Harry Klippton
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What do you use for a squeegee?
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Erik S
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Just did a quick lazy search, and all the sot23 ones I saw were stainless steel and like 12 bucks. Are those black ones plastic and a little cheaper? That seems like it would make more sense.
This might be the first time I ever wished I had one of those Cricut things.
If a batch of those were to show up on the ppcb site, I bet you’d sell at least one, possibly as many as two.
I’d buy the exact set Robert showed us. Sure I can use an iron, but paste and heat gun also looks like a lot of fun!Just did a quick lazy search, and all the sot23 ones I saw were stainless steel and like 12 bucks. Are those black ones plastic and a little cheaper? That seems like it would make more sense.
This might be the first time I ever wished I had one of those Cricut things.
If a batch of those were to show up on the ppcb site, I bet you’d sell at least one, possibly as many as two.
Robert
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PunchySunshine
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$15 plate current probes from aliexpress. Feels better than expected but I'll keep y'all posted on the testing.
DGWVI
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Mentaltossflycoon
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vigilante398
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The guitarist in my band was auditioning speakers in his rig so I let him try my Tone Tubby Alnico Red, and while installing it he slipped and accidentally slashed it with the screwdriver. He felt terrible and immediately bought me a replacement, but I figured it was a shame to waste even a torn speaker so I had Tone Tubby recone it for me, and it came back today 
Harry Klippton
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I was curious about this speaker cuz it's what Trinity recommended for the TC15. I didn't end up going with it thoughThe guitarist in my band was auditioning speakers in his rig so I let him try my Tone Tubby Alnico Red, and while installing it he slipped and accidentally slashed it with the screwdriver. He felt terrible and immediately bought me a replacement, but I figured it was a shame to waste even a torn speaker so I had Tone Tubby recone it for me, and it came back today
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drgonzo1969
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I've always wanted to try those. I read about them years ago in Dave Hunter's Guitar Amp Handbook.The guitarist in my band was auditioning speakers in his rig so I let him try my Tone Tubby Alnico Red, and while installing it he slipped and accidentally slashed it with the screwdriver. He felt terrible and immediately bought me a replacement, but I figured it was a shame to waste even a torn speaker so I had Tone Tubby recone it for me, and it came back today
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vigilante398
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It's not a one-size-fits-all solution, but I've found the best use for it is smoothing out the brightness of an EL84 amp, so that makes sense. My main cab is a 2x12 with a Tone Tubby Red Alnico and a Tone Tubby 40/40 that I used for years with a Lightning and now use with a DC30. This one is going into a 1x12 cab to be used with an 18W build, and I have another in a combo with a Spitfire build.
Tone Tubby speakers play well with EL84.
finebyfine
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Boring photo but: EMG 60A for the neck position of my ec-1000. I was hoping to find the 60A with the X preamp used but the price on this was just too good to pass up. As far as I’m concerned this is the best neck humbucker pickup, period. Flatwounds + this and you’re in 1950s jazz guitar land, throw a fuzz on and you’re in deep lush doom.
Passinwind
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The String Inquisition is in full force.
PedalBuilder
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Today was Blue Box day and a follow-on hit from The Hit Me Mystery PIF thread:
First and foremost, @tcpoint went above and beyond and just sent me an XC Phase PCB to pair with a quartet of matched JFETs that he sent me.
The other boards are the result of a challenge that I set for myself—what to do with two extremely high gain germanium transistors? I picked up a couple of lots of Texas Instruments house numbered germanium transistors a few months ago. One lot were NPN, and are likely 2N1308's by another name. The other lot was PNP and was mostly clustered in the low leakage with a median hFE around 50. Both lots included outlier transistors with very high gains relative to the rest of the lots, so I challenged myself to find a novel use for them.
I ended up going with a derivative of the Tone Bender Mk. III/IV circuit. After playing around with the circuit on the breadboard, I replaced the Q1/Q2 darlington pair with the NPN transistor and played around with the bias resistors and input/coupling capacitors. Q2 and the filter section are largely the same as the Q3 and the filter section in a Mk. III, but I made a couple of changes to the frequency range of the filter and split the 18k bias resistor into two resistors to try and balance the volume across the tone control's sweep. I really liked how it sounded, so I went ahead and had JLCPCB fabricate a PCB. Still working out the UV print design, but once that's sorted out, it's getting built. Schematic is below for anyone who's curious:
First and foremost, @tcpoint went above and beyond and just sent me an XC Phase PCB to pair with a quartet of matched JFETs that he sent me.
The other boards are the result of a challenge that I set for myself—what to do with two extremely high gain germanium transistors? I picked up a couple of lots of Texas Instruments house numbered germanium transistors a few months ago. One lot were NPN, and are likely 2N1308's by another name. The other lot was PNP and was mostly clustered in the low leakage with a median hFE around 50. Both lots included outlier transistors with very high gains relative to the rest of the lots, so I challenged myself to find a novel use for them.
I ended up going with a derivative of the Tone Bender Mk. III/IV circuit. After playing around with the circuit on the breadboard, I replaced the Q1/Q2 darlington pair with the NPN transistor and played around with the bias resistors and input/coupling capacitors. Q2 and the filter section are largely the same as the Q3 and the filter section in a Mk. III, but I made a couple of changes to the frequency range of the filter and split the 18k bias resistor into two resistors to try and balance the volume across the tone control's sweep. I really liked how it sounded, so I went ahead and had JLCPCB fabricate a PCB. Still working out the UV print design, but once that's sorted out, it's getting built. Schematic is below for anyone who's curious:
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Silver Blues
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I've been trying really hard not to buy any new PCBs right now until I can get through my endless backlog, but I had to take advantage of the ZeroG IOD sale and pick up a Replican't and a Vitarium. They arrived super quickly!
drgonzo1969
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Haha I’ve been buying every pcb I can get my hands on. I got all the pcbs from zero g IOD during the sale haha. I have 2 replican’ts now. The stickers are sweet too
