Recent content by pricklyrobot

The most obvious argument against multi-turn trimmers is that they tend to cost significantly more than single-turn. It only makes sense to spec a more expensive/precise part if your circuit actually needs that level of resolution to be dialed in properly. Of course if you’re just building a few...

This one popped up on a playlist the other day and I got curious about that guitar sound. Google reveals that Lindsey recorded it at home and played the bass and a “down-tuned” guitar. There’s some general stuff saying that he sometimes used an overloaded tape recorder preamp for his distortion...

That looks like the same signature blue that Park (bicycle) Tools uses. Can you true a wheel with this thing? ;)

My country is a roaring dumpster fire and I won’t have anyone say otherwise! ‘Murica 🫡 ;)

What’s wrong with it in this case is that the supposed aim of the tariff is to encourage increased manufacturing in the US. But if you slap non-strategic tariffs on everything, you wind up including specialty items (like rugby goggles for one example) that will never plausibly be manufactured in...

Except that businesses specifically competing with ‘Chinese fast fashion’ were more likely to be large retail chains and not independent mom-n-pops. And of course there’s all the small specialty shops that rely on imports of stuff that will never make sense to manufacture in the US. Just read...

Excellent! Thanks for the confirmation 👍

Putting together some project carts, and there are a few JFETS that I can only find at reasonable prices in SMD versions. Some are listed as SOT-23 package types, and others are SC-59. Some googling suggests these may be essentially two names for the same format. Can anyone confirm, or refute...

If it was me, I’d just paint over those little copper gouges with some black nail polish. I assume Wet-n-Wild is a high-quality insulator 🤷‍♀️;)

My Mouser orders ship from TX. They may have multiple distribution centers, I’m not sure. But a good chunk of their inventory probably comes from tariffed countries, so they’re giving it too you as a line item rather than just doing across-the-board price increases. I’ve seen other businesses...

Isn’t the CE-1 pretty much straight out of the Jazz Chorus?

Shrike + Sabbath = 🤘🤘🤘🤘 I’ve got a (slowly disintegrating) homemade (used to be into screen-printing before I got into pedal building) Master of Reality shirt that I still wear. “Children of the Grave” is an underrated classic. Dig that Doctor Who bassline!;)

A related Public-service Announcement: I just ordered some weirdo Euro-bulbs from a German EBay seller, for this epic project http://jhaible.com/legacy/compact_clone/ that I’ll definitely finish in a timely fashion;) He messaged today saying “I just received a message from DHL stating that...

I’m curious if it could be pushed into FM territory (like when you modulate something with an audio-rate oscillator instead of an LFO) at all. I’ve got the old BYOC VB-2 clone, which I believe is the same circuit. I might stick some sockets in those two capacitor spots and mess around with it ;)