new fuzz build
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:19 pm
So a month ago, the new owners of Devi Ever decided to sell some kits at $30 each. Not a bad deal really, so I had to hit it up as I've always been interested in the Hyperion. The only thing not included in the kit were knobs and wire, but if you already build pedals, that's typically stuff you have on hand anyway. A big plus was that all the holes were already drilled into the enclosure (not lined up perfectly)
They said these instructions were easy that a noob could build. I disagree, and I've got about 8 builds under my belt.
This is the cleanest I've ever done my wiring, usually I have a big mess of spaghetti that I stuff inside. This time I decided I was really going to try to do a nicer job with the wiring. I ran into a problem while soldering the LED to the pin on the switch, I thought the heat lifted the pin out, but I think it just melted the rubber on it.
So I get it done and go to fire it up. Nothing. No LED or sound on bypass. When I wired the LED to the resistor going into the PCB, I ran the bare legs under the jack, but it was floating between the enclosure and jack, I ended up putting folded paper in case it was hitting metal and shorting out. Still didn't work, so than I noticed when I tightened the footswitch and jack, the tip was touching some of the metal on the switch. I moved it away and I got a signal in bypass but still no LED when turned on. So I pulled out the multimeter and checked to see if the LED was getting power. Very low reading, so I checked the pin on the power jack where i had the wires hooked up. Low power too, I also noticed the pin was loose. I checked the other pin and that was reading good, so I just connected to that and plugged it in. LED lit up and the pedal worked.
Pedal sounds like the demos, I find you get more bottom end if you max the volume on it. I didn't play with it too much, but it's not bad for the 30 I spent. I rushed the artwork, it was all on the fly with a paint pen. I really didn't want to spend too much time on it. I may go back and do a starve mod, it's really easy to do. I'll see if I can get some recording done with it and load some clips.
They said these instructions were easy that a noob could build. I disagree, and I've got about 8 builds under my belt.
This is the cleanest I've ever done my wiring, usually I have a big mess of spaghetti that I stuff inside. This time I decided I was really going to try to do a nicer job with the wiring. I ran into a problem while soldering the LED to the pin on the switch, I thought the heat lifted the pin out, but I think it just melted the rubber on it.
So I get it done and go to fire it up. Nothing. No LED or sound on bypass. When I wired the LED to the resistor going into the PCB, I ran the bare legs under the jack, but it was floating between the enclosure and jack, I ended up putting folded paper in case it was hitting metal and shorting out. Still didn't work, so than I noticed when I tightened the footswitch and jack, the tip was touching some of the metal on the switch. I moved it away and I got a signal in bypass but still no LED when turned on. So I pulled out the multimeter and checked to see if the LED was getting power. Very low reading, so I checked the pin on the power jack where i had the wires hooked up. Low power too, I also noticed the pin was loose. I checked the other pin and that was reading good, so I just connected to that and plugged it in. LED lit up and the pedal worked.
Pedal sounds like the demos, I find you get more bottom end if you max the volume on it. I didn't play with it too much, but it's not bad for the 30 I spent. I rushed the artwork, it was all on the fly with a paint pen. I really didn't want to spend too much time on it. I may go back and do a starve mod, it's really easy to do. I'll see if I can get some recording done with it and load some clips.
