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sounds like you bought waterslide decals. No experience with them.
You can however get simple peel off decals, essentially stickers.

In either case, you should put some clearcoat (I use spray clear acrylic from an autoshop) otherwise you risk smudging the image. The decals, and inkjet inks themselves, are not water tight by themselves.

Lots of examples of ones I have done on my blog
http://hownotomakeapedal.blogspot.com/

I wouldnt recommend those if you want a battery too.
It would be ok if you put a power switch on the pedal though, otherwise as people said the battery will drain all the time, and youll need to make sure you unplug the battery if you use the powersupply.

However, that being said, these little jacks are AWESOME and I love them.

YMMV though.

Nice use of shielded cable.  That can tend to look messy but your build is spot on!

Josh

Where do you guys source that cable from?

Bits box uk

Doctor tweak has orange van damme which is ok too

Just sayin  ,  I really like how the Retro Channel fuzz sounds and I think it's op amp driven instead of trannys.  Some fuzzy big muffage is still my fav effect, but would like to try something with an op amp (s).  Anybody have any schems for something like the Retro Channel Fuzz?

The IC in the retro channel is just a transistor array. You could build it with the discrete transisitors, in fact its already been done.

Not sure if this will help, or if it works with bass as well, but musicpcb.com just released a pretty sweet looking filter...

The lovetone meatball is better on bass than guitar depending who you ask

unless you are really really conservative with your offboard wire lengths, I see no reason that to simply cut the wires off and replace the faulty 3pdt completely, rather than unsoldering.

I dont favour the 3pdt, have used some regular blue ones that seem ok, Cliff seem the best for a reasonalbe cost. Had some REALLY shitty black ones, one that failed, and in all cases the epoxy melted with even breif soldering heat application.

DPDT + millenium is my preferred choice.

Oh I did put a decal on

I like those weird pedals and I'd like to make one, but im not sure what should i play through it... 
Noise, industrial? Any sugestions?

The Machine can simply be used with another distortion or fuzz to really make leads pop.
sounds kinda synthy. Its not all just noise. But it can be 

no harm to try but its up to you.

See attachment for push/relax knob wiring.

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yeah sorry

http://www.pedalparts.co.uk/1N60P+Germanium+Diodes+x+10+-+use+as+1N34A+equivalent/p847124_3850023.aspx

Im yet to fully playtest the Machine. It sounds horrid on its own I know that much XD
Will get time to audition through my full setup tommorow.
It sounds fairly close to the ones on Youtube I reckon.

Did this for a mate. I made my own Fuzz Factory a few months back on vero.
This was soooo easy in comparison.

Thanks Madbean. Your boards are fantastic.


Plain jane for now - see what my mate wants as a decal

Insides - pretty neat if I say so myself!

very beautiful build. Love everything about it. Even the enclosure is echoing the vintage Ross (minus the recessed knobs).

re: Ge Diodes, well I hope they are real they cost a reasonable amount.
Ordered some 1n60p recently for cheap as chips which are meant to be a decent sub for the 1n34a

Are you talking about Futurlec? The 1n34a's I got from them are the same as the 1n60P. Yes cheap as can be at a penny a piece but they are fizzzzzy. I want to try some real 1n34a's to compare if its just these being knock-offs or if that's the general characteristic of germ diodes. But for the 50cents I spent it was well worth an experiment!

Read this, depends if you trust that guy !
Maybe worth putting some on a switch like he says and seeing for yourself.

Yeah, thought it was worth a punt putting some in the order.

The 1n34a's I have are as far as I can tell the real deal.