What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

Bricksnbeatles said:
Since the “what’s on the workbench” thread is constantly getting hijacked by people (myself included 😳) who post their own stuff even though it’s meant to be what’s on Bugg’s bench, let’s just have a thread of our own.
Post what’s on your workbench!

Just finishing up the shielding on my Bass Vi
https://imgur.com/a/5nd4K3t
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Nice- I took care of that in 2019 when I had the photography awareness of Neanderthal man.
Now that I'm looking more closely I really hope covered that upper right corner after taking the pic'- or more importantly connected the shield to ground..

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Bricksnbeatles said:
Both, sorta. I always keep it tuned E-E, and I play it thru the bass rig (honestly this one is why I have a lot of odd effects on my bass board), but I play it both as a bass and as a guitar that’s one octave down. I do tons of stuff with crunchy triads on G,b,e strings, but as a whole I consider it to be one of my basses. I’m a big Soft Macgine fan, and the way Roy Babbington plays his VI pretty much encapsulates 90% of my own approach to the instrument
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That would be a baritone guitar, John would play it when Paul was doing piano work for Beatles albums… useless factoid.

Still eye balling my wood stack and considering fooking with people using the strat p-ups on a gibson body style and double HB(no middle single coil) on a fender :unsure:
 
dawson said:
Nice- I took care of that in 2019 when I had the photography awareness of Neanderthal man.
Now that I'm looking more closely I really hope covered that upper right corner after taking the pic'- or more importantly connected the shield to ground..

2d60Rjm.jpg
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Very tidy! I dig it
Deperduci said:
That would be a baritone guitar, John would play it when Paul was doing piano work for Beatles albums… useless factoid.

Still eye balling my wood stack and considering fooking with people using the strat p-ups on a gibson body style and double HB(no middle single coil) on a fender :unsure:
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The bass/baritone argument for the VI has gone on for ages, but I’d argue that it’s 100% played as a bass on the Beatles stuff. It’s tuned E-E, and used for bass lines on all of the stuff it appears on. The Beatles are actually why I got the vi in sunburst. I’m a big Beatles collector, and I thought the sunburst VI would look good with my Lennon Casino and my Sonic Blue Strat.

While I play the VI as a baritone-type thing on some of my stuff, it’s mainly a bass for me, and almost all of my favorite VI recordings use it as a bass. The only band I can think of that uses it more as a baritone would be the cure, and I’m not too fond of them.

In my long prog epic that I wrote a while back but still haven’t recorded, the VI is the bass for almost the entire album— only places where there’s another bass are the 8 string sections and a portion where a fretless doubles the VI part. Generally I’ll have the VI playing the bass line throughout the track, and then during guitar solos, it switches to comping triads on the upper strings while the moog Minitaur takes over the bass role.
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
Very tidy! I dig it

The bass/baritone argument for the VI has gone on for ages, but I’d argue that it’s 100% played as a bass on the Beatles stuff. It’s tuned E-E, and used for bass lines on all of the stuff it appears on. The Beatles are actually why I got the vi in sunburst. I’m a big Beatles collector, and I thought the sunburst VI would look good with my Lennon Casino and my Sonic Blue Strat.

While I play the VI as a baritone-type thing on some of my stuff, it’s mainly a bass for me, and almost all of my favorite VI recordings use it as a bass. The only band I can think of that uses it more as a baritone would be the cure, and I’m not too fond of them.

In my long prog epic that I wrote a while back but still haven’t recorded, the VI is the bass for almost the entire album— only places where there’s another bass are the 8 string sections and a portion where a fretless doubles the VI part. Generally I’ll have the VI playing the bass line throughout the track, and then during guitar solos, it switches to comping triads on the upper strings while the moog Minitaur takes over the bass role.
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I can agree with that. Mine arrived here a baritone but it's definitely a bass with flats.
 
