Sound Skulptor DI503J tube/fet/passive DI and reamp 500 series module

Harry Klippton

Harry Klippton

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This is the most excited I've been about any build since my amp earlier this year. It's a 500 series module from Sound Skulptor for DI and reamping. I had been wanting something for reamping so I could use pedals as outboard gear with my DAW. I had been drooling over the sound skulptor cp4500 and happened to notice the DI503J and pretty much instantly bought it. It arrived Thursday, and I finished assembling it last night and then tested it today. This was really fun to build and I had no issues.

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Harry Klippton said:
This is the most excited I've been about any build since my amp earlier this year. It's a 500 series module from Sound Skulptor for DI and reamping. I had been wanting something for reamping so I could use pedals as outboard gear with my DAW. I had been drooling over the sound skulptor cp4500 and happened to notice the DI503J and pretty much instantly bought it. It arrived Thursday, and I finished assembling it last night and then tested it today. This was really fun to build and I had no issues.

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Oh man, I'm literally drooling.....this is basically what I'm using my Space Heater build for.

Tell me more about how you're planning to use it. I have no re-amping needs but I love the idea of having a tube preamp coming into my digital interface and the Space Heater is a good hack for that. But this build really looks per-feshunal!

Do you have a rack to mount it in or are you planning to put it in an enclosure? Do they make one that has some eq options?

Definitely a procreating build dude!
 
MichaelW said:
Oh man, I'm literally drooling.....this is basically what I'm using my Space Heater build for.

Tell me more about how you're planning to use it. I have no re-amping needs but I love the idea of having a tube preamp coming into my digital interface and the Space Heater is a good hack for that. But this build really looks per-feshunal!

Do you have a rack to mount it in or are you planning to put it in an enclosure? Do they make one that has some eq options?

Definitely a procreating build dude!
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I have a 500 chassis. I'll post a pic later once I put all my modules back in it tonight. I have a mic pre module with a DI that I've used a bit, but I imagine I'll use this module more, but the main attraction for me is using the reamp to use pedals as outboard processors. Think of it like every pedal you own would be a plugin- phaser on drum overheads, your favorite delay pedal on a snare track, etc. I will likely abuse my strymon deco on everything- double tracking for guitar and vocals, run stereo mixes through for extra tape warble, stuff like that.

A few years ago I decided I wanted to build "one decent mic preamp" and needed a chassis, so I bought a Midas L6 thinking I'd never fill all 6 slots, and of course I was wrong wrong wrong. I've built a couple modules (I can post more details later with what I've built) and I've bought some modules. Last night I was contemplating building the CAPI 11 slot rack and moving my L6 to recover some of the expense because now I want to build way too many more modules 🤣 especially the sound skulptor cp4500 stereo buss compressor I mentioned in my OP


Edit: just to elaborate a little more, this is the configuration I intend on using the most: (From the product page on the sound skulptor website which shows all the use cases)
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Ok @MichaelW here's the whole rack with all the stuff right now. As it stands, I have one slot left 🥶🥶 but I could easily swap some of these out
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Left to right: sound skulptor di503j, DIYRE CP5, BART HRK MPQ568C, DBX 560a, and DIYRE Colour Palette MKii. I started out just wanting to have the two DIYRE modules so I could mess around with the colour modules (see pics below). I bought the BART HRK module cuz it was way cheap, but it came assembled, and the DBX I bought open box last year also for cheap.

This is the colour palette. it has 3 slots for colour modules. It's pretty much at unity gain all the time so the different modules just add different types of saturation signal-2022-09-05-22-22-21-381-5.jpg
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CP5: super clean mic pre with one colour slot that can be bypassed. You can see i built this in my "don't clean flux" phase so the rat piss vibe is in full effect on the white board
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Bart HRK MPQ586C. Two colour slots, some basic eq controls on the front, plus DI. As I mentioned above, this was very cheap, and the toggle switches feel like it
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Then I have a pile more colour modules. I haven't even used some of these before 🥶
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I really have no business using this stuff but it sure is fun 🤷
 
Harry Klippton said:
There are so many cool options for diy kits with 500 series stuff. DIYRE, Hairball audio, sound skulptor, CAPI, and there are probably more that I don't know about. Whatcha got in your rack?
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Man most all of those are sold out!!
There’s a hairball fet 500 that looks cool…

I’d love to do some capi stuff…
 
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Im surprised by the cost of some of the DIYRE stuff. some of those transformer-less color card kits seem pretty expensive for a tiny pcb with a handful of common parts, while some of the transformer-based ones seem pretty reasonable. Regardless, those colour palette units are awesome. Know of any other people making different colour card pcbs for those?
 
It's not too far off from what a pedal kit costs vs buying a PCB and sourcing your own components but I agree. I built all mine before I was building non-kit pedals too
 
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Bump for an answer to a question.


I've crammed a Mojo Maestro in a 1590LB, but based on the original basic Ethan Winer schematic (a half-dozen components).

Will, what's with the extra bits and IC? Can you post a schematic of the DIYRE-version?
 
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