What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

Just took a chance on the Australian bloke who winds D'Urbano pickups. Put a Big Bird humbucker sized firebird in my Les Paul bridge. (Bet you know what I'm after). Love the raw nickel look. Great sounding. A tad overwound which matches the neck pickup. Fat but super clear and just enough microphonics without squeals. Really impressed with this. Seems I might not be ordering anything from the US in the near future.

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gonzo said:
Just took a chance on the Australian bloke who winds D'Urbano pickups. Put a Big Bird humbucker sized firebird in my Les Paul bridge. (Bet you know what I'm after). Love the raw nickel look. Great sounding. A tad overwound which matches the neck pickup. Fat but super clear and just enough microphonics without squeals. Really impressed with this. Seems I might not be ordering anything from the US in the near future.
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I thought that was a 125b with a real nice finish for a minute.
 
I took PTO today for “concert recovery,” (Khruangbin and Hielo Nergro,) and completed wiring and placement of recently arrived 220pF cap for my Hydra.

This thing is flippin cool! Jammed out with my Epi Emperor and Nace 18 watt.

An EP3 style delay based off the FV1 would make me a very very happy camper.
 

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So it is finally done. I went from this, with all of my DIY pedals spilling out over the floor and half of them being supported by a loop switcher I built myself that never worked all that well:

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To this. All of my pedals are off the floor, everything is driven by 3 MIDI loop switchers on the bottom rack for a total of 36 loops, and everything controlled by a single small MIDI foot switcher on the floor that allows me to activate pedals, switch pedal order, and create presets. Now I will go back to night school to get my computer science degree to figure out how to program it.

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Once I set aside the pedals that I never use that much (or at all – we all have that issue), I have about seven spaces left on the rack for new stuff. Time to get building.

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Yesterday's jam at a friend's house yielded two pedals showing up on my workbench (but not the OG MXR Dist+ that the friend was supposed to dig out for me to fix).

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All I know about the pedals is that neither works.
The Flanger may be about the footswitch, but... just have to plug in and see what's up/down.



Also at the jam, the friend had this Gnome hidden away, I wasn't previously aware he had this Tone-Gem.

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The Garnet amp prompted a conversation with the drummer (who also plays bass) about his "Uncle Gar". 🤯
The drummer keeps his drums and a lot of other gear in friend's basement. A lot of gear...

Drummer's cousin gave him this 4x12, supposedly meant for keys...

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Fix the Holy Grail so that only the Flerb works!
 
Confession: I bought the NuDrive because I needed the NuTube carrier board. But then I had to build it. But then I was so monumentally unimpressed. Yadi yadi.

I probably have every kind of oddball thermionic device you can get yr mitts on. Lots of subminiatures.

I haven't done any personal projects with 6N16B tubes, but I did build a pedal for a friend that was almost exactly the NuDrive around a 6N16B.

It didn't take much to adapt the board. Might not be optimum but it behaves a hell of a lot better than I expected.

7806 regulator installed and bent so that it can use the enclosure for a heat sink. I changed the anode resistors to trim pots because go fish. ( Spoiler: the follower wants much lower resistor) The bias trimmers ren't needed.

Slipped some silicon wire insulation on the leads and sent them to the appropriate holes.

I'm a bit surprised by the "clean" performance of the tube considering the anemic anode voltage. Im reading 8 vpp output.

Switched back to the 4558 for the clipper but left the rail to rail doing the voltage follower/bootstrap (?) duties.

It bumbulums.

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KreoPensas said:
Confession: I bought the NuDrive because I needed the NuTube carrier board. But then I had to build it. But then I was so monumentally unimpressed. Yadi yadi.

I probably have every kind of oddball thermionic device you can get yr mitts on. Lots of subminiatures.

I haven't done any personal projects with 6N16B tubes, but I did build a pedal for a friend that was almost exactly the NuDrive around a 6N16B.

It didn't take much to adapt the board. Might not be optimum but it behaves a hell of a lot better than I expected.

7806 regulator installed and bent so that it can use the enclosure for a heat sink. I changed the anode resistors to trim pots because go fish. ( Spoiler: the follower wants much lower resistor) The bias trimmers ren't needed.

Slipped some silicon wire insulation on the leads and sent them to the appropriate holes.

I'm a bit surprised by the "clean" performance of the tube considering the anemic anode voltage. Im reading 8 vpp output.

Switched back to the 4558 for the clipper but left the rail to rail doing the voltage follower/bootstrap (?) duties.

It bumbulums.

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6N16B was the very first thing I played with for tube pedals. It's a very cool little low-gain tube, amplification factor is between 12AU7 and 12AY7. They're not bad starved, but they definitely sing best when you give them a proper (200V or so) plate supply, there's some magic there.
 
Some late night bending! Here is the first full enclosure off the press brake! The top is stainless steel and I think I achieved a marless top!

So the cnc back gauge does not compensate for angled bends relative to the part. So I decided to 3d print some angled back gauges that are custom for this small stone enclosure! I think I’m starting to get the workflow and formula down!


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6N16B was the very first thing I played with for tube pedals. It's a very cool little low-gain tube, amplification factor is between 12AU7 and 12AY7. They're not bad starved, but they definitely sing best when you give them a proper (200V or so) plate supply, there's some magic there.
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I have seen many of your posts elsewhere about the tubes. I think I just read your advice on identifying leads a couple of days ago.

I don't even remember why I got them but I have 11 more.

One of these days I might play around with high voltage. Probably not. I break enough things and the penalty for failure tracks voltage in an exponential curve.
 
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