Little electronic cleaners I have(like toothpicks and qtips had a baby) were the perfect dowel. Cross cut a x in it half way down and cleaned the hole. We'll see how it goes.
What’s on *YOUR* workbench?
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JTEX
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I put in a switch so I can quickly A/B between the NLC contraption and a plain 10uF cap to ground and I actually like the single cap better. With the NLC there's something unnatural/undesirable about the attack when playing hard with a lot of compression. Try it for yourself, it's just an extra switch and cap on top of what you already have.
benny_profane
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Huh that’s really interesting. I’ll have to give that a try. I actually don’t have a build in hand (everyone that tried it wanted it!). I’ll definitely give it a shot though.
JTEX
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It definitely sounds great (DBX rack gear grade) and makes the bass sit in the mix like there's no tomorrow. I'd like to try a 4315 instead of 4316 for less noise.
Fama
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Tayda does too (the Tayda brand pots), for those outside the US. Not sure about how good they are long term, but I haven't had any issues with them so far.
As for my own workbench, I decided to switch it up and solder the resistors for multiple pedals at once, and I have to say it was really enjoyable. I think I save time over doing them one by one too. Working on the Hard Bargain, Snozzberry and Viceroy (all that I have enclosures for), plus the Rat Salad. I'm also working on the enclosures for Rat Salad, Hydra and GCI N.E.W. Apostle (drill template was a huge pain in the ass to input to Tayda though), I'm only getting three enclosures in this order since I need to stock up on footswitches too.
FWIW I checked the Apostle kit from Musikding and it has four A1M single gang pots when it should have two, and two dual gangs. Well, it's less than $2 to get those from Tayda, but I did shoot an email to Musikding about that. Pretty annoying when a kit should be complete (without the knobs and enclosure, of course).
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benny_profane
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You’ve got bench space for miles!
DGWVI
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I'm still so used to PPCB boards, I just spent upwards of five minutes trying to find the slot for a 1N5817
Mentaltossflycoon
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Welcome back!
This came in yesterday. Guyatone FLIP envelope filter.
eBay "not working, as is"
$55 gamble. Plugged the toob back in as it was dangling by a couple pins and fired right up. Sounds, well, funky on bass. These seem to be a rare dog in the FLIP series.
Wasn't on the bench long but hey. Take the easy ones when you can get them.
@vigilante398 or anyone else want to trace it before it's likely off to reverb or sent to the trade shelf? I think there are schematic scans out there already though.
eBay "not working, as is"
$55 gamble. Plugged the toob back in as it was dangling by a couple pins and fired right up. Sounds, well, funky on bass. These seem to be a rare dog in the FLIP series.
Wasn't on the bench long but hey. Take the easy ones when you can get them.
@vigilante398 or anyone else want to trace it before it's likely off to reverb or sent to the trade shelf? I think there are schematic scans out there already though.
DGWVI
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We got warpage
This is also the first Low Tide I've built that I didn't have to calibrate, so that's rad. The last one was a huge headache to get the BBD biased
DGWVI
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Got a gut shot?
Erik S
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No, but give me a minute
DGWVI
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I'm mostly curious to see how the tube is integrated, and if it were an optical envelope filter- something PPCB desperately needs