Right now I have 4 mini breadboards going:

  1. Silicon Fuzzrite - 2x 2N3904 hFE 192, 2n2 from input to ground. I already have a build of this with hfe 237, I wanted to build a new one on turretboard because it's sexy, however:
  2. Germanium Fuzzrite - a much more interesting sound but I need more transistors because it's not behaving correctly. I'll probably build this instead of the Si one. Have you heard the one Catalibread just debuted? Delicious!
  3. Tone Bender Mk1 - ooh mama I love this but same as above, I need more trannies to experiment with because right now it's erratic at best.
  4. Tone Bender Mk2 - almost there. With 330k at Q2c it sounds like an overly smooth Ge FF, the voltages are correct but the sound is not my thing. 100k is too unstable, 120k is ok but if I build the Mk1 for crazy gated sounds, the Mk2 should be smoother so maybe I'll use a 200k for a more polite sound.
I thought the Fuzz Face was the be all and end all but next to a TB Mk2 it sounds so wimpy, though the cleanup is always magical.
The Mk1 is my favorite, so aggressive and velcroy.
However for my own brand of surf and spaghetti western, the Ge Fuzzrite just rips. It makes me wanna write a song like this old Morricone favorite:

 
andare said:
However for my own brand of surf and spaghetti western, the Ge Fuzzrite just rips. It makes me wanna write a song like this old Morricone favorite:

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Trying to get an instrumental outfit going and "Deep Deep Down" is one of the tunes we'll be covering. The more Morricone, the better!

Right now we're working on arranging "Carter Takes the Train". Not much in the way of effects for my bass part, maybe a doubler and octave down, but the guitarists will get to run wild with whatever effects they want on this Roy Budd classic.

 
steviejr92 said:
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So I’ve been tinkering with the aft pre amp (I’ve posted yesterday on the wrong workbench haha) the circuit calls for an oc139 ge transistor and I don’t have one of those so I’ve only been swapping out the transistor while maintaining that 470r in place of r5 and here’s my thoughts on what a couple of these little guys do:

2n5088 - this was the first one I tried I immediately fell in love with this sound so much in fact it’s what made me buy the circuit. There is ALOT of boost on ready and will easily get you into overdrive territory.

2n5089 - the one I ultimately am going to use in the final build. This screams even louder while still maintaining the character of your amp and guitar. This thing is my favorite sounding it’s what I currently have installed in the pic. Take my word for it I think they could’ve went this route in the original and still made a killer pedal!

Mpsa18 - WAYYYYYY TOOOOO LOUDDDD
This thing not only makes you wish you wore ear plugs but it drives so hard you lose character in the sound of your amp. Some people might find this suitable but for me it’s just to much……did someone call my name?……

2n3906 - pathetic…….

2n3904 - sounds really really good but I feel it’s a little darker than both the 5088 and 5089. Something that ultimately made me lose interest as I was already fixated on what the 2n5088 and 2n5089 sounded like.

Bc238 - will keep you updated….

Bc108b - tbd
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You do know that a 2N3906 is PNP, right? Probably why it sounded bad!

You have me curious to try this now too!
 
HamishR said:
You do know that a 2N3906 is PNP, right? Probably why it sounded bad!

You have me curious to try this now too!
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I realized that after I posted that felt kinda dumb but that’s what’s learning for right? But yes so that sounded very poorly but the others were pretty awesome. I still need to try the others and see what kind of sound I get but so far the 2n5089 is where it’s at! Definitely give it a try and let me know what you think!
 
I’ve been building a pedal supply chain repository.

Each pedal gets represented as a JSON object (a glorified CSV file with a schema) including all its components and other useful information ( what it’s based on, other pedals in its lineage, etc).

You can supply a list of pedals and get a BOM.

Ultimately I’d like to hook it up into a deeper analysis function with my inventory. “What can I build with these parts?” and a bunch of other useful data points (what sort of parts should I have on hand in an inventory).

It’s nerdy but it’s what I do..
 
szukalski said:
I’ve been building a pedal supply chain repository.

Each pedal gets represented as a JSON object (a glorified CSV file with a schema) including all its components and other useful information ( what it’s based on, other pedals in its lineage, etc).

You can supply a list of pedals and get a BOM.

Ultimately I’d like to hook it up into a deeper analysis function with my inventory. “What can I build with these parts?” and a bunch of other useful data points (what sort of parts should I have on hand in an inventory).

It’s nerdy but it’s what I do..
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This is exactly what I wanted to do. You are just doing it already.
 
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