Cybercow
Well-known member
The DeadEnd FX 'Reflektor', IMO, is quite a complex build; especially when it comes to housing the guts. Make three or four tiny mistakes on the enclosure drills and artwork and bench-life gets intense. (3 labels in wrong spots, missing expression label and control drills just 1mm to close to the top.)
To make up for the incorrectly place labels, I had to criss-cross the Slam and Bypass switch and LED wiring from one side of the enclosure to the other.
Had to Dremel out a couple of notches in the top screw column to accommodate PCB placement because the drills were too close to the top.
The missing Expression label will hand-painted in. And I'll just leave the incorrect placing of the AC jack label as-is.
Other than all that, just getting the two PCBs sandwiched together was a challenge in dexterity. Add to that my OCD in using spacing washers between the controls and inside of the enclosure to minimize the gap between the bottom of the knobs and the top of the enclosure - balancing the enclosure and sandwiched PCBs to align all the controls and wire-connected (dangling) LEDs while NOT letting any of the spacing washers fall off. But I finally got there.
Enough of the jibber-jabber now and onto the pedal build report porn . . . .
So right now, it still needs to be fired up for the first time to check voltages and set the trimmer. If all goes well, I'll be spending a good amount of time just playing with it and post the results in this thread.
And now that all is said and done this far, I have to say that it was far more relaxing to re-house the Rockman X100 into full pedal as a stompbox and have it as a hands-on only effect than it has been to build this Reflektor.
To make up for the incorrectly place labels, I had to criss-cross the Slam and Bypass switch and LED wiring from one side of the enclosure to the other.
Had to Dremel out a couple of notches in the top screw column to accommodate PCB placement because the drills were too close to the top.
The missing Expression label will hand-painted in. And I'll just leave the incorrect placing of the AC jack label as-is.
Other than all that, just getting the two PCBs sandwiched together was a challenge in dexterity. Add to that my OCD in using spacing washers between the controls and inside of the enclosure to minimize the gap between the bottom of the knobs and the top of the enclosure - balancing the enclosure and sandwiched PCBs to align all the controls and wire-connected (dangling) LEDs while NOT letting any of the spacing washers fall off. But I finally got there.
Enough of the jibber-jabber now and onto the pedal build report porn . . . .
So right now, it still needs to be fired up for the first time to check voltages and set the trimmer. If all goes well, I'll be spending a good amount of time just playing with it and post the results in this thread.
And now that all is said and done this far, I have to say that it was far more relaxing to re-house the Rockman X100 into full pedal as a stompbox and have it as a hands-on only effect than it has been to build this Reflektor.