It’s been a journey of learning but I’m super glad I finally decided to give this a shot.
My first build was a Sproing Reverb. It went together reasonably well, but I ran into some classic newb in/out jack wiring issues and I ended up screwing up the led tabs on the pcb. Wired the led directly to the switch and 9v and it worked. Messy soldering, lots of unintentional grounding, but I sorted it out. The rest went together with minimal issues. A couple required some minor disassembly and resoldering of some components.
The Sunflower fuzz (yellow knobs) was the first pedal where I had to bias a transistor so once I sorted that out and the clean trim inside it sounds great.
Top row: Desolate Fuzz, Titania2
Bottom row: Bellum Mk II, Percolation station.
On bench I have an Aion Percolator and a King of Nothing, but I keep ordering the wrong parts for these…
One thing to add: I like Hammond enclosures; the texture is a bit smoother than the run of the mill enclosures I have bought, despite all doing their job the same. I also want to get into acid etching the enclosures or getting some sort of graphics on them. Thats a side project however. I also really like "vintage" styled knobs, Davies, RCA etc...
My first build was a Sproing Reverb. It went together reasonably well, but I ran into some classic newb in/out jack wiring issues and I ended up screwing up the led tabs on the pcb. Wired the led directly to the switch and 9v and it worked. Messy soldering, lots of unintentional grounding, but I sorted it out. The rest went together with minimal issues. A couple required some minor disassembly and resoldering of some components.
The Sunflower fuzz (yellow knobs) was the first pedal where I had to bias a transistor so once I sorted that out and the clean trim inside it sounds great.
Top row: Desolate Fuzz, Titania2
Bottom row: Bellum Mk II, Percolation station.
On bench I have an Aion Percolator and a King of Nothing, but I keep ordering the wrong parts for these…
One thing to add: I like Hammond enclosures; the texture is a bit smoother than the run of the mill enclosures I have bought, despite all doing their job the same. I also want to get into acid etching the enclosures or getting some sort of graphics on them. Thats a side project however. I also really like "vintage" styled knobs, Davies, RCA etc...
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