I had the opportunity to play around with an MXR Carbon Copy today, a personal favorite in the realm of analog delays, and afterwards I had the opportunity to unbox the thing and take a look at its guts
Holy hell... this thing is crazy crowded. 12 trimmers?!?! The thing is mostly SMD save for the BBDs and a few electrolytics, and fits a ~1590B sized with a battery. There is barely a spare millimeter to be found.
(http://www.matsumin.net/cgi-bin/mtm_bbs/img/11667.jpg) (http://www.matsumin.net/cgi-bin/mtm_bbs/img/11666.jpg)
And it made me curious. What is the most insanely densely populate board you've come across?
That's a tight one. I've had the pleasure ::) of repairing a few. The interesting thing is that those TH parts would all have to be manually soldered by a person. There isn't enough clearance from the SMD components for wave soldering the TH pins.
Not as dense as the Carbon Copy, but this one has a lot going on. :)
Quote from: culturejam on March 31, 2017, 02:21:20 AM
Not as dense as the Carbon Copy, but this one has a lot going on. :)
We didn't wave solder on that one either. ;-)
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Quote from: culturejam on March 31, 2017, 02:21:20 AM
Not as dense as the Carbon Copy, but this one has a lot going on. :)
Tease ...
FF(X) are doing an envelope filter, right? :)
(Anyone else automatically try and pick out what's going on?)
Quote from: alanp on March 31, 2017, 07:29:30 AM
FF(X) are doing an envelope filter, right? :)
(Anyone else automatically try and pick out what's going on?)
We are doing and envelope filter, but that's not it. ;)
Is that the tremophase?
Quote from: Aristatertotle on March 31, 2017, 12:23:46 PM
Is that the tremophase?
Yes, indeed.
The envelope filter will be coming out shortly...assuming no disasters in the next week or so. ;D
*shreds job applications for both MXR and FunctionFx assembly teams*
;D 8)