What's on the workbench?
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Robert
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Basically, yes. I haven't checked for any traces yet, but my guess is that it might have a solid ground pour to act like a shield.
No components though.
Feral Feline
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Euna that's never gonna happen.
You mean it might be one of these?I was under the impression that it was just their interpretation of the 308, not an actual discrete part-for-part implementation.
So yeah, it could be a 741.
https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/762# It's like being in the land of the giants
Ginsly
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Funny you mention this - I backed up Dean Ween during their 2012-2015 hiatus, and switched to mandolin when we would play Ocean Man! I used a Para Acoustic DI but it's not quite the best match for my mandolin pickup.
I'm VERY interested in a battery option for the Red-Eye, as I'd use this as a standalone preamp as well as a preamp/DI. Most would just use phantom power via XLR, but I really, really like the option. If it's not integrated in the PPCB I'd probably find a way to cram one in, even if it means a larger enclosure.
Yes! I was under the impression that the 1/4" Out was less of a "dry thru to amp" and more of a processed signal like the XLR would output. Might be wrong about that..? This would be great when using the Red-Eye as a preamp first in a normal, non-DI signal chain.
Never considered any sort of on/off for the FX loop... hmm
The Red-Eye is largely used on the floor, and the K&K is a clip in order to keep the distance from the instrument's pickup to the preamp as short as possible. I suppose some may rig a way to suspend a Red-Eye, but I can't say I've ever seen that. It'd be too cumbersome.
Ideally it'd be incredible if the PPCB version of the K&K was still a clip, but that would need a battery, of course. Plus, I have no idea what anyone would do about the enclosure! It would be incredibly useful as a normal 125B pedal too, of course. Lots of people use K&K style pickups, and like I mentioned above, the LR Baggs and some others just don't seem to gel with them (even though the Baggs has a whopping 10M input impedance, I believe).
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Robert
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Nah, the 741 has too many transistors.
This is similar in topology to the Orange discrete opamp.
Bricksnbeatles
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Ah cool! Was that Dean Ween & Friends, or the Brownouts, or like the John & Peter’s invitational or something like that? Any clips of that at all— didn’t know Dean ever played ocean man during the hiatus, but setlist.fm is wildly incomplete as far as that period goes.
Sounds like you have a lot of experience with a few of these acoustic preamp systems. Definitely interested in hearing more about the setup you were using for mandolin— was it just for mandolin, or were you using it for both mandolin and acoustic guitar? What pickup system did you have in the mando?
Ginsly
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Man, you know your Ween! Dean Ween & The Brown Outs. We backed him up for a dozen or so shows in the midwest. Setlist.com is missing most of it, but we played lots of oddball selections including stuff Ween never played live. Up until he came to Chicago in 2013 to join us, he hadn't really been playing much and certainly not Ween songs. It kinda reinvigorated him and he continued to play with us as well as forming the Dean Ween Group. Gene Ween also came through the Tonic Room before the hiatus. Incredibly nice guy, I think it was one of his first-ever solo shows iirc..?
Below is someone's photo of the "Pod-Style" LP poster I screen printed for our 2nd/3rd shows with the setlists Mickey wrote for us. It was his idea to sign ALL of the posters I made, which was very cool of him. You can see Ocean Man in the second list. We opened with "Strap On That Jammy Pac"...? Well, ok.
I don't have video of Ocean Man, but here's us doing Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain:
My mandolin is a Tacoma M1E with a passive Baldock pickup. It supposedly has higher output than a normal piezo/transducer, but still needs a lotta help on stage. I would sometimes use a Baggs PADI, which worked well enough I suppose. Great tool, but certain piezos don't necessarily get along with it very well.
finebyfine
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Is the schematic for that floating around somewhere, whether traced by you or someone else?
I got a Taylor in that had a funky K&K 3 sensor install that I need to straighten out and it's my first exposure to the system. Pretty cool stuff but zilch for output so I can see the need for a belt pack before things get too noisy. Nice way to not have to carve up a guitar though.
@Robert Which soldering iron do you use here for desoldering?
Robert
Reverse Engineer
It's a Pace ADS200 station with 1130-0501-P1 flat blade tip.
A little pricey but worth every penny.
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It doesn’t have its own thread on the wish list so here’s a famous(ish) bass player going on about it for 40min
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