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THIS
ANALOG-VOICED
DIGITAL DELAY
ACHIEVES THE
OTHERWORLDLY
EFFECTS
of old school tape echo and delay
pedals, with all their warmth and weirdness and none of
the sterile synthetic tone of other modern delays.
©2020 StewMac • All rights reserved • i-2353 Updated September 2020
TAPE OP DELAY
PEDAL KIT
INSTRUCTION GUIDE
POWER
This pedal requires a standard 9V DC center-negative
power supply (not included) and consumes less than
100mA. There's no battery option.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
If you have any questions at all, our Tech Support Team
is here to help. Email us at service@stewmac.com, and
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- Page 1 Email us at service@stewmac.com, and pedals, with all their warmth and weirdness and none of we’ll respond quickly! the sterile synthetic tone of other modern delays. ©2020 StewMac • All rights reserved • i-2353 Updated September 2020 stewmac.com...
- Page 2 PARTS LIST TOOLS AND SUPPLIES (REQUIRED) Guitar Tech Screwdriver and Wrench Set #3693 Fine-gauge Wire Stripper #1606 Soldering Iron #0502 Solder Wick #0504 Solder #0505 Wire Cutter #1607 Long-nose pliers #1610 TOOLS AND SUPPLIES (HELPFUL) Soldering Aids #0521 Multimeter #3607 PC Board Holder 3M Gold Fre-Cut #0500...
- Page 3 PARTS LIST Resistor values are indicated by color bands, read from left to right. The first color in the code is usually the one painted closer to a lead wire. See more about resistor color codes on page 5. 1K resistor (1) 47K resistor (3) #7369 #7357...
- Page 4 PARTS LIST (CONT) 5mm LED mounting bezel (1) B25K linear taper tone pot (1) #7432 #7461 78L05 linear voltage regulator (1) B50K linear taper time pot (1) #7508 #7462 TL072CP Klon Centaur style op-amp (1) B5K linear taper mix pot (1) #7444 #7452 PT2399 echo audio processor (1)
- Page 5 MORE HELPFUL The solder joints you’ll make on the printed circuit SOLDERING SOLDERING TIPS board are very small, and too much heat can damage AND TRICKS the board. The idea is to make joints quickly, without scorching the eyelets. • Keep your soldering tip clean by wiping it often Hold components in place for soldering by...
- Page 6 called nanofarads (nF), or trillionths of a farad, called UNDERSTANDING ELECTRONIC picofarads (pF). .001μF = 1nF = 1,000pF. COMPONENTS Resistors and capacitors may also be referred to with CAPACITORS shorthand notation on the printed circuit board The two main uses of capacitors are to store when there is a decimal in the value.
- Page 7 Audio taper is used because our ears don’t hear UNDERSTANDING ELECTRONIC changes in volume in a linear fashion as you might COMPONENTS expect. As the volume increases, a greater change in signal or sound pressure is required to perceive a POTENTIOMETERS smooth transition.
- Page 8 You’re creating a pedal from the ground up, so add your own custom paint job too! Painting your pedal and adding the stickers provided in this kit (or custom decals that you can create on your own) in advance is not only fun, but it’s much easier than PAINTING disassembling the pedal to paint it once you have put it together.
- Page 9 Next, we’re going to add a bunch of resistors to our printed circuit board. As in the previous step, you’ll find an outline of each resistor and its value printed in their proper location on the printed circuit board. Match resistors to the values on the printed circuit INSTALL 23 board and solder in place.
- Page 10 The three types of capacitors shown below are polarized and must be installed in the correct orientation. Note the stripe running the length of each cap; this identifies the negative (–) lead (the negative lead is also shorter). INSTALL10 CAPACITORS On the printed circuit board, each capacitor has a square-shaped eyelet marked positive (+).
- Page 11 On the printed circuit board, note the marking for the integrated circuit sockets: there are solid rectangles printed at one end on each. The sockets themselves have notches at one end. Solder each socket in place, with their notched ends toward the rectangles on the INSTALL THE board.
- Page 12 Orient the breakout board with the text facing You can use the pedal up, reading left to right. Slide the lugs of the enclosure as a mount for footswitch up through the bottom of the board. the footswitch while you INSTALL FOOTSWITCH solder the breakout board...
- Page 13 The last components to go onto Board Flipped TIME REPEATS TIME the printed circuit board are the (B5K) (B50K) four control pots. They install on INSTALL 4 the back of the board. Each pot POTS AND has three connecting lugs. Note ATTACH the orientation of each pot.
- Page 14 Like some of the caps and diodes, the LED is polarized and has to be installed in a specific direction. The negative lead of the diode has a flat INSTALL edge and is shorter than the positive. INDICATOR LIGHT The LED mounting bezel consists of two main parts: A ring that the LED fits into, and a plastic plug that goes over the LED from the back side to keep it in place.
- Page 15 Insert the DC power jack into the center hole in the top of the enclosure making sure the longer of the two lugs is on the left. Use a 14mm wrench on the included nut to secure the jack into the enclosure. INSTALL THE DC Solder the inside left wire to the longer lug of the DC jack.
- Page 16 Insert the output jack into the right side hole in the top of the enclosure with the tip connection facing up, as shown in the diagram. Add the washer, and thread the nut onto the shaft enough so that the jack can rotate freely. You may need to rotate the INSTALL jack to provide easier access to setting the solder joints.
- Page 17 The Tape Op Delay has done away with a lot of the heavy filtering and replaced it with a tone control which allows you to choose your desired sound, resulting in more realistic tape delay repeats.
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