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This delay is known in the diy community as the "Rebote 2.5 Delay". There are plenty of audio examples on YouTube . It comes with reasonable quality, well packaged parts and a nicely painted 1590B style enclosure box. The only thing I needed to complete the kit was some wire. I found this build to be challenging for a variety of reasons but I am quite pleased with the results. I don't recommend this as a first project for beginners. You'll have to rely upon your skills to figure a few things out. If you've got a moderate amount of electronics experience, good soldering skills, a variety of decent tools, you'll be able to build a professional quality product in a long afternoon. No instructions came with the kit other than a list of components with corresponding locations to help populate the board. I relied upon further documentation for the Rebote 2.5 delay from tonepad (a website). You'll probably need tonepad's offboard wiring diagram along with the layout and schematics. This made wiring the jacks, switches, and pots a simple matter. If your box isn't pre-drilled, plan to have some basic machinist's tools available. Unsure of the best location for components in the enclosure, I spent a lot of time planning the layout. I was a bit concerned because although everything does fit the box, despite what other reviewers have said, it took some serious planning and some VERY precise machining to make everything fit nicely. If you plan and measure accurately, you'll have room for everything, including the battery-- but there really is NO extra room to spare. With any diy project, there is an element of risk involved. I was frustrated by the lack of clear instructions, especially when laying out the pots, jacks, etc. in the enclosure. Having a template (or a pre-drilled box) would have made this experience much easier as would any comprehensive instructions. With tonepad's documentation, however, the build was relatively simple and enjoyable. Overall, although this was a time-consuming project, the pedal sounds great and I wound up with a nice addition to my pedal collection for a great price.Read full review
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I've been tinkering with a soldering gun for going on 25 years now so the project isn't outside of what I can build. First off the parts are really cheaply made. Pots, knobs, even the metal box. But the annoying part is there is almost no direction on wiring. Electrolytic caps are polarized, is there anything in the manual about that? no. The 2 chips have a certain way they go in. Any direction there? nope. After 4 hours of soldering and looking up stuff on Wikipedia to make sure I got the right parts in the right place, I attempted to fit the pieces in the box. Nope, the circuit board is too big relative to where the space is made for it! And even if it did fit there's no non-conductive barrier between the circuit board and the METAL case! Add to it that the supplied LED is NOWHERE on the "schematic" or PCB and the footswitch felt broken. I wasted basically and entire day of my miserable life trying to assemble this thing. I kept the knobs and the 9v battery terminal and chucked the rest into the trash. What a joke. Buy a premade pedal, they actually work ok.Read full review
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At first look it is seems like goof kit on pictures but as you start to assemble it you find out the problems : 1. there is no clear instruction. 2. it is almost impossible to fit all the parts in such a small box 3. no place on PCB - need to do point to point soldering
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Like the other gentleman said, nothing fits in thw case. Electronically I put it together as I am a engineering tech and use to working with proto-typed or poor designs. Then I would tell the engineer what to change to make it work. Can't figure out how the pc board, two 1/4" jacks and three pot will fit in the space, and I will figure the LED and power adapters out and see how this things sounds, but it is a like a Chinese puzzle. I will probably put it in a radio shack design box and use the metal case for another project. Maybe re-designing this thing into something that actually has instructions and will work..
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Even the reviews were mis matched on item page some were for an overdrive pedal. The items included in my kit; the casing was not large enough, a couple parts were different than on the parts list, or schematic. Ultimately hasn't worked as built, and now have to debug or trouble shoot. Not really a good buy.
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