What’s on *YOUR* workbench?
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swelchy
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My mother had a 68' convertible for the better part of 40 years same color... I have worked on that car hundreds and hundreds of hours over the years. I few years ago I was keeping it at my house in Georgia while they had some home reno done for months. After almost a year they sent me the title and said to keep it..lol. I cruised around here and there for a couple years and decided it's not an aircooled Volkswagen and told my Mom she could have it back. They wanted me to sell it and split the $$... I'm just outside Atlanta and the guy who ended up buying the car turned out to live 5 miles from my parents south of Birmingham, Al... lol They see him all the time driving.
That’s been my experience with hand-soldering smd. I had better results with a chisel tip than a tiny pointy tip.
PunchySunshine
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Upgraded our solar system. It used to look like dr Frankensteins lab but now it’s much cleaner / safer setup, doesn’t make any sound and uses less energy overhead.
Guardians of the analog
Papi Fuego
Working on this standard crybaby. I've tried a lot of different range caps since last week. Wired up this final set. I don't know how anyone wants more treble content than the stock 10n cap offers. I have it set to gradually shift the center frequency lower as the range switch is turned. I have it going from 10n to around 39n in gradual steps. Also put in an arteffects stack of dimes inductor. This is the year of the wah.
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anevilspar7an
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@Guardians of the analog
Did you keep the rest of the circuit stock?
Did you keep the rest of the circuit stock?
Guardians of the analog
Papi Fuego
I did, so far anyway. Other than the inductor. I tried other values in certain spots but I generally like it in stock form. Changing the ranges center frequency is the big one for me.
anevilspar7an
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Do you tend to keep the stock parallel bypass? I tend to find that bypass to suck too much toan.
Guardians of the analog
Papi Fuego
I run a buffer right after it and don't notice any real issues. I actually run a couple buffers on my board and use short cable runs.
bluedmc777
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Candid Overdrive (Barber Direct Drive). I used a white enclosure simply because I haven’t had a screw up with one yet! Fingers crossed.
Passinwind
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Back to the new tube bass amp this morning. Finally realized I'd made the same lame ass mistake wiring it up that I did the last time I used a set of these preamp PCBs, back in 2015. But it somehow still sounded good at low to moderate volume this time, even though I knew my measurements didn't agree with my Spice model well at all. Plugging my reference SS preamp into the power amp section yesterday told me I had to dig deeper, which fortunately didn't take too long. Threw my mistakes into LTspice and it all became perfectly clear. Really looking forward to an extra 18dB of clean (until it isn't) gain. 
vigilante398
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I worked on one of these years ago and loved the sound so I had been on the lookout for a deal on one ever since, and it was finally in the cards. The main thing I don't love though was their choice to do a mirror chrome front panel, I've always thought it looked kind of tacky. So I sanded it until it was nice and matte and UV printed the logo back on. Also decided the VU meter needed a pink backlight instead of the boring white one.
pbrommer
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@vigilante398 Peacemaker? Or a different model? That front plate looks different than what I can recall off the top of my head.
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Papi Fuego
Ok, I did some very critical listening with the amp clean and it was super obvious. As soon as I took the wah out of the equation it was fuller and all the frequencies were present. Will be doing true bypass mod.
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vigilante398
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anevilspar7an
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I like to swap the input buffer with a JFET buffer like @Stickman393 does, I use the PPCB JFET buffer board as a guide.
DGWVI
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Fuzzeses. Took a break from the Muffs to build a Two Sticks
@Robert, In this post, you mention the Bigger Muff motorboating and self oscillating. I'm not getting any of that on my build- it just sounds like a regular ol' Muff. So, I'm wondering if I need to build a a fetzer valve or Fumble or something, and if so does it feed or is it fed from the Muff?
@Robert, In this post, you mention the Bigger Muff motorboating and self oscillating. I'm not getting any of that on my build- it just sounds like a regular ol' Muff. So, I'm wondering if I need to build a a fetzer valve or Fumble or something, and if so does it feed or is it fed from the Muff?
Guardians of the analog
Papi Fuego
I'm actually thinking of doing the jfet input buffer AND true bypass
