Robert
Reverse Engineer
Not long at all, just need to program the microcontrollers... probably sometime this week once all of the Black Friday backlog is cleared out.
What's on the workbench?
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Not long at all, just need to program the microcontrollers... probably sometime this week once all of the Black Friday backlog is cleared out.
I used to work for an American company, the us team never seemed to take vacation and would reply to emails even when they were… from the other side of the Atlantic it seems very strange. That said we’ve all got things we’ve seen in this thread that we’ld love to buy off you … so no Christmas nreak for you! 
Stickman393
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I used to work for an American company, the us team never seemed to take vacation and would reply to emails even when they were… from the other side of the Atlantic it seems very strange. That said we’ve all got things we’ve seen in this thread that we’ld love to buy off you … so no Christmas nreak for you!
America is the land of dreams.
That is, as long as you mean the dreams you have at work when you fall asleep at your station from sheer exhaustion.
Idle hands spend time at the genitals.
Robert
Reverse Engineer
I used to work for an American company, the us team never seemed to take vacation and would reply to emails even when they were… from the other side of the Atlantic it seems very strange. That said we’ve all got things we’ve seen in this thread that we’ld love to buy off you … so no Christmas nreak for you!
I've heard tale of these "breaks" but never actually encountered one in the wild...
you'll probably get bored and start wanting to look inside effects pedals
owlexifry
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are these big box projects still gonna happen or nah?Big Box Muffin
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If only we knew someone who could make an enclosure to fit this thing.....
just curious
Robert
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Mentaltossflycoon
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I kind of thought that was a moonn pcb in there for a second.
Robert
Reverse Engineer
It very well could be. I don't love it.
No offense to mooon, it wasn't designed with my tracing pleasure in mind and is a nice tight layout... but standing resistors? I'd rather you just goop it.
I'm not particularly blown away by the construction, which is ironic considering it is literally made out of cast iron. There is hot glue, double sided tape, and offboard wired pots. Lots of flux, which doesn't bother me, but would bother some.
One thing I was interested in seeing is how the "dry out" was implemented...
Are we tapping off of the preamp stage? Is it a completely separate circuit?
Turns out it was much simpler.
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Mentaltossflycoon
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I guess everybody's getting boxes full of disappointment these days.
Nostradoomus
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The Lollar is a fancy wooden box tho!
Fama
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Jesus fucking christ. Don't get me wrong, my pedals are barely better, but then I only build them for my own use and know I can get very impatient. I don't charge $300 for them.It very well could be. I don't love it.
No offense to mooon, it wasn't designed with my tracing pleasure in mind and is a nice tight layout... but standing resistors? I'd rather you just goop it.
I'm not particularly blown away by the construction, which is ironic considering it is literally made out of cast iron. There is hot glue, double sided tape, and offboard wired pots. Lots of flux, which doesn't bother me, but would bother some.
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One thing I was interested in seeing is how the "dry out" was implemented...
Are we tapping off of the preamp stage? Is it a completely separate circuit?
Turns out it was much simpler.
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Then again, maybe the enclosure cost $150 to make and drove the price up, that might explain it.
Nostradoomus
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no
Nostradoomus
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owlexifry
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are you suggesting this was an attempt to 'protect IP' to make resistor ID/value more difficult to decipher?
Robert
Reverse Engineer
Oh nah, nothing like that. I'd just rather scrape off goop than fool with standing resistors.
CheapSuitG
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Read this before my first cup of coffee, read that as "sanding resistors"
That is a LOT of work to hide the values.
That is a LOT of work to hide the values.
Standing resistors?
Erik S
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I watched a Franlab video where she talked construction methods, and If I remember right was making an argument that offboard wiring all controls and connections has some potential advantages in lower mechanical stress on the pcb/ longevity.Offboard wired pots?
I certainly don't want to build anything with offboard wired pots, but I respect it when I see a commercial operation doing it, since I assume they must be doing it with quality in mind? It must cost more to do it that way right? It seems like builders who have optimized for labor cost are board mounting everything.
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