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thanks for the help guys... that tutorial is actually what i was gonna do with the .50 cent tayda pots originally, then i was thinking about sanding down the pins to fit into the holes on teh pcb.

now, i started trying to desolder the pots from this board, and for the life of my i cannot get all of the solder out.  I absolutely cannot get them out, i already broke one pot in the process of it, i've had problems desoldering anything on this board really though.  i'm in fear of losing my whole board.  I might have to cut off the pots and try to jerry rig the other ones through... if only i had 4 right hands and 3 soldering irons

anyone got any tips on how to do this without ruining the board.  i am really fearing im screwed at this point, never had this much trouble desoldering

The pots are supposed to be mounted on the solder side of the board. The pot holes are labeled in the doc.

thanks man!  I woulda never saw those tiny little numbers there

So I just finished up the low rider build.  had a few problems with the board creating traces between two components, or maybe it was me revealing a trace that was already there.  anyway, I had components making contact, but the schematic showed they were supposed to make contact so that was okay.  does anyone know what i'm talking about here?  i got like a little silver trace in between two resistors in places I had to desolder components.

here's the real problem... this is my first build with PCB mounted pots.  I got the short ones from mammoth and as I began to mount them on the board- they are showed on the drilling template that they need to be mounted back over the top of the board.  i took this to mean the pots on top of the component side of the board.  this did not work well at all!  there's a big 14 pin chip with a socket right below one of the pots, and even the trim pot forced me to lean the pot forward.  so now all the pots are leaning forward and the board definitely wont fit into a 1590bb.

Can i install the pots so they're hovering over the trace side of the board?  How am I supposed to know in the future?  there's no numbering on this build pdf or anything!  I'd really appreciate some insight on this

i'm new to this forum... and ive been searching quite a bit with the box but i cannot find anything on sourcing mn3005's... i'm sure this has been covered... but it appears not.  if someone could help me get some i would be forever indebted!!!

dang thats exciting!!!  I cannot wait for this and the loophole!!! now those are some seriously bad ass effects i would have never thought i would be able to clone when i was getting into this!

man... i just found madbean pedals... how i would love a non smd (mojo believer to an extent)  octave pedal... i was so stoked until i saw this board is no longer available!!! ughhh... i'm a believer in the old big box pog's over the new ones and i dug the lowrider demo more than any other octaver ive heard---love the fuzzy upper with the clean lowers

will this make a reappearance?  if not, anyone know where a similar board exists?  i know byoc sells the mutron octave divider board seperately from the kit... and the ring mod thing is cool, but damn i want two octaves down and one up!!!!!!!