I finished this up yesterday. I've had this board for a bit, but whenever I'd take the PCB out to look at it my eyes would glaze over. I'm not going to lie, this was one of my least favorite boards to populate.
I usually work on 2-4 different builds at a time. I'll go through and do all the resistors, wash the flux off, and the next day I'll do caps, etc. I keep the build docs handy and I'll look, see a 10K resistor and then I'll count how many 10Ks are on the board and put them in. But on this board I spent more time hunting part references on the PCB than anything else.
I also didn't love the control layout. My pots didn't match the drill template exactly (I had to nudge them a bit). It felt tight in a XX even, and I wanted the stomp as far away from the pots as possible (but still fit the stomp breakout board)... But it all came together in the end and I'm very happy with the result.
I did the art to match my other Devi pedals, here's my collection (so far, I do have a populated PPCB Legend as well but I think I have those sounds covered with the Soda Mizer...):
After I finished it I ordered 7 more PCBs from Dead End FX (mostly Lastgasp Arts stuff) so take my belly aching above with a large grain of salt.
I like it way more than I thought I would. The parallel mixing of the two fuzzes, and then the fuzzes with clean is the mutt's nuts. I know the V2 Silver Rose is a transistor Big Muff (Eau Claire Thunder) but I'd imagine a Mayonaise and FZ2 in this same setup would be world destroying
I usually work on 2-4 different builds at a time. I'll go through and do all the resistors, wash the flux off, and the next day I'll do caps, etc. I keep the build docs handy and I'll look, see a 10K resistor and then I'll count how many 10Ks are on the board and put them in. But on this board I spent more time hunting part references on the PCB than anything else.
I also didn't love the control layout. My pots didn't match the drill template exactly (I had to nudge them a bit). It felt tight in a XX even, and I wanted the stomp as far away from the pots as possible (but still fit the stomp breakout board)... But it all came together in the end and I'm very happy with the result.
I did the art to match my other Devi pedals, here's my collection (so far, I do have a populated PPCB Legend as well but I think I have those sounds covered with the Soda Mizer...):
After I finished it I ordered 7 more PCBs from Dead End FX (mostly Lastgasp Arts stuff) so take my belly aching above with a large grain of salt.
I like it way more than I thought I would. The parallel mixing of the two fuzzes, and then the fuzzes with clean is the mutt's nuts. I know the V2 Silver Rose is a transistor Big Muff (Eau Claire Thunder) but I'd imagine a Mayonaise and FZ2 in this same setup would be world destroying
