What's in the mailbox? 📬 📦

It's a 70's Takamine and first things first, gotta remove and remake the bridge entirely... pooor ol' Takamine.
Have they found a Supplier with longer Saddles yet1? ;)

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This actually came a few days ago, but I only finished my last final crit of the semester last night, and I was working in the studios at school 22 hours a day for the past week, so I didn’t get to open it until now…

Moonn PCBs from the sale they had back in the end of March. Picked a few PCBs, and then also got a few of the mystery packs. He even threw in a few extras! Definitely looking forward to making some weird sounds— the time based ones will probably all be used for my synths. Here’s what we’ve got:

  • Love yourself in every way- super crazy modded Bazz Fuss (2 rotary switches, 2 knobs, 4 toggles)
  • AN-602 Overdrive- fuzzhead circuit of the same name
  • Knut- analog “bit crusher”
  • Aztek Sunn- Acapulco Gold with 3 band EQ
  • Big Mess Pi- LM386 “muff”
  • Schwurbel- Escobedo PWM
  • Höf A Nice Day- Hofner fuzz
  • BACKPFEIFENGESICHT- Escobedo ugly face
  • Drömtydning- DBA Echo Dream II
  • Space is Fun- DBA Reverberation Machine
  • Antique wave Disruptor- DBA soundwave breakdown (small box)
  • Wave Disruptor- DBA soundwave breakdown (big box)
  • Was That Really Nessecary?- Escobedo Too Many Knobs
  • Multiface Deluxe- super crazy modded fuzz face (4 pots, 2 rotaries, 4 toggles)
  • Hot Melt- Revolution Deux Invading Cannibal Ladybird
  • BeautyBeauty- Devi Ever Ruby
  • That Can’t be Right- ????? (Octave of some sort)
  • Sojus 31- Böhm Trickverzerrer
  • The Boulder- Devi Ever Stone
  • Ursula- Dan Armstrong Green Ringer
  • Third Eye- Dallas Arbiter Treble & Bass Face
  • Octomix- Escobedo Octup Blender
  • Time Waster- Casper Echobender
  • Night Destroyer- Devi Ever Destructo Noctavia
  • Dice- MidFi Random Number Generator
  • Priestess- Lovepedal Cot50
  • Mirror- Escobedo Tripple Fuzz
CRAP! I mean, CONGRATULATIONS! 😻


Craptastic that I've been waiting for a sail for forever and missed it entirely somehow... 😿
 
Out here at the bottom of Africa, there's usually a lengthy wait for overseas goodies to arrive. My first Aion order arrived on Monday (took two months or so while clearing through our post office). As below, Lumin, Redshift, and Meridian. Will get to these in due course.

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Then yesterday my Tayda order arrived after a couple of days clearing customs. DHL got in touch with queries regarding the applicable clearance codes and dealing with them directly reduced the import costs drastically (in fairness to them). Explaining the purpose of an electrolytic cap to 'laymen' was worth the effort, it seems.

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This contains all the missing parts for my upcoming Hydra build, for which I copped out and ordered a pre-drilled enclosure from Tayda. Yes, granted I could drill it myself but having waited for the right moment (the stars to be aligned?) I really don't want to bork this aspect. $4.50 seems negligible to spare myself the cursing and self-kicking when (if) I muck up the drilling aspect.

At bottom left, four black spst switches which struck my fancy for a moar black style finish when I eventually get to housing same.

Can't wait to get to all these builds but some other pressing deadlines have to be addressed beforehand. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend, y'all.

NGBS (while presently I can't) and believe me I will vicariously participate in (and thoroughly enjoy) your various offerings.
 
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