OD is Glorious
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I loved the build. Using ¼ watt resistors makes populating the board much more pleasing. I spent more time to get the board looking clean and made sure to enjoy the journey. Usually I am rushing to a destination but I have been learning by following posts here and learn by studying the clean work of the members. If you build one of these, you’re gonna need a few obscure parts like a D100K potentiometer and 1S1588 diodes. .
I have gotten used to having a toggle switch on a pedal after getting into Wampler pedals. It is nice to have a switch, maybe two… but more than that? Too much. So this one has just one switch and I made it a short shaft Taiway. The S1588 diodes seems to give this a very fuzz-like, very compressed/sustained distortion when you toggle north. and toggling south you get a more open and airy overdrive.
Right now the pedal works great, it just feels very underpowered to me– without being an expert I suspect I may have a bad 5534D which I purchased from Amazon (when I started making pedal I ordered many parts there) – Today I only tried one Amazon 5534 that you see here. I ordered some NE5534P ICs from Stompbox today: Google told me they were the ones to replace the NSJ. For the rest of the pedal, I was sure to take my time and test all components. The pedal worked on the auditorium platform immediately. I am probably going to wait on the final boxing until I get a proper NJM5534D unless someone sees another reason why the pedal may be underpowered. @MichaelW completed one and said in his build report that it operated like a gain pedal. Fingers crossed that all I need is a proper 5534 and please let me know if youn see anything wrong here. I do love the tone and voicing of this circuit.
Components
Green powder coated enclosure from Tayda
PedalPCB board and top jack face plate
1S1588s were sourced from an Ebay seller and they are great. Recommended by @MichaelW https://www.ebay.com/itm/115820218036
Mural on the pedal top was done with Adobe Photoshop. The design was printed on a clear thermal ink label on a brother QL-1110NWB
Resistors are ¼ watt
Mini on/on Taiway switch deom LVS
I have gotten used to having a toggle switch on a pedal after getting into Wampler pedals. It is nice to have a switch, maybe two… but more than that? Too much. So this one has just one switch and I made it a short shaft Taiway. The S1588 diodes seems to give this a very fuzz-like, very compressed/sustained distortion when you toggle north. and toggling south you get a more open and airy overdrive.
Right now the pedal works great, it just feels very underpowered to me– without being an expert I suspect I may have a bad 5534D which I purchased from Amazon (when I started making pedal I ordered many parts there) – Today I only tried one Amazon 5534 that you see here. I ordered some NE5534P ICs from Stompbox today: Google told me they were the ones to replace the NSJ. For the rest of the pedal, I was sure to take my time and test all components. The pedal worked on the auditorium platform immediately. I am probably going to wait on the final boxing until I get a proper NJM5534D unless someone sees another reason why the pedal may be underpowered. @MichaelW completed one and said in his build report that it operated like a gain pedal. Fingers crossed that all I need is a proper 5534 and please let me know if youn see anything wrong here. I do love the tone and voicing of this circuit.
Components
Green powder coated enclosure from Tayda
PedalPCB board and top jack face plate
1S1588s were sourced from an Ebay seller and they are great. Recommended by @MichaelW https://www.ebay.com/itm/115820218036
Mural on the pedal top was done with Adobe Photoshop. The design was printed on a clear thermal ink label on a brother QL-1110NWB
Resistors are ¼ watt
Mini on/on Taiway switch deom LVS
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