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

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???

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

Definitely NOT a beginner kit. I have oodles of experience with this kind thing and it was still a bit challenging. Nonexistant instructions and a very crowded enclosure. The foot switch is soldered directly to the board and that makes clearance issues on input and output jacks. Sound wise it has a nice OG slap-back and it is not too noisy. It is a 3 star item bc of lack of instructions and fairly low quality components. Still fun tho!

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.

Instructions were non-existent, which was OK I suppose as the location of where components are supposed to go was labeled/printed on the board, but some of the components were either mislabeled or completely unlabeled/unidentifiable (pots looked exactly the same for example, with no labelling on the pot to describe the resistance). The product pictures are deceiving as well. The board which I received didn't contain any solder pads on the top side of the board (the product pictures clearly show solder pads on both sides of the board). The only solder pads were on the bottom of the board. Components (resistors, caps, etc..) soldered to the board are not as secure as they should be. It also makes soldering in wires a giant pain. I completed the kit regardless after noticing all of these problems and to my complete lack of surprise, the pedal only serves to get a 9V battery hot and to produce a buzzing sound when bypassing the pedal. There was a courtesy card in the packaging for the pedal which contained a website URL; this website does not exist and after some casual searching online, I couldn't find anything related to the manufacturer. Save yourself the time and skip this kit.