Clarry wrote:

That's amazing Ariel!! Amazing!

Can I just say, when you get the "sound", everything comes apparent. You suddenly feel the music, you hear that lovely quack when you deaden the strings with the heal of your hand, you experience the wave of warmth with chord play.

Plunking along with simple stuff can be mesmerising.

It gives me 10 times the confidence as a player because I'm hearing what I want to hear.

Lovely!

Yeah, as I am working through a tune (tabbing it out) and just using my unplugged guitar, it's great to plug it into the reverb and everything comes alive...a real 'ahhhhhhh, that's it!' moment

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Gilette wrote:

Wow... Impressive build! I like the printed faceplate too. Must be a challenge to get all the wires back in there.

Thank you! Yep, a little bit challenging, but that box is huge. I purposely used different wire types, some solid some stranded, testing the pliability, in hopes of learning what stays and what goes.

kick_the_reverb wrote:

Nice Ariel!
What do the 4-position knob and switch do? My guess switch turns on the knob which is a 4-position reverb color selector?

Thanks Ran! Right, the rotary is for the capacitor mod (only for left channel)... I'll leave pos.1 as 'through'. The slide-switch is leftover from the previous build where it toggled between buffered and true-bypass (redundant experiment - sounds the same). Here I'll probably assign it to be part of the crazy double mono / AB scheme I still trying to wrap my head around...

wfoguy wrote:

Well, crap. Here we go again. I wait a week and more stuff shows up.
Now I'm probably going to have to have a laser cut legend plate and have it coated with unobtanium! Looks great Ariel!

I feel you. Awesome, incredibly creative stuff popping all over.
Though one can plate it with gold and diamonds, the Surfy-Bear has more of a proletarian vibe. All those toolboxes builds reflect that perfectly, "A working man's reverb" - classic!
So, for anybody who's doubtful of his skills - I say - Stick it on a cardboard and wrap it with aluminum foil, it will work.

stratdancer wrote:

Wow!!! Nice build!

Thanks! Soon I'll be joining you in stereo bliss!

Clarry wrote:

That's amazing Ariel!! Amazing!

Thank you!

It gives me 10 times the confidence as a player because I'm hearing what I want to hear.

So true, I feel the same way. Never got that from any digital thing. Every string touch blossoms to sound so sweet, big and wonderful.

I'll be getting some cool knobs, will post more pics once it's assembled.

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Using an A/B switch works great! Going from massive drip to almost clean is a big plus! The Duel Reverb Quilty Bear looks a little busy though.

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Single Fin, looks good.

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^^^^^^
Please explain all of the controls.

LaFleur wrote:

Don't worry about the cables, it will just fit fine. I only need to do some insulation work, to avoid short circuits when the pan gets kicked real hard.

On the left side you have the on/off switch (true bypass), the first control on the left is the gain control (its not wired yet as it needs a small buffer circuit) - Input - Dwell - Mix 1 - Mix 2 - Output - Tone - Mix 1/ Mix 2 switch.

Aren't you worried about the crashing springs every time you kick the switches? I like the way you've made use of the pan as a chassis.

Bold idea, LaFleur!
I too would suggest you have some type (preferably multiple) of vibration isolation. Feet al least...
Research "relay bypass" to use clickless switches. Many methods.
Is that pan meant to have open side up? (last digit:A). There's supposed to be an internal difference in clearance that in your case I can see it being beneficial.
Then again, if it's noise free, you win.

Hey fellas,

Read the entire thread a couple of weeks ago and decided I had to check this out. Just finished soldering all the connections about 45 minutes ago (took me 3 hours, never have assembled anything myself before other than wiring guitars) and have been testing it out.

I know its lame to have the first post being asking for help, sorry! One can only learn so much from pictures of different surfy bear circuits. But, I've been catching some distortion and gain which is not normal. I am playing a vintage g&l sc-2 and the pickups are not horribly hot. I switched up all the RCA jacks because I remember that being the cause for some, but my current configuration is definitely correct - the reverb itself sounds lush. Turning the dwell pot down almost all the way helps a bit, but where is the fun in that? I turned the gain trimpot counter clockwise some but have not had much luck, neither in being able to turn it nor in my results: still some harsh-ish distortion! Any ideas?

Edit: To add another quick question for those with electrical talents: I read it is a good idea to ground the board to the chassis at some point - where do y'all choose to do that? Cause I have some heavy buzz/humm that I am hoping to fix through shielding/grounding

Thanks in advance, this reverb is the coolest thing I have ever built guitar wise and all the creativity here is super inspiring, and I am excited to become a part of it.

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