Once this was done, some awesome flangery sounds emerged, as if by magic. Before assembling though, I'd also set the trimmers halfway-ish beforehand (one of @Betty Wont's great tips for noting) and this helped to get in the ballpark and get the flanging going from the outset.
And the box closes without issue. Hooray!
Almost there. I'll address the LED fitting later (for which I have soldered some extended leads), some trimming and tweaking as necessary, and finally the PSU assembly and jacks.
The nearly finished product. Had to be purple in honour of the original, naturally. I used a pre-drilled enclosure with the LED space different from the drill template, hence the need for the extended LED wires.
Anyone who's had the patience to read this far must be chafing to know how it sounds. Absolutely amazing to my ears. Rich, juicy, harmonic sweep and some outlandish stuff at extreme settings. Besides all that, it's an extraordinary engineering feat on the part of @Robert to realise this circuit and make it so DIY-friendly. I also gained a lot (as usual) from @MichaelW's previous build reports and his detailed pics.
'Nuff said. Thanks for reading and best to all. NGBS: a flanger (or two, if you like).
