I've been wanting to build this pedal for years. Ordered the PCB and a few of the odd components from BYOC last September and finally just got around to building it. The whole thing was a lesson in the price of impatience, but in the end I have a fully functioning pedal, albeit one with:
No clear coat over the decal (d'oh! )
Speaking of the decal, who cut it, and how drunk were they? (Me, and not at all.)
I/O jacks that might as well have been duct taped on (check out the 3PDT washers I used to compensate for the giant drill holes)…
…which compensated for putting the holes in the wrong spot, making it impossible to put the bottom plate on
Oh, and notice I
still had to dig deep in my drawer of capacitors to find some electros used in 1590A builds, which I no longer do for obvious reasons, so that the caps closest to the I/O jacks would be shorter, because the lid
still wouldn't close.
So yeah, take your time with this stuff, kids. At any rate, it sounds fantastic. Actually, pardon the pun, but not at
any rate. Or depth. This thing sings in the subtle range of the controls, but it sounds pretty awful in the extremes. I mention this because it seems like every demo of a modulation pedal jumps immediately to "every control turned all the way up", which frustrates me. This pedal has such a gorgeous sound, but you wouldn't know it from YouTube. I love the chorus mod, too!
Many thanks to everyone who helped me figure it out in the
troubleshooting thread.
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