What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

giovanni said:
How do you like that Colour Box? And the low pass filter? I have always wanted the Moogerfooger. Cool board!
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love it. For bass - It gets a lot of hate on Talkbass, the high pass filter is a chunk too high to be of use, and the drive sounds are ... erm well they sound good on demos on guitar but a bit unruly for bass... but set clean as a end of chain eq and sweetener with gentle transformer compression/smoothin it sounds great.
Would prefer the Warwick Hellborg preamp I should never have sold, but way cheaper and smaller than something like the Caveman BP1 and I think I prefer the sound of transformers to tubes.
 
feel free to suggest the pedal for the space... for a bass player... gotta be something the HX stomp sucks at. (Still waiting for @Robert to get that Doom2 off the shelf... not even asking for the build docs!)
 
Currently furloughed so i have some time on my hands. A while back a friend snuck out a Trek Madone frame from being destroyed per Trek’s warranty procedures. I did the carbon repair and touched up the finish.

Since then, Trek let my friend go due to downsizing. He bought a Look KG381 frame that needed a carbon repair on the top tube. I helped him with the repair and am refinishing the top tube.

Currently applied the paint and am waiting for it to harden up. It will look almost stock. The only flourish is I clearcoated the carbon and masked the area with a sticker so he can ride with his cat.

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Awhile back Erica synths brought out a new series of educational kits designed by one Moritz Klein. They have very useful thorough documentation in which said Moritz walks one through his design processes: very interesting to follow his thought processes and I've learnt a lot about the basics of modular design from these.

So, I've been breadboarding like a man possessed, with the above being his take on the 808 snare. I struggled like hell to get this to work until it struck me to check the chips, discovering to my amusement that I'd inadvertently stuck an 071 instead of an 072 as the third chip. No wonder it didn't work.

I've also done his kick and EG circuits on breadboard: simple but effective stuff.

I'm very aware that modular stuff may not be interesting for many of us here but some may find value in the general electronics principles that Herr Klein explains with such lucidity.
 
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LukeFRC said:
That's so cool - I don't really "get" the modular thing, but just had a look things like the wave folder would be interesting to play with!
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The modular thing is for diehard analogue junkies like me, I think ;)

I'd sooner work with an analogue 808 snare than use a sample, which is just a rather silly preference on my part (among many others, of course).

The complications of dual 12V power supplies and different signal strengths (modular much louder, and so on) can be overcome these days much more easily than before. I have a little dual 12V power supply for testing which makes life much easier.

All that said, glad you found something useful there.
 
I ran out of space for my two MOD reverb tanks (three springs, long decay), so I had to cut big holes in the bottom and add a lid. The tanks can now be mounted from the underside. My Makita router is not taking these 18mm birch plywood well. It has started to sputter and growl.. :(

My goal: 1 summed stereo signal for the 2x10", and 1 for the 1x12", but I will be adding a switch so I can also go for one tank for each 10" for true stereo reverb. PCB will be the ducking reverb Dissapearing Act (by ScientificGuitarist) with an added effects loop on the wet signal.

As I needed to start thinking about the overall look of the thing, to give it the retro futuristic industrial look I vaguely start seeing inside my head, I choose two enigmatic cold war planes, the SR-71 and theMIG-25, to grab initial design elements from.

Utterly overdesigned. But that's how my brain runs.


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Working on this panel to fit some xlr jacks. Switchcraft sized these for a 61/64” hole, and I didn’t have a convenient way to drill that diameter. Found this old-school square drive taper reamer in a drawer and decided to try that to open up a 7/8” hole from a step drill. Worked way nicer than I expected.

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Erik S said:
Working on this panel to fit some xlr jacks. Switchcraft sized these for a 61/64” hole, and I didn’t have a convenient way to drill that diameter. Found this old-school square drive taper reamer in a drawer and decided to try that to open up a 7/8” hole from a step drill. Worked way nicer than I expected.

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Cool, what are you making?
 
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