giovanni
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What's that? A build report? From @giovanni of all people? What? It's been years, didn't he hang the soldering iron to the wall?
Ahem. Yes, long time no build, long time listener, first time (in a long while) caller... I finally emerge from my dark cave with a build report. And it only took me like 9 months to finish this one! It's been a busy (read stressful) year you guys.
Here's what happened: last night I finally finished my Cepheid build, using one of the first enclosures made by @steviejr92, which I must say looks really beautiful and is the best part of this build! Thank you man!
Populating the board went pretty smooth. The trouble began when I drilled the enclosure. The knob holes ended up a bit too far from the edge and the LED holes are too close to the 3PDT switch. This made for a very very tight fit into the enclosure, with the board basically snug between the mounting brackets and pretty much pushed against the 3PDT. I had to bend the pot leads to make it actually fit. And I had very small clearance to install the LED, which was a bit of a headache (I worry that the LED legs are shorting against the bezel - may have to get a plastic one). I wish I had been a bit more methodical about fitting the board in. I guess this is what happens when you lose the groove...
That said, I tested the pedal last night and this morning and it works as intended, but at some point last night the signal cut out (even when bypassed), which I think may be a sign of an intermittent short. It went away after I unplugged and plugged it back in a couple times. I tried to poke around the enclosure to find out what it was with no luck - I suspect this will come back to haunt me, oh well, hopefully I will find the cause if the problem comes back. Honestly, I was too tired last night to figure it out.
Anyways, this is a fantastic pedal. It sounds amazing, no audible noise (unlike some other BBD circuits) and pretty easy to calibrate the trimpot. I did test a TL072 in it but that was clicking like crazy, then I got a delivery of freshly hatched TL022 yesterday, which makes no noise at all (I need to replace the TL072 in my Dual Phase build as well). I had harvested the BBDs from a broken Boss chorus I got on Reverb (in hindsight I may overpaid for it given that I could not salvage it). The knobs are Tayda's Davies 1510 aluminum clones. They look nice but I may try a different color once I make the faceplate. Yeah, I haven't made that yet, not even created an Inkscape file for it. Give me 9 more months.
Ahem. Yes, long time no build, long time listener, first time (in a long while) caller... I finally emerge from my dark cave with a build report. And it only took me like 9 months to finish this one! It's been a busy (read stressful) year you guys.
Here's what happened: last night I finally finished my Cepheid build, using one of the first enclosures made by @steviejr92, which I must say looks really beautiful and is the best part of this build! Thank you man!
Populating the board went pretty smooth. The trouble began when I drilled the enclosure. The knob holes ended up a bit too far from the edge and the LED holes are too close to the 3PDT switch. This made for a very very tight fit into the enclosure, with the board basically snug between the mounting brackets and pretty much pushed against the 3PDT. I had to bend the pot leads to make it actually fit. And I had very small clearance to install the LED, which was a bit of a headache (I worry that the LED legs are shorting against the bezel - may have to get a plastic one). I wish I had been a bit more methodical about fitting the board in. I guess this is what happens when you lose the groove...
That said, I tested the pedal last night and this morning and it works as intended, but at some point last night the signal cut out (even when bypassed), which I think may be a sign of an intermittent short. It went away after I unplugged and plugged it back in a couple times. I tried to poke around the enclosure to find out what it was with no luck - I suspect this will come back to haunt me, oh well, hopefully I will find the cause if the problem comes back. Honestly, I was too tired last night to figure it out.
Anyways, this is a fantastic pedal. It sounds amazing, no audible noise (unlike some other BBD circuits) and pretty easy to calibrate the trimpot. I did test a TL072 in it but that was clicking like crazy, then I got a delivery of freshly hatched TL022 yesterday, which makes no noise at all (I need to replace the TL072 in my Dual Phase build as well). I had harvested the BBDs from a broken Boss chorus I got on Reverb (in hindsight I may overpaid for it given that I could not salvage it). The knobs are Tayda's Davies 1510 aluminum clones. They look nice but I may try a different color once I make the faceplate. Yeah, I haven't made that yet, not even created an Inkscape file for it. Give me 9 more months.
