I'll just resurrect this thread because all the context is here, but I actually have a new question.
My "One Watt of Fury" LM386-based amp was working fine, but it sounds pretty bad and is noisy. I don't really ever expect it to sound "good" but I don't think it should be this noisy. It's also bothering me to be wasting a pedal power output on a reverb pedal when it should (in my mind) be in the amp. So I thought, "Can't I just permanently add the guts of a reverb pedal to it?" It turns out that I can.
I thought that some of the noise might be from my terrible perfboard layout, so I bought a pre-made PCB for the amp section and rebuilt the amp there to the same specs. Then I got the cheapest reverb pedal that I could find: the venerable Mosky Spring Reverb. This whole thing is completely bobo, and I'm not going for world-class sound here, but I will say that it was an interesting learning experience for a newb like me to disassemble a factory-made pedal with all surface mount components and daughter boards and no schematic and try to reverse engineer it to work in a different context, with offboard knobs and no footswitch yadda yadda. I made a little box for it out of plywood and aluminum since it no longer fits in the pedal enclosure easily. The new enclosure is approximately 100x larger than necessary by volume, but at least the knobs and switches are comfortably arranged.
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Those three big ICs on the reverb are PT2399s. Who knew?
My girlfriend had some blue sparkle vinyl left over from a sewing project that I used to cover it, so even if it sounds worse than a Peavey Rage's clean channel, it at least won't get lost among the other amps, visually.
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Anyway, my question is, I got kind of twisted up when trying to figure out how to wire the switches. I basically have it set up where it's the reverb pedal before the amp, with true bypass on the reverb at the "reverb" toggle switch, then the power switch turns everything on and off. In retrospect, I bet I didn't need to separate out the power for the amp and reverb though, right, and having it be a 3PDT was completely superfluous? Also, I had no idea when I bought this that a 3PDT switch with a full-sized toggle would be this enormous on the back, but here we are. It works, I just assume I overpaid for this weird of a switch when I could have run both PCBs (and possibly the LED too?) off of a single on/off switch. I'm still trying to figure this stuff out. I guess when you learn on pedals, every problem looks like it could be fixed with a 3PDT switch.
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