What's in the mailbox? 📬 📦

[owlexifry]

been a big mailbox week:
- schutone DM-3

- deadastronaut abductor ii

(fucken weird board - am i seeing resistor positions that cross over each other or is it just me?)

- and some PNP and NPN Ge transistors

 

[lowpitch]

- deadastronaut abductor ii
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(fucken weird board - am i seeing resistor positions that cross over each other or is it just me?)

Damn, those are some big ass vias.

 

[andare]

 

[Passinwind]

And a Newark order after almost a month!
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What are you doing with the OPA827s? That's one of my favorite opamps for clean bass preamp applications, FWIW.

 

[jwin615]

What are you doing with the OPA827s? That's one of my favorite opamps for clean bass preamp applications, FWIW.

I just wanted to give them a shot. Probably off your recommendation. Have a couple other higher end opamps as well from @JTEX mentions.
Got a pair of LT1008s to try in Rat style circuits. Supposedly an upgrade for 108/308s from Linear.
Good price on BC108C cans, KSA992, KSC184 and BC337 -25 and -40 on clearance for pennies.
They didn't ship my 1054s or the MCP6441 opamps (which have horrible specs: .03V/us) that I ordered just to see(hear) as they were UK stock. Never had Newark do that before.

 

[Silver Blues]

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Where did you get the 2SA49? I love those but they're so hard to find!

 

[owlexifry]

Where did you get the 2SA49? I love those but they're so hard to find!

ebay. looks like there’s x2 lots left.

2SA49 - Original and Hard to find Integrated Circuits. Lot of 10pcs. | eBay Australia

( Lot of 10pcs at USD35.00).

ebay.us

probably ripped myself off but oh well.
to top it off, they did not measure as high as i had hoped. having said that, these are the lowest leakage Ge ive ever encountered.
gains from 26-36.
leakage from 5-10.

 

[Silver Blues]

Oof, yeah those are not cheap. Nice specs though... Enjoy!

 

[Fama]

Inverted Cross Audio boards arrived, 909 (TS with clean and octave mix), BLO(ODB)ATH (ODB clone) and Lowrider (a RAT with an interesting low passed clean + high passed dirt configuration).

 

[UtilityBeltFX]

Ordered this true bypass switcher from Amazon to compare pedals for demos. Think it's was about 30 bucks, works well though!

 

[jcpst]

My first DEFX boards. Placed on top of a 1590DD for perspective.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

My first DEFX boards. Placed on top of a 1590DD for perspective.View attachment 96190

The Tatiana really brings the screeches 'n' bleeps when you need 'em. Not that I've found that need yet.... but it's best to be prepared for everything.

 

[jcpst]

The Tatiana really brings the screeches 'n' bleeps when you need 'em. Not that I've found that need yet.... but it's best to be prepared for everything.

I agree. I need all toans waiting and ready.

It looks I got lucky, that package made it into customs on the day of the CA post strike.

I think I’m most excited about the dynamorph.

 

[Nostradoomus]

I agree. I need all toans waiting and ready.

It looks I got lucky, that package made it into customs on the day of the CA post strike.

I think I’m most excited about the dynamorph.

they aren’t on strike just yet, just refusing overtime work.

 

[comradehoser]

Absolutely dope haul from Amir of Amir's Noise Devices. Already putting his daughterboards to use to simplify the ground wiring for my Moonn stuff and stoked af to build the actual circuits too, especially the Crashsync.
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Make sure you put the ins and outs to the right pads. Moonn switches his for some reason.

 

[jwin615]

Getting stuff off the bench. Had to split my Si NPNs into two binders...
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Just when you think you're done putting shit up, that order from Poland you forgot about shows up and pulls you back in.

200x reclaimed ASY33S, which all look pretty reasonable. 30-110/10-39u
Not bad for ~30 cents each.
And some BC148,BC158, BC159

 

[UtilityBeltFX]

Shout out to @swelchy for my new ROSS keychain! I Iove it, thank you so much!

 

[PedalBuilder]

It's not 350 of them, but a box of 100 General Instrument 2N1304 transistors landed on my front step today. Still in their original box, with a likely manufacturing date of the last week of August 1964. Measured them with my DCA55 and they have great specs. The hFE ranges from 35 to 270 (the 270 is an extreme outlier), with a median hFE of 90. Out of the 100 transistors, 70 have an hFE between 70 and 140. All of them have low leakage, with the median leakage being just 20µA. The only transistor with more than 100µA leakage is the outlier 270 hFE transistor, with 220µA. Looking forward to dropping these into some fuzz builds soon!

 

[jwin615]

It's not 350 of them, but a box of 100 General Instrument 2N1304 transistors landed on my front step today. Still in their original box, with a likely manufacturing date of the last week of August 1964. Measured them with my DCA55 and they have great specs. The hFE ranges from 35 to 270 (the 270 is an extreme outlier), with a median hFE of 90. Out of the 100 transistors, 70 have an hFE between 70 and 140. All of them have low leakage, with the median leakage being just 20µA. The only transistor with more than 100µA leakage is the outlier 270 hFE transistor, with 220µA. Looking forward to dropping these into some fuzz builds soon!

I started offering that seller the moment they listed almost. And
they
just
kept
listing
more!
Hope you got a good deal!

 

[mybud]

Ordered this on Sunday, arrived here this morning (Wednesday).

From Thailand to South Africa in just over two working days is pretty efficient in my book.

A 5528 LDR for the Pitch Witch, some MFRs, the odd cap or two, but mostly PCB pots including a missing A20k for the L5 legacy preamp. I’m hoping to complete this build by the end of this week (or over the weekend if life gets in the way).