What's in the mailbox? 📬 📦

[MichaelW]

Have you tried these out yet? I got a set and found them to be fairly useless. They cut well but the sizings are not useful, either too small or too large for all the usual components. Back to the step bit.

I did use them today for the first time. I'm not using them to drill the hole. Only the pilots. They do tend to not wander as much as a regular bit and stay in the punch hole better. But if the punch is off then so is the pilot hole and so is the pot hole hahaha

 

[peccary]

Picked up this Starrett micrometer from ebay for $50 and it just got here. Not a bad deal!

Starrett seem to have perfected whatever that feeling is that we experience when holding a quality tool in our hands. There's gotta be a German word for that out there.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

A hefty tool in the hand brings great pleasure.

Phrasing.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

God City:
-CTG (250, DS-1, and JFET clean blend all in parallel)
-Bass Overdrive (Dunwich Olde Dirty Bass/ modded boss odb-3)
-Apostle (Matamp gt120 preamp)

https://imgur.com/a/fb9ki0p

 

[steviejr92]

Anybody else ordered from LMS this week? Website says 2-3 days behind due to their move, I want whatever the heck it was I ordered from them NOW!

I did! I literally got my package today!

 

[steviejr92]

God City:
-CTG (250, DS-1, and JFET clean blend all in parallel)
-Bass Overdrive (Dunwich Olde Dirty Bass/ modded boss odb-3)
-Apostle (Matamp gt120 preamp)

https://imgur.com/a/fb9ki0p

You designed these?

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

You designed these?

No- they’re from God City instruments (Kurt Ballou), and designed by Nick Williams of Dunwich Amplification. God City Studios is a recording studio in PA (or is it MA? I already threw the envelope out), and they started making PCBs and guitars under the GCI label, most notably the legendary Brutalist Jr. business card PCB.

 

[Passinwind]

I did! I literally got my package today!

Cool, I got a shipping notice late last night and expect to see mine on Monday most likely.

 

[steviejr92]

Cool, I got a shipping notice late last night and expect to see mine on Monday most likely.

It’s always better to be surprised anyways just get a package out of nowhere

 

[steviejr92]

No- they’re from God City instruments (Kurt Ballou), and designed by Nick Williams of Dunwich Amplification. God City Studios is a recording studio in PA (or is it MA? I already threw the envelope out), and they started making PCBs and guitars under the GCI label, most notably the legendary Brutalist Jr. business card PCB.

I need to look more into this! Thanks for letting me know!

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

I need to look more into this! Thanks for letting me know!

God City Instruments

God City Instruments is a musical instrument equipment company owned and operated by Kurt Ballou from the band, Converge and God City Recording Studio. GCI designs, manufactures, and markets guitars, effects pedals, DIY PCBs and more.

www.godcityinstruments.com

GodCity Studio | We record sounds.

godcitystudio.com

Kurt Ballou production discography - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[steviejr92]

God City Instruments

God City Instruments is a musical instrument equipment company owned and operated by Kurt Ballou from the band, Converge and God City Recording Studio. GCI designs, manufactures, and markets guitars, effects pedals, DIY PCBs and more.

www.godcityinstruments.com

GodCity Studio | We record sounds.

godcitystudio.com

Kurt Ballou production discography - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

That constructivist in shell pink though….

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

God City:
-CTG (250, DS-1, and JFET clean blend all in parallel)
-Bass Overdrive (Dunwich Olde Dirty Bass/ modded boss odb-3)
-Apostle (Matamp gt120 preamp)

https://imgur.com/a/fb9ki0p

I thought the dunwich was a bass OCD? I love the Dunwich while I absolutely loathed the boss so I would be shocked if there was significant similarity. It's unfortunate because my odb3 was a gift from my brother. I did not have use for it though.

I'm definitely interested to hear how you like the CTG when you get to it.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

I thought the dunwich was a bass OCD? I love the Dunwich while I absolutely loathed the boss so I would be shocked if there was significant similarity. It's unfortunate because my odb3 was a gift from my brother. I did not have use for it though.

I'm definitely interested to hear how you like the CTG when you get to it.

Well I know the N.E.W. bass overdrive PCB from GCI was designed by Nick from Dunwich (hence N.E.W.), and the controls exactly parallel those found in (some versions of) the Dunwich Olde Dirty Bass… which abbreviates to ODB. Plus the dirtbox layouts page says it’s based on an ODB-3, though that doesn’t mean much. http://dirtboxlayouts.blogspot.com/2021/05/dunwich-amplification-bass-overdrive-diy.html?m=1

Honestly I thought there was something elsewhere more reliable saying that it’s a heavily modded ODB-3, but I can’t seem to find it, so an OCD is just as possible without seeing a schematic.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Honestly I never cared much for either stock ocd or odb3. This is what I'm currently using and immensely enjoying.

 

[jimilee]

Honestly I never cared much for either stock ocd or odb3. This is what I'm currently using and immensely enjoying. View attachment 34330

I built a BYOC bass overdrive. It sounded as good as the ODB3, so I sold the Boss pedal. I gigged with it for a while.

 

[Coda]

No- they’re from God City instruments (Kurt Ballou), and designed by Nick Williams of Dunwich Amplification. God City Studios is a recording studio in PA (or is it MA? I already threw the envelope out), and they started making PCBs and guitars under the GCI label, most notably the legendary Brutalist Jr. business card PCB.

Salem, MA. ‘Tis the season, and all that, I suppose. GCI has some really good circuits…

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

I built a BYOC bass overdrive. It sounded as good as the ODB3, so I sold the Boss pedal. I gigged with it for a while.

I have that one too and I like it much more than odb3.

 

[Dan0h]

I can finally clear my bench of all the projects going at the same time. Never again! Going back to one and done, the chaos of having multiple is driving me crazy.

Huge Stompbox order with all the missing parts. Thought I’d try out their custom colors as well. Burken Blue and Wine Red. The pic doesn’t do them justice as they look red and blue but in person they are not just red and blue. Very cool.

Also, this power module @Robert made is insanely epic, Allows you to dial in the HV from around 100v to over 300v and the trim pot is perfect, can literally dial in to the exact voltage. Very stable voltage output as well. This is going to come in handy for tube bread boarding. Just be careful! Zzzzzzt.

 

[MichaelW]

Woohoo! @fig your daughter came through! Tell her "Uncle Mikey" says "good girl"!



P.s. And @Robert as able to make rent this week!