To the owner of Sushibox

[Deperduci]

I smell marital provolone.. or is it 1 of those "...then we fond the bottle of tequila" stories?

 

[vigilante398]

I smell marital provolone.. or is it 1 of those "...then we fond the bottle of tequila" stories?

Nope, it actually involves me and another boutique pedal builder. Quick synopsis without naming names:

There's a pedal builder out there that does a neat tube preamp but runs the tube at low (27V) voltage. I had a handful of customers ask me to do a version of the same preamp but running at high voltage. So I did it, I sold a dozen or so, then discontinued it. Almost a year later the aforementioned pedal builder apparently came across a used listing for one of these pedals on reverb that mentioned him and his pedal by name, and he was upset. He berated and threatened not me, but the person selling the pedal. I was made aware of the situation and made sure to mention that my pedal is different than his and make sure there were no references to him or his pedal on my website and even went as far as offering 100% trade-in credit if anyone wanted to get rid of their pedal without having to deal with a potential confrontation.

So anyway, it's a neat design (especially if you run it at high voltage; I find it to be fairly sterile at lower voltages) and several of my customers have asked me to bring it back. I didn't really want to risk angering the builder, but then I thought, I'm implementing the circuit differently than he is so it's not a direct clone, I'm not naming his name, there really isn't anything wrong with it. And then I thought further, man I'll bet he would hate it if I made a DIY version of it so people could build their own pedal that's better than his.

So naturally that's what I did. He's changed his design a little since then, and I've added a couple things as well that he doesn't do, so it's different enough that he wouldn't have any legal basis to come after anyone (so long as we don't say his name) but it's close enough to take advantage of the positive aspects of the original design.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

BRB just checking out “sold listings” for Sushibox on reverb to figure out which pedal it was

Edit: sleuthing complete. I’m quick I guess lol. Seeing what it is, it sounds very interesting and I’m looking forward to it being available!

 

[vigilante398]

BRB just checking out “sold listings” for Sushibox on reverb to figure out which pedal it was

Edit: sleuthing complete. I’m quick I guess lol. Seeing what it is, it sounds very interesting and I’m looking forward to it being available!

Yeah it's not super hard to figure out, I just try not to mention him by name in case he regularly googles himself and finds out I'm talking about him.

This iteration of the pedal will be called Echo Foxtrot, in reference to the EF86 tube it uses. I haven't done a lot of EF86 designs, so if you find an old Sushi Box pedal with an EF86 in it, that's what we're talking about.

Boards were scheduled to be here today but they aren't here yet, so hopefully tomorrow.

 

[jimilee]

After I get the messed up Black Eye in a box, the next tube projects are going to be chassis mounts with solid state power and direct wired to the transformers through a fuse on the positive wire.

I don’t know what all that means, but I’m pretty sure I need it.

 

[Deperduci]

lol, basically some of the newer amps/kits you can find like this but double to 12x the power and no where close to it in weight or costs.