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This turned out fantastic! glad my recommendation worked out for you on the transistors. The lower gain really did sound better in my sound test. Love the enclosure!

<bananas emoji>  Man, that looks awesome!  The surgery looks so clean.  Hats off to you, sir.

Thanks John, I work in surgery so it had to be clean lol

Sounds great and I love the white enclosure! That drive you've been using lately sounds great too. The turbo side of the OD-2, I presume?

Thanks Bret. The turbo mode (mode 2) of the OD-2R is what the Aurum is based on. I did mode one previously which is really nice but I planned on showing this off properly next week.

Thanks guys, I just did the easy part. It's such a great pedal and I'm glad I got to build it.

cool project Bret, sounds really interesting. Any chance o a sound clip?

Oh snap, another long discontinued, harder to find and expensive pedal resurrected from the dead. The Boss ph-1 phaser was one of the first three compact pedals released by boss in 1977 as part of the traffic light series. It was only made for 4 years before being discontinued for the revised ph-1r with resonance control. @szukalski and I were talking about this pedal one day and he decided to take a swing at it and he crushed it yet again.

While it has much in common with the ph-1r, there are many subtle differences circuit wise that give it a different feel and sound. It's a little more basic and simplistic which gives it a slightly sweeter sound and more gentle lfo shape. It's perfect in my opinion. It doesn't get lost and never fully swallows the signal either. It melds wonderfully with drive, especially in front of it, but also sounds good after it. Very smooth.

Now, the original pedal had a volume drop that wasn't as noticeable because of the bypass scheme. When converted to true bypass it was very apparent. After trying a few things with Dave and @blackhatboojum, I consulted @Chuck D. Bones and he gave the clarity and guidance we needed to fix the volume drop. One of the things we tried was half right but Dave set us on the course to success. Man does it sound good too. After a little surgery, no one will ever know🤫😶‍🌫️

For the enclosure I used a matte white tayda box and UV print. I'm pretty proud of this one, the graphic turned out great and really portrays the sound and function of the pedal, Ghost came out perfect. Also used Dave's mini relay board based on Chuck's bypass. For the demo I'm running it in front of the drive pedal for next week's build report, it was also used in the DM-3 demo. This sound clip I made while I was fine tuning the trimmer while playing.

Great job!

Superb build and demo.  The tune's guitar parts really have to be the sexiest Strat-whammy-into-reverb-laden-Deluxe-Reverb ever.  I use the pick plunk over dead strings from the original whenever possible.  It came at an early age listening to Jan Akkerman with Focus.

Thanks Gordo, I was actually using my jazzmaster on this, as much as I love my strat the jazzmaster has the far superior trem IMO

I'll definitely grab one of those boards once you've them in! Thanks for your willingness to do that.

Dan is truly a man of the people. Great guy to work with and his boards are always top tier.

<Mind blown emoji> Really sharp, Chris and the demo slays. 

Thanks John, demo turned out ok I guess, I'm just trying to do them as often as I can since we don't get enough of them in diy.

Is there any way to get ahold of the boards for this, from Clinton or Dan perhaps? I'd build it straight away.

I'll get another set of boards on order!

Make sure you flip those 2 caps Dan and put me down for a set of boards!

Something told me you'd bust out some Chris Isaac in a demo at some point! Cool take on it though.

In all seriousness, after hearing the demo, this is the sound I've been after in an analog delay--as you said, it's similar to the Ibanez AD family. I also like that it's running at 9v and with v2305s. Is there any way to get ahold of the boards for this, from Clinton or Dan perhaps? I'd build it straight away.

That song is a classic, regardless of how you feel about Chris Isaak. I tried to give it a spaghetti western vibe 😂. This is a fantastic delay and I would love to see more of these in the wild. Clinton only got a few sets of boards when he ordered from Dan, so I would talk to Dan and see if maybe anyone else is interested then ordering some more.  Hell, I'd be interested in another set.

This project was one that has been in the works for months and I'm happy to share with everyone finally. First and foremost, huge shout-out to my brother from another mother Clinton @blackhatboojum for the set of boards and dan schumaker for another incredible project. When Clinton told me he was doing research on the dm-3 I was intrigued because I just thought it was a dm-2 with the mn3205 chipset. I was wrong of course and Clinton explained the differences and it seemed like worthy project. I recommended Dan because he can make any circuit fit in any enclosure, he's a true magician and expert in his craft.

So what's the buzz with the DM-3? It's like a DM-2 with different different filtering, it essentially has a double noise reduction circuit which gives it a better s/n ratio. The repeats are softer on the attack, aren't as dark on the decay and it can give far more repeats before oscillating. The mn3205 and 3102 chipset and way cheaper as well so this is quite the economic build. Very natural sounding and feeling delay. Sits somewhere between a DM-2 and a DMM, similar to the Maxon ad-900 to my ear.

The build did make me use my brain some. I learned how to troubleshoot years ago thankfully, and I don't do it all the time but this one threw me for a loop 😂. Clinton was there to calm me down when I was ready to go postal on it. I learned the hard way about tantalum caps, polarity and the noise/chaos they can wreak havoc on in a circuit when they go bad. I got it figured out though💪. The build itself was painless, well laid out and easy to calibrate once those two caps were made right.

For the enclosure I went with a pink tayda powder coated 125b to keep with the original design. I went with Gwen Stacy's spider Gwen or ghost spider/ghosty in the comics because I thought the delay had a real ghostly like quality to the repeats. Really like this one, it won't be leaving my board any time soon. For my sound clip I looped the rhythm track with a subtle delay setting that gives a reverb like quality and played the distorted track with an upcoming drive pedal. One take and I'm not sorry about the unrehearsed mistakes 😂.

That turned out great Gordy, I love the purple  and brushed aluminum work. Mickey approves! Look forward to the live update

Thanks guys, although it wasn't essential for my tone, it was essential for my boss collection lol

I decided to build this and had asked Robert a question about it and he included it in my next order. This is the newer version with the fix for noise that the first release had. So shout-out to the guy in charge for improvements and being such a generous dude.

I originally built the karaoke chorus which is an adaptation of the ce-1 chorus with some welcomed additions and changes to make it quieter, cheaper to build and more versatile. It did lack the preamp section though. I was on the fence to build this because the first version had noise issues but Robert fixed that and I knew I had to have it for my collection. So what does it do?

It's a very subtle tone shaper, some might say sweetener, much in the same vein of the clandestine preamp. It's not in your face, but it does add a certain depth and dimension to the tone. The high/low input sensitivity switch will give you a very different range of gain depending on where it's set. While many like the drive character the pedal can bring, I prefer it's tone shaping at unity volume. And just like the original, run a buffered signal into it or the impedance mismatch will kill your high end.

The build was standard ppcb fair with great layout and no issues. I had to make it match my karaoke chorus theme and vibe so I went with a match Shang-Chi theme. In the video I tried to show it with and without chorus as it's the integral input section of the original unit.