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The packing from Mammoth is quite good so none of this is shipping damage. My complaints center around missing knobs, wrong color knobs, wrong value components, missing components, bad switches [not their fault I know] and coated enclosures. The enclosures are what is killing me: severe orange peel, large divots under the coating on the face of the pedal [unacceptable for a customer build], coatings so thin and uneven you can see and feel the zig-zag spray pattern, coatings so light they don't really cover the metal and feel like sandpaper.

Blake is a good dude and always makes things right but pushing my ship dates back a week or two while I wait on new boxes makes me look like a jerk. Sending a complaint email after every order is making me feel like a jerk. I really like their knob selection and they're great for picking up the few odd value components I need for particular projects but the QC and order pickers have to bring their attention to detail level into line with Blake's customer service if they want my repeat business.

Yea I just got my third messed up order in a row from big hairy elephant thingy and they will no longer receive my business. I realize I'm a little fish with my 100 dollar orders every two weeks or so but this is really unacceptable. Big ups and big apologies to PedalPartsPlus, I'm back!

Wow I had no idea Tayda 2399's were questionable. My recent Echo Base build has a persistent rhythmic noise [not the standard static on the repeats noise] whose frequency is tied to the delay time pot. The pedal is dead quiet with the pt2399 removed and I can't find a flaw with the rest of the build so the chip is likely in spec enough to work and out of spec enough to be very noisy. I'll pick a few up from a stateside distributor and see if that doesn't solve the noise issue.

Anyone use any of the pt2399's from Tayda?  At 51 cents it seems to good to be true....

Josh

All reports so far are that their PT2399 chips are a tad iffy. It seems their specs run wider than most, causing a lot of builds to act funny. YMMV

let's see I have about 8 builds to retrofit and another 15 or so planned..

looks like I had better find a good volume discount on those relays! I know it isn't at all necessary and comes out to around three times the cost of a blue 3pdt but I absolutely love the luxury of soft switching.

the bax looks awesome as well, perfect to have a few on hand for shiggles. great work!

I use pretty much the above technique to lay out my drilling patterns for board mounted pots. With the pots installed I flip the board shaft side down onto some graph paper taking care to choose one pot as the 'index' and line it up over an intersection on the paper. This let's you dead reckon equal distances to your other controls. Then make some careful marks around the shafts a bit. Pull up the board and using the graph paper figure out and mark where the holes 'should' be since pot lugs are always wonky. When you're satisfied with your knob position just tape the template to the face [minding your centerlines is key here] then centerpunch and drill away.

Fully agree with the centerpunch comment melonhead. All the layout care in the world goes straight down the tubes when your bit decides to skate.

dang, the loris looks to have board mounted ruetz and clipping switch. that's real hot.

the pork barrel layout looks great as well, even if I add most of the mods from the old project it still seems an easier build than the old layout.

glad I waited a bit on these!

Excellent, I have been holding off on buying a mudbunny board whilst waiting for more of the slow loris.

What is different about the new pork barrel? I am planning a build but if the new PCB fits better with my desired case layout I might hold off.

Can't wait for the reverb!

Thanks guys, they're pretty much the first pedals I have built minus little boosts and buffers and such. Glad I learned to solder and wire when I was a kid, who knew it would come in handy later!?!

@Hab: upon further testing such a low tone resistor value does screw with the sound of the pedal, especially the peak/sweep of the mids pot it seems. Likely should have socketed the 1.8k and possibly the 100pf silver mica as well per Dave Barber's suggestion. I went back to a 100k for the tone resistor which gives a bit better tone sweep than stock and keeps the mids close to where they should be. I'm planning to buy another board and build it up closer to LTD SR specs [with internal mids and some clipping options for stacking friendliness] as the silverfox with 100k gets pretty dang close to the silver and standard LTD's.

Can't think of a better first post than some builds so here they are! Thanks to Madbean and Haberdasher for the PCB's, so much neater and easier than perf or strip.

This is my silverfox/LTD with external mids control and socketed tone resistor for tweaking fun. I have settled on a 33k for lots of tone sweep without really screwing with the sound of the pedal. It's like a pint sized single channel half gainer, I love it.



Here is a red llama with boost toggle. No guts at the moment, I'll post em up when I open the sucker again.