A Custom Miragaia!

A couple of years ago I'd built a few clones of the Mountainking Megalith using the PedalPCB Arkaim Fuzz board. These have been somewhat popular, and I have an updated version of the "Miragaia" enclosure in the works. In the interim I'd gotten a request for a custom "doomy" pedal - with Steggi on it. So we aligned on using the same circuit - with a custom enclosure!

The PCB is unchanged from the originals I did last year. The layout on the PCB is really roomy, and I still wonder if this could be shoehorned into a 125B enclosure, but I do enjoy having extra room for art and what not. I'm using all 1% metal film resistors (Yageo) and 5% metal film capacitors (WIMA and KEMET). The electrolytic capacitors are all Nichicon and Rubycon, and the transistors / diodes are all new production as well.

Once the board was together and cleaned, I followed my normal wiring procedures. The pots are all protected with dust covers. The jacks are connected with aviation grade wire from Tube Depot and all of the connections are insulated with heat shrink tubing. I'm using ribbon cable for both the on / bypass switch and the "heavy" switch this time around because it is just easier to work with. The 3PDT daughter board on the bypass switch is one of my "Steggo" ones.

For the enclosure, I borrowed part of the Steggi art from the Saurus Regina pedal I've done before, but re-worked the rest of the Miragaia enclosure with new text and a black / white / red control area. I'm also using black LED bezels with diffused red LEDs. The whole enclosure is UV printed on a matte clear enclosure from Tayda. Overall I really love the effect. Red Brutalist knobs round out the whole effect!

The sound of the pedal absolutely matches the ones I built before - it's doomy, metal, and heavy! It's a fun pedal that I still use from time to time!