Man O War DX - Tayda printed build

[slowpogo]

I had this enclosure printed and drilled by Tayda (I did the graphics myself). I image-traced a drawing I found of a man o' war jellyfish, and used the Nintendo font in italics for the main text. Turned out exactly as it looked in Illustrator, including the colors. In comparison to Pedal Parts Plus, who I used a few years ago when they still did one-offs, the printing quality and fidelity is WAY better. For all I know PPP has upgraded their printer since then but in any case I consider Tayda a fantastic option. Also, the enclosure cost about $17 TOTAL which is an absolute steal.

The pedal is a real banger. It pays to take a lot of time to calibrate it because the trims are so interactive with each other. I actually found that different compander chips -- Philips, Sigma, CoolAudio -- DO sound a little different, more than you might expect. I was able to eventually dial in an ideal analog delay sound and I like it even better than madbean's Total Recall.

[jimilee]

Nice!!


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[gordo]

Damn that's clean

[jjjimi84]

Loving this build! nice work

[Bio77]

That looks great! Did you use any of the add-on services (white, gloss, or emboss) for this?

[PapaKev]

I like it!

[dawson]

Great color choices for the layout- it looks better than a lot of professionally-made pedals out there.

[slowpogo]

Thanks all!

That looks great! Did you use any of the add-on services (white, gloss, or emboss) for this?

It does have the "emboss" option. The graphics are raised and tactile with a glossy, gel-like appearance, looks really pro. Everything is also printed in the white layer under the colors.

Since I did this, they've added a "double-pass" option for white and color, but I don't think you'd need that unless your enclosure is black or very dark.

[cooder]

Excellent, epic build and top notch graphics!