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Nice work.  But when I read the thread title mt first thought was the vid for Separate Ways by Journey.

Nice.  The hard work paid off.  Looks great and sounds great.

That's very pro looking.  Dig it.

Another beauty there, Cody.  Looks awesome.

Sharp looking group of pedals.  Well done!

Outstanding!

Love it!  I always figured Vader to be a Flying-V guy.

That feeling you get when you realize what you forgot to order from Mouser when your package just arrived, and you realize you're going to have to look through a huge pile of old boards to find the part you need and de-solder it.

I know that feeling too well.  But I had the opposite this week.  That feeling Mouser gets when I ordered parts and a day after they ship Mouser informs me they forgot something and are sending it to me UPS 2Day.  It was 10 1M resistors.  Gotta love Mouser.

That looks great, man. 

Nice.  Makes pretty quick work out of the stencil.

 

You're on fire, Stevie.  Same some SMD components for the rest of us 

You can manually change the drill diameter in the Drill drop down menu when you open the Vias tool.  Just highlight the existing size and enter the size you need.  I usually use .0156" and leave the Diameter set to Auto which gives me a pad diameter of .0296".

As far as them being a necessary evil I say they are your friends.  If you can do an SMD layout without vias then you essentially have an etchable, single-sided layout.  For some reason some people seem to think they are bad things.  I started out doing SMD designs.  When I started doing through hole layouts it occurred to me that every pin is a via.  If you do an SMD layout that uses 40 of the usual stompbox components and have to use 10 or so vias, the guy doing the same circuit in thru hole is starting with at least 80.  But realistically more when you consider some will be multi-pin tranny's and IC's.

Having said that I take a lot of time with placement of parts and routing to avoid them.  But that is purely for aesthetic reasons.  If I can't avoid using vias I don't feel like the layout is compromised.

End of via rant.

That is beautiful.  The knurled LED bezel is way cool.

That is cool.  Nice work fitting that all in the box.