giovanni
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How did you get hooked up with the beta testing?
What's in the mailbox? 📬 📦
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Passinwind
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I joined the Player’s Circle promotional program to redeem some credits for the large amount of strings I tried when I got my first acoustic a couple of years ago. Out of the blue they emailed me about beta testing a new version of the XS acoustic strings, which were nice but not necessarily an improvement over the current ones, and then several months later about this new mystery set, which are also pretty uptown coated strings but hit me quite differently. Getting accepted may be just a lottery each time, but so far I’m two for two.
drgonzo1969
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Bruh, you know you already forgot the one part you will need to finish those builds.
Yep lol I already know one I forgot to order the knobs for
Feral Feline
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Hand-cranked is the way to go.
Unless you're running a restaurant there are just way too many kitchen appliances that have had electric-motors added in the name of "convenience". Everything in our kitchen that needs electricity has broken down at least once or multiple times to the point of junking it.
Every hand-cranked device we have operates efficiently and has been dead reliable.
Same thing for snowblowers and leaf-blowers...
My parents' driveway was big enough to warrant a snowblower, but for my own driveway/sidewalks and yard — I can shovel or rake faster than the neighbour's $$$ yard-crew... when/if they show up on time. BONUS: I'm not annoying the neighbourhood with 45 minutes to an hour of blower-pack droning, 10–20 minutes of shovelling/raking in relative silence and I'm done. *There is something to be said of a very light dry snowfall, a blower-pack can do a somewhat swift job, perhaps even a better job than hand shovelling, but... how often do you get a wee skiff of snow like that?
Best of all with the hand-cranked kitchen appliances, and hand-shovels and hand-rakes — minimal noise pollution.
JohnnyCreepy
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Feral Feline
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Yup, got a few different types of shovels including a "hauler" like that for when the skies open up a powder keg.
Just my mom left, but the same driveway I grew up shovelling, and I'm still shovelling it (done so for the last 5 years; my Dad only turned to the snowblower in his later years).
What's in my friend's mailbox: an Aion Empyrean Deluxe that I'll build for myself, and he gets the regular Empyrean.
Was supposed to get the Deluxe with some other PCBs, but he was sent the regular Empy by mistake.
So I guess that's the "fee" for me building up his PCBs, I get the Deluxe (DG Alpha Omega). No pic of it though; maybe when it's built.
Just my mom left, but the same driveway I grew up shovelling, and I'm still shovelling it (done so for the last 5 years; my Dad only turned to the snowblower in his later years).
What's in my friend's mailbox: an Aion Empyrean Deluxe that I'll build for myself, and he gets the regular Empyrean.
Was supposed to get the Deluxe with some other PCBs, but he was sent the regular Empy by mistake.
So I guess that's the "fee" for me building up his PCBs, I get the Deluxe (DG Alpha Omega). No pic of it though; maybe when it's built.
tegendemuur
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FYI. This guys' ugly implemention isn't doing the mod any favors, but... You can turn this box into one that can be used with endless tape cassettes from Italy's Musicbox (https://www.musicboxsrl.it/builds/, which can run up to 720sec loops, if you want), which isn't possible at double speed!
Short loops for double speed can be DIY-ed though! https://www.guerrilladigital.cc/202...ssette-loop-tapes-and-this-is-what-i-learned/
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JasonWickersham
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whole bunch of stuff inbound.. Small Bear, CabinTech, Aion, orders..
Also, and quite related... who has experience with items inbound from Europe that languish in the Jamaica, NY post office? I have had a batch of D9 series diodes since 23-MAY sitting there, with a note regarding customs, but have zero way to check in on them. If anybody has suggestions on this one, id gladly entertain them!
Also, and quite related... who has experience with items inbound from Europe that languish in the Jamaica, NY post office? I have had a batch of D9 series diodes since 23-MAY sitting there, with a note regarding customs, but have zero way to check in on them. If anybody has suggestions on this one, id gladly entertain them!
bluedmc777
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Out of all of the Philips company owned brands like Mullard, Amperex etc… I finally scored an actual Philips branded 7025. Unfortunately this was the better angle lol. Technically though according to the source code it’s a Mullard I63 from 1960.
OD is Glorious
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A couple of cool pedals from Keely. The Monterey has some cool effects, including a rotary and octave shift and a parked wah. I just got the Dark Side one today and it’s slightly better: it has a flanger combined with a rotary and then a delay and finally a sort of phaser/univibe. And then you can dial-in the fuzz; it has either flat full or scoop. I like them both for different reasons, but I give the dark side the edge for usable tones.
There’s also a button on each pedal where you can control the order of the effects. I wish we had a rotary we could build through pedal PCB.
There’s also a button on each pedal where you can control the order of the effects. I wish we had a rotary we could build through pedal PCB.
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JasonWickersham
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Details sir, details..
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zeropluszero
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I'm a filter coffee man so I have a fellow ode in the kitchen, and take an 1zpresso hand grinder if I'm away from home.
I'd rather have a caffeine headache or a no doze than a shit coffee.
My wife ~thinks~ knows I'm a massive wanker
