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bronomo said:
"If everyone online built dangerous high voltage circuits, would you?"

Me, apparently yes. You are all a terrible influence.

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And my first tayda order after being a mouser/digikey/newark die-hard for years. Very small chance some of it is fake but a very large chance I won't go broke (as fast)? Plus I needed enclosures anyway.

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You're fine buying from Tayda -- we all do it. And don't worry too much about the "dangerous high voltage." It's only dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. Just take your time and don't poke around in there when it's powered up. And, learn how to safely discharge caps and you'll be fine.
 
chris.knudson said:
You're fine buying from Tayda -- we all do it. And don't worry too much about the "dangerous high voltage." It's only dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. Just take your time and don't poke around in there when it's powered up. And, learn how to safely discharge caps and you'll be fine.
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Chopsticking. You use wooden chopsticks to poke around. It would be wise to wear safety glasses.

If there is a run away oscillation, a higher gain stage inducting into a lower gain stage, you have to scope it and move wires around till you see the squiggly lines turn into a sine wave.

I remember this guy, that "cleaned up" the wires on a vintage early 60's fender only to be surprised it didn't work afterwards. They were all parallel and scrunched together and tie wrapped. 1950's wire dressing standards dictate that wires that have to be parallel must be as far apart as possible, and wires that cross must do so at as close to 180 degrees as possible.

That's why you see those curlicue wires formations around vintage amp tube sockets.

And stay away from using tie wraps, if you feel you must don't tighten them all the way down to where it smashes the wires together.

My buddy Bob was a Master's EE and worked for Paramount studios. They were having trouble with some new video toasters they had bought in the early 90's inducing noise into the audio and video. After scratching his head for awhile he cut the tie wraps and BINGO noise gone. After that the first thing they did when getting any new equipment was to cut the wraps off......
 
Better late than never for this post! Didn't realize this thread existed until recently.

You might have noticed some members posting transistor labels I screenprinted and mailed out. Those were thank-yous for the awesome stuff below, which happened over the last several weeks. I'm only on my 4th month building, and it really means a lot to me that so many people here have been so inviting, patient, and generous. I don't take it for granted.
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Top Left: @jessenator sent me some excellent low-gain Si transistors (inc a Superfuzz set!), and some Ge diodes. Unreal!
Top Right: @giovanni mailed out 4 PNP Ge transistors - my first! Very, very cool.
Bottom Left: @peccary shared one of his Dizzy Elk pcbs, which I'm excited to build. I LOVE Buzzarounds, and I'm sure I'll love this too!
Bottom Right: @KR Sound was kind enough to give me a Fig Buster pcb, which is one of the coolest fuzz circuits ever (thx @bean!).

I'm a printmaking instructor and plan on screen printing some more labels as the demo in class this week! Depending on how many I have by Friday, I'm happy to mail some off to whomever might be interested. As a beginner I'm a needy sonuvagun and am always up for a fun trade, but that is NOT necessary! Feel free to message me if you want some and I'll do my best to get them out asap. Here's @jessenator 's pic of em. Edit- And just to be clear, they’re tiny little cards ya pop in a bag (or punch a transistor through), not stickers… Although I should get some sticker paper to print on too!
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Ginsly said:
Better late than never for this post! Didn't realize this thread existed until recently.

You might have noticed some members posting transistor labels I screenprinted and mailed out. Those were thank-yous for the awesome stuff below, which happened over the last several weeks. I'm only on my 4th month building, and it really means a lot to me that so many people here have been so inviting, patient, and generous. I don't take it for granted.
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Top Left: @jessenator sent me some excellent low-gain Si transistors (inc a Superfuzz set!), and some Ge diodes. Unreal!
Top Right: @giovanni mailed out 4 PNP Ge transistors - my first! Very, very cool.
Bottom Left: @peccary shared one of his Dizzy Elk pcbs, which I'm excited to build. I LOVE Buzzarounds, and I'm sure I'll love this too!
Bottom Right: @KR Sound was kind enough to give me a Fig Buster pcb, which is one of the coolest fuzz circuits ever (thx @bean!).

I'm a printmaking instructor and plan on screen printing some more labels as the demo in class this week! Depending on how many I have by Friday, I'm happy to mail some off to whomever might be interested. As a beginner I'm a needy sonuvagun and am always up for a fun trade, but that is NOT necessary! Feel free to message me if you want some and I'll do my best to get them out asap. Here's @jessenator 's pic of em. Edit- And just to be clear, they’re tiny little cards ya pop in a bag (or punch a transistor through), not stickers… Although I should get some sticker paper to print on too!
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Did I not send you a foot switch board? Let me know if I forgot and I'll get one.to you.
 
Smrtokvitek said:
I do it sometimes but I don't have that much time nowadays and in the end, you pay for 5 PCB at JLCPCB when you need one. Of course, I can go and trade them but it is much more hassle. The L5 is also quite a big layout. Maybe in the future.
To be fair I contacted Aion about the shipping price and suggested he could send it like a regular letter in an envelope. His response was to not do it because it could be seen as tax evasion. I respect that so I took my chances.
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My spare PCBs always end up with people eventually.. :D

It's a tough situation, there's the same issue for me sending from EU to US. Either you try to send as a normal letter but there's a chance it comes back (yes, had it happen) because they want it sent as a package for overseas. Then you double pay for postage. Best is to swallow the cost and have tracking/insurance. It's a pity that EU includes postage costs in the tax calculation though.
 
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'It is important to remember that the object of study in neuromusical research is not a brain that sits in a jar on a shelf in some lab; it is inside a living person with a personality, with all manner of proclivities, potentialities, and internal and external motivations and influences' (Hodges 2018: 33).

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Some light relief after all that 'deep brain stuff.' I've used the Kindle version for some time now, but the weightiness and attention to detail in this hefty tome really come alive in this print version. The section on diodes is positively electrifying reading; sorry, couldn't resist.
 
No pictures, but the Mystery Box O'Pickups is headed my way. I'm stoked because I have a few projects I should be working on but have slacked on. This will kick me in the pants to get working this summer.
 
mybud said:
'It is important to remember that the object of study in neuromusical research is not a brain that sits in a jar on a shelf in some lab; it is inside a living person with a personality, with all manner of proclivities, potentialities, and internal and external motivations and influences' (Hodges 2018: 33).
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Or, to summarize: Music feels good. 🤟 :sneaky:
 
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