falco_femoralis
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I put this together for a customer who wanted something like the Mad Professor Bluebird - an overdrive pedal with a delay built in for guitar solo type stuff. I had the Southern Belle already and build the Seabed Delay to accompany it. I managed to get it in a 125b by stacking the boards. The size of the Southern Belle in particular was critical to fitting everything relatively nicely - I didn't have to use any special components for this.
The dual pot is there because I didn't have any normal A1M for some reason, but I did have 3 duals, a solder, and two long leg versions.
I used solder type pots for the middle knobs and attached them to the boards with 20ga wire I tinned and made into bus wire. Doing it this way would make the boards easier to deal with if the pedal came apart to troubleshoot. To get their length and shape right I installed the two outer pots onto the board, and the solder pot in the pedal, then bent the wires into shape. I went back and forth getting them to the right form to fit the solder lugs
Here's both boards installed. I used long leg pots for the top board, and a dab of hot glue between them to keep everything secure. They are wired so the input signal goes thru the southern belle, then into the delay. The LED and switching wires are on the southern belle, and I used the delay's 3 ground connections as a hub for both boards and the audio jacks. I wanted to keep the wiring as simple as possible so the power jack only has to interface with one ground wire.
And here we are! I purchased a powdercoated enclosure from stompboxparts for this. It doesn't really play nice with my paint pen labels, as the finish is too waxy. I tried scrubbing it with some iso alcohol but it didn't do much to help adhesion. On another powdercoated enclosure I sanded the clear coat down to get a more porous surface which would take paint better, but I didn't want to do that with the metallic finish here. It's winter and difficult to make enclosures, but I think I'm going to make a big push to get some together because the quality would be much better with the polyurethane clear coat I normally do.
I instantly liked the pedal. I totally get why you'd want the two together - it's just super cool being able to go for the guitar solo and not have to worry about dancing between two pedals. I'm not a super big fan of the southern belle sound, as I find it and the lightspeed too "squishy," but having the delay integrated was too cool to ignore. I love it! Now to make another one for myself...
The dual pot is there because I didn't have any normal A1M for some reason, but I did have 3 duals, a solder, and two long leg versions.
I used solder type pots for the middle knobs and attached them to the boards with 20ga wire I tinned and made into bus wire. Doing it this way would make the boards easier to deal with if the pedal came apart to troubleshoot. To get their length and shape right I installed the two outer pots onto the board, and the solder pot in the pedal, then bent the wires into shape. I went back and forth getting them to the right form to fit the solder lugs
Here's both boards installed. I used long leg pots for the top board, and a dab of hot glue between them to keep everything secure. They are wired so the input signal goes thru the southern belle, then into the delay. The LED and switching wires are on the southern belle, and I used the delay's 3 ground connections as a hub for both boards and the audio jacks. I wanted to keep the wiring as simple as possible so the power jack only has to interface with one ground wire.
And here we are! I purchased a powdercoated enclosure from stompboxparts for this. It doesn't really play nice with my paint pen labels, as the finish is too waxy. I tried scrubbing it with some iso alcohol but it didn't do much to help adhesion. On another powdercoated enclosure I sanded the clear coat down to get a more porous surface which would take paint better, but I didn't want to do that with the metallic finish here. It's winter and difficult to make enclosures, but I think I'm going to make a big push to get some together because the quality would be much better with the polyurethane clear coat I normally do.
I instantly liked the pedal. I totally get why you'd want the two together - it's just super cool being able to go for the guitar solo and not have to worry about dancing between two pedals. I'm not a super big fan of the southern belle sound, as I find it and the lightspeed too "squishy," but having the delay integrated was too cool to ignore. I love it! Now to make another one for myself...
