On top is a thin "water etched" aluminum layered panel from IDmark. The logo and graphic I designed with the reverse direction schematic is just to follow the physical signal flow from jack to jack. I got my father to do UV etching for me from my transparency artwork sheets to make the panel graphic. He used some scrap IDmark stuff he had laying around.



I'm especially proud of this because it's my first DIY build. I'm a detail nut with research and try to get things perfect which takes forever revision after revision. I built 2 identical pedals at the same time. The other one is in a black powder coat box with the same etched panel on top. It's a clone of a late 70's gray spec DOD 250 Overdrive. The PCB is my own layout design pattern; reverse engineered my way by studying the part inter-connections of the original. I started by placing where the controls are spaced on my PCB layout shape (using ExpressPCB) and found a way to fit everything else in between. I didn't use a proper schematic drawing until later for parts identification and for the off-board wiring documentation. I was scared to turn it on but it worked the first time with no debugging required!

Feel free to reply with pictures of your pedal builds too if you are into this stuff. I'd like to see them!

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Pedaltrain Mini: Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor, Neo-Classic 3080 Compressor, Neo-Classic 741 Overdrive, MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay, Boss RC-3 Loop Station

Now that's nice clean work. I don't even know how many builds I've finished, but I always get impatient at the end and invariably just end up stuffing all the wires and components into the box. You're on the right track.

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Gregg | OK Hemingway
Warmoth Strat > Tube Screamer > Line 6 M13 > 100 Watt Marshall 1959 SLX (Plexi)

that is beautiful! Nice job. looks better than the original.

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My cat's breath smells like cat food

Good Deals W/: farpavillions

love the reverse schem graphic and how it actually connects to the jacks!

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Dude, that looks real cool, you got any soundclips? Who knows, if it sounds cool, you could try building a few and selling some! There are never too many boutique builders!

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Rickenbacker 330/Gibson Les Paul Standard and a couple of amps, depending on how long the walk to the place is.

FS: Fender Telecaster Contemporary, Orange Thunder 30, Mesa Boogie Studio Preamp, Fender Vibro Champ.

Well I only have this Youtube clip so far of my wife's cousin playing some bluesy type stuff. The recording is okay audio but not exactly how it sounds in person. There is some background noise and his Fender tube amp was probably too loud for my little digital camera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CSvmKHfDew

I only built 2 so far, one for me in black and the bare one shown in the video and pictures was given to neoclassical guitarist Dean Cascione to evaluate for me. He's also going to make a pro video review demo with better sound. After playing with it he wants it as his main overdrive in his rig! Here is what he wrote me about it:

Here it is in his pedalboard at last weekends NY Amp Show (held in NJ):



He wrote me after the show:

I offered it to him for free because he loves it so much and always helps me out but he insisted to at least donate something to cover the parts and gave me $50 because that's what I told him it cost me to make one. He's even started to record with it, and his new 2nd CD comes out in the fall called Neoclassical Fire, so I hope my pedal appears on some of the tracks - that would be way cool! I've known him for 10 years through the Internet and he's been a good friend to me. I'm starting out as a non-profit organization it seems, LOL!

I'm not sure about making any money. I got totally reamed up one end and down the other by some in the DIY pedal community for even weighing the possibility to the point they were arguing the pedal artwork and custom PCB that I made wasn't even really my creation! They mistakenly thought I was somehow taking credit for the "real" DOD 250 or something and thus pulling the wool over everyone. It was totally insane IMHO.

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Pedaltrain Mini: Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor, Neo-Classic 3080 Compressor, Neo-Classic 741 Overdrive, MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay, Boss RC-3 Loop Station

I just took a picture of my personal black version that I use. If I build any more I'm torn between which "color" I like better. I originally did my concept design graphic on computer based on this black look. But the aluminum version looks good too, probably because of the black/aluminum contrast of my etched top panel plate.



I'd like to try one next in polished aluminum for that chrome look!

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Pedaltrain Mini: Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor, Neo-Classic 3080 Compressor, Neo-Classic 741 Overdrive, MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay, Boss RC-3 Loop Station

From my concept artwork to physical reality. Pretty damn close except for the LED color!

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Pedaltrain Mini: Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor, Neo-Classic 3080 Compressor, Neo-Classic 741 Overdrive, MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay, Boss RC-3 Loop Station

Here is a 30 second sample clip from the new "Magic: A Tribute To Ronnie James Dio" album that has Dean Cascione's instrumental interpretation of Never More played with my 250 clone just to get a feel what it sounds like on a professional studio recording. Dean is also using my pedal to record his new album coming out soon called Neoclassical Fire.

http://anon.amazon-de.speedera.net/a.../J/C/01.07.mp3

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Pedaltrain Mini: Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor, Neo-Classic 3080 Compressor, Neo-Classic 741 Overdrive, MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay, Boss RC-3 Loop Station