BBE (big beautiful enclosure) mbp and lectric content

[Thewintersoldier]

A trio of madbean builds: Current lover, aquaboy dlx, collosalus and a lectric bad stone. 

[mjg]

Nice!  what colour is that M117 enclosure?

[cooder]

Epic builds, a lot of work in there! Very neat and tidy! How did it all come together, any issues calibrating or so?
How do you like the soundz?

[Thewintersoldier]

Nice!  what colour is that M117 enclosure?

It's Rust-Oleum hammered copper, bad lighting in my kitchen made it look orange

[Thewintersoldier]

Epic builds, a lot of work in there! Very neat and tidy! How did it all come together, any issues calibrating or so?
How do you like the soundz?

my process is very meticulous. i organize my parts, prep my work surface. I put on whatever show i'm watching at the moment (happens to be the expanse right now). I print my build doc and start populating the board. I populate the board and trim the leads making sure I have all the right parts in the right places before I solder. Then I solder away. once the board is populated I add all the pots, switches and off board wires. Now testing on test rig. It works. Calibrate. Easy with the build docs from Brian and Lectric fx. I drill the enclosures, finish wiring jacks, switches and leds. now paint, and label enclosure. sounds:
117 flanger-I used to have an mxr flanger. this is what I remember it to be. nails that unchained sound of EVH.
Bad Stone-smoother and more reined than the small stone and other 4 stage ota phasers I have but not as lush as my mutron phasor 2  I built. very nice phasing none the less.
electric mistress-I used to have a hartman flanger that I loved but sold stupidly. I'm not a big pink flyod fan(flame suit on) but love me some andy summers. This is the flanger for me. Smooth, lush, less metallic than the mxr. very musical.
the auquaboy dlx. If you dont like a Dm-2 with added delay time and modulation then maybe you dont like guitar pedals. I have a regular aquaboy that I may just set to a nice slapback and leave it there cause this one is nice. I sold my carbon copy the minute this was in the test rig. the EQ of the repeats is perfect. I have a total recall I'm gonna put together in the next couple weeks and I'm gonna a/b with this one. never had a memory man.

[jimilee]

Daaammn you are on it man. I thought I built a lot.


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[dawson]

^^I've watched through "The Expanse" while building too, but I found I had to play each episode twice if I was going to catch all the details (and populate all the right parts-) that show is so dense!

-Oh, and cool builds too dude- that textured paint looks really neat!

[m-Kresol]

nice work! I really dig your logo with the "guardians of the analog".

[Thewintersoldier]

^^I've watched through "The Expanse" while building too, but I found I had to play each episode twice if I was going to catch all the details (and populate all the right parts-) that show is so dense!

-Oh, and cool builds too dude- that textured paint looks really neat!

My wife hates how I can multi task. I can do like 4 different things at once and keep them strait. probably because I have to do it at work all day. Lot of stuff going on during surgery.

[Thewintersoldier]

Its winter in Detroit, only 3 things to do: watch tv, build pedals/play guitar, make babies haha

Daaammn you are on it man. I thought I built a lot.


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[Thewintersoldier]

thanks, i went thru like 4 versions of logo before I came up with this one. I've only built 2 digital effects and both were reverbs.

nice work! I really dig your logo with the "guardians of the analog".

[mjg]

Its winter in Detroit, only 3 things to do: watch tv, build pedals/play guitar, make babies haha

Hopefully you don't try to multitask all of those things at once? 

[Thewintersoldier]

Let's just say we keep the burn clinic busy

[Philthy]

I populate the board and trim the leads making sure I have all the right parts in the right places before I solder. Then I solder away. once the board is populated I add all the pots, switches and off board wires.

Have often wondered about other peeps' workflow.  Can you explain this a bit more please? Do you bend leads to keep the components in place, then trim, then solder?

[Thewintersoldier]

I populate the board and trim the leads making sure I have all the right parts in the right places before I solder. Then I solder away. once the board is populated I add all the pots, switches and off board wires.

Have often wondered about other peeps' workflow.  Can you explain this a bit more please? Do you bend leads to keep the components in place, then trim, then solder?

That's pretty much it. I just put all the components in then solder.
Here's a good example https://www.madbeanpedals.com/builds/reports/zpsdx/index.html
That's kinda how I do it.

This is how I like to organize my components before I build, makes it easier for me to stay organized and keep track of everything.

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