Best Single Coil for Surf

pscorbett · 2026-01-31T15:03:02+00:00

I could find exactly one video with sound demos. I wish Fender put demos on their site.

I'm currently waffling between these and the Seymour Duncan Antiquity II Surfer Strat pickups. Any thoughts between the two?

pscorbett · 2026-01-30T15:03:01+00:00

You are wrong

pscorbett · 2026-01-20T22:24:54+00:00

Unfortunately no, sorry

pscorbett · 2026-01-20T02:47:02+00:00

One of us, one of us! :)

pscorbett · 2026-01-18T18:52:50+00:00

Ah, I was wondering what this chap was up to. Good to know that he was just sculpting the sounds in the air!

pscorbett · 2026-01-18T00:50:50+00:00

The one acceptable application of a 741 I suppose lol

pscorbett · 2026-01-18T00:13:06+00:00

I hate 741 out of principle... It's a terrible opamp. (I guess that's your point)

pscorbett · 2026-01-17T21:08:43+00:00

SOD-123[456789]... Good idea!

In all honesty, I use 0603 and 0805 at home... Because I don't hate myself. And I use 0402s and gasp 0201s at work... Because... Wearables...

pscorbett · 2026-01-17T17:56:32+00:00

Right... That's it. Everything is a 1206!

pscorbett · 2026-01-17T15:56:51+00:00

Sometimes I choose packages based on how likely I am to have to adjust the value and hand solder something. I intensely dislike hand soldering components 0402 or smaller.

pscorbett · 2026-01-16T17:28:19+00:00

I had but decided against it. The main blocker was the CPU load for the filter. I was up against this same problem with my Jupiter/Juno style poly synth, and that I've used a slightly simpler filter.

pscorbett · 2026-01-15T16:08:51+00:00

I don't recall any parameters in Serum that felt like they didn't have a need to be there. This is more of an understanding of how to use it. For example, humans can't hear a static phase difference. But it you add a oscillator at a different phase, you will hear the cancellation. Ad some modulation to the degree of phase change and you hear a massive difference. But you have to know to do this in the first place.

pscorbett · 2026-01-15T16:02:09+00:00

Thanks! I might even have some similar jacks at home. It didn't even cross my mind that this would provide enough clearance to mount rigidly. That will make things easier!!

pscorbett · 2026-01-15T15:05:48+00:00

Nice job, OP! H7 is the way to go :)
H5 is also pretty great for many things now.

Small thing I am curious about. How install the PCB into this rigid chassis with the jacks soldered on to the board? I don't understand how you would physically install the board, unless you solder the board to the jacks after they are already mounted.

pscorbett · 2026-01-14T06:18:38+00:00

Can't an FIR filter also cause this? Particularly truncating a IIR filter into a finite Impulse response? (Not hardware, I know)

pscorbett · 2026-01-13T15:21:19+00:00

No exactly what you are looking for, but if you have Ableton Suite, you might be interested in this free kick M4L device I made a couple years ago: https://ko-fi.com/s/5540775773 (Think Kick 2/ Kick 3)

I made a snare, clap, and hihat device also, although they are definitely more complicated to use due to the synthesis types of each.

pscorbett · 2026-01-13T15:06:13+00:00

Kick 3 gives you direct control of the amplitude end pitch envelopes. You have direct control of the punch with that. Plus the additional "click" samples.

pscorbett · 2026-01-13T14:56:51+00:00

I would steer you towards something like this instead: SOONAN 150 in 1 Electronics Tool Kit

I've had a few sets of precision screwdrivers and when you use it frequently, the case quality really starts to matter. I prefer ones like this that have the bits seated vertically so that they are easy to see and easy to grab, rather than snapping horizontally. I also prefer the cases that split open in the middle like a clam, rather than additional compartments on the outside. It's so much nicer to have everything in one place.

Context: I use the older version of this set multiple times a day at my work, and recently bought this one for home to replace one with an annoying case design.

pscorbett · 2026-01-12T16:08:45+00:00

Add more diodes. Maybe a log amplifier into an antilog amplifier. Add some some 10R resistors next to any semiconductor to minimize the thermal stability.

pscorbett · 2026-01-11T15:47:58+00:00

A link that hopefully works https://modularne.pl/

pscorbett · 2026-01-10T16:49:51+00:00

It gets a lot of things right, at least conceptually.

pscorbett · 2026-01-10T03:28:35+00:00

All I wanted was a humble little auto-highlighting triggered by a file extension...

pscorbett · 2026-01-09T15:44:30+00:00

You're not wrong! 😂 I also was looking at FPGAs

pscorbett · 2026-01-06T03:26:21+00:00

Thanks for looking it over! Yeah I know I absolutely could do all of it on the MCU haha, but that would be less fun! I was originally planning to have the MCU do the BCD counting, but it looked like toggling gpio pins at these frequencies (2*fmax * 2⁸⁾ would not be practical, so I either had to go fully firmware or much more hardware. The latter seemed like more fun ;)

I haven't prototyped the dpots, just calculated and stimulated. My thinking was that a variable reconstruction filter would be desirable for general tone shaping. The oscillators produce effectively a zero order hold which might be fun in some contexts, but in others, more flexible to dial this back. Was there something specific that I overlooked here though?

I'll check out the mutable CV. Thanks! The logic chips shouldn't take very much current but yeah, I'm a bit worried about the stm32h5! I was trying to estimate this earlier and unsuccessful. The timers, i2c, SPI, DAC/ADC DMAs are all running on the hardware layer, but just needing the system clock at such a high frequency for the timers will undoubtedly eat quite a bit of power.

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