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Aion FX Halo Distortion / Sustainer

This build was very simple. In the range of ~40 components, it was a day's work with a nice soldering iron. I did run into some difficulties when I used an enclosure that was too small for the PCB, but in the end I did make it work (with a lot of electrical tape 0_o). Very fun to build and would recommend to anybody trying to get into pedalbuilding.

The entire building process is shown below:

• Solder the PCB
• Solder external components (Buttons, switches, LEDs)
• -Mark the enclosure of the pedal (Use the external components to mark areas to drill)
• Punch the enclosure. Then machine the aluminum with a hand drill since you don't have the proper tool to drill holes.
• Try to fit the entire pedal inside the enclosure. Find out that you accidentally ordered a Hammond 1590b instead of a 125b and can't fit the pedal properly. Coat the entire 1590b with electrical tape then jam that pedal in there.
• You now have a pedal that works sometimes (since your electrical tape job was not perfect). Congrats on completeing your (scuffed) pedal build!

Anyways, this specific build can be found at Aion Halo.

A picture of the finished PCB is on the right.
A picture of the finished product is below the picture on the right.

Aion Blueshift (WIP)

This one is a doozy. A dual pcb monster with over 100 resistors and 60 capacitors. I started working on this one, and foolishly did not heed Aion FX's warning. This is an ADVANCED build. I have finished the entire PCB only to realise that I soldered the voltage regulator on the wrong orientation (it started burning). I am still troubleshooting the PCB and will update this page if I end up fixing the pedal.

***Just an update in 2025, the components are messed up and I will not be able to use this.

Picture of finished PCB to the right. The MOSFET looking item on the top left is the voltage regulator.