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My advice is change the 500k gain pot for a 1m gain pot
there are only a very few tricky things in that build for a beginner - getting the diodes around the right way and getting the electrolytic capacitors around the right way.. the good news is the board has a silk screen print on it making it very very clear how to orientate the parts.
Make sure you've got a good soldering iron and silver solder and you're made
The Enlightenment drive is a tiny tiny board. And the pots can be mounted onto the board... it has an LED out so apart from the jacks and the foot stop -- there's nothing really taking up space, I'd be surprised it the battery wouldn't fit in a 1590B enclosure .. like the original.
probably much keeper from bitsbox or similar
Hi Meggi,
If you fancy spending a bit less, and don't mind playing with vero-board then Bitsbox have a great selection of kits.. and sell all the additional items that you might need. I use them a lot for small components and they are an excellent little company to deal with.
http://www.bitsbox.co.uk/?main_page=index&cPath=280_281
My first kit was a Zen from Bitsbox, though the pedalparts one has better destructions with a testing stage, and a PCB. Mine is on veroboard. The kit didn't have an LED so I added that.
Before that I hadn't done much soldering except in occasional car & bike wiring, and knew nowt about pedal jargon. So if a peasant like me can do it, anyone can... The Zen wasn't quite what I expected, but rocks when run into a Timmy, so it stays on my board. Good luck and have fun with it
I remember dismissing this at first but these days I use the neatness of a soldered connection as a reassurance that it works - as a first pass during debugging.
These days I clip the legs before I solder and I've spent about £10 on tip cleaning "wool", desolder and sponge stuff.
It's really about being methodical and I'm not ultra great at that - I made a madbeans delay pedal in about 2 hours the other week - neat soldering and worked almost first time.. a tiny strand of wire was sending some of the signal to ground. It took about 5 minutes looking at the pcb to find it.. yay for neat soldering!
It didn't take long to identify that - all my parts are in labelled drawers but I also multimetered the resistors and ensured the capacitors were the right ones BEFORE I soldered them in, no assuming even though I'd been careful in selecting the pieces.
A lot of effort first will save time in debugging later.
It's not easy if you've got kids or other demands on your time, it's taken me about 6 months to finish making a Klon