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[EisengesisFX]

Sorry to hear about the job.

Let’s hear more about this beholder project though! What’s the mod? What’d you screw up? What are you gonna do with two?

I built one of these and never really bonded with it, but I’ve got another pcb in the stash to play with at some point.

Thanks, Erik, and thanks for asking.

My ultimate goals are the following:
1) Clean blend pot mod, per the build docs
2) B50k pot + 4.7k resistor in series in place of R15. I thought this would be more of a voltage sag situation, but the little I was able to get the circuit momentarily working it actually did change the texture of the fuzz some instead of making it splatty/stuttery outright.
3) Socket C13 and tried 1uF instead of 47uf to brighten fuzz (read about this on Reddit)
4) Stretch goal: wire a spare PPCB Intelligent Relay Bypass to the Drone switch

Shit went sideways when I was wiring everything up with 22 gauge wiring from Jameco, as best I can tell. I adore Jameco, and in the meager year-plus I've been DIYing pedal stuff I've had universally good experiences. And I'm not the cleanest solder user, but dammit I can get connections solid. The clean blend pot was just shorting the signal out unless I held it just so. I completely rewired the six different contact points for said mod like five times.

I got 24 gauge wire from LMS in the mail today too, but I still gotta wait because I fucked over my Belton Brick trying to extract it from the first Beholder board. I thought ahead of course, so a second Belton is arriving Monday or Tuesday.

The little I heard of the circuit I absolutely loved, and that's saying something because I spent my 20s absolutely exhausting my ears with shoegaze wash lol. The Beholder rules and I so wish other companies would follow @dunkindonuts et al's example in offering DIY boards.

 

[Erik S]

Thanks, Erik, and thanks for asking.

My ultimate goals are the following:
1) Clean blend pot mod, per the build docs
2) B50k pot + 4.7k resistor in series in place of R15. I thought this would be more of a voltage sag situation, but the little I was able to get the circuit momentarily working it actually did change the texture of the fuzz some instead of making it splatty/stuttery outright.
3) Socket C13 and tried 1uF instead of 47uf to brighten fuzz (read about this on Reddit)
4) Stretch goal: wire a spare PPCB Intelligent Relay Bypass to the Drone switch

Shit went sideways when I was wiring everything up with 22 gauge wiring from Jameco, as best I can tell. I adore Jameco, and in the meager year-plus I've been DIYing pedal stuff I've had universally good experiences. And I'm not the cleanest solder user, but dammit I can get connections solid. The clean blend pot was just shorting the signal out unless I held it just so. I completely rewired the six different contact points for said mod like five times.

I got 24 gauge wire from LMS in the mail today too, but I still gotta wait because I fucked over my Belton Brick trying to extract it from the first Beholder board. I thought ahead of course, so a second Belton is arriving Monday or Tuesday.

The little I heard of the circuit I absolutely loved, and that's saying something because I spent my 20s absolutely exhausting my ears with shoegaze wash lol. The Beholder rules and I so wish other companies would follow @dunkindonuts et al's example in offering DIY boards.

Nice! I just re-read the build doc. John really does a nice job on those. Clean blend sounds interesting. Let us know how you make out on the next attempt!

 

[jessenator]

The blue box place dropped off some goodies. Slow boat 15 days, but it's here. now to verifyin'

 

[NickKUK]

Cheers, Michael. Enterprise cloud tech. Fuggin' abbatoir out there, man.

I hear you there - over the Atlantic it's basically the same **** show.

Contemplating ordering some bits to keep me from going insane. I think this time a proper dev board, some opamps and make some interesting stuff.

 

[pingpongcomputer]

Glamor shots from a military surplus store transistor order



Fairchild JAN 2N2219A and TI JAN 2N1613

 

[vigilante398]

New Neck Day I guess? I don't even have a body to put this on, but it was too good of a deal to pass up. I guess now I have to find a body so I can make a project of the damn thing.

