Recent content by chordball

I'd be in for one or two also!

OK, that's V2 so you're good there. Are your VTL5C1's Excelitas or prior, or Xvive? If not, that could be part of, if not the entire problem. It's stressed in the documentation that VTL5C1's must be used, which means no generics or knock-offs as well. Past that, I'll have to read up some more...

Soldering looks good to me. Which vactrols are you using? Is this based on V2 of the Cardinal? Just saw a note in the build doc about low headroom in V1. Once verified, if you have extra pcb's, I'd be interested in one.

I recently picked up a Universal Audio Golden Reverberator and am loving it. It's not cheesy and fake sounding like the belton brick circuits. My ideal spring reverb is the tube driven cap-coupled style like Ampeg uses (Sano also which is where I first heard it) but the UA is so much more...

Nicely done Mike! I'll back you up on your choice. I've built madbean's nautilus (mutron iii) and the old meatsphere project (meatball) from musicpcb. While the options are nice, in my opinion the sound of the meatball is very underwhelming compared to the mutron. A lot of the options in the...

Excellent work here man! When I saw your original measurements I knew something was off, so I'm glad you were able to get a good meter and continue on. This is great data. Just this week I scored a DER DE-5000 LCR meter on FB for $45 (still had the plastic film on the screen!). It's not quite...