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[andare]

Bought 3 picks and they came with a weird thing

 

[pbrommer]

Bought 3 picks and they came with a weird thing

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Some goldurn expensive guitar picks.

 

[andare]

Some goldurn expensive guitar picks.

I bought them used in mint condition for 20% off. Best price I could find anywhere.

 

[Cabintech]

I bought them used in mint condition for 20% off. Best price I could find anywhere.

Oh man, we've had it wrong all along... should be selling our picks and throwing in the chips for free

 

[lowpitch]

JLCPCB order with some trimpot adapters and my first "real" PCB layout. Just a 3PDT daughterboard with onboard LED and CLR and a single output voltage boost circuit utilizing a Traco TRN DC-DC converter. Untested but theoretically it should work Outer diameter for the 3PDT pads could have been a little bit bigger, something I'll keep in mind for future designs.

 

[Erik S]

Got some Soviet germs to play with and an old book with some hot centerfolds.

 

[DGWVI]

More schmancy boxes, this time from Missouri Electrical Box Company


Not only are they sandy and matte black, but they sparkle

125b sized, and haven't decided what to put in em yet

 

[Cybercow]

Love it when another excellent batch of enclosures finished by @amplifyfun comes in the mail.

It's stuffing' time! Build reports for the 'Shiver Quiver' & 'Vojo & Moodoo' when done. Build reports for the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers pedals are HERE.

 

[Feral Feline]

The reverb ad said it was intermittent but I haven't seen any issues as of yet. Sounds phenomenal for $30
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Fiddler friend I used to gig with ran his signal through one of these. I tried it out a couple of times with my upright.

 

[Musicjsmith]

Stuff from Stomp Box Parts. Time to update the inventory. Ten more pedals on the way. Some more basic food group pedals, some amps in a box, and more goodies for the bass board.

Van Pelt
Mahayana (this time it’s for me!)
Kliche
Mach 1
Son of Ben
Indiana Tweed
Indiana Deluxe
Dream Fuzz
Lowballer
6-Band Eq

 

[jessenator]

Got these sans the NOS/vintage tax—I think I paid like 1/3 of new make costs, if Mouser is current. I didn't know until recently that PMI were the actual creators of the OP07 (among others from the OPxx) in the mid 1970s. Eventually they were bought by Analog Devices in 1990.

Crazy that '70s big boy TI decided they needed a direct competitor chip: μA714.

 

[MichaelW]

Got these sans the NOS/vintage tax—I think I paid like 1/3 of new make costs, if Mouser is current. I didn't know until recently that PMI were the actual creators of the OP07 (among others from the OPxx) in the mid 1970s. Eventually they were bought by Analog Devices in 1990.

Crazy that '70s big boy TI decided they needed a direct competitor chip: μA714.

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Lots of Rats in your future?

 

[Cybercow]

Got these sans the NOS/vintage tax—I think I paid like 1/3 of new make costs, if Mouser is current. I didn't know until recently that PMI were the actual creators of the OP07 (among others from the OPxx) in the mid 1970s. Eventually they were bought by Analog Devices in 1990.

Crazy that '70s big boy TI decided they needed a direct competitor chip: μA714. ****

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I see 18 Rat seeds.

**** With regard to the µA741 . . . it actually has a slightly higher slew-rate @ 0.5V/µs; while the OP07 has a slew-rate of only 0.3V/µs
I'm of the considered opinion that the prime feature of using a 308 or OP07 in a Rat is the muddled higher frequency range due to the slew-rate being low enough to interfere with faithful reproduction of the signal.

In any case, a very nice find on your part.

 

[jessenator]

µA741

714 in this case it's ancient, and I'm not even sure how long it stayed around.

 

[EisengesisFX]

Grip of the good shit from @Robert! Thanks again for the address change help, my dude.

Now I'm just eagerly awaiting a fatty Tayda order. Have some wild plans for the graphics/theme for my Boneyard Delegate build

Also pictured: Double Pendulum, Curds & Whey, Circulator, Frequency Interchange + 3PDT switch boards.

 

[Erik S]

Cool find at my local junk shop today. 1966 edition.

 

[jimilee]

Damn, I need to get motivated to get my pedals built. I got a few new PCBs back from blue box Santa.

 

[DGWVI]

Showed up right before I left for work, will hopefully get to dick around with it this weekend

 

[Nostradoomus]

They're still in a box, but I scored 2 15" eminence speakers so I can finally have a big boy set up again after having to sell most of my stuff off last year while I was out of work. Never got rid of my classic Peavey 215 cab thankfully. The codes on the website lead me to believe they are delta 15s, which would be sweet because I only paid 150CDN each for them to my door. Either way they're brand new so I can't be mad if they're just Legends

 

[Fama]

Damn, I need to get motivated to get my pedals built. I got a few new PCBs back from blue box Santa.

FWIW I build pedals on my computer desk so it might be a little different if you need to do a bunch of setup to start working, but what works for me is just dividing the task into very small pieces. "I'll just populate the resistors on these boards", and the caps, sockets and semiconductors is a simple step after that, and then I'll just cut the wires, might as well solder the wires in, and now I just need to solder in the footswitch and jacks.

I might take breaks between the steps too, but just starting the next small step feels easier than "I'll just finish and box this pedal".