eh là bas ma
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I decided to build the Black Eye upon recommandation from @jhaneyzz. All my thanks for this kind suggestion !
The fact that some Sushi Box effects are available at musikding, allowed me to build this project.
This circuit sounds amazing, it's impressive and very inspiring, it will be put to good use.
Now, when i wonder if a gain effect sounds good, if a tube emulation is convincing or not, i am tempted to compare it with the Black Eye, my new reference about guitar distortion.
As usual i made some silly mistake right at the beginning, i almost sabotaged the whole project myself because i went too fast, again.
I soldered both tube pcb with the wrong orientation, i had to desolder them, but they are connected to the main pcb by way too many pads...
This original mistake led to new mistakes as consequences (overheating the sub pcb, probably damaging a trace, wrong voltages, etc.).
It became very quickly a catastrophic mess.
Thanks to the kind help of @vigilante398 and the distinguished members of Sushi Box sub forum, i managed to get it fully working in the end.
I also added a relay bypass from TH Custom Effects. In such a small space, it's bagged and taped, to avoid shorts.
There are also two pieces of metal tea strainer taped inside the enclosure, under the ventilation holes, to protect the circuit from dust.
Knobs letters are made from a phosphorescent paper, they can glow in the dark.
What a great sound ! Glory to Sushi Box !
Here is a sound sample :
I built the Proposition purely out of curiosity. I didn't know anything about neither Rockman nor this effect.
This time the building process went smoothly. But i was a bit confused by the effect. I couldn't believe that there wasn't any mistake on my build because it sounds very weird on its own.
The gain texture is very pleasing and singular, but i couldn't find a good setting to shape the tone with the EQ controls. Way too much mids, and some frequencies (that i can't easily distinguish) seem to be missing, probably because there are just too much mids...
A quick search on utube showed me that my build sounds close to the demo i could find, so i stopped looking for a wrong value.
I didn't give up despite the temptation to move on. I tried it before a preamp (Aion's Beta Preamp) to help me shape the weird tone. That's were i had the revelation : this circuit excels at boosting another effect. The mid-forward character makes much more sense this way. I know some people use Tube Screamers in the same manner.
I am used to set all my amps controls at 12' and i always shape the tone with some stompboxes or a GE-7 (probably so that i can stay sitted on some chair when i play).
That's why i first had some trouble to use the Proposition with good results.
Sound sample (the whistlings at the end of the recording have been fixed thanks to isolated wires) :
The fact that some Sushi Box effects are available at musikding, allowed me to build this project.
This circuit sounds amazing, it's impressive and very inspiring, it will be put to good use.
Now, when i wonder if a gain effect sounds good, if a tube emulation is convincing or not, i am tempted to compare it with the Black Eye, my new reference about guitar distortion.
As usual i made some silly mistake right at the beginning, i almost sabotaged the whole project myself because i went too fast, again.
I soldered both tube pcb with the wrong orientation, i had to desolder them, but they are connected to the main pcb by way too many pads...
This original mistake led to new mistakes as consequences (overheating the sub pcb, probably damaging a trace, wrong voltages, etc.).
It became very quickly a catastrophic mess.
Thanks to the kind help of @vigilante398 and the distinguished members of Sushi Box sub forum, i managed to get it fully working in the end.
I also added a relay bypass from TH Custom Effects. In such a small space, it's bagged and taped, to avoid shorts.
There are also two pieces of metal tea strainer taped inside the enclosure, under the ventilation holes, to protect the circuit from dust.
Knobs letters are made from a phosphorescent paper, they can glow in the dark.
What a great sound ! Glory to Sushi Box !
Here is a sound sample :
I built the Proposition purely out of curiosity. I didn't know anything about neither Rockman nor this effect.
This time the building process went smoothly. But i was a bit confused by the effect. I couldn't believe that there wasn't any mistake on my build because it sounds very weird on its own.
The gain texture is very pleasing and singular, but i couldn't find a good setting to shape the tone with the EQ controls. Way too much mids, and some frequencies (that i can't easily distinguish) seem to be missing, probably because there are just too much mids...
A quick search on utube showed me that my build sounds close to the demo i could find, so i stopped looking for a wrong value.
I didn't give up despite the temptation to move on. I tried it before a preamp (Aion's Beta Preamp) to help me shape the weird tone. That's were i had the revelation : this circuit excels at boosting another effect. The mid-forward character makes much more sense this way. I know some people use Tube Screamers in the same manner.
I am used to set all my amps controls at 12' and i always shape the tone with some stompboxes or a GE-7 (probably so that i can stay sitted on some chair when i play).
That's why i first had some trouble to use the Proposition with good results.
Sound sample (the whistlings at the end of the recording have been fixed thanks to isolated wires) :
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