Generosity abundance board city

Dan0h

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My normal work flow is to order a couple boards, spreadsheet their components and then place an order for what ever I’m missing.

Recently though, the generosity bug has spread and thanks to @fig @Robert & @MichaelW I have a plate full of boards in the works. Thought I would change things up and try to tackle them by populating what I have on hand and then creating a missing parts order.

Starting with our good friends the resistance… so far it looks like I’m only missing 2M resistors. I’m sure I’ll need some caps, FS’s, Jacks, enclosures, knobs…. Stomboxparts/LMS orders coming up.

There are also two bread board projects off to the side. I’ve been tweaking @vigilante398 amazing Black Eye layout to lower the gain a wee bit and let a wee bit more low end through. And, with this cool Hv power supply, which allows you to dial in the voltage, I’m pretty excited to dial up the perfect combo for my rig. It will also allow me to put some space between power and audio and see if that helps the oscillation and if not I have several buffer options to work with. I love the way the black eye sounds at low gain (with a 12AT7) and at high gain, just wanted to give myself a little bit more low gain clean range (this is the “Glassy-ist” sounding pedal I’ve ever played when clean) and without all the super high gain can let a little more low end through. When it’s done I’m going to house it in one of the cool Hammond slanted enclosures. Originally I was going to include a delay board inside but I’m loving the DMM build so much that I might just skip that. No way that’s going to fit in there, but a magnetron might - which by the way really does come close to mimicking the DMM for a PT2399 chip that is.

I guess this is the normal progression of the build addicted. Build a ton of boards, then start tinkering with the ones you love the most to get them to perfection for your own rig.

Also hoping to return the generosity where I can and pay it forward. Thanks forum dudes this place rules.

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Man, that would be waaaayyyy to confusing for me. I'm a "linear" builder....and once I start it's very hard for me to not finish it. All part of my ADHD I guess hahahaha.
Not going to lie, it’s been a challenge going this route… I much prefer the one and done method too, but trying to challenge myself lately lol.
 
Woah i need to step up the amount of projects i got going on! Cant wait to see what you do with that Hammond slanted enclosure!
Me too, every time I go in the basement it screams at me, “WHY ARE YOU NOT WORKING ON ME!” but life has been pretty chaos lately, so limited time… and spread all over the place. Hmm similar to my build plate….
 
Dude that’s how I feel about my current build. The circuit that I’m building cries everytime I walk by it. I have to tell it that “her” parts are coming and she needs to be patient 🤣🤣
 
*Earlier I said I was able to get my Magnetron build to sound almost as good as the DMM. I want to add an *, this was through my Jazzmaster. Just now I plugged my 335 in and the DMM vs the Magnetron could not be further from the same sound. DMM with 335 is crisp and heavenly, Magnetron with the 335 sounds dark and almost underwater. It’s crazy how different things sound with different guitars. I feel like I need a board tailored to each guitar…. No wonder so many people have such varied opinions on pedals. Your guitar your amp your chain all have such a huge influence on how things sound. Anyway just thought I’d share.
 
Do share the deets on your black eye mods when you’re done! Just finished up my faceplate design, and ready to order from Amplifyfun once I finish up one last faceplate design tomorrow.
 
Yes!

Looking forward to my Black Eye mods edjumuckation, I want to use mine with bass!

Been a crazy last couple weeks for me, too, still trying to push some projects through, so I hear you ... Solder on!


Man, that would be waaaayyyy to confusing for me. I'm a "linear" builder....and once I start it's very hard for me to not finish it. All part of my ADHD I guess hahahaha.
So linear building... is that like serial monogamy?
 
Yes!

Looking forward to my Black Eye mods edjumuckation, I want to use mine with bass!

Been a crazy last couple weeks for me, too, still trying to push some projects through, so I hear you ... Solder on!



So linear building... is that like serial monogamy?
Hmmmm...something like that, I couldn't handle more than one woman at the same time either.....so I got married.......
 
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