Recent content by giovanni

But does it ring mod?

Yeah that's how I feel about these. I might just pass.

Hey guys, a bit of a random question for your consideration. A coworker is selling a Slotva, ARP87 and a Julianna. I just tried them really quickly this morning and I was just listening to a couple demos before I get to work. TBH I wasn't super impressed with the sounds I got this morning, but I...

WTF! That's super sketchy.

I feel like you risked it man! I once sent a package from the US to Spain and the receiver was supposed to get in touch with customs (which I told them to do). They did not and the package was returned to me...

Not to nitpick… ok kinda to nitpick 🙂, but there are plenty of studies showing that protests do work… so hopefully they will when it comes to tariffs.

You can probably calculate the optimal value based on the circuit characteristics, but that’s more of an academic/learning approach I think. My guess is that most pedal designers would just use their ears or maybe a Spice simulation.

Thank you! I’ve always called caps across DC filtering caps, TIL.

Whenever you have a coupling capacitor, i.e., a capacitor used to filter DC voltage between two parts of a circuit, you are introducing a high pass filter (which by definition filters low frequency including 0Hz which is DC). The most important feature of a high pass filter of this form (first...

I would try temporarily wiring the neck pickup to the output to confirm that you do get signal. I agree with you that the switch is probably busted but better cover your bases. Keep in mind that changing the pot value, even with a different cap value, will change the guitar output impedance...

I think you want positive DC across the cap +/- leads.

If the low tide distorts with more signal and it’s too quiet as is, I wonder if there’s something wrong with it? I haven’t heard this being a common issue with the low tide.

I would say that’s 75% Italian 😜 but really cool build!

I am gonna need a lot more details about the outbidding. Which pedal? How did you know it was him? How much did he end up paying?

I don’t know much about tube amps so I don’t know. But I kinda doubt that polarization is ever necessary. At least for small signals, it is usually safe to replace polarized caps with non polarized ones. The opposite may or may not be true, depending on the application.