how come?
I've always looked at theirs (I'm in uk) and ended up ordering pedalPCB or Aion via Musikding
What’s on *YOUR* workbench?
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I've always looked at theirs (I'm in uk) and ended up ordering pedalPCB or Aion via Musikding
Guardians of the analog
Papi Fuego
I had this conversation with Nick Simms recently. for me it's always been a layout issue. Most projects are 1590B with side jacks and side power. The I/O pads are in silly places making excessive wire runs in converting to top jacks in a larger enclosure. outside of that they aren't that bad.
mybud
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So, I've been breadboarding more of Moritz Klein's modular synth designs for fun. This is his wavefolder, a simple but effective design with really interesting accompanying documentation (which takes one through his design choices and makes for interesting reading on how +-12V designs function).
So far I've done his kick, snare, envelope generator, ladder filter, and now this.
I contacted Erica synths about ordering plain PCBs and panels since I have most (if not all) of the parts but no dice: they only sell these in kit form. To me, that's the only aspect of this welcome initiative that might be mildly negative: that they are catering only for fledgling builders, but all good if it turns newcomers on to the delights of modular.
Fama
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I'm not sure if I'd say "hate", but they are pretty cramped usually, and not that nicely laid out.
Also I prefer having the dedicated -+-- pads up top like PPCB boards have, instead of having just IOG+ pads so you have to combine a bunch of pads (and run the LED separately). I understand that doing a star point grounding layout is better to avoid ground loops (or something like that), but it's just so much nicer to have every wire go to it's own pad and connect just one wire to each jack lug.
ICTRock
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to preface this, I used to do a lot of business there. it was cheap and so was shipping and they had a lot of stuff nobody else was doing.
1) there was a time frame where the included drill template was more like a dreadfully executed suggestion entirely reliant on the metric system
2) there was a time frame where the pcbs were error prone
3) I have grown to hate the typical physical layout of 1590B with side jacks and side power
4) I have grown to hate the pcb layout with some standing components, single ground pad, the odd pcb that used potentiometers with straight pcb pins instead of right angle, and the LEDR not being board mounted
5) the stupid project names. I get vendors have to play IP games but that site is the worst at letting you know what something is without drilling down to find the info out.
jessenator
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Ultimate deal breaker for me right here. I get some folks want battery power or whatever, but there are other solutions.
Guardians of the analog
Papi Fuego
Side power AND side jacks
jessenator
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A big ol freakin mess.
Been jumping around on the breadboard trying to find something. Tried a red llama, and it sure is an overdrive.
Been mucking about with getting a comparator fuzz to work the way I want, and now going to use an actual comparator, because why not Looking at some scope graphs, there's a near 90° slope on one, compared to an op amp, which might be more wacky or just be a total flop.
I'm also out of TO99 adapter boards, so I'm measuring to see what I can get away with as far as drill diameter on both it and DIP-8.
MichaelW
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So how do you like that Chibson SG?
j/k.....you know how much I covet your SG heh
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MichaelW
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I second Chris's recommendation. Adam Asmus is SUPER responsive and helpful in doing any personalization of what you want. And his prices are ridiculous in this day an age of high end boutique pickups. I have some strats sets and HB sets from him.
Aleph Null
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I'm pretty sure the enclosure acts as a central node, thus star grounding is achieved through the jack connections to the enclosure, no matter where else you connect things inside the box. That's not to say you don't have to pay attention to grounding schemes, but low frequency (audio) circuits at 9V are pretty forgiving about layout.
Please, somebody school me if I'm wrong.
DGWVI
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Populated another board I need to order pots and chips for . Apparently, I'd purchased the MN3205s instead of the needed 3005s 
Andy giving his new guitar a test drive before final setup. In this vid, I set it up to the specs of my guitars, but his playing style is much different than mine
Andy giving his new guitar a test drive before final setup. In this vid, I set it up to the specs of my guitars, but his playing style is much different than mine
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mckillacuddy
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What do you want out of it? What comparator? Got a stack of lm311s in a transer lot so I'm also looking to dork around with comparators. Holler if you come up with anything cool
JTEX
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This is what's coming to the bench, once I figure out what to do with it. There's got to be something nice I can make out of it! I just can't think of anything specific at this time. Do you guys have any ideas? A fire pit? Sink? Light fixture? Some sort of moonshine device??
1815s in a brass master?!?Had to dig to find stuff I have everything on hand for
Luckily I have a shit ton of 2SC1815 as I'm out of 2N3392 for the BoomBoom
I'll need to decide if I wanna us LM13700 / NE5571 or my last handful of 3080s on the Honeydrippers
That's was a cool layout choice by bean on the honeydripper.
