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Every time I build a pedal, I say this will be the last time, as I am sure it is nothing short of a miracle that they work first time.
I recently built one of these too, but rather than go full kit I just bought the PCB and a cheap eBay 1590 knockoff and used as many parts as I could from my stash - hence all my resistors and caps are different colours. Of course I ended up spending £6 on 2 transistors, but hey, it's the principle. I only bought one of the vertical pin pots and soldered stiff wires onto two that I already had.
Anyway, it worked first time and sounds great on guitar but shite on bass. Oh well! Next build is another valve amp...
Got hold of some old CV7127 diodes which I'm combining with 1n4148 diodes. I've seen various others in both the Reeves and various versions of the Les Lius including BAT46, 1n34a etc, but went with that.
Took a fair bit of time and trawling through Instagram to work out everything in the circuit. Then because it was difficult to draw, what with the 3D nature of the layout, I made a 3D model of it...
I may have got a little carried away (yes all the resistors have the correct colour bands).
As it is all done in place I've had to get the enclosure finished first, so that's been done and I'm cracking on with the build
To clarify are you saying your take on it is based on a Les Lius with an LPB into it or is this what the actual Reeves Leo is based on too? If so I will have a go at building one myself!
All finished. Worked first time as well - the nice thing about working at this large scale is you can easily see if the connections are sound rather than poking around on a PCB.
I'm fairly happy with the insides - I could do with a better set of side-snips as mine aren't truly flush and my soldering is not quite as elegant as in the Reeves original. On the whole though, the point to point stuff was fairly straightforward.
@Alex2678 here's a link to view the 3D model - https://skfb.ly/oNQM9 - I did some labelling on things like the capacitors and pots to help out.
@jonnygreentrees hopefully that will help you as well. The wattage switch is the same as the 3-way switch on the Les Lius, so it's the pair of 1n4148s, then optionally adding in either a pair or a single CV7127 (Fuzzdog use BAT46)
The Bright/Normal is doing some stuff with that 330pf cap and the Hi/Lo is putting in an extra ground.