Stuff you wanted to know but were afraid to ask

[Einzeln]

Makes sense. It was verbally taught to me this way at school.

 

[vigilante398]

I was watching a Hellosailer video and the guy said 200 N.F. pointing a 200nF on the PCB. I always pronounce it or think of it as nano pico micro etc Farad. What do you say? Thinking of it How is that Hellosailer pronouncing micro?

I've never heard anyone actually say "EN-EFF" out loud for nF. At my day job we use abbreviations like "mike" for microfarads and "puff" for picofarads. Interestingly neither of my day jobs since university have recognized nanofarads as a thing. Anything up to about 10nF is thousands of picofarads, and anything above that is decimals of microfarads. Interestingly my old manager would use "k-puff" or kilo-picofarads, but would never say nanofarads. For example:

"You have a couple hundred mikes of bulk capacitance on that rail, but you need 10 k-puff decoupling on each of the pins."

When I'm talking to other pedalbuilders in person (rare) I'll say "nanos" or picos", i.e. "I need some hundred nano caps, and I just ran out of 220 micro electros as well."

 

[like Yeah!]

Why does everyone fawn over germanium fuzz faces when they talk about the so-called hendrix tone... even though jimi hendrix preferred the silicon ones?

 

[giovanni]

I say nanofarad, picofarad, microfarad. That’s what they said at the university in Italy.

 

[ICTRock]

Why does everyone fawn over germanium fuzz faces when they talk about the so-called hendrix tone... even though jimi hendrix preferred the silicon ones?

I honestly don't know because I'm on team octavia when it comes to Hendrix fuzz tones
I get liking the germie fuzz face for that overdrive to fuzz transition with a volume knob and the carbon battery trick as well but neither of those is necessarily associated with Hendrix

 

[like Yeah!]

I honestly don't know because I'm on team octavia when it comes to Hendrix fuzz tones
I get liking the germie fuzz face for that overdrive to fuzz transition with a volume knob and the carbon battery trick as well but neither of those is necessarily associated with Hendrix

I like the idea of fuzz, but my rig does not.. i should try making a pickup sim and see if that gets my board to be happy with one... i like the sunface style si ones..

 

[spi]

Why does everyone fawn over germanium fuzz faces when they talk about the so-called hendrix tone... even though jimi hendrix preferred the silicon ones?

there's a misconception that only germaniums clean up well with the guitar's volume control, but have built a few with low gain silicon and find they can clean up too.

 

[like Yeah!]

there's a misconception that only germaniums clean up well with the guitar's volume control, but have built a few with low gain silicon and find they can clean up too.

fair enough.. plus i can't see him getting hung up on a transistor.. he was exploring all of the latest tech in his day..

 

[like Yeah!]

See how this pedal board has the resistors stood up instead of flat? Is boss the only one that did this? I've only ever seen this on their pedals.. and vintage radios.

 

[jwin615]

See how this pedal board has the resistors stood up instead of flat? Is boss the only one that did this? I've only ever seen this on their pedals.. and vintage radios.

Maxon and maxon made ibanez pedals often did as well.
It was an 80s japan thing

 

[Robert]

It was an 80s japan thing

Those old Japanese electronics have a very distinct smell as well.

 

[Laundryroom David]

Maxon and maxon made ibanez pedals often did as well.
It was an 80s japan thing

dead end fx had/has a repro board for an Ibanez fuzz that calls for a lead forming mandrel. I started one like … 4 years ago? I should go dig it up. Looks cool to me.

 

[pbrommer]

Okay, I feel not smart. I did some tweaking to an effects layout dt-1 ( -Herzog). I tried changing the output transistor emitter resistor to 1K for a bit of a goose to the output, but it altogether is barely above unity. It sounds good, all components are correct, but it just needs more output. I’m at a loss where to tweak.

 

[ICTRock]

See how this pedal board has the resistors stood up instead of flat? Is boss the only one that did this? I've only ever seen this on their pedals.. and vintage radios.

ibanez does it as well

 

[like Yeah!]

a lead forming mandrel.

that's funny name for round nose pliers heh..