Mod-Ring -- Second Version

[cajone5]

So, I built a mood ring a while back and Boba7's build with modulation was so cool I had to add it to mine.  So I built this guy up... Standard mood ring controls (mood, space, dwell, ring, dry-kill) with added modulation on vero with rate and depth controls (sine wave shape hard-wired) and on/off toggle for the modulation.  It turned out really nicely, I thought, although I drilled the LED about 1/16th off center and it drives me kind of crazy...





Gut shot from when I was debugging a wrong resistor.  It's got a lot of wire in there and the mod board is stuck to the bottom edge of the enclosure in the photo.  I probably could have built it cleaner but I intended for this to be the learning phase and I learned quite a bit but the biggest takeaway is that Boba7 has  a great ear and suggested some excellent mods.



This guy lived on my board for the past few months and is awesome.  I decided it was definitely a keeper (rare these days for me), so I begged dminner to etch me a nice enclosure.  I have plans for one more reverb but that's going to be a true spring verb in a head enclosure so this will be the one and only reverb on the pedal board for me.  Dan obliged and etched a really nice enclosure (I wish I could create something even half this cool looking on my own).

In the back here...


In the front here...


Finally, the past 2 weekends were partially spent on this project and partially on another.  Finally, this weekend, I was able to get this beast wired up and it fired up first try (although I did some trouble shooting while assembling so that's not totally accurate).  It's got the following boards in there...

1. Grind Customs Lumen Optical Bypass
2. Grind Customs PLFO Modulation Board
       -- Wired to DPDT switch to turn on/off modulation LED and make/break connection to space pot
3. Vero daughter board for PLFO for rate LED (thanks Boba7 for the notes!)
4. Madbean Mood Ring
       -- Increased feedback and brightness mods courtesy for Boba7 again

This one is still a bit of a mess inside but pretty darn clean and LOTS of controls.  I absolutely love it.  I wired the dry kill switch on the top edge which was easy since it's in a 1590BBT with lots of depth.  Top jacks like almost all my builds.  I prefer that for simplicity and space savings.  Modulation board has a pot for rate and depth of mod, another pot for shape that goes from sine/triangle wave on the left to square wave on the right and an on/off toggle.  10mm white LED for on/off, 3mm blue LED for mod.







Cleaner guts than before but still a bit of a mess due to the multiple boards and limited space...



Wow... quite the post.  Very cool project and very empowering.  Hoping to keep this momentum up in my next personal build.  I feel like I haven't built much for myself lately but between my 5e3 and this reverb the past few weeks have been very rewarding.

Now I probably need to sell the black one off since it's been usurped...

Thanks for all the hard work that allowed me to build this Brian, Rej, Dan and Boba7!

[Aleph Null]

Looks great! Good layout. Really nicely executed. I particularly like the LEDs/bezels.

[Boba7]

Wow, now that's a truly amazing reverb pedal!

Love love love the enclosure, and the wiring is so neat too!

Glad I was a small part of that build, turned out great!

[bluescage]

That looks great!!

[Boba7]

By the way, I would love to hear or see a short demo of this pedal, especially with square wave modulation!!