What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

Paradox916 said:
I’m glad you didn’t take my comment seriously and seen the humor in it! 🙌.
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Tons of people feel that way about that style of bass in general, including myself at times. But they typically sell for big bucks and someone buys em... :ROFLMAO:

And that particular one plays and sounds pretty sweet, regardless. I'm not a slapper, but it kills for that.
 
I shouldn’t be working on this because I need to finish my other amp first … but most of the parts came in for my next project and it got me excited so I decided to do a test fit, sanity check, assembly:

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Everything fits well :) I need to drill some more holes, one for a mini toggle in the overdrive section (upper right corner I think), and a couple holes for a badge… But that will wait until my current amp is done, that’s what I am telling myself haha.
 
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- been planning for a 🔺bmp mojo build.
- found some TO-105 package silicon NPN (2N5856, fairchild)
- didn't get the most exciting Hfe results, but after some reading, apparently it doesn't matter that much.
(was genuinely concerned that it might not even function properly)
- tested each one in a simple LPB-1 type circuit, so far so good.

so then i made an attempt to squeeze a bmp circuit on the protoboard micro
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(ran out of space for a volume pot, so just used a fixed 30K/68K divider for a 70% cranked position)

result:
yep, they sound great 🤟
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singapore?

“Fairchild Singapore Pte Ltd started in 1968. In 1987, it was acquired by National Semiconductor and ceased to exist"
 
Trying to get some decent sticker printed from my shitty inkjet printer. Colors are not the best but it's serviceable. Here is what my Virgil (Bad Monkey) will looks like, still have to decide on wether I go green enclosure/red leds or white enclosure/green leds. Yes, plural, got an idea for MOAR LEDS.

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And before anyone says Tayda, I'm in Europe so I ain't paying for that for my shitty soldering skills :D
 
Asdrael said:
And before anyone says Tayda, I'm in Europe so I ain't paying for that for my shitty soldering skills :D
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I'm also in Europe and feel like Tayda is quite decent (drilled and printed enclosure comes out to around ~20eur maybe with taxes for me?), but I do order ~5-6 enclosures at once to get the price (and shipping) down a little. Although from what I've heard, paying the customs might get very expensive depending on which country you're from.

But obviously a bare enclosure is much cheaper, especially if you can paint/drill them yourself.
 
Fama said:
I'm also in Europe and feel like Tayda is quite decent (drilled and printed enclosure comes out to around ~20eur maybe with taxes for me?), but I do order ~5-6 enclosures at once to get the price (and shipping) down a little. Although from what I've heard, paying the customs might get very expensive depending on which country you're from.

But obviously a bare enclosure is much cheaper, especially if you can paint/drill them yourself.
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I am not at the (addiction) level where I need to order a sufficient amount to make it worth it. Plus I like to do as much myself as I can. So far I was laser engraving black powder coated enclosures which works fine but I wanted to give printing transparent decals a go. Not 100% satisfied with the colors, even if they look great on white, they are not vibrant enough for colored enclosures. The darker the enclosure, the worse it gets obviously. We recently got a kind of high end professional printer in the workshop so I may try that next time. I also have the "laser cut painter tape then spray paint" approach to try.

Well shit here goes the addiction level I guess.
 
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