 

[Hirti]

Ordered a Median Compressor (Wampler Ego 76) kit from Musikding recently. Anyone notice what Klaus forgot to pack?

 

[dot matrix madness]

Ordered a Median Compressor (Wampler Ego 76) kit from Musikding recently. Anyone notice what Klaus forgot to pack?

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[mybud]

Ordered a Median Compressor (Wampler Ego 76) kit from Musikding recently. Anyone notice what Klaus forgot to pack?

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The PCB?

 

[Hirti]

The PCB?

Yep

 

[mybud]

Yep

What’s the height of forgetfulness? Sorry, can’t remember the punchline

 

[jwin615]

New Neck Day I guess? I don't even have a body to put this on, but it was too good of a deal to pass up. I guess now I have to find a body so I can make a project of the damn thing.

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www.supra-tone.com

 

[swelchy]

Not technically in the mailbox but a coworker gifted me an Ibanez RG350M and a pedal I’ve never heard of… I’ve built him a few pedals this year and yesterday I came into the plant and he handed me these and said I have 10 Ibanez guitars that never get played.. keep this one ..

 

[Vicious C]

Last Tariff-Free Tayda order. It was a good run

 

[jessenator]

Also received my last tariff -free package today.

Onto the next phase…

 

[derevaun]

Same here--got one last de-minimis shrink-wrapped-pink-bag-box today. Also these:

 

[Asdrael]

@derevaun Two questions:
- what is it
- how many amp builds do you have on your pile now

 

[derevaun]

@derevaun Two questions:
- what is it
- how many amp builds do you have on your pile now

The smaller board is the Double Dirty Shirley, with 2 gains and 2 master volumes. I had grabbed a JTM45 power transformer in BYOC's going-out-of-business sale, and it doesn't fit on a Mojo or AES chassis, so I figured why not build something cool instead of classic. The other board is for a Friedman Mini clone, which, I'm thinking a Jerry Cantrell mini, when I get around to it, I really just added it to justify the shipping cost.

So the pile grows LOL. In fact I was just agonizing over this GT120 PCB from Hilbish (it's on sale!). I saw Windhand over the weekend and was blown away, almost literally, by Garrett Morris's tone out of that thing. But I'm gonna try a pedal emulation first.

The parts accumulation phase is in full swing, helped by the 10% off JJ tubes at AES. I'll be bugging you with minor questions on the Deliverance build pretty soon

 

[Asdrael]

The smaller board is the Double Dirty Shirley, with 2 gains and 2 master volumes. I had grabbed a JTM45 power transformer in BYOC's going-out-of-business sale, and it doesn't fit on a Mojo or AES chassis, so I figured why not build something cool instead of classic. The other board is for a Friedman Mini clone, which, I'm thinking a Jerry Cantrell mini, when I get around to it, I really just added it to justify the shipping cost.

So the pile grows LOL. In fact I was just agonizing over this GT120 PCB from Hilbish (it's on sale!). I saw Windhand over the weekend and was blown away, almost literally, by Garrett Morris's tone out of that thing. But I'm gonna try a pedal emulation first.

The parts accumulation phase is in full swing, helped by the 10% off JJ tubes at AES. I'll be bugging you with minor questions on the Deliverance build pretty soon

Nice queue! Enjoy. And feel free to hit me up when you need it.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

This came the other day. Manual pot is fucked, but works. Not sure if I should bother contacting the seller about it since it was a good deal anyway.


Warmoth had a garage sale this morning of super discounted necks. $100 plus shipping got me three necks:


- a Precision neck with black blocks and stainless frets. Exactly the specs I’ve been wanting to order a neck with for the past few years, minus binding (but for $30 I couldn’t really expect ALL of the specs I wanted). Discounted because of some black sawdust caught in the wood grain. I bet I can get it out though before I finish it.

- a solid ziricote strat neck. Discounted because the dot inlays are ever so slightly off center.

- roasted maple Strat neck with ebony board and stainless frets. Discounted because of the slight tapering error visible right around the 9th fret on the treble side of the board.