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I certainly wouldn't fault you for not wanting to deal with them in the future after that response, especially if this is your first experience with them. (Not sure if it is or not) But, something about this is really surprising to me. Did you send them the pic in your email? The reply you got made it sound like they just looked at the pre-drilled stock on hand and it looked fine. Yours looks like a "how did that happen?" drill job. You would certainly have done better on your own with a center punch and a step bit.

I don't know if it would be right for you to say, especially given that you've pasted an actual email into your post, but I wonder if it was someone else, other than Connie who replied to you. The suspicious part of me wants to think it was the dude who did the noob drill job. It's hard for me to believe that Connie would defend this. It honestly looks terrible. Way below what I would expect to be their standards. I've never ordered a pre-drilled case, but their parts and powder coating have always been excellent, with the one exception that they took care of.

Anyway, sorry you had a bad experience. I think you're probably the rare exception. Hopefully so, as I have parts incoming from them right now. My advice (for what it's worth) is that if Connie isn't the one you dealt with, address a new email to her and be sure to include that pic. If she was the one who sent you that ridiculous reply, then my opinion of PPP may have just slipped down a peg.

I included the same photo in the initial email as I did in the first post of this thread, and yes Connie replied to me, at least it was her email signature at the end.

It is actually my second order with them. My first was about 6 months ago, for some miscellaneous parts and a white powdercoated enclosure with 2 knobs for my Mangler build. Again, another stock drill template they list, yet it came back with an extra hole drilled in one side that wasn't part of the product description. I emailed photos, they agreed it was in error, and sent me a replacement with a shipping label in the box to return the incorrect one. Perfect customer service on a simple error. I know these things happen, which is why I didn't hesitate to order with them again. When I saw this one had issues I figured it would be a similar process, which is why I was so taken aback by the email I received.

The middle (LED?) hole looks a few mm off from the large hole centre.

That is not acceptable for a paid for per drilled enclosure IMO.

I'd politely ask them to reconsider their stance on the matter... Maybe measure how off centre the holes are and see what they come back with?

The LED hole is off to the right and the stomp hole is off to the left, hence the 'zig-zag' look someone mentioned above.

At this point, with that response to what was a very polite initial email, I am done with them. I am getting my money back and never spending another dollar with them.

Well I was waiting to see how they handled it before naming names, but in light of the email I just received, I have no problem in saying that this enclosure was from Pedal Parts Plus. In fact, here is the response:

"I'm sorry you weren't pleased with the enclosure.

However, I pulled some stock of that same drill pattern, and met with the drillers for them to show me how "off" they were.  Honestly, after they showed me, I'm a little confused by why you would complain about the drilling on these.  The holes are drilled a little oversized.  That way if there are any minor discrepancies, you can adjust the parts so they will be perfectly lined up.  The discrepancies in that drill template were extremely minor; and were easily made a non issue by adjusting the parts that fit in them.

We have high standards, and we strive to make sure every customer is completely satisfied.  However, perfection isn't easily obtainable; especially on enclosures that were originally designed to be used for electrical purposes inside walls.

I hope you understand I'm not trying to be rude; I'm just trying to be honest.  If the enclosure had a real error; I would have gladly sent another one. However, I don't feel that's the case this time.

If you want to return the enclosure, we will gladly refund your money."

So there you have it. Since aluminum enclosures are supposed to go in walls, and not be guitar pedals, then it doesn't matter how they are drilled, and this is indeed 'good enough'.

This will certainly be the last time I order with them. Glad it was on a bare enclosure and not on one of the fancy powdercoated ones...

Looks like mammoth.... Not good enough... Not even as good as mine

It's actually not from Mammoth. I only ever ordered one Mammoth enclosure (powdercoated) and it was flawless.

Of course, before you complain, check your template and make sure they were aligned.

I didn't send a template. It was a stock drill pattern they offered.

Thanks for the input guys, glad it's not just me.

I sent an email about it on Friday and haven't heard back yet. We'll see what they say.

I ordered a pre-drilled 125B (I shall withhold from where for the moment) and when it arrived, the first thing I noticed was the kind of wonky drilling. Would you guys consider this to be 'good-enough' for a pre-drilled enclosure, in which case I'm being too picky, or does it look a bit of a mess to you also?

Auto wah may not be the best term, as I see people call envelope filters 'auto-wahs', but I mean an LFO driven one with depth and speed knobs.

Basically, I have a Vox V87a (or something) wah that I never use, kinda got tired of the treadle side of things. I was wondering if it's possible to rip the circuit from that and have it run through automatic cycles with a depth and speed knob like a phaser etc. would have.

I'm not great at this pedal stuff by any means; I have built a few BYOC pedals and a few MadBean ones but never done any modding or hacking. So my questions are:

1) Is it possible?
2) a) How would I go about doing it?
b) Would it beyond the scope of what I could comfortably manage and hence not be worth it?

You guys blow me away with your intimate knowledge on this subject so I'd love to hear your thoughts and recommendations. Thanks! 

I placed an order on Saturday and it was shipped today. Not bad considering it was over the Thanksgiving weekend 

I don't want to be a pain in the ass or anything, just wondering when the Moodring and NomNom are gonna be back in stock. They said Oct. before but now it just says "out of stock". No pressure.

I emailed Brian regarding the NomNom and he kindly responded saying it would be back around the end of Nov. Now that I know how much he gets emailed, in the future I am just going to be patient and not hassle 

you can just use the panner send as a line out, where it would just be a splitter.  If you have the blend control past noon on the loop side then you will have a reduction in volume of the repeats.

So I'm getting ready to do this build and have another question about the above: Wouldn't the 'blend' pot of the JMK Panner and the Mix pot of the delay essentially be doing the same thing - adjusting the volume of the repeats? If that's the case, is there a way to just fix the volume of the Panner so that only the Mix pot of the delay controls that? Or am I looking at this all wrong?

Thanks!

Very helpful! Thank you!

Thanks guys!

I left the pedal on for a while and checked it again and I got it to stabilize at around -4.5v with the effect on. It sounds fine though, not noticing any noise or pops so I'll leave it as-is I guess. Thanks guys!

I'm just looking to have a straight stock Phase 90, so if I were to omit that switch and wire it, how would I do that? I don't know if the switch 'on' makes it stock sounding or if that's an added extra.