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Bio77 - the only time I've used them, I had the holes pre-drilled so i could line the decal up properly. Hoping these work for you and solve that problem though.

Good news, the decals arrived yesterday. Bad news, I won't get a chance to try them until next weekend at the earliest. I've nearly finished getting some designs ready so I can get them down the print shop this week as I don't have a laser printer anymore.

Cheers for that. If their normal stuff is decent then I'm going to take a punt on it and hope for the best.

I'm hoping that when baking the decals in the oven, the powder coat won't melt into it or distort or anything like that. I'll let everyone know how well the decals work as soon as I get time to try them out.

FYI, if anyone else tries it on powder coated boxes, don't bake them in your kitchen oven as you'll eventually poison yourself.

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I've just seen some decal paper that doesn't leave a film and just wondering if anyone has any experience with it. The only time I've used decal paper was years ago and putting a clear powder coat layer on top. The issue with that was on the lighter colours, if you weren't extremely careful, the water marks showed as brown spots under the clear coat.

Seems to work the same way as normal decal paper, but the glue sticks the image down and then the film can be pulled off, and then baked in an oven to cure the image. Here is a link to the video https://youtu.be/4gP9ChoGSTY

No worries about that. I think it was good as finding decent looper style closures is hard, especially in the UK, and if it benefits others it's always worth sharing

I'm thinking about putting the buffer on a switch just in case it's not wanted sometimes (my guitar teaching friend does a lot of acoustic work).

Going to start working in the enclosure in the next few days, doing the label and drilling template, depending how long that takes, I maybe able to get the enclosure powder coated on Tuesday, otherwise it's going to have to wait until the following week.

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Marshall Arts - if it helps, I don't mind posting one to you if you can't find an alternative (you should be able to though). Only thing is, it wouldn't be cheap on the postage I imagine. It was €9 euros postage to ship each enclosure to the UK from them.

Little update, the missing parts have arrived! However, I've found the ceramic cap that I was missing in one of my component bags, so I'm guessing I've got the film caps someone as well maybe.

Question for the people that use acoustic boards, is it worth incorporating a switchable buffer into it? Only reason I ask is a couple of years ago I designed a buffer using Beans Cornholio schematic, and made the mistake of ordering the boards after being up for work at 4am for 5 days in a row and ended up ordering 200 of them. I'm sure you can imagine that I have more then a few boards spare!

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You saying that has made me feel a little bit better about it now!

Ordered some bits from Tayda, ordered the other bits from Small Bear for the multi effect. While doing that I forgot to order the parts for the 3 Dreamtime boards that I got so I had to places a 2nd order at Small Bear for those parts, then had to place a 3rd order with them for the jacks! Thankfully they noticed what I did with the jacks, bundled them into the 2nd package and gave me a $16 refund on the postage. I was wondering why I had a refund from them until the package turned up. I swear on these 2 builds I've spent more okkn postage then on components!

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Little update, today has been rather productive, managed to get to the cinema before my on call time with work started, had lunch with my friend as well. Still hadn't been called to go into work by the time i got home so I managed to solder up the remaining parts on the boards! Managed to miss 5 capacitors on the part orders that I did so just ordered them and will solder them when they arrive.

Below is a picture of the (nearly completed) builds. A few other boards of what I've been slowly working on as well. One of the white boards is fully built but I'm currently trying to troubleshoot it.

Going to start working on the label design for it in the next few days. Is starting to come together quite quickly considering how slow all my other builds go.

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So, what enclosure are you going with?  I'd love to build a flyrig of some sort, but the looper enclosures aren't deep enough for my liking.  I've looked (briefly, shallowly) at cable channel, but what's stuff you've got in the last photo?

The 1032L was my first choice, as it's diecast aluminium and the type of enclosure that I'm used to, but the boards didn't really fit inside it. So I've gone for a aluminium looper enclosure. Its slightly shallower, I've just put them side by side, and probably only about 7 or 8mm shallower at a rough guess. The big advantage is that the looper enclosure ends come off and the bottom panel slides off, and with it being 15mm wider, it provides a lot more space inside it.

Here is a link to the one that I've ordered https://www.musikding.de/Looper-enclosure-30cm

I did also get the miniature electro capacitors for it just in case, but even with normal size ones they would fit easily.

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Got my first bit of work done on the boards today! Got all the resistors, diodes and ceramic capacitors fitted, apart from one ceramic capacitor as I can't seem to find that value in the components that I ordered.  Genuinely forgot how much fun building a pedal is when you're not building for someone else, I can't even remember the last time I built one for myself.

Unfortunately work is going to get in the way of doing some more soldering on them tomorrow, so hoping to get all the capacitors soldered on Saturday if work decide not to call me in, otherwise they will have to wait until Monday.

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Willybomb, I'll get the board in the post tomorrow for you!

I've finally had a spare bit of time today and done some playing around.

The boards look great, can't wait to get them all built up! If anyone wants the 3 SMD soldering test boards from the Dreamtime then give me a shout as I don't have any use for them.

There isn't anyway I can use board mounted pots in the 1032L enclosure. If the boards are mounted on their sides, they just about fit along the side of the enclosure (but then that could interfere with the pot placement, and placing them too close to the foot switches). So that leaves the looper enclosure. The bonus is that it's 5cm longer, which is a massive bonus for space, but there is a ridge that is used to secure the end plates that run the length of the enclosure that could get it the way, may need to use the Dremmel to trim that down. Its also quite tight in getting the board and foot switch mounted with enough space between them, so my measuring and drilling will need to be 100% perfect.

