First project finished and lessons learnt...

[glesconz]

Hi! well, just completed my first project, I wanted a clean boost FX and an overdrive that would give me a nice early valve breakup sound..so I made an Orange Squeezer compressor and a DOD 250 (grey). The DOD sounded just right but the compressor made too much of a noticeable click. It worked fine but a bit hissy - perhaps the power source, so I took it out and replaced it with a LPB2 booster...Perfect!!!! Both FX's are in the one box, with a DC supply...

Lessons?
1. Dont put too much heat on a 3PDT switch or solder/unsolder wires from them too often - this caused a switching upset fixed by a new switch...
2. If you're going for a consistant knob look (and who isnt?), check your pots have matching shaft measurements. Two of my three (old pots) had larger diameter shafts than the knobs would take.
3. Use a regulated, well filtered power supply. Cant stress this enough!! My compressor made an awful noise caused by a P.O.S. supply.

Thats about it, am looking at doing the EA Improved Tremolo next....

Cheers,
Glenn

[glesconz]

Oh yeah, found out from this forum that my BOSS power supply, an eighties ACA adapter is unregulated...so will use that only for that pedal..
Cheers
Glenn

[jkokura]

Congrats! I'm glad you're building and learning. I love this hobby, and so should you! There are lots of people around here happy to help you learn some more!

Jacob