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Bricksnbeatles said:
Yeah, I’m a big glitch fan so the parasit stuff is all right up my alley. The Electro Faustus Guitardammerung (which is now available as the Schadenfreude PCB here) is my all time favorite PLL (it’s also a dead-simple one!) but I think the ItU may be the first thing that’ll rival it! The 1985 seems like a lot of fun for the whole glitch circus thing, and the Easter egg is too dang cool!
The demos I’ve seen of the U-235 have impressed me to no end with the tracking and timbre. I have some mods in mind for that one, including the dry kill mod that Freppo detailed in the Madbean forum. I have mods in mind for the Theremin too.

The multiwave mega seems like a pain to do all the settings and everything in, but the tones are just way too cool to pass up. I’m thinking I might do it with a toggle instead of a footswitch and just use it as an effect to run my ARP Odyssey thru.

The C19 enclosure problem seems to be a tough one, but I think I finally have a solid idea of what to do. I’m taking a sculpture class this coming semester, so hopefully the professor will let me use the hydraulic brake to form a few enclosures on the side. The plan is a folded metal console-style enclosure with walnut cheeks.
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I'm already planning another U-235 build with some mods of my own, including the dry kill.

Here's a demo of my modified Theremin and Multiwave

I've got a steel sloped enclosure with oak sides I'm still deciding what to stuff with Screenshot_20220811-110624_50.png
 
DGWVI said:
I'm already planning another U-235 build with some mods of my own, including the dry kill.

Here's a demo of my modified Theremin and Multiwave

I've got a steel sloped enclosure with oak sides I'm still deciding what to stuff withView attachment 30571
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Nice! I think your theremin mods may be the same as the ones I plan on doing. I plan on doing the 2-octave mod that Freppo mentioned somewhere (to get a second octave using an on-on-on switch) as well as replacing the sensitivity trimmer with an external pot and replacing r6 with a 10k pot.

Those enclosures look really nice, but what really catches my eye are the pickups behind them— doing a ‘61 bass vi style build or something?
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
Nice! I think your theremin mods may be the same as the ones I plan on doing. I plan on doing the 2-octave mod that Freppo mentioned somewhere (to get a second octave using an on-on-on switch) as well as replacing the sensitivity trimmer with an external pot and replacing r6 with a 10k pot.

Those enclosures look really nice, but what really catches my eye are the pickups behind them— doing a ‘61 bass vi style build or something?
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You have the mods correct. Though I also strap a 47n cap between R5 and pin 14 of the 4046 to tighten up the tracking, and make it usable for bridge pickup only guitars

The enclosures are custom made for me to my specs, they're pretty nifty boxes.
As for the pickups, we build guitars, and collect whatever interesting bits n bobs we come across. That particular set hasn't made it into a build yet. I like that you went to Bass VI, though - we primarily make 30" baritones
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Small Bear order arrived. No need for pics, 'cause you've all seen bubble-wrap and little plastic baggies before.

MY SEARCH FOR BUFFERED 4049 CHIP WAS TO HAVE ENDED!
@#$%^&* REFUNDED!

I've got tons of 4049-unbuffered, thought I'd finally found some buffered.


The search goes on...
 
Feral Feline said:
Small Bear order arrived. No need for pics, 'cause you've all seen bubble-wrap and little plastic baggies before.

MY SEARCH FOR BUFFERED 4049 CHIP WAS TO HAVE ENDED!
@#$%^&* REFUNDED!

I've got tons of 4049-unbuffered, thought I'd finally found some buffered.


The search goes on...
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I think it's the CD4050 that is the "buffered" flavor of this hex inverter.

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The buffer stage is shown at the end there... (pay no attention to this drivel)
 
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DGWVI said:
Just slapped on of these together, and I can say I am a fan. Nice and simple, so I can leave my ItU to the more complex stuff
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Glad to hear that! Robert sent me one a little while back since I helped verify a few components in my unit. I haven’t built it yet, but I’m planning on doing a few mods and making a video demoing the modded one vs my original EF unit so hopefully more people here are compelled to build their own! It’s really an absurdly incredible pedal and it’s probably the easiest PLL build you can imagine, so I’d love to see people giving it a try and hopefully falling in love with it as I have.
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
Glad to hear that! Robert sent me one a little while back since I helped verify a few components in my unit. I haven’t built it yet, but I’m planning on doing a few mods and making a video demoing the modded one vs my original EF unit so hopefully more people here are compelled to build their own! It’s really an absurdly incredible pedal and it’s probably the easiest PLL build you can imagine, so I’d love to see people giving it a try and hopefully falling in love with it as I have.
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I'd love to see what mods you perform. It really is a nice circuit. Pretty much just plug and play
 
DGWVI said:
I'd love to see what mods you perform. It really is a nice circuit. Pretty much just plug and play
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For one thing, I find the performance to be really interesting with a boost or fuzz in front of it to force it to track in a different way, so I might tack an LPB to the front. I also think the tone control could be more noticeable, so I have a mod in mind for that.
In the future I plan on doing a Quadra-fuzz type thing with a few of them, doing four in parallel with adjustable filters on the input and output of each one.
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
For one thing, I find the performance to be really interesting with a boost or fuzz in front of it to force it to track in a different way, so I might tack an LPB to the front. I also think the tone control could be more noticeable, so I have a mod in mind for that.
In the future I plan on doing a Quadra-fuzz type thing with a few of them, doing four in parallel with adjustable filters on the input and output of each one.
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I've been thinking of doing another parallel PLL thing myself. Just have to decide which ones would make it in
 
fig said:
I think it's the CD4050 that is the "buffered" flavor of this hex inverter.

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The buffer stage is shown at the end there...
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I've been through this before. It's not the 4050 I want (which is indeed buffered), but the 4049 — just NOT the unbuffered 4049UBE.
 
Feral Feline said:
I've been through this before. It's not the 4050 I want (which is indeed buffered), but the 4049 — just NOT the unbuffered 4049UBE.
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…and you remember seeing a datasheet, but cannot locate it?

First, let me correct my error(s) above. The CD4050 is inverting, so it’s ruled out. The 4049 has only one inverter so it is unbuffered.

Can we get you there with another part number that is a non-inverting, buffered hex converter?

Lastly, let me apologize to everyone for going off-topic….mailbox
 
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