glimpsing the future with some bold new transistor experiments?

[zgrav]

nice post on Sushibox for April 1st: https://www.sushiboxfx.com/2022/04/01/important-announcement/

Did not realize until I saw the announcment today that Nathan actually had some of those rad new transistor designs in limited supply:

Important Announcement – Sushi Box FX

Sooooo -- what were those pedals? I missed the announcement yesterday because I was just checking to see if the Diplomat PCB and enclosure were online for purchase. Now about that.....

 

[vigilante398]

Lol that was my elaborate April Fool's joke from last year, My joke this year was much less elaborate.



The pedals I had available (and they actually were available, I sold at least one of each):

• Dirt Box (Bluesbreaker)
• Heavy Box (Rat)
• Fuzz Box (Merkin Fuzz)
• Echo Box (Deep Blue Delay)
• Verb Box (Box of Hall)
• Squeeze Box (Keeley 4-knob Comp)

I still actually have a couple of each sitting on a shelf somewhere, I toy with the idea of trying to sell them off but I've been too distracted to put in the effort.

 

[vigilante398]

With regards to the Diplomat, I've been focused on my big NAMM pedal and haven't had a chance to dig through my EF86 stock to see how many tubes I have on hand that I could part with.

 

[zgrav]

LMK if I can put in an order just for the PCB and enclosure, but really no rush.

I am intrigued about your NAMM release. Have you posted any info about that yet, or will NAMM be the big reveal?

 

[vigilante398]

LMK if I can put in an order just for the PCB and enclosure, but really no rush.

I am intrigued about your NAMM release. Have you posted any info about that yet, or will NAMM be the big reveal?

I should be able to get through the tube stock today, so I'll make sure I have them listed on the site ASAP.

The NAMM release has been mentioned a bunch on Talkbass, as it's aimed solidly at bassists and was designed for/in partnership with Tony Puleo, an incredible session bassist and former bassist for Blue Man Group. Features:

• two-channel tube preamp
• active 4-band EQ
• dry pass-through
• Transformer-based D.I. XLR output
• IR cabsim, but not being advertised as IR since it will be hard-coded and not user-configurable

It's been a beast of a design and has gone through 4 PCB revisions so far over the course of almost 2 years, including scrapping it and starting over from scratch, but it's just about there. The latest design had a problem that the previous one didn't, but I spotted it at 1:30AM this morning and will be fixing it tonight, then it should hopefully be ready for NAMM. And then I can sleep

 

[zgrav]

That sounds like a beast of a project that should be in demand when folks get a look at it.

 

[vigilante398]

I dusted off my box of EF86 and started going through them, I had forgotten I played around with branding tubes, because when you have your own UV printer you do silly things like that.

 

[zgrav]

No doubt the "SH" from the printing ink helps dampen the microphonics.