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Alright so again the short answer is that you will need less filtering when powering a preamp from a nixie supply because a nixie supply has much less noise/ripple than a rectified AC supply. Honestly in most cases you can get away with just a single 10uF bulk cap and call it good. It's never a...

That's a serious question that deserves a serious answer, so I'll wait until I'm in front of a computer instead of on my phone at the National Aquarium. Short answer: you don't need as much filtering. Long answer will be longer.

Looks like there are some mistakes on the BOM, I'll need to go over that. I'm out of town for the next week or so but I'll see if I can find some time.

Klaus at Musikding is a good dude, but he seems to fall behind on emails sometimes (I can relate). It would definitely move faster if potential customers reached out to him and expressed interest though.

Everything is listed as out of stock as ordering is closed until I get back from the Baltimore Pedal Show. Come say hi if you're in the area June 13.

If your XLR output is working, the voltage isn't going to be the problem. A picture is worth a thousand words, especially in debugging, can we see your build? I'm also obligated to ask what power supply you're using, and if the tubes you have in there are new or known-good tubes or if there's a...

I haven't, I've always just used J201 there, but there is no reason a high-voltage FET wouldn't work if you give it the volts it needs. Something like LND150 could be interesting there, I use those occasionally when I just need one more stage for a buffer or boost on an otherwise all-tube...

Looks like I forgot to update stock levels on King Nothing and Particle Accelerator, I actually have plenty of stock of both. Just updated those. You need to be careful with high voltage whether it's inside a box or on a breadboard, but there's no reason you can't breadboard high voltage...

It looks like the 12AX7 prototype board was intended more for breadboarding than for actual building into a box, thus the lack of mounting holes. Maybe if you ask @Robert really nicely he could make a compact one with mounting holes for building into boxes, because the lazy idiot running C2C...

Sure, that should work.

Tube preamp into a power amp is a pretty common use case for my pedals. Just saying. I'm obviously biased here as I make money from selling these things, but hearing someone say they don't want a tube preamp makes me sad.

I just want to say that as a PCB designer I frequently hide my vias underneath components, mostly because I think it looks cleaner, but I admittedly also think about how much more fun it will be when someone tries to trace it. If it looks like something doesn't connect anywhere though, try a...

I have never heard anyone say this before.

RADJ goes in parallel with the other resistor to set the high voltage of the circuit. This is optional because the original preamp that Tungsten is based on runs with a voltage rail of about 240V, and if you leave off RADJ then your high voltage will be somewhere around 235V. If you put a 1kΩ...

Mayday, like every other Sushi Box FX pedal (aside from More v2), uses 5mm pink LEDs from Tayda. Source: it's me. I'm Sushi Box.

Yep exactly. OSH isn't bad for tiny boards, but anything vaguely pedal-sized is going to get expensive, and it makes even less sense if you're ordering 50 boards at a time. Also I hate the mouse-bite edges they leave when they depanelize the boards. Their "after dark" boards look super cool and...

Tariffs are on goods, not services, but shipping prices have certainly increased lately. I can't speak for the slow boat option as my orders are always too big for the slow boat, but DHL is easily 2-3x what I was paying for it even just a year ago.

If you're in the US, there is going to be tariffs. Last I checked it's around 30% on pcbs.

Excellent, glad to hear it. Nobody is perfect so I don't expect perfection, but if you're not going to be perfect, at least take care of people.

Marketing and advertising is THE WORST. Just because it's pedals doesn't mean it will be more fun.