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Small update - the boards have arrived, kinda. Unfortunately I got a card yesterday to say that they have been hit by customs. I tried to pay the fee online yesterday but they then can't delivery it until Tuesday, so I'll take a trip to the post office tomorrow to go pick it up.

Enclosure update - the new enclosure has arrived. I'm not entirely sure it will allow for board mounted pots, I'll wait until tomorrow to see (I was about to make some paper cut outs of the board sizes to measure up to the enclosure).

Willybomb, send me a PM with your address and I'll post one out to you!

The issue with finding those board holders here is that I can only think of one shop that would sell them but they went bust unfortunately. I was thinking about using those double sided sticky pads (generally use them in the 1590A builds), but I'm worried about the back of the board shorting out against the enclosure. That Sugro stuff, I remember reading about it several years ago and completely forgot about it, thanks for reminding me

BryGuy - many thanks for that, can't tell you how grateful I am there! I've done some measuring and I'm 99.9% sure that I can't have the boards with board mounted pots because there won't be enough room between the foot switch and the knobs. That means I either have the boards mounted to the back of the enclosure using those mounts, or to buy a new enclosure. I've seen some on Das Musikding that will give me an extra 15mm on the width which would help, and with board mounted pots will be a lot neater wiring wise. Honestly can't decide on which would be best to do.

I think you should look into doing the multi effect though, and I can honestly say that I've never done so much planning for a pedal before!

Willybomb - thanks for your thoughts on the pedals. I did look at the Pork Barrel, but I ideally wanted simple and cheap circuits, and also if I did go for board mounted pots then if I use all 1590G boards all the pots will have the same spacing. If it wasn't for those two points then I would have definitely chosen the Pork Barrel.

As for the delay, the Deep Blue delay sounds amazing, definitely one of my favourites. I've just found a stash of the boards designed by AlanP that I got from another member before I had a break from building. However, the boards are for the 1590A so I can't use board mounted pots for it, and the reason why I went for the Mimik.

I've had a look on YouTube at the Bloviator, and although I like it I'm struggling to see anywhere I would or could use it.

For the reverb, the first one I built was a Rub-a-Dub, and I absolutely loved it until one of my friends decided he wanted it for his gigging board. Decided not to use it for this one though, not particular reason.

I've only just looked at the FV-1 builds and don't know enough about them yet to risk putting one into a multi effect. I've just ordered some of the Dreamtime delays though so I'll experiment with them.

If I do go the new enclosure route so I can have board mounted pots, I'm looking at one of these https://www.musikding.de/Looper-enclosure-30cm however, I'd prefer the 25cm one but it's out of stock, but the slightly bigger one will give a bit more room between the foot switches which would be nice. It's also 15mm wider to accommodate board mounted pots with a bit more room between the foot switches and knobs.

I was going to go the clickless route using the 1776 Finish Line, but I've worked out that it's going to add just over £50 to the cost of this build, and as it's already costing slightly more then what was ideal I'm going to stick to the 3PDT route.

Little update, all the parts and enclosure have arrived! The parts arrived a couple of days ago and turned up much quicker then normal. Got a 1032L enclosure from Das Musikding, and now worried that it's not going to fit with enough room between the knobs and foot switches. This leaves me with three options:

Option one - board mount the pots and mount them as high up the top side of the enclosure as the PCB allows and hope there is enough room to use the foot switch without stamping on the pots/knobs.

Option two - board mount the pots and have them on the long side of the enclosure with the foot switches on top. Issue here is that it will then be harder to change the setting on the effects.

Option three - mount the pots as high up as possible on the top side of the enclosure (maybe even in single file) with the boards mounted seperately to the long side of the enclosure.

Option 3 I think Is the safest bet, but I can't find any mounts to hold the boards in place. I found some on GuitarPCB but they are sold out and he doesn't ship those mounts to the UK, so if anyone has any suggestions on where to get some that would be great. I've spent ages searching, used different search terms, etc, and still coming up blank. I've included a picture below of what I'm after.

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That's my issue, everyone has their way of ordering pedals so it's just a case of finding what I think is best. But while I'm waiting for all the parts and PCBs to arrive I was going to start working on the enclosure, which I now can't do.

Don't worry though, I'll be posting progress updates. I'm hoping it goes quite smoothly as I'm already currently having issues with my Big Muff boards. Need to try and find some time to play around with it more.  Got a lot of other boards that I haven't had time to verify either unfortunately.

I've pulled the trigger and ordered 4:1, Glam, Mimik and Ping. Decided to treat myself and order a few of the Dreamtime boards as well as I know at least one friend would love one (and I'd love to try it out!).

I've got a board for a booster already, just need to check to make sure that it works.

Now to spend a small fortune ordering the parts for everything. I'll update with the progress on this. Thinking of powder coating the enclosure, using a laser water slide decal then a clear powder coat on top, which works fine but need to make sure there isn't any water marks left over otherwise they will show up. No idea what colour would be cool for it though, maybe lime green with sparkles in it?

Would I be right in saying the signal chain needs to be compressor - boost - chorus- delay - reverb?

I'm crap at coming up with pedal names so any suggestions is greatly appreciated