Crate V5 "MODS" will commence!

[cebreez]

Not meaning to get off topic.. I'm also almost done with their double-flush tremolo pedal circuit. Have a new box coming in this week to put it in. Their boards are great and easy to build. Even their "advanced" and "genius" boards are simple for anybody with decent soldering iron skills. I do though suggest a small tip 40W iron and a good magnifying glass.

[Ch0jin]

Not meaning to get off topic.. I'm also almost done with their double-flush tremolo pedal circuit. Have a new box coming in this week to put it in. Their boards are great and easy to build. Even their "advanced" and "genius" boards are simple for anybody with decent soldering iron skills. I do though suggest a small tip 40W iron and a good magnifying glass.

I've built a number of madbean projects and whilst they are nice boards, most of the ones I bought are NOT designed with any holes for mounting. This, to me, is not good enough.

It's ironic that you'll find so many "experts" rave on and on about how they hate anything PCB in an amplifier, but when it comes to PCB based pedals, people mount them using all of the worst possible ways. i.e. tape, glue, wrapped in foam, hanging off the pots or just flapping about. I'm sure the hard core "I have to make everything fit in the smallest box I can buy" crowd love it, but honestly, if your going to make a PCB for an Octavia that has a PCB mounted transformer, take a few minutes to add holes for mounting to the board! I hate that I had to velcro the PCB to the case! Take a page from Tonepad's book and please give me from one to four small holes in the PCB so I can screw the board to some standoff's inside the case. It's the classy way.

/end rant

But yeah, they are easy to make, I even made their FSH-1 fire up right away! (and that's a complex little sucker) Most recently built the loophole lo-fi looper and it rocks!