Erik S
Well-known member
Last on on my build report catch-up. Hail Hydra!
I was an acoustic only guy for a lot of years, and only got back into playing electric at the beginning of this year. That kicked off a lot of gear acquisition in a short period of time, and one of the fancier pieces I picked up was a used Boss RE-202 space echo. It's been a lot of fun. When I started building pedals, a friend was playing with my RE-202, and asked "can you build me one of these?" I laughed and said - "of course not!". But then I saw the Hydra, and thought, that's kind of in the same ball park, so here's my Hydra/ fake mini space echo for my friend.
Build was smooth, pedal sounds great. I initially thought I might build another one for myself and swap it in for the big Boss unit, but I think I'll hang on to the Boss for now. Having pre-sets and tap tempo is pretty nice, and I think it justifies the footprint.
Instead of buying the PPCB faceplate for this one, I etched an aluminum version and swapped the little graphic in the middle out with a reversed version of my ES logo for Space Echo. I felt a little funny "stealing" an existing pedal name, but I'm not going into business with these, so hopefully Boss can forgive me.
I was an acoustic only guy for a lot of years, and only got back into playing electric at the beginning of this year. That kicked off a lot of gear acquisition in a short period of time, and one of the fancier pieces I picked up was a used Boss RE-202 space echo. It's been a lot of fun. When I started building pedals, a friend was playing with my RE-202, and asked "can you build me one of these?" I laughed and said - "of course not!". But then I saw the Hydra, and thought, that's kind of in the same ball park, so here's my Hydra/ fake mini space echo for my friend.
Build was smooth, pedal sounds great. I initially thought I might build another one for myself and swap it in for the big Boss unit, but I think I'll hang on to the Boss for now. Having pre-sets and tap tempo is pretty nice, and I think it justifies the footprint.
Instead of buying the PPCB faceplate for this one, I etched an aluminum version and swapped the little graphic in the middle out with a reversed version of my ES logo for Space Echo. I felt a little funny "stealing" an existing pedal name, but I'm not going into business with these, so hopefully Boss can forgive me.
