This is only my second attempt doing a waterslide decal and I had an extremely frustrating mishap with the border. The decal started moving around and appeared to be shrinking so I did my best to save face and get it as straight as I could, but I think I overworked it. I've watched and read quite a few tutorials on doing decals, but if anyone out there has any tips that might be useful please feel free to chime in.
The original basic minotaur picture was taken from google and I converted it to a vector and had some fun with it in Illustrator. I'm definitely going to give some more decal design a shot because this was a lot of fun and I'm sick of the label maker. The masking tape in the enclosure is temporary to get the snap out of the way until I find a more elegant solution. Not sure I'll ever get my builds as clean as some of you on here, but at least they are getting better. I took my time with this one, making sure to check every component with a MM before installing, and I didn't run into any issues. I even tested all the capacitors to find the ones that were the closest to the value called for on the build docs. I know some of them to have up to 20% tolerance, but I was surprised to find how many were way off from the printed value.
The pedal sounds awesome, but the low end seems a little flubby to me when the gain is all the way down. I have nothing to compare it to though and unfortunately, this is the problem that I run into often of building clones of pedals I've never played. I socketed the diodes so I might try playing around with those later to see if it has any impact.
All and all, fun build, great sounding pedal, and I'm really happy with how it turned out other than the mishap with the border of the decal. I just realized I'm on my 10th or so PedalPCB build and haven't done a build report until now. I will try to keep doing them in the future if I can remember.
The original basic minotaur picture was taken from google and I converted it to a vector and had some fun with it in Illustrator. I'm definitely going to give some more decal design a shot because this was a lot of fun and I'm sick of the label maker. The masking tape in the enclosure is temporary to get the snap out of the way until I find a more elegant solution. Not sure I'll ever get my builds as clean as some of you on here, but at least they are getting better. I took my time with this one, making sure to check every component with a MM before installing, and I didn't run into any issues. I even tested all the capacitors to find the ones that were the closest to the value called for on the build docs. I know some of them to have up to 20% tolerance, but I was surprised to find how many were way off from the printed value.
The pedal sounds awesome, but the low end seems a little flubby to me when the gain is all the way down. I have nothing to compare it to though and unfortunately, this is the problem that I run into often of building clones of pedals I've never played. I socketed the diodes so I might try playing around with those later to see if it has any impact.
All and all, fun build, great sounding pedal, and I'm really happy with how it turned out other than the mishap with the border of the decal. I just realized I'm on my 10th or so PedalPCB build and haven't done a build report until now. I will try to keep doing them in the future if I can remember.
