Inconuucl wrote:I can understand, it's been taking me months to even start learning to make pedals due to my job. Especially now with a looming deadline... @n@
How long does it take you to assemble one of these start to finish?
Hard to tell, since I rarely assemble them one at a time. I drill all the enclosures, prime them, paint them, do all the PCBs, like an assembly line. If I crunched like a lunatic, I could do this many in 2-3 days. But because I'm on post-burnout vacation and I'm lazy, took more than a week. And that was with enclosures I had already drilled months ago.
It's not 'exactly' the time that it takes, that gets to me, it's the repetition and difficulty of building something in great 'detail'. It's so easy to fuck up drilling 8 3mm leds in a row, and one of them's 1mm off. Likewise it's so easy to fuck up the painting (colors change as they dry), the decal application, the clear finish. And to fuck up the main big chip with 0.5 mm pin separation. I'm just not good with assembly line stuff. I would do it if it were my only job, my bread earner, but it's not. I make more than enough in my "real" job, so when I do these pedal batches, I have to force myself to do it. A week of "oh god, today I'll do this and this and this, and try not to rage".
I'm better at inventing one-offs (though that comes with its own kind of raging), than the assembly line building. And I just don't know how to offload that on others.
Which pedals have you been learning?
Speaking of inventing, I'm starting on a PDS delay killer! Here's a board I designed yesterday to help me develop it.
I plan to make a simple fuzzface first, and then go for the rite of passage many-knobbed fuzz. 
