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Here's a picture of the enclosure with cardboard "boards" cut to the right size.

It'll be a little tighter than that pic might suggest, but I reckon it'll be ok

Here's another rubbish picture of the enclosure with pots, switches etc. inside. I'm going to have one footswitch so I can attach an LED and so I can bypass the whole thing.

It looks like it's go for the next bit i.e. making the boards, drilling holes etc.

you can use double sided tape on the back of the pots to hold each PCB and insulate the PCB from shorting on the bare metal. if the pots have the plastic on the back you can just pop it off first. every mm counts since you did not opt for the deep enclosure.

eatyourguitar wrote:you can use double sided tape on the back of the pots to hold each PCB and insulate the PCB from shorting on the bare metal. if the pots have the plastic on the back you can just pop it off first. every mm counts since you did not opt for the deep enclosure.

I don't think it'll be as tight a fit as that, with the cardboard boards standing upright there is almost room for them so they'll only need to be angled a little to close the back.

I can easily insulate them from the enclosure and from each other, so while it would look a little untidy if I was selling it, it'll be fine for me.

Paul_C wrote:I don't think it'll be as tight a fit as that, with the cardboard boards standing upright there is almost room for them so they'll only need to be angled a little to close the back.

I can easily insulate them from the enclosure and from each other, so while it would look a little untidy if I was selling it, it'll be fine for me.

I was thinking you could do a little of both. put the bigger boards flat behind the pots. put the smaller PCB on edge. that should make it a lot easier to fit it all in. you can use all the space and spread it around. I know you are not selling it. I'm just trying to share my experience so that you have a successful project.

eatyourguitar wrote:

Paul_C wrote:I don't think it'll be as tight a fit as that, with the cardboard boards standing upright there is almost room for them so they'll only need to be angled a little to close the back.

I can easily insulate them from the enclosure and from each other, so while it would look a little untidy if I was selling it, it'll be fine for me.

I was thinking you could do a little of both. put the bigger boards flat behind the pots. put the smaller PCB on edge. that should make it a lot easier to fit it all in. you can use all the space and spread it around. I know you are not selling it. I'm just trying to share my experience so that you have a successful project.

That's ok - all suggestions are welcome, even if I appear to stubbornly go my own way I'll always absorb any advice as who knows when it might prove useful.

Sometimes my choices are made out of curiosity because I like to see what happens, even when those who know better might do things differently

Update: So far I've completed (and put into temporary enclosures) the Noise Ensemble and Phantom Octave.

I've spent today sorting the parts out for the others and discovered I'm short a couple of bits for two of them, which I've ordered.

Assuming the lock down continues in the UK for the next couple of weeks I'll probably get quite a bit done

Onwards !

This is looking cool Paul! I've just started something similar with an old painted enclosure from Dirge for a custom pedal project that never ended up happening. Only going to be 2 or 3 in my case though haha not this ambitious.

Look forward to seeing progress!

Update: I've just finished populating the last of the boards, I don't think I have the patience to test each one before I stick it all together so the next task is going to be to drill all the holes in the enclosure and then paint it (tomorrow).

Once that's done I can wire everything in and find out how many of them work

If it's one failure out of the eight I'm sure I'll happily sort it out, if it's four it might be a while before it's finished

I do at least know that two work (and sound good) which is better than nothing.

Holy shit you are a legend for even attempting this. I hope you get it working without too much trouble.