Nostradoomus
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that's awesome lmao
What’s on *YOUR* workbench?
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I only have pots and sockets for 6, and enclosures for 6 … plus two prototype enclosures…
But a bit out of hand!
This is what happens when Pedal pcb pcbs are made for 125b and don’t fit in 1590b… idiots like me make something similar for M45 size (top jacks!!)
But a bit out of hand!
This is what happens when Pedal pcb pcbs are made for 125b and don’t fit in 1590b… idiots like me make something similar for M45 size (top jacks!!)
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Kiwi drive?
fontoponto
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A complicated project 
I don’t have time currently for other things to build as I have to move my office/workshop/mancave whatever it is at home. It was in a box for years and I hooked it up to finally use it on my pedalboard only to find out that I never connected the jacks. I did it today.
I don’t have time currently for other things to build as I have to move my office/workshop/mancave whatever it is at home. It was in a box for years and I hooked it up to finally use it on my pedalboard only to find out that I never connected the jacks. I did it today.
Erik S
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A complicated project
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What's it for?
fontoponto
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A patchbox. One single point to hook up all the cables from and to the amp.
GizzWizzKing
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Would you close it and rock it? Or rock it how it is? Or rehouse the speakers?
fontoponto
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try to play it open and listen if you like it. if not close it. or build a new amp into it 
jessenator
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Haven't decided if I'm going to parallel resistor it, but it looks nice and amber now
drgonzo1969
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Woah!
KR Sound
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Got it to work, just need to clean up some corrosion and maybe address a grounding issue causing buzzing. It’s pretty cool!
drgonzo1969
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That is hella rad!
KR Sound
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It really is! I’ll post a demo later.
Totally up to what you want it to sound like. Already open with ports at the bottom so likely makes little to no difference unless backed up to a wall. Tastey looking cab though…
Fama
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I've done some guitar related work lately. I liked the Tele mic set I got from the Wilde (Bill and Becky Lawrence) pickups holiday sale back in December, so I ordered a set of humbuckers for my first guitar (cheapo MIC Squier Strat) and the bass set for a Schecter bass I have.
Just changed the bass pickups, left the original dual volume one tone setup for now. Both pickups definitely sound smoother and less harsh, with increased clarity. One of the mics is more quiet than the old one, and I have to tweak the volumes a little to get a really nice blend going, but it's not really an issue - might consider switching to a blend + master volume setup in the future.
For the guitar, I put in locking tuners, a fixed bridge (instead of the original cheapo start trem bridge) and changed the mics to the aforementioned two humbuckers. I fucked up with the bridge at first since I just put it where I could (trem left a big hole), and of course the scale was wrong - total beginner mistake, not taking my time with it. I plugged the hole with a piece of wood I glued in, and moved the bridge there, and now I can get it intonated correctly.
I went with vol + tone, both being push-pull, with one having coil taps and one for a series/parallel switch. At first I thought it might be too many options, but having done some exploring now it's actually pretty great - 10 distinct options, with the added bonus of "parallel middle position" which I think is doing some out-of-phase stuff? It sounds a bit like a cocked wah and I lose noise cancellation when running coil taps + series (the hum is decreased with coil taps + parallel). It sounds pretty great with certain kinds of tones, more cut than any other option.
Can anyone confirm what's happening? Ignore the upper push-pull, but the lower one is pulled. So if I read it right it goes ground -> first humbucker -> pickup switch, but also ground -> first humbucker -> second humbucker in series -> pickup switch, and then both of those are in parallel in the switch. I assume it's some sort of a phase cancellation thing, but I don't know what happens to a signal when it passes through a guitar mic like that.
Edit: Ahh, I discussed it in the DIY electronics Discord and did some more testing, and it seems in the series middle position it's actually just the neck pickup, nothing special. But still, 8 distinct tone options is pretty good.
Just changed the bass pickups, left the original dual volume one tone setup for now. Both pickups definitely sound smoother and less harsh, with increased clarity. One of the mics is more quiet than the old one, and I have to tweak the volumes a little to get a really nice blend going, but it's not really an issue - might consider switching to a blend + master volume setup in the future.
For the guitar, I put in locking tuners, a fixed bridge (instead of the original cheapo start trem bridge) and changed the mics to the aforementioned two humbuckers. I fucked up with the bridge at first since I just put it where I could (trem left a big hole), and of course the scale was wrong - total beginner mistake, not taking my time with it. I plugged the hole with a piece of wood I glued in, and moved the bridge there, and now I can get it intonated correctly.
I went with vol + tone, both being push-pull, with one having coil taps and one for a series/parallel switch. At first I thought it might be too many options, but having done some exploring now it's actually pretty great - 10 distinct options, with the added bonus of "parallel middle position" which I think is doing some out-of-phase stuff? It sounds a bit like a cocked wah and I lose noise cancellation when running coil taps + series (the hum is decreased with coil taps + parallel). It sounds pretty great with certain kinds of tones, more cut than any other option.
Can anyone confirm what's happening? Ignore the upper push-pull, but the lower one is pulled. So if I read it right it goes ground -> first humbucker -> pickup switch, but also ground -> first humbucker -> second humbucker in series -> pickup switch, and then both of those are in parallel in the switch. I assume it's some sort of a phase cancellation thing, but I don't know what happens to a signal when it passes through a guitar mic like that.
Edit: Ahh, I discussed it in the DIY electronics Discord and did some more testing, and it seems in the series middle position it's actually just the neck pickup, nothing special. But still, 8 distinct tone options is pretty good.
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Guilherme Collateral
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A very boring morning going thru all my parts bins and organizing all my silicon epoxy dot and metal can transistors! Everything ready to get scattered all over my workbench again, yaaay
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JTEX
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For a long time I wondered what a Rockman (or derived) would sound like with a proper compressor instead of its own, which I never really liked much. So today I just skipped RockEngine's own buffer and comp and used this chain instead:
Boosty McBuffer (onboard my guitar) set to Treble Boost -> OKC (one-knob compressor) -> RockEngine Distortion -> RockEngine cab sim (de-Bostonized) -> DAW.
I expected it to chug and was not disappointed:
Boosty McBuffer (onboard my guitar) set to Treble Boost -> OKC (one-knob compressor) -> RockEngine Distortion -> RockEngine cab sim (de-Bostonized) -> DAW.
I expected it to chug and was not disappointed:
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