Sushi Box FX (C2CE) Particle Accelerator

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Build Rating

5.00 star(s)

I've been in a tiny rut this summer for a bunch of reasons, mostly related to chronic back pain leading to brief, scatterbrained sessions at the bench. I set aside the projects I've been avoiding and dug in to the box of shame as a bit of a reset.

I had forgotten that this was in there, there was something up with the power section and I had set it aside. Soon after, I built a nobelium and it killed all motivation to build any other preamps.

I took it apart, freshened up the wires and reflowed all the joints. It lit up for a second and then immediately died. Figured it was either the IRF740 or the NE555. I burgled the IC out of my black eye and boom goes the dynamite.

Sounds amazing, I've been playing it through the class D power section of my ampeg pf500 with a barefaced supertwin and the clean, beefy fendery toans are massive. I've never messed with an F2-B or a showman so I have nothing to compare but it has me more motivated to acquire a bassdude. Pokemons gonna pokemon.

Favorite use so far has been squier bass VI>Acrobat on the dirty side>PA with the gain above 3 o'clock. I'm not so in to the dirt with the gain dimed by itself but hitting it with boost/dirt pedals so far has been excellent. I have a Space Heater which I like quite a bit but the eq controls of the PA are pretty useful.

Gotta say, I love a simple 2 step troubleshoot but damn, I let this thing fester for way too long when it was pretty close to the finish line the whole time.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

I played with the PA some more this afternoon, plugged it into the front and the power amp of my blues deluxe and my tele sounds great through this. I threw a bunch of drives and fuzzes at it too and it really is quite versatile. Does a fantastic job as both an end of chain platform and as a first in chain boost.

When I was done jamming, I pulled out my phone and immediately ordered a bassdude.

 

[Paradox916]

Very cool, does it clean up well with hot humbuckers?

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Very cool, does it clean up well with hot humbuckers?

My relevant instruments are a tele with a vintage vibe cc neck/ lollar bridge and a bari with GFS p90esque things.... I've been meaning to fill that void. Thanks fo the gas bruh.

 

[LukeFRC]

How does it compare to the nobelium (for bass)

I started building a frogfx version of the same circuit about a week before the partial accelerator pcb got released - I regret this as it’s a far more usable layout

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

@LukeFRC It's not replacing the nobelium or anything. Very different flavor. Nobelium is waaay clean and warm even when boosting the front hard. I haven't tested this but it is evidently difficult to distort and when you get there the result isn't great.

The PA breaks up on its own, just a bit with my single coil instruments. My only humbucker is on my pbass and it gets some ok dirt on its own with the gain cranked. It distorts nicely with just a little nudge from other pedals. Last night I had the PA running with the gain around 3:00 hitting it with a space heater and an akronym and it's pretty glorious when it's cooking. The tone controls are quite different too. Nobelium is petty much neutral with the treble and bass at zero. To get a neutral tone with the PA you have to have the gain low, mids up and bass down to like 9:00. The PA is more tonally versatile while the nobelium is more useful or practical with the DI and HPF switch.

If I didn't have the nobelium this is what would be in that slot on my pedalboard for sure. Set pretty clean.