Quote Originally Posted by DrNomis_44 View Post
The Space Spiral is one I've never heard of before, since it uses a PT2399 IC, I'm going to assume that it's a delay effect of some sort, looks really interesting so I wouldn't mind building one.
Yeah, it's a modulated delay. Not sure what sort of modulation it does to the repeats though. The Deep Blue Delay also uses the PT2399. What I like about it is that the original signal doesn't go through the digital chip, only the repeats do.

Quote Originally Posted by DrNomis_44 View Post
A lot of the time, most of these complex pedal projects can be broken-down into much more simpler parts, a complex circuit such as the Space Spiral, is nothing more than a whole heap of much simpler circuits connected together, if you can understand how the simpler circuits work, then you can understand how they all work together as part of a more complex circuit.
I have started to get a handle on that by studying drive pedals, identifying the common elements and differences and so on. For myself, it's not the circuit complexity or understanding how it works that puts me off the larger stripboard builds. It's simply the concentration needed to get it right. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if I relax my expectation of how long a build should take.