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[Fama]

I ended up going with an impulse buy on Aliexpress, I read good things about this pedal on reddit and went for it for 29€. But... hmm... there's something wrong...

Ahh yes, much better!

From a short demo so far, for the price it's really nice, quite flexible EQ - Tone, Bright, Mids and Char which I think stands for character and is a low end control? I think it's a clone of the MI Audio Tube Zone. Not totally blown away yet, but for 29€ it's hard to go wrong. Did I need it? Hell no. Do I regret it? Not really.

 

[tegendemuur]

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I ended up going with an impulse buy on Aliexpress, I read good things about this pedal on reddit and went for it for 29€. But... hmm... there's something wrong...
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Ahh yes, much better!

From a short demo so far, for the price it's really nice, quite flexible EQ - Tone, Bright, Mids and Char which I think stands for character and is a low end control? I think it's a clone of the MI Audio Tube Zone. Not totally blown away yet, but for 29€ it's hard to go wrong. Did I need it? Hell no. Do I regret it? Not really.

Man, if only these dirt cheap pedals came with through hole components. They'd be so fun to screw around with! It seems that these Chinese knock-offs are slowly getthing their things to look good, in a very minimalist way, which has put them on my radar as well.

 

[Hal Harvey]

A Scotch-Brite pad and isopropyl alcohol is my go-to for corroded germanium transistor leads. Some light scrubbing and they solder right in without any trouble. If you end up measuring gain/leakage, I'd love to see the results!

Here’s a couple of the AC126s:


The Ac125s mostly tested <100 Hfe, with similar leakage.

 

[tegendemuur]

Another batch of stereo bypass boards...

A 5,- EEPROM ripper for future Pythagoras builds.

And, as I do, two boards of: Beholder, Dissapearing Act, Klein Bottle, Beta Lead, Acoustic 360, for all sorts of stereo / dual mono builds.



About 2x24 boards remain in the wishlist, but those have to wait for black friday deals.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

This keeps in tune better than any capo I've tried since 1967 when I started playing. I keep an extra backup in my string changing kit! It's also adjustable. edited: I do NOT like their strings, but the capo is awesome.

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Thats one I'm currently replacing with the shubb

 

[Robert]

I can't give the stuff away fast enough.

I uhh.... I know a guy....

 

[DeadAirMD]

Bunch of different things coming in the door.

These AC125s and AC126s arrived from Thailand:
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I need to clean the corrosion or whatever it is off. A scotch-brite pad works okish. Do you think contact cleaner would help? Would it damage them? I suppose I’ll test on a few.

I was just saying how much I hated drilling etched pcbs the other day. I got a wild hair (some transfers on Effects Layouts got me hot), and ordered up the required stuff to have a go. The Dremel press is like a 1000x better than the one from 25 years ago when I last etched boards haha:
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This tube order from Eurotubes has been sitting a while:
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They are for a Rosamp SLO30 build I ordered right when they opened it up again (August 31st). They shipped it on September 11th. It fell off the truck on the 15th. I waited a week before asking him to check on it. He responded that he needed to decide what to do. Nothing yet haha. I guess I’ll email again on Monday (two weeks since last package scan). It’s becoming a bummer though:
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I do have other things to keep me busy obviously haha, but I am really looking to building my first amp in 25 years.

Did it "fall off the truck" in Italy? Is the Mafia getting into tube rolling?

 

[giovanni]

Bunch of different things coming in the door.

These AC125s and AC126s arrived from Thailand:
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I need to clean the corrosion or whatever it is off. A scotch-brite pad works okish. Do you think contact cleaner would help? Would it damage them? I suppose I’ll test on a few.

I was just saying how much I hated drilling etched pcbs the other day. I got a wild hair (some transfers on Effects Layouts got me hot), and ordered up the required stuff to have a go. The Dremel press is like a 1000x better than the one from 25 years ago when I last etched boards haha:
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This tube order from Eurotubes has been sitting a while:
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They are for a Rosamp SLO30 build I ordered right when they opened it up again (August 31st). They shipped it on September 11th. It fell off the truck on the 15th. I waited a week before asking him to check on it. He responded that he needed to decide what to do. Nothing yet haha. I guess I’ll email again on Monday (two weeks since last package scan). It’s becoming a bummer though:
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I do have other things to keep me busy obviously haha, but I am really looking to building my first amp in 25 years.

I didn’t know a dremel press was a thing. Would you use it to drill enclosures?

 

[giovanni]

I uhh.... I know a guy....

Me too actually. But I don’t think it’s the same guy…

 

[Hal Harvey]

Did it "fall off the truck" in Italy? Is the Mafia getting into tube rolling?

Louisville, Kentucky. The Cornbread Mafia I guess.

 

[Hal Harvey]

I didn’t know a dremel press was a thing. Would you use it to drill enclosures?

I wouldn’t haha. I have an actual drill press though. I’d imagine you would have a hard time mounting big bits to the dremmel.

 

[ICTRock]

I didn’t know a dremel press was a thing. Would you use it to drill enclosures?

it doesn't have the torque to drill anything more than pilot holes ... that said, I'm still eyeballing a press for my 4300

 

[RetiredUnit1]

I uhh.... I know a guy....

If only teleportation was possible!!!! I seriously give it away, which is legal under CA law. There's a little known free "sellers permit" that allows sales without a dispensary license which is like $30k a year, but you have to pay sales taxes. Baah... I hate paper work, and get a real sense of joy seeing that smile on people's faces!

 

[peccary]

Got some more type ii tapes from eBay. I've been giving my 424 a workout lately and am running low so I had to grab some more.

These were used, so they were a pretty good price per tape.

 

[jessenator]

Clonage. Bittersweet.

 

[szukalski]

Tiny things for experiments.

 

[vigilante398]

This keeps in tune better than any capo I've tried since 1967 when I started playing. I keep an extra backup in my string changing kit! It's also adjustable. edited: I do NOT like their strings, but the capo is awesome.

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Best capo I've ever tried, I own three of these.

 

[MichaelW]

It's been a while since I got some of these in the mail.....
coming to a build report to you soon

 

[RetiredUnit1]

Best capo I've ever tried, I own three of these.

I keep a backup in my string changing kit just for those times I left it on a guitar and don't remember which (earthquake country, have to keep them in hardshell cases.)

 

[Brett]

coming to a build report to you soon

I'm pretty sure you're gonna like that Stagecoach. Glad to have you back btw, we've missed you 'round these parts and hope that you're on the mend!