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12V and 15v are both far more useful to me than 18V, since those are my typical optimization points for my self designed DIY stuff. I could've easily done something similar to your proposed solution, but decided to just buy a small Cioks and concentrate on PD negotiation for now. I bought a six...

I'm currently building up my first ever pedalboard and being able to run it off an embedded cheap power bank is a big part of the mission brief. And I've never liked typical barrel connectors all that much, but IME USB ones are even far worse reliability wise. So naturally I currently have...

Not obvious from the pic, but that bass is a neck-through with a one piece sapele body. I made a lot of extra work for the builder calling for those specs. ;)

Trying another experiment with roundwounds on this bass: Thus time it's the Victor Wooten Pure Blues set, which are noodles at .040-.095. Oddly enough, they make my formerly polite jazz/Americana vibe bass sound and feel a lot like my rude old Travis Bean, which makes me want to bust out some...

A Travis Bean fretless was my main squeeze for the best part of the forty years I owned it:

I decided to experiment with doing some simple control labels made from PCB stock, via OSHpark:

I only built two completely new pedals this year, the rest were all re-dos in existing enclosures. Everything was of my own design as well, including PCB layouts. * HPF/One Band Parametric EQ/ Resonant LPF * Piezo/Magnetic Pickup Blender w/Resonant LPF for piezo side, effects loop for magnetic...

My favorite Fender tube amp spec, hands down. Bandmates in at least three different bands used them, good times.

TOCOS pots for my tube bass amp build, plus a few odds and ends for upcoming pedal builds:

Scout the nightly after show music, there are some great acts that are easy to miss out on. Some of it takes special badging, so it's better to have that info well in advance. And some of those shows are pretty far away from the Convention Center, like Huntington Beach or even in LA. But even a...

A simple two opamp section variable resonance high pass filter, to go along with the many successful low pass ones I've been doing for a decade or so. But it's been several years since my last attempt, and I do have some new twists in mind if and when I ever revisit.

You can use any CMYK palette of your choice for other colors. Have you tried "convert to curves" in Affinity for those troublesome test objects? Inkscape has historically been wonky as far as SVG export format compatibility FWIW. Try plain SVG instead of Inkscape SVG; occasionally that has...

There were still plenty of 2.2uF 50v MKS Wimas available on eBay the last time I checked, just a couple of weeks ago. I snagged a bunch of the 1uF 50 volters when I got the EOL heads up from Mouser and should be good on those for several more months at least, thankfully.

It’s a 4 x EL34 power amp with a transformer driven inverter section. Based on a friend’s early 00s commercial guitar amp, he set me up with a NOS power amp board and power trafo. I added a Heyboer Hiwatt DR103 clone output transformer for a change of pace from my usual Fender based builds...

Do tell? The Wimas already are/were 3.5mm, smallest comparable current production film caps I’ve found so far are 4.5mm TDKs. Just went through revising three sets of my open source boards, would love to revert to the old designs if possible though. Edit: just read the Aion article, and can now...

ENIG, for sure. But once it’s built up that is of course moot. I really like the DK Red ENIG boards a lot as well, too bad they don’t do slotted pads though.

I traded off my last tube guitar amp about 7 years ago and have rarely even touched my electric guitar since then. Bought a Spark 2 earlier this year for my acoustic stuff, thinking it might do for the electric as well, at least enough to get me playing it a little again. Big nope so far...

OSH purple, no doubt.

6SL7s were an obsession of mine for a while. A friend of mine had a big stash of NOS ones and let me high grade a few for my own builds. Expensive, but well worth it. My long postponed tube amp is going to use one12SL7, which are still cheap enough for old ones that I just started with half a...

Interesting, that might actually be a bonus for me. But I hate 12AX7s for anything but gainy guitar and generally avoid them anyway.