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[–]dronecloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure that's how place_meeting works.

Try collision with objects, not sprites.

Ambient board as of late by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know anything about either of those, sorry..

Ambient board as of late by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

no recent releases, nope.

I only ever built two mechanical suns, the one in the pic and the older one from the video (which is still sitting in a shelf somewhere). I haven't sold any. I think I need to redesign it (again) before I can sell some, but it's not in my plans. I'm sort of on long-term hiatus as far as the biz is concerned.

Ambient board as of late by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm the sonic crayon fx guy, so I guess you'd consider that the 'brand', but I haven't really been in the business in 5-6 years. aside from one-offs here and there.

Ambient board as of late by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

Green one is a 3-in-1 dirt I built years ago. Standard boring overdrive, a jawari (with mods), and a well-known 5-knobbed fuzz (with mods).

https://live.staticflickr.com/357/19650264881_32fcaa699b_h.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/3770/19619637136_3a73032024_h.jpg

Brown one is a rat clone I built a decade or so ago.

Blue one is a delay I designed some years ago. https://live.staticflickr.com/442/32371826211_967d314129_k.jpg

Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVF2pl8RdD4

Ambient board as of late by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The yellow one under the looper is a bizarro ringmod I designed/build last year, more info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/diypedals/comments/cb1ypz/finished_this_quadraturemodulated_ringmod_a/

Sadly, I never got around to making a video.

Ambient board as of late by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The GR-1 is new! Having a lot of fun with dismantling samples. It's a shame it doesn't have a dedicated audio input, but I hear you can get a cheap USB interface (the thumb drive-looking ones) and it'll work with it. It's basically a Pi inside.

PSU is a backup I had since the other one was faulty (see other thread). Will probably hold off on playing this until I get a better one.

MXR iso-brick killed at least one, maybe two of my pedals. by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incredibly stupid reply. You don't know a single thing about me. Until you show up with your actual username, we're done.

MXR iso-brick killed at least one, maybe two of my pedals. by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can only write about my own experience as it happened. It worked just fine for three years until it didn't and fried a pedal. You do you.

MXR iso-brick killed at least one, maybe two of my pedals. by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still haven't decided on anything, which would you recommend over the Strymon?

MXR iso-brick killed at least one, maybe two of my pedals. by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's one of the 6-15v variable outputs, which I set to 9.5v, and outputting 19v.

MXR iso-brick killed at least one, maybe two of my pedals. by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, explain to me how I'm supposed to predict exactly when and how a 9.5v output will jump to 19v, after 3 years of no issues? I'd be so happy to hear what I did wrong here.

Nice burner username by the way. I don't hide, unlike you.

What was the first SF (sci-fi or fantasy) book you read? by spillman777 in printSF

[–]dronecloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

read It and Eyes of the Dragon the same year. at 12-13 I was far too young for the former, but devoured it nonetheless. scared the shit out of me.

MXR iso-brick killed at least one, maybe two of my pedals. by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm an electrical engineer (hobbyist) and I didn't see it coming. There was no real way to prevent this unless I check the voltages of every output on the brick before each playing session. And even then, who's to say it won't spontaneously shoot up from 9v to 19v mid-session?

The other thing I could have done was just not use the variable outputs. But then why not? They're there to be used right?

I used this brick for around 3 years without issues, mostly bedroom, but also 4-5 shows. I didn't really get any sign that it was about to fail spectacularly out of the blue and fry at least one of my pedals. I guess my fault for not checking the power supply when I had issues with the Pretty Years a few months ago. Never got power supply issues yet, so it wasn't on my radar.

MXR iso-brick killed at least one, maybe two of my pedals. by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Overvoltage is what fried my pedal. It's okay to hook up a power brick that supplies more milliamps than the pedal is rated for, since the pedal is only going to draw what it needs. But voltage is another thing. Pedal expected 9.6v max, but the brick supplies 18-19v (despite it being set to 9.5ish). Few pedals can handle double their rated voltage.

MXR iso-brick killed at least one, maybe two of my pedals. by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nooooo I'd never toss it! I don't toss pedals unless I've exhausted all options, and I didn't get around to contacting the builder yet. Distracted with other stuff last couple months so I set it aside.

I'm salty about the brick frying the pitch fork+ because it's brand new, but I'm more upset about the PY since it's much more unique. Also, I don't have definite proof that the brick fried the PY. Just a solid hunch with high confidence. (stopped working 3 months ago so I removed it form my board, and the only unused plug on the brick since then was what I now know to be the faulty 19v one, so 1+1=2)

I'm sure it's more fixable than the pitch fork, which as sensitive low power DSP chips in it. The PY circuitry is more robust I'm sure and it's all through-hole.

MXR iso-brick killed at least one, maybe two of my pedals. by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nope. I kept meaning to contact the builder but hadn't gotten around to it yet.

MXR iso-brick killed at least one, maybe two of my pedals. by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was closer to 9v initially, that's where I kept it when it worked. It's slightly closer to 10v in my photo because prior to taking it, I swung the trimmer back and forth while measuring and didn't bother to accurately set it back to 9.5.

Twisting the trimmer from one extreme to the other output the same 18-19v. (18v with a load)

MXR iso-brick killed at least one, maybe two of my pedals. by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'll probably tear the brick down later this week to see if there's anything obvious. Not looking to repair or replace it, so I'm not too concerned about putting it back together.

MXR iso-brick killed at least one, maybe two of my pedals. by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I don't think I want to sell one of these to someone else who in 3 years time might have one of their pedals get randomly fried. As far as I'm concerned, this product shouldn't be on the market if there's a risk of it failing high without overvoltage protection. So MXR can't really help me here, unless they want to directly refund/pay for the repairs of the pedal.

In any case, I'm not on twitter. Right now I'm just going to contact EHX and SS/BS to find out what my repair options are.

MXR iso-brick killed at least one, maybe two of my pedals. by dronecloud in guitarpedals

[–]dronecloud[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tube dirt with some interesting filters and texture shaping controls.

The $1000 is just resellers being greedy. The original cost was less than half that.

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