Bass Driver DI

[sjaustin]

I built this for my 13-year old son, who is getting really good at bass. Got a PCB from user brejna (Brane), and set to putting it together a couple weeks ago. After realizing I needed a few special parts, I placed a Small Bear order and waited. When it arrived, I was bummed to find out that they had made a rare mistake and sent the wrong transistors. They corrected it, and fortunately the replacement parts arrived yesterday, in time to get them installed. I had done all the drilling and decal work while I waited. I was lucky enough and extra careful enough in component placement to have made no mistakes, and it fired right up! A cool effect.

Notes on the build. It was my first time using a few parts: the XLR jack, the Lumberg I/O jacks, and the pre-wired momentary switch from Love My Switches. I like the Lumberg jacks a lot, but I probably won't get the pre-wired momentary again. It's 18-gauge wire, way too thick to use conveniently in a pedal build, as you can see from how I handled the wiring there. It took way more time than just wiring it normally would have taken.

Major thanks to Brane for answering my questions via PM, sending me documents to help with the layout, and for putting together such a stellar PCB! Eight board mounted components is no joke. But it went together really easily.

[cajone5]

Excellent looking inside and out.  Bet it sounds great and it will be a big hit when you give it to your son!

[mjg]

Very nice.  The decals look classy. 

[midwayfair]

Great looking build!

p.s. there's a build of the year contest, ya know ...

[blearyeyes]

Excellent build. Clean inside and out.

[brejna]

It looks great!

[stringsthings]

Excellent!

[jubal81]

Sweet build. You knocked it out!

[TheDude]

Looks great, he's gonna love it!

Have you tried plugging a guitar into it by chance?

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[sjaustin]

Thanks everyone. This was a fun build!

Have you tried plugging a guitar into it by chance?

Hmm, no. But now I want to try!

[TheDude]

Thanks everyone. This was a fun build!

Have you tried plugging a guitar into it by chance?

Hmm, no. But now I want to try!

Let us know how it goes when you get a chance!

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