SteveF's Pedal Building Journey

SteveF

And... We're done!  

A brief moment of panic when it didn't work, but a quick check revealed that I hadn't wired the circuit to the 9V input! D'oh! 

Quite fiddly getting it all in neatly, so it isn't, particularly!  But it's done, it works and it sounds great.   @Philtre I actually noticed the difference on the clipping switch a lot more once I plugged it into my HT5R. 

Philtre

Looks great! Well done!

BTW - I find the washer on the mini jack switches way too big, and it has a little tab on it (which I break off).

BigMonka

Great work @SteveF the finished product looks great.
It's particularly interesting for me because I decided to have a go at building my own pedal and so bought a Timmy kit about a year ago - it's currently only half soldered (and I have no enclosure yet!) but your and @Philtre 's threads have inspired me to have a go at finishing it and ordering some extra bits to make some more afterwards :-)

SteveF

BigMonka said:

Great work @SteveF the finished product looks great.
It's particularly interesting for me because I decided to have a go at building my own pedal and so bought a Timmy kit about a year ago - it's currently only half soldered (and I have no enclosure yet!) but your and @Philtre 's threads have inspired me to have a go at finishing it and ordering some extra bits to make some more afterwards :-)

Great stuff, have a go - you know you want to!  

Octafish

SteveF said:

And... We're done!  

A brief moment of panic when it didn't work, but a quick check revealed that I hadn't wired the circuit to the 9V input! D'oh! 

Quite fiddly getting it all in neatly, so it isn't, particularly!  But it's done, it works and it sounds great.   @Philtre I actually noticed the difference on the clipping switch a lot more once I plugged it into my HT5R. 

Looking good there! What sort of printer do you use?

SteveF

Just a bog standard HP inkjet photo printer. HP Envy somethingorother. It was set to its best setting and it’s just printed on sticky backed glossy paper. 

SteveF

It’s this one I think https://www.google.co.uk/shopping/product/13305596763608011548?lsf=seller:9957733,store:13055098608963551659&prds=oid:9812276782475362030&q=hp+envy+5640+printer&hl=en-gb&ei=COTUWo7WNIiTgAaRy5aYDA&lsft=gclid:EAIaIQobChMIs7KmpK-_2gIVYrftCh0VuwViEAsYBiABEgLQPfD_BwE

Octafish

Cheers, your print quality looks really good! I've got an old HP deskjet and had problems with lines ii some colours, most noticable with white labels. Time to invest in a new printer I think.

Philtre

Octafish said:

Cheers, your print quality looks really good! I've got an old HP deskjet and had problems with lines ii some colours, most noticable with white labels. Time to invest in a new printer I think.

Do those lines appear when you print on highest quality. I have a brand new Canon inkjet and this happens.

Octafish

Philtre said:

Octafish said:

Cheers, your print quality looks really good! I've got an old HP deskjet and had problems with lines ii some colours, most noticable with white labels. Time to invest in a new printer I think.

Do those lines appear when you print on highest quality. I have a brand new Canon inkjet and this happens.

Yes, I tried it on high quality general use setting, then tried highest quality photo printing option. Both had the issue. It doesn't seem to show up on the transparent vinyl.

Philtre

@SteveF Tayda have got a new discount coupon on until 22nd April - 15VOLTS

SteveF

Ooh, been busy so nearly forgot about this.  Order in  

Philtre

SteveF said:

Ooh, been busy so nearly forgot about this.  Order in  

Come on, man! We're all waiting for your next pedal build!

SteveF

Still got to finish off the SHO and Eternity Burst yet. I find the bottleneck is the artwork and drilling. I’ll get the artwork for both done and then have a go at ETing them

Philtre

Yep, agree about the bottleneck. Soldering up a board can be done relatively quickly.

Adam_MD

I really need to get my finger out and finish some as well.  I think I have 9 or 10 in various stages of completion.  I’ve been way too busy with work for the last few months.  

Philtre

I'm going back to some of my early builds and giving them a makeover. My Fuzz Factory was given new decal and ET. Now working on my Lunar Module Deluxe with new artwork, ET and new knobs.

Adam_MD

Philtre said:

I'm going back to some of my early builds and giving them a makeover. My Fuzz Factory was given new decal and ET. Now working on my Lunar Module Deluxe with new artwork, ET and new knobs.

After I’d been building for a few years I did that too though I didn’t really touch the outsides.  

I mostly tidied up the horror show wiring from my early builds, replaced a few parts to lower the noise and switched out the cheapo Taiwan blue 3pdts for optical switching.  

Philtre

Adam_MD said:

Philtre said:

I'm going back to some of my early builds and giving them a makeover. My Fuzz Factory was given new decal and ET. Now working on my Lunar Module Deluxe with new artwork, ET and new knobs.

After I’d been building for a few years I did that too though I didn’t really touch the outsides.  

I mostly tidied up the horror show wiring from my early builds, replaced a few parts to lower the noise and switched out the cheapo Taiwan blue 3pdts for optical switching.  

Isn't that like giving an old chopping axe a new head and a new handle?

Adam_MD

Philtre said:

Adam_MD said:

Philtre said:

I'm going back to some of my early builds and giving them a makeover. My Fuzz Factory was given new decal and ET. Now working on my Lunar Module Deluxe with new artwork, ET and new knobs.

After I’d been building for a few years I did that too though I didn’t really touch the outsides.  

I mostly tidied up the horror show wiring from my early builds, replaced a few parts to lower the noise and switched out the cheapo Taiwan blue 3pdts for optical switching.  

Isn't that like giving an old chopping axe a new head and a new handle?

At least I reused the old enclosures and didn’t waste time refinishing them.  

Circuit wise the main thing I changed was the tayda ceramic caps they really were terrible the difference in not just sound but noise was immediately apparent.  The 3pdts I had used early on were also seriously temperamental so it made sense to go just for optical switching and never have to worry about them again.

Oh and like I said I tidied up the wiring.  As long as it worked I didn’t care how bad the wiring was when I started.