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Wow nice work lace. I am still trying to decide between building up a meatball or dem this weekend and this just makes things harder!

Thanks for the report Mike. Gotta say at this point I'm pretty apprehensive about building mine up.

This is where live Linux boot CD's really shine.

I thought that no sweat transistor selection was one of the selling points of this circuit.

oh my, as if I needed moar stuff to build!

what is your favorite diy delay?

I do really enjoy my echo base also.

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there is definitely a hole in what's available to the DIY community centered around reverb and ring mod. I'll likely pick up a used HOF after holidays. I don't see any upcoming DIY reverbs being that feature rich.

Mine had a really bad pop on the 3pdt as well. Adding a 1m pulldown on the output cured that right up.

Mammoth is fine for certain things like pots but I will not buy their switches or enclosures due to lousy quality. Blake knows he has issues in warehouse and quality control, hopefully he can get those issues sorted.

waiting patiently for teh moodring

It's your 2399's dude. All my chips from Tayda have the same issue in the urchin [lock ups] and echo base [noise noise noise] Replaced the chips with smallbear stuff and they work perfectly.

Oddly enough, I think the most time consuming and annoying part of building is jumping back and forth between mouser/smallbear/tayda ordering all the parts I need--and of course missing a couple

Agreed, not to mention post from three or four sources does enough to build price that it cannot be ignored. I tend to build up a queue of five or six before I commit to parts to mitigate shipping costs. I really wish I could get down to two suppliers, one would be too much to ask.

I can usually get two dirts or one complex pedal like the pork barrel done on a Saturday afternoon including enclosure milling, troubleshooting and an hour or two of NPD grinning and jamming.

My process is pretty methodical though, I measure each component as I add them and only populate and solder a few components at a time. Being a pretty absent minded and accident prone kind of dude forces one to take a few precautions.

I tried to do a flip flop build pattern where boards are populated one weekend and installed in cases the next but that stacked milling a bunch of enclosures [my least favorite part] on the same day.

I'm in no hurry though, the build process is fun for me.

Work today but Happy Turkey anyway!