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Another one off the bench. I am enjoying bass-ready circuits, though my grumblings about old offboard pots resurfaces.
Sounded pretty good through the tiny bench amp, though it took some fiddling, which means I expect it to sound better through my New Proper Bass Amp. Yay.
Went for the stock 5088s and J113.
No idea how I managed to hit that cap. I was very careful not to hit it at every step, and it was fine when I was considering it done, but when I went to close it up, there it was. I think they run on 10mm socket logic.
This paint turned out less ‘neon green’ than the cap suggests, and more ‘Avocado’. Oh well, it’s a fuzz, so that works. I just changed the font to a more neo-retro 70s cue.
I was hoping to use up some of my green knobs, but it’s weird that ‘not quite right’ colors seem far more out of place than unrelated ones. Oh well.
I am building this pedal as we speak, my second build, I am new to this and enjoying getting my hands back on a soldering iron. This post also helps with a tech question I was going to ask regarding R24, as this resistor was not listed in parts list, nor supplied with kit (I am in Aust). I have chosen the 4 Knob option, and noticed in schematic that R24 connects pin 1 of pot to Gnd, though shows pin 1 of Bd mounted trim pot is direct to Gnd, a little bit confusing. I have metered the Bd and found both pin 1 of each pot is attached to R24, and other pin of R24 is Gnd, so have bought myself some 33K resistors, and will be fitting this resistor before final assembly.
I have chosen a slightly different layout to what is displayed here, and as I am only beginning on this journey, not really looked into any graphics or decorations, mostly concerned with building functioning pedals at this point, will show my pedal once it is completed.
Yeah, R24 wasn’t on the BOM; I had to check the schematic. I’m not an electrical engineer, couldn’t explain reasoning about the routing.
As for the layout, arrange it however you want. I went this route because I have 125b enclosures and I’m amassing a collection of NostalgiTone pedals. This is almost standardizing.
Plus I like the top jacks. Saves pedalboard room.It’s good to see how someone with some experience chooses to go about it, and compare with mine, yours is def tidier than mine, Lol. Understand the top jack v side jack for pedal board use, at this point I am novice player, and more novice pedal builder, but it’s fun, chose 1590BB enclosure to give myself plenty of room to work with. It’s completed now, and worked first go, so I’m happy about that, sounds great, can get a bit crazy if you want, but also dial back a bit.
Btw, how did you mount/secure the Pcb? (double sided tape?) I ran cable ties under pots and tied it down that way, bit ugly, but effective.
I have some 1590B’s left over, but you can’t really do top jacks with those; a 125B with top jacks takes up slightly less pedalboard space, so I’ve kind of standardized on those. I do use 1590BB’s if I need bigger. One or two have been tight, but I have yet to build anything larger than those.
In this case, the wires put the right pressure to hold the board in place so it doesn’t ground out anywhere. The bottom tilts down, but doesn’t hit anything important.
If my boards need a little help, I use double-sided foam tape. Gel tape is awesome, I just don’t have any right now.
When things are seriously complicated, I’ve cut strips of 1/4″ craft foam and built bracing from those, secured to the enclosure and each other with hot glue.
But 99% of the time some half-inch squares of tape does wonders.
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