falco_femoralis
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Here's my Levitation build. I've had this PCB for almost two years and it's finally boxed up! I made a Spirit Echo (or whatever its called) as one of my first pedals. This circuit is meant to be an evolution of that idea with more controls. I like that it has the short/long toggle switch, and the tone control is nice as well, if a bit subtle.
The Decay and Atmosphere knobs are related. The Decay knob controls the immediate echos from the Belton module, while the Atmosphere is more subtle and adjusts the secondary and tertiary echos.
I definitely like it more than my Spirit Box. It has a few more features and doesn't cause a volume drop when engaged - something I still haven't solved on my pedal. I was worried this pedal would sound like a bunch of delay pedals put together due to the inner workings of the belton module, but it does a nice reverb without being too feature-laden or worse, versatile.
Gut shot first bc we ball
It's a little tight but not too bad. As you can see I wastefully built this when Wima 50v 1uF caps were still part of our every day life. I wish it was possible to know when you are in the good times before they're over.
Here's the front
I've used this color scheme before on my buffer pedals (ahem) which didn't have knobs, but I like how it works with these Boss style. The pic is a bit washed out because of the LED. I'll try to replace it with another tonight.
The knobs on my pedal are a bit closer together than the PCB is set up for. I wanted to do this so the knobs would have equal spacing from each other and from the centerline of the pedal. To get this to work for this pedal, the way the lower two pots are located on the board, I set it up like this
The lower two knobs had their legs straightened and bent closer to the pot housing, and for the upper two pots I used the long leg variety and did the opposite. It was nice having the long leg pots on hand for this. I started stocking these over the winter when I had a few custom 2 in ones and the long leg pots allow for better fit when mounting two PCBs inside an enclosure that's perhaps a bit too small. In the past I've used the solder type pot, or a regular pot with the legs cut short, with wires that follow around to the PCB but I'm trying to use the stiff mounted pots as they make disassembly/reassembly and troubleshooting much easier.
The Decay and Atmosphere knobs are related. The Decay knob controls the immediate echos from the Belton module, while the Atmosphere is more subtle and adjusts the secondary and tertiary echos.
I definitely like it more than my Spirit Box. It has a few more features and doesn't cause a volume drop when engaged - something I still haven't solved on my pedal. I was worried this pedal would sound like a bunch of delay pedals put together due to the inner workings of the belton module, but it does a nice reverb without being too feature-laden or worse, versatile.
Gut shot first bc we ball
It's a little tight but not too bad. As you can see I wastefully built this when Wima 50v 1uF caps were still part of our every day life. I wish it was possible to know when you are in the good times before they're over.
Here's the front
I've used this color scheme before on my buffer pedals (ahem) which didn't have knobs, but I like how it works with these Boss style. The pic is a bit washed out because of the LED. I'll try to replace it with another tonight.
The knobs on my pedal are a bit closer together than the PCB is set up for. I wanted to do this so the knobs would have equal spacing from each other and from the centerline of the pedal. To get this to work for this pedal, the way the lower two pots are located on the board, I set it up like this
The lower two knobs had their legs straightened and bent closer to the pot housing, and for the upper two pots I used the long leg variety and did the opposite. It was nice having the long leg pots on hand for this. I started stocking these over the winter when I had a few custom 2 in ones and the long leg pots allow for better fit when mounting two PCBs inside an enclosure that's perhaps a bit too small. In the past I've used the solder type pot, or a regular pot with the legs cut short, with wires that follow around to the PCB but I'm trying to use the stiff mounted pots as they make disassembly/reassembly and troubleshooting much easier.