Sheepylove - Opening the love for most

szukalski said:
I've been throwing it in as a bonus for early adopters, I have a few more left but they're an older design (don't have the nice hanging hole in the corner for example) but have the right holes.
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Oh, that's good to hear, but the Hebridean is also out of stock (and interests me greatly) which I was also looking at so I think I'm stuck waiting anyway.
 
szukalski said:
On the other side of shipping, good for my colleagues in the EU I guess?
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I haven't finished uploading all my circuits ... !
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I hope to contribute sharing the love in an open way.

Warm and woolly,
Dave
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Very cool! NMRS (Noch mehr Röhrenschreier)! :)

I might buy a thing or two ... if shipping to that weird country in the middle of Europe, but outside of the EU, becomes an option? ;)
 
szukalski said:
That was me sorry, should be good now.
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Congrats man. Little wish. It would be nice to have a "back in stock" notification by email if this shop allows it to switch it on.
I think I am also in the group of people waiting for a restock. :D
 
Congrats on the cool new store. I wish I could order but I'm being bullied by the orange clown.

One bit of constructive criticism is it's hard to tell what anything is without a brief description in the thumbnail. For me, the pedal names may as well be a random string of characters.
 
szukalski said:
The Sheepylove store is live. https://sheepylove.com/

I love the classics, original Boss stuff has the tones I grew up listening to on the radio, so I try to capture the original circuits where I can. But don't fool yourself, you're still building an OD-1 with different tone shaping..
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First off, many congrats Dave. I checked out the site and it looks fab.

On the topic of 'original circuits,' I breadboarded the OD-79 for fun and eventually made a permanent Veroboard version. More of which below, but for now the TS-808 was one of the very first circuits I built when I returned to electronics after a very long absence.

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Feel free to laugh your heads off: a tiny circuit in a 1590BB, a white washer, and the general lack of sophistication in this early attempt. Because I had not realised that 125Bs were the de facto standard for enclosures, my choices were limited to my local's 1590BBs or 1590Bs, which caused deep trauma when it came to shoehorning my clumsy attempts into such confined spaces. I'll keep this as is though as a kind of sobering memento of how I started out close to a decade ago.

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On to the present day. Dave's OD-79 on Vero, ('sounds like a TS-808,' as he says in the BD) as mentioned at the outset. I had some inline 4458s left over from another project and wanted to use them up.

Breadboarding the circuit was a major challenge, entirely because these boards have been recycled over and over and are becoming less reliable over time. No fault with the circuit but it functioned intermittently, so I found some old Vero and decided a permanent installation would resolve these issues, which it did after I fixed a couple of basic errors on my part.

Sounds very close to my original build but will fit into an appropriately sized enclosure in due course. It's YATS, of course, but a nice opportunity to revisit an early build and hopefully apply all that I've learnt from this forum. Masses of learning actually, thanks to everyone's generosity and sage advice over the years: how to test, troubleshoot, and fix problems, how to avoid panic and self-blame and focus on the actual issues at hand, and the general sense of being less isolated in my pursuits here at the bottom end of Africa.

So, hats off to all of you and may you have fun and go from strength to strength and build great stuff. And as before, feel free to roast my earlier clumsy attempt as you see fit :giggle:.
 
Looks choice @mybud ! I like the simplicity of the original TS. Sounds pretty good as well.

Those inline ICs are cool. I had experimented with a layout for the DS-1 with inline ICs but decided against it (mainly because non-standard parts always ruin the procurement experience).
 
szukalski said:
Looks choice @mybud ! I like the simplicity of the original TS. Sounds pretty good as well.

Those inline ICs are cool. I had experimented with a layout for the DS-1 with inline ICs but decided against it (mainly because non-standard parts always ruin the procurement experience).
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Yes indeed, Dave. I'm running it through the recent LA-2A emulation I built and it sounds good for sure.

Understand your decision not to go for the non-standard version, especially in these uncertain times.

Trying my hand at your Thunder Gun thing next up.
 
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