Double Dragon (a tale of woe...)

[juansolo]

Sods Law in full effect on this build. It was built before boxing so required some degree of estimation as to where the pots would be and then where to drill the hole in the box when it was decided it was indeed worth boxing.

The first thing I did was wire every single pot backwards, which was annoying, so I reversed all those. It all looked good when fitting after drilling, but I'd managed to break one of the switches off, which had of course, torn the pads from the board. So with all that intact underneath, I ninja'd in some repairs and got the switch back in. Next Cleggy screwed up the Envirotex mix. First time in about 3 years or more. So that had to be stripped off, the decal off, it all cleaned up, re-decaled and re-Envirotex'd. Smashing. Fit the board, drops straight in, then I look and see that the jack holes are along side the bottom of the PCB. That didn't even occur to me when drilling that I'd need to fit them low. So two grommets, two holes in the back, some shielded cable and we're finally rocking.

So a difficult birth for this one then and a strong case of TFFT now it's done. The board is Brejna's Dual Tight Dragon, itself a take on JOK3RX's Dragon Armour which is a clone of the Amptweaker Tight Metal. Or in this case a hybrid Tight Metal / Tight Rock combo with knobs on, and it's great! Thankfully...

[juansolo]

More annoying is that I only had one grommet, the other one (matching) I had to steal from my car, which now has a hole in it's rear bumper...

[GrindCustoms]

More annoying is that I only had one grommet, the other one (matching) I had to steal from my car, which now has a hole in it's rear bumper...

Laughed hard on that one!

Your tenacity will have paid off, that's looking damn good

[jubal81]

Damn, that is spectacular! One of the cleanest I've seen yet. Wowser.
I still don't get how you make those knobs look sexy, but they're just perfect.

[Leevibe]

Looking at this, it seems impossible that there were issues in the build. This looks stunningly perfect.

[bcalla]

Despite the horror story it came out great!  Now if you can sell it for ~ $3,000 you might break even on your time.   

[Cortexturizer]

Outstanding!

[juansolo]

Despite the horror story it came out great!  Now if you can sell it for ~ $3,000 you might break even on your time.   

LOL, there is a distinct possibility I might sell it as I'll be building a small one shortly to replace it. But I suspect, given it's not right, £60 might be more like it!

[J0K3RX]

Nice!! That is feckin cool yo    How does it work, any problems, bugs etc...? Does it sound good? I have been messin around with this design tryin to get a distinct super hot rodded, fire breathing Marshall "Cameron" type of voicing with it.. It certainly already has the gain... just have to fire up the blow torch and bend it into shape

Nice work as always!

[alanp]

Well, you got there in the end and it still looks clean enough to eat your tea off.

[cooder]

Friggin' awesome clean and spiffin looking as it gets! Really hard to believe the trouble you went through to come out like that! Must feel even more so like a deserved victory over Murphy's Sod laws....!

[juansolo]

Looking at this, it seems impossible that there were issues in the build. This looks stunningly perfect.

I'm just good at hiding them Though the big rubber plugs in the sides are a bit of a giveaway...

[juansolo]

Nice!! That is feckin cool yo    How does it work, any problems, bugs etc...? Does it sound good? I have been messin around with this design tryin to get a distinct super hot rodded, fire breathing Marshall "Cameron" type of voicing with it.. It certainly already has the gain... just have to fire up the blow torch and bend it into shape

Nice work as always!

No bugs we've encountered (other than the trace fix that Brane has already documented). There are a couple of small compromises we've noticed due to it being a combined thing, but nothing that really affects it too much. We'll be doing some little ones shortly and it'll be interesting to compare/contrast.

It also seems like a very versatile little circuit, what with there being 5 pedals based on it now (Tight Drive/Rock/Metal Fat Rock/Metal) So we're toying with seeing what we can get out of it when we have some more boards to experiment with.

[Leevibe]

Looking at this, it seems impossible that there were issues in the build. This looks stunningly perfect.

I'm just good at hiding them Though the big rubber plugs in the sides are a bit of a giveaway...

Naw. Those are toan condenser nodes. The black ones sound the best.

[juansolo]

Looking at this, it seems impossible that there were issues in the build. This looks stunningly perfect.

I'm just good at hiding them Though the big rubber plugs in the sides are a bit of a giveaway...

Naw. Those are toan condenser nodes. The black ones sound the best.

Especially the relic'd one that's been stuck on the back of a 1993 Merc for the last few years