Delay-1 DIY Guitar Pedal Kit With 1590B Aluminum Metal Stomp Box Case Enclosure

1st pedal ive ever done. At first it looked a bit complicated. Once I got into it though it was really easy. The directions explain everything you need to know. Start with your smaller things first. Wires, Resistors, caps, etc. The pictures here made it alot easier...even though the directions are just as good. it was good to verify. I put it together and it worked fine first time around. Didnt have to do any trouble shooting. I just followed the diagram. The directions or diagram explains it ALL. Just Look . The finished board was a little tight going in but I taped a bit of duct tape on the inside bottom cover so solder joints wouldnt touch any metal from the casing since it was a tight fit. Im looking now to do a more complicated effects. Hope I could find some . There are more D I Y pedals here on Amazon but they are a little too basic now. For the money it's a good deal and something to pass the time. When finished ya got a pretty cool little pedal that you built yourself.

I put this together the best I can with the poorly written supplied directory. Doesn't work. Check Amazon review comments, decide a common issue is supposedly the diagram has the Jack's wrong. Tried it every way imaginable, and no. So then I use the good old tube of the you right... and I watched probably about 4 people build it, one person did it slightly different but what he did makes sense and still worked for him. I try it both ways I saw the four people built it. Nope. It wants to work. Sometimes I hear the delay feedback despite there being no real input, but it has some sort of output as I can hear feedback. I am no stranger to making stuff.I know how to use a soldering iron. I've made synths, video mixers, microphones, I worked on a couple game consoles... I can not get this thing to work any way I try it. I ordered almost every landtone diy kit. This was the first I tried and I was going to make a video about them all basically but I spent a month trying to get this thing that should of worked the first night in the couple of hours I got to work on it. I'm about turned off of them all, I want a working one and I'm not ordering another. I might try another company pedal for delay. Let's hope the trem, fuzz, Klon clone, and reverb (had to get the reverb kit on aliexpress) all work... got alot to say about this one.The most important thing you need to know if these reviews saying the instructions suck. They do. It's a parts list that shows numbers of what's what, which is helpful regarding the pcb stuff, but that's not even the stuff I think got wonky on my build. They need step by step instructions for people who have never done this before. Seriously there is about 3 things I had to watch someone do regarding the wires (which package was one shy) which didn't bother me as I have wire for my other projects but someone just starting would have a time and it realistically should of been there. Beyond frustrating. I don't have a lot of faith in their other kits, but fun fact the Fuzz is the only one with a color instruction sheet and is the best one but basically is no help with the offboard stuff, and again if it's like this I can do it just like the picture and it won't work. Time will tell. Be an interesting video if I can't get any to work

So I got my first one of these shipped and it took a while to get here from China. I built it and tested the unit and it did not quite work as it should have. I reached out to the company via amazon, and then their website to ask for advice as to where my problem may have been. After a few emails back and forth it was determined that there appeared to be a problem with one of the IC chips in the unit. The person I emailed with appeared to be the owner and agreed to ship out a new chip set. well they actually shipped out an entirely new unit in its entirety. I got the chance to finally test out the unit with the replaced chips and it sounded pretty damned good. I would say that it's tone is lush, and buttery. it has a warm kind of feel and even at top volume with all controls up the unit did not clip and did not seem to feed back as other models in this price range tend to do. I would definitely recommend this unit though not to a first time builder. If you have a few similar projects that may be simpler under your belt then go for it, but the tight quarters of the housing and the particular needs to mount parts in a specific fashion take some thought to sort and get correct. All in all i am quite pleased with this unit and will be going back for other units to build. I just wish it didn't take so long to ship. maybe I should become a US distributer???

Very easy to assemble and components quality are good and PCB board as well. However, there are some errors pots wiring on the installation document.

The written instructions were different from the components printed on the circuit board. No circuit diagram that might have helped. Missing resistor. No details about how wires are oriented on plug jacks and power plug.

I built this kit in 2019 and have been using it now for a few years. Mine worked first try and wasn't a difficult build. The sound of the completed pedal is really great!