Moonshot Tremolo

[jojofogarty01]

Finished building the Moonshot PCB last night it’s for one of my friends who plays in another band at the college I go to. It sounds great! This is the first time I’ve played with a tremolo let alone built one. I think he’ll dig it. I left the enclosure blank because he said he wanted to give a go at painting it himself. It’s a matte black sand finish from Tayda. I'll let him pick out some knobs after he paints it too. I might go back and switch the led colors or up the 4.7k to a higher value. Anybody have a suggestion for what value to use, or should I just experiment with it? I used a green superbright for the bypass led and it is BLINDING. Other than that the build was super straightforward.

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

Nice work!
Don't be surprised if you have to go up to 47K or higher to tame that superbright LED. I'm powering a 5mm superbright green LED off of 12V and I needed to use 100K to get the brightness under control.

 

[jojofogarty01]

Nice work!
Don't be surprised if you have to go up to 47K or higher to tame that superbright LED. I'm powering a 5mm superbright green LED off of 12V and I needed to use 100K to get the brightness under control.

Thanks! I went ahead and replaced both LEDs with the normal diffused ones. Much more pleased with the way these turned out and there's a nice balance of brightness for both of them. I added pics to the OP.

 

[Travis]

Hi! I did this tremolo and it´s sound amazing but I must crank the gain to unity volume, it´s normal?

Thanks!

 

[Betty Wont]

Hi! I did this tremolo and it´s sound amazing but I must crank the gain to unity volume, it´s normal?

Thanks!

no, it should boost after noon.

 

[Travis]

My ones doesn't boost :/

 

[jojofogarty01]

Hi! I did this tremolo and it´s sound amazing but I must crank the gain to unity volume, it´s normal?

Thanks!

Mine pushes out unity gain right between 11:00 and 12:00. Post a thread on the trouble-shooting section. I'm sure someone over there with more experience than I have could help you out. Make sure to include good pictures of the inside of the pedal as well as your solder joints.