Danelectro PB&J Rehouse

[Rafy]

Don't shoot me if this is something I should know!

I've tried searching, but I really don't know what to look for, so here it goes:

I'm in the process of learning about this stuff and at the moment I really don't know crap.

I have a PB&J delay and I want to rehouse it as a first project. I've read that people usually leave the switching the same way, they just buy new switches. The 9v and jacks are things that people usually change too, so which jacks do you recommend? mono, stereo, enclosed, open frame? The pots should be 16mm or 24mm? and how many K they should be?

I would like to enclose it in a 1290 and separate the switches a bit for comfort, I don't want to modify it per se.

What do you guys think?

[danielzink]

I lifted this from the Experimentalists Anonymous site a year or so ago. I don't remember who posted it - but thanks to who(m)ever did.

Anyhow - hope it helps:

For the PB&J, it's a bit different... you cannot remove the switching board because the switching is on the same board as the delay chip! The three boards are switches, effect, and buffers. There is no real way to get around using the buffer board. The switches you can get rid of. My current favorite way to do true bypassing, while retaining the ability to select long or short, is to cut legs 2 and 5 on the tiny SMD 4013, and then make a little jumper between legs 10 and 8. Then, just do the TB to the jacks on the buffer board. You can also simply use a DPDT for long/short... take a look at the schematic, you just have to cut a trace and switch a leg on the PT2395 between high and low, using the other throw of the switch for the LEDs. The LED in the PB&J is a 3-leg two color LED, with a common anode (the center lug). I just use the 3pdt to switch the center lug on and off, wiring two LEDs with their anodes connected and wired to that 3pdt switch's lug, and wiring the cathodes to the PCB. Either way works dandy. If you are really good, you'd make a new buffer board-the PB&J has a few very silly things, one of them being that the op amps are powered with 5v of headroom when 9v is available.

Dan

[Rafy]

Yeah, that is helpful.

And about the pots, what pots do you guys usually recommend for this kind of pedals?