Locrian99
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This build came about in sort of a funny way. I had made a build report for the 6 band parametric eq, and this enclosure with Charlie Brown on it for a park auto wah I had built in vero was photo bombing in it. Got a few comments on the enclosure, thing was I didn’t care much for that park auto wah and decided to reuse the enclosure I stripped it and it now had a big muff wirb a mids switch in it. @Feral Feline suggested the Snow White auto wah, shared a demo and I was pretty impressed. So I found the board over on guitar pcb and ordered it up.
This board has been completed for almost a month waiting for me to get around to doing the enclosure. And boxing it up. Had it all drilled out and painted just needed to do the decal.
This is where I started to run into problems some
self inflicted 100% some self inflicted due to questionable design in my eyes and my own assumptions and one particular of why would they do it like that.
Today during my youngest nap while the wife and oldest were off making Christmas cookies I got the decal done and applied it. Went on awesome was looking great. Let it sit and dry for about 2 1/2 hours Room it out to the garage (it’s probably 40 out and rainy at this time) and put the clear coat on (normally i bring it back in lately after putting on the clear coat but wasn’t worried about it drying fast as we were leaving. Went to dinner and Xmas lights, got home went out to check my pedal soon as I could and the decal bubbled. I’m not sure if i didn’t let it dry long enough (I feel like it should have) or if ot being too cold in the garage made it do it. But it happened it also pulled the sides a little so they don’t look straight anymore. Bummed, but I decided to just go with it for now.
Now on to the led and off board wiring. I don’t really care for the way it’s set up in these boards at all. It doesn’t really make any sense to me. Your board input is next to the pad for the input jack ground. Why the Inout jack is on the other side of the board and the input to the board has nothing really to do with the input jack. Your +v and ground connections are at the opposite side of the board from where they need to go as well. The directions for using a normal led are not clear at all if you aren’t using one of the 3pdt boards they sell. I would’ve done it wrong if not for @MichaelW build report where he mentioned being confused by it. And I still wasn’t sure I had it right til it worked. I pushed my board a little further up the enclosure than normal to try and leave plenty of room for design. Didn’t think about the two film caps at the top of the board (since this is where pots, power wires and ground pads for jacks should go) and my jack won’t fit, tried an open fram one. Nope. Ended up getting it to fit by putting it in crooked and tightening it until it kind of willed its way into position. I was a bit worried about the film caps but they lived. Wiring is a bit of a mess I normally always run the jack wiring under the board but with the jacks where they are it seemed kind of pointless. And I was somewhat annoyed at this point.
Despite all my unforced errors on this I really like the pedal it’s very responsive to pick attack, and is just fun. It won’t replace my Morley but I will for sure use this.
Last image is before the clear coat.
This board has been completed for almost a month waiting for me to get around to doing the enclosure. And boxing it up. Had it all drilled out and painted just needed to do the decal.
This is where I started to run into problems some
self inflicted 100% some self inflicted due to questionable design in my eyes and my own assumptions and one particular of why would they do it like that.
Today during my youngest nap while the wife and oldest were off making Christmas cookies I got the decal done and applied it. Went on awesome was looking great. Let it sit and dry for about 2 1/2 hours Room it out to the garage (it’s probably 40 out and rainy at this time) and put the clear coat on (normally i bring it back in lately after putting on the clear coat but wasn’t worried about it drying fast as we were leaving. Went to dinner and Xmas lights, got home went out to check my pedal soon as I could and the decal bubbled. I’m not sure if i didn’t let it dry long enough (I feel like it should have) or if ot being too cold in the garage made it do it. But it happened it also pulled the sides a little so they don’t look straight anymore. Bummed, but I decided to just go with it for now.
Now on to the led and off board wiring. I don’t really care for the way it’s set up in these boards at all. It doesn’t really make any sense to me. Your board input is next to the pad for the input jack ground. Why the Inout jack is on the other side of the board and the input to the board has nothing really to do with the input jack. Your +v and ground connections are at the opposite side of the board from where they need to go as well. The directions for using a normal led are not clear at all if you aren’t using one of the 3pdt boards they sell. I would’ve done it wrong if not for @MichaelW build report where he mentioned being confused by it. And I still wasn’t sure I had it right til it worked. I pushed my board a little further up the enclosure than normal to try and leave plenty of room for design. Didn’t think about the two film caps at the top of the board (since this is where pots, power wires and ground pads for jacks should go) and my jack won’t fit, tried an open fram one. Nope. Ended up getting it to fit by putting it in crooked and tightening it until it kind of willed its way into position. I was a bit worried about the film caps but they lived. Wiring is a bit of a mess I normally always run the jack wiring under the board but with the jacks where they are it seemed kind of pointless. And I was somewhat annoyed at this point.
Despite all my unforced errors on this I really like the pedal it’s very responsive to pick attack, and is just fun. It won’t replace my Morley but I will for sure use this.
Last image is before the clear coat.
