What’s on *YOUR* workbench?
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Rpschultz13
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JohnnyCreepy
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Anyone familiar with spring tanks like one I salvaged from old e-organ? Where’s the dc power input? Is it combined with AC signal top on it. 
joulupukki
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I'm feeling a bit lazy this morning so I haven't even made it down to the workbench, but here's a couple of shots from my couch of what I've been tinkering with on Q-Tune. I'm working on support for loading JPEG images for a standby screen and also an option that you can load in set lists by connecting the pedal to a computer with a USB-C cable (it mounts the SD Card you insert in Q-Tune as a drive).
Cool Death Star image courtesy of: https://www.deviantart.com/rocklou/art/Star-Wars-Death-Star-Wallpaper-649222725
Cool Death Star image courtesy of: https://www.deviantart.com/rocklou/art/Star-Wars-Death-Star-Wallpaper-649222725
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Feral Feline
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Friend gave me this little guy, after buying something to replace it when it developed some intermittent issues.
I don't want it. So I've got to find the intermittents, and evict them, so I can then give it back.
Anyone know what an intermittent looks like, do they resemble MIDI Chlorions?
Hmm stereo out, but I don't think this thing has MIDI at all...
I don't want it. So I've got to find the intermittents, and evict them, so I can then give it back.
Anyone know what an intermittent looks like, do they resemble MIDI Chlorions?
Hmm stereo out, but I don't think this thing has MIDI at all...
Nostradoomus
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Ibanez AS7328. Only strummed it a few times unplugged but so far so good. Time for a proper set up.
Pauleo1214
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Posted a while back on this bike. My local shop asked me to do a carbon repair on the chainstay which I did gratis.
Got an email back from the shop. It's good to know it is still trailworthy and that the owner is happy. She was mortified at the thought of junking the frame.
Got an email back from the shop. It's good to know it is still trailworthy and that the owner is happy. She was mortified at the thought of junking the frame.
DGWVI
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Trying out some Birchwood Casey Aluminum Black on a Klon enclosure. Not quite what I was expecting, but I dig it
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And, starting to box all the other stuff I've been populating in my free time
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And, starting to box all the other stuff I've been populating in my free time
JohnnyCreepy
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Anyone familiar with spring tanks like one I salvaged from old e-organ? Where’s the dc power input? Is it combined with AC signal top on it.
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More salvage!
Fama
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I was troubleshooting a 2-in-1 Fire Red Fuzz and Amber Overdrive build. The fuzz just did not fuzz.
I admit I turned to an Abominable Intelligence for help, which suggested (after some other troubleshooting) to check the transistor pinout - and that was indeed the issue, the silkscreen had the transistors the wrong way around. That's what I get for downloading gerbers online I guess, but now it works and sounds like the demos. Not blown away by the sound so far, but that is the pedal itself.
I admit I turned to an Abominable Intelligence for help, which suggested (after some other troubleshooting) to check the transistor pinout - and that was indeed the issue, the silkscreen had the transistors the wrong way around. That's what I get for downloading gerbers online I guess, but now it works and sounds like the demos. Not blown away by the sound so far, but that is the pedal itself.
I mean give it a few years and half of them will have been uploaded by Abominable Intelligence and will have 0% verification it works!
Robert
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JohnnyCreepy
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Cracked spring unit open and it’s infected with some PNP germs. AC180 and SFT353.
Japan stamped on metal is only identification. How does this even work? Two leads go in and two out, then what?
Japan stamped on metal is only identification. How does this even work? Two leads go in and two out, then what?
Ginsly
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Just because you were once trapped in an elevator with Winwood’s “Back In The High Life Again” playing on loop doesn’t mean ALL mandolins are to blame. Just most.
Ginsly
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Caught between a pot and a hard place... Ugh, that really stinks man. I've absolutely done this kinda thing. How tough will it be to get it out?
Paradox916
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I don’t know if anyone has done this yet… so there might be a good for it, but I’m dumb enough to try. Well at least I’m inspired to try something (possibly) new-ish.
owlexifry
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Erik S
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Not that hard. Just annoyed at myself. It’s been in and out a couple times now so I’ve got the angles figured out to shoehorn the pcb in there.
Sadly the gain pot swap didn’t revive this little vox. (Night train 15)
Buddy dropped it off and said it had an input jack problem - losing signal, but wiggling the cable would bring it back.
I couldn’t find any fault with the input jack, but I could get the same behavior by wiggling the gain pot next to the input jack.
Solder looked fine, but if I measured across one and three it was intermittently failing open.
Put the new pot in (with the nut still on), and got everything put back together. Now I’m getting constant signal through it, but very quiet. Unless I wiggle the Mids pot into just the right spot! Then it’ll get loud again for a second.
No victory tonight. The answer will have to wait for another day.
Paradox916
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You are good sir. There are a few stupid mods involved but nothing mind blowing… how good of an idea? We will find out…
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