Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

[B Bent]

Seriously give me your honest opinion on this A/B box I put together. What do you think of my wiring and joints etc? What would you do differently. I am a complete amature at building, but I am addicted now and that's why I want your critique. I plan on building lots more stuff just for fun and I want to do the absolute best job!!

Thanks dudes!!

 

[Marcel]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

looks clean to me!

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

It will probally pop when you use it
But such is the nature of mechanical switching.

 

[larry_emder]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

How do you stop that rid?

 

[Tom M]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

Your solder joints are a lot cleaner than I ever make!

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

You don't, unless you wanna use a resistor, and that will knock off your topend.
Alot of pedals pops alittle, it would depend on what the A/B pedal is A/B'ing

 

[Fresh_Start]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

It will probally pop when you use it
But such is the nature of mechanical switching.

I can't tell if you have a 1meg "pull down" resistor shorting the hot lead to ground. That's supposed to help with "pops" FWIW. Also, does it short hot & ground for the amp that's "off"? Last, are you using isolated jacks for the outputs?

Don't worry about any of this if it works ok with your rig - these are just ideas I picked up when researching A/B boxes.

Chip

 

[B Bent]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

It will probally pop when you use it
But such is the nature of mechanical switching.

The cool thing is that it doesn't at all! I was expecting that plus a few people told me that, but so far no noise or popping. I used the Fulltone switch too!!

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

As I said, it would depend on what you will use it for.
Fulltone switch....hmm

 

[B Bent]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

Fulltone switch....hmm

Talk to me Rid!! What's this hmmmm about?? LOL!! :beerchug: What kind of switches do you guys use just out of curiosity?

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

Alpha's!
Fulltones are just relabled switches.

 

[Scott_F]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

Looks clean to me!

 

[Rushfan2112]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

Better than me! Good job.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

Yeah forgot to add, that looks very clean and neat, you could get a job at us
Niels

 

[JacksonMIA]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

Very clean. The only thing you might consider doing (and I'd never bother with it, no bigger a gap than that is spanning and in a pedal no less) is cable tying those long runs. Of course, if you don't do a good job of it it won't look any better.

Just a thought. Again, I wouldn't bother with it.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

Slightly long cables are nice when servicing stuff
That is fer suh!

Niels

 

[Scott_F]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

Yep, wire don't stretch too well!

 

[B Bent]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

It's so funny because i can sit and meticulously wire up a silly box for hours and have full concentration, but put me in front of a guitar that needs a refinish job and I have no patience whatsoever to do a neat job. Wiring and layout is something that makes/breaks anything hand wired IMO! There is nothing like neatness when building pedals.

 

[Scott_F]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

The problem with amps and neatness is that sometimes to lower the noise threshold in an amp, you need to twist a wire at a weird angle or get it away from some noise source. Invariably, no matter how neat a job you try to come up with, you end up with something that is no longer the neatest you could do. That's also why I always try to leave a little slack in the wires. You might need that slack to move the wire a bit in the name of quiet.

 

[B Bent]

Re: Hey DIYer's Please critique my wiring on this A/B box I built....

^^^ You are exactly right Scott. It is weird how all of that comes into play when building amps. Of course I don't speak from experience, but I's knows hows to reads. And froms da books I's read dats what dey all say! I can't wait to build my first amp or as i have pondered, maybe an outboard verb!!!