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Yep, that's me. I design things and talk about them on the internet instead of sleeping.

TGP mostly feels to me like facebook for people that complain about facebook. It seems like >60% of the threads there have nothing to do with music. I occasionally read a thread here or there, but I mostly hang out there to peruse the classifieds.

Yeah contacting for quotes is pretty standard for everything outside of the hobbyist realm unfortunately. I imagine the main driver for that is going to be assembly though. JLC is the only assembly place I'm aware of that offers instant quoting, but that's because you use JLC's library...

It's still not incredibly common, but it's a lot more common than it was even 10 years ago. We deal with the occasional flex and rigid-flex designs at my work. I know there are some hobbies like cosplay/costume design where people do flex PCBs to fit in weird form factors and stuff, but frankly...

Probably? I'm not cool enough to design anything that uses them, but it seems to be a pretty common thing offered by most manufacturers.

There was one shop, Ninja Circuits, that says prototyping and small runs are their thing. Minimum quantity is one of the first things I ask, and where most of them were in the 100-500 range, Ninja Circuits said their minimum quantity is 1. I don't know what their pricing is, but basically...

Just spent 1 1/2 hours talking to potential PCB suppliers. A couple stood out above the others, most notably I found the company that does the Rat boards for ProCo/Rapco/whatever they're called now. But it will probably be a week or so before I start getting estimates for boards and assembly. I...

The only place I've ever been able to get them was direct from Jensen. I had to call their sales team on the phone and set myself up as a customer, then email a request for quote, agree to the quote, and pay the invoice. This was for an order of 3 units. It doesn't seem like they like catering...

The original does not have an XLR out volume control, it is fixed at what would be "maximum" of a Nobelium. I wanted to make sure the pot value was significantly higher than the impedance of the transformer's primary so it wouldn't impact the transformer's response, and I thought 500k seemed...

Are you by chance a user of The Gear Page? Your postings have a very TGP-ish vibe.

I have enough PCBs in stock that I can sit and wait for a little bit without issue, I'm just worried that if I wait too long and things haven't changed by the time I need to restock that I'll be left with a gap in production, and I would like to avoid that. I would love to get a new supplier all...

If your LEDs are not lighting up (assuming they're not backwards), there's most likely an issue with the connection between the tube daughter PCB and the main PCB, so that would be the first place to check. Go over the soldering on both boards and check for cold joints or anything that looks...

I will second the request for pictures and for details about the power supply. A supply working with other pedals doesn't mean much unless the other pedals are also tube pedals. 95% of the "nonworking" pedal complaints I get are from someone trying to use a Boss 150mA supply or Donner 250mA...

Going through the biggest inconvenience of moving away from JLC: part selection. JLC makes things easier for us by limiting what we're allowed to put on the board, they only allow things in their library which streamlines quoting, ordering and assembly. But if you try to get a quote from a US...

I have weekly phone calls with my (conservative) parents, and yesterday I made a particular point to talk about how much the tariffs have been causing me stress headaches and literal lost sleep. I love my parents, but they often have a stance of "everything is fine if it doesn't affect me or my...

I sent files for pcb+assembly over to Pica Manufacturing this morning for a quote, he says he should be able to get that early next week. He did say though that their larger factory in Malaysia is only used for larger orders (qty 500+), and that smaller orders are done in their New Hampshire...

Yeah I have no idea, it kind of felt like a shakedown with no real basis. I waited until the boards were safely in my hands before replying to JLC, and I emailed them last night to let them know that the boards arrived safely with no issues, so it seems like all is fine, and they just replied...

Yup, FV-1. This one ended up working out well and will probably be a project as soon as I can be bothered to put together a build doc. It works in the sense that it passes signal and doesn't sound bad, but I feel like something is off somewhere. It can definitely get some good sounds, but I...

Yeah it was a tense game of chicken, but I was checking the tracking every hour or so. If at any point the status had been changed to "on hold" or "pending customs" or anything like that, I immediately would have folded and paid. I think most places will hold it for a week or so waiting for...

So I had kind of been playing tariffs-chicken with JLC. I didn't respond to the email I posted above because both of my recent orders had already been shipped, so I figured I would wait it out and see what happens. Last night they sent another message, informing me that failure to pre-pay the...