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[EisengesisFX]

Hella LMS enclosures.

 

[Feral Feline]

Went to one of the best thrift stores in the city-vicinity, truly great stuff with great prices, and it had a sale today:

50% OFF!​

Yeah, 50% off already great deals.
Found this magazine holder (can always use another and it matches some I already have), which I subsequently needed to haul the stash of
NOS AC-Adapters I found — 9v, 500mA, centre-negative, 2.1mm...
C$3 each down to a buck-and-a-half. So for the price of ONE at regular retail, I scooped...

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I can just imagine most people looking at the adapters and saying something like...
"Oh great! Some 9v adapters, I nee... wait, what the hell? CENTRE-NEGATIVE? WTF? What use is that?"
Luckily I was the first pedal-junkie to come across them.

Two silver bits are destined for a pedal-board, rescuing them from the horrible fate of being ordinary drawer pulls or cupboard handles.

All the profits from the thrift-store go to a worthy charitable cause, helping women with long-term addiction issues to rebuild their lives.


Later in the day at the local dollar store, propped up here by the roll of green painter's tape, a bitty black coin-vault, C$5.
It's metal, it will become one of my prototyping rigs. They had gray, red, and pink ones as well — might go back for a gray number, too.

 

[jwin615]

Nice. Transformer based linear supplies are getting rare.

 

[anevilspar7an]

I've gotten quite the haul these past couple of days. I should get the rest of my orders by Tuesday to finish a handful of projects.

@jubal81 knocked it out of the park with his analog reverb project. Thank you again for all the work you put in man.

 

[DGWVI]

Got this in yesterday. The presets are all cool, but will need some tweaking. The Sampler on it awesome, though. Even just recording a clean chord or note leads to some awesome timbres. My favorite parts so far is its reactivity to technique / dynamics, it's polyphony, and the fact that it can cop all those digifucko artifacts from the original Whammy pedals.

My one gripe is that there isn't a GUI editor for Windows or Android. Oh, and it isn't matte black

 

[OD is Glorious]

I love getting packages from the mothership!

 

[Guardians of the analog]

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I don't know enough about toobs to know where the three 12AX7s originate. I do know J&J at least.

Those are Psvayne tubes.

 

[Erik S]

Those are Psvayne tubes.

With a name like Piss Vein, they have to be good.

 

[jessenator]

From what little digging I did, appears they're not quite J&J, but better than no name MiC toobs?

 

[Guardians of the analog]

They are mass produced OEM level tubes. Nothing great. I don't really care for JJs after using some other brands. JJs are usually robust and reliable so I'll use them in certain spots but V1 in the preamp and power tubes I prefer something with more character thats not so bland.

 

[JasonWickersham]

Hopefully this arrives over the weekend.

 

[bluedmc777]

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I don't know enough about toobs to know where the three 12AX7s originate. I do know J&J at least.

The one in the middle is either Shuguang or Sovtek because of the metal structure on the side. If it’s a 12at7 it could be Psvane but their 12ax7s don’t have that.

 

[bluedmc777]

This is an early Shuguang made for the military. Identified by the square foil getter. These sound great in Marshall’s and can still be found.

 

[jessenator]

If it’s a 12at7 it could be Psvane but their 12ax7s don’t have that.

All three are 12AX7s, so no idea. I have a few others I could compare it to, take some better photos of them, but maybe one day I'll put some higher end glass in there.