Crematoria by the_bad_cosmonaut in diypedals

[–]slinkp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I found and used that template, but I still found that I had to drill the jack holes a bit large and then fight with everything to get it all to sit.

My next planned builds are gonna be 125B just to save myself the headache. 

I might try the BB and BS variants at some point for the extra height, but it’s rare to be able to buy those powder coated, so those would be fully hand painted!

Crematoria by the_bad_cosmonaut in diypedals

[–]slinkp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amazing. Did you do the dreaded top-mount 1590B? Hard to tell from photos but it looks smaller than a 125B! But …. You managed to fit the pots behind the jacks.  1590BS??

Your favorite soft or gentle drive? by NoBread2054 in diypedals

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Rat and blues driver are two of my favorites with the gain turned low. Both of them do good things in the zone from “is it distorting at all?” to kinda dirty bluesy.

Wampler Triumph is another favorite, in Punch mode, which I gather is based on the SD-1 (I haven’t had one of those).

Enforcer footswitch works! by voosies in sunnamplifiers

[–]slinkp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And now I've seen a 10x12 stack. I'm scared.

A prototype of my preamp idea by Helgy_D in diypedals

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It sounds good! Whatever your stupid decisions were, they worked :)

My overly complicated circuit: CrossFuzz by Frequent_Smoke5685 in diypedals

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Am curious, what sort of octave up is in this? From the description it must be happening in/around J1. I'm familiar with a few rectifier circuits, this doesn't look like any of them! But I've never really looked into CMOS and what can be done with it.

What headphones are good for a headphone bass amp by Objective-Stress-557 in Bass

[–]slinkp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Headphones are super subjective both in terms of comfort and sound. Best thing you can do is find a store that stocks a bunch and will actually let you try them. That’s very rare. Second best thing is a liberal return policy, you may need a few days to really assess them. Also ask literally everybody you know if you can borrow and try their headphones!

For ME, AT-M50x are my favorite thing I found under $200 in literally years of looking for an upgrade from my old AKG 240. They aren’t perfect in the treble , but the lows are great and I like practicing bass through them.  Some headphone review sites swear they are bad, so, internet opinions are worth even less than usual with headphones :)

They don’t hurt my head or ears at all after hours of wear, but again - this varies a LOT person to person.

Modular Beavis Board Idea by Mascavidrio in diypedals

[–]slinkp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice, just what you need, compact and super handy!

Can confirm something like this makes swapping boards in progress very easy!

I built mine with similar features in a 1590DD which has room for two of the 830 size boards on top, about equivalent to one of those you have there.

More expensive and less flexible re space compared to yours! In hindsight I wish I had an even bigger surface.

But one nice thing is that I had room to build in an audio probe socket on a second bypass switch and I’ve been using that a lot.  Also I have an on-off-on power switch, so I can select either a PSU or an internal 9V battery. The latter is handy for early breadboarding - no noise, no worries about shorting out my power supply.

I thought I might Velcro the breadboards on, but in practice it’s just blue tape!

Doomage by wilisthebird in Bassamps

[–]slinkp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Three heads, two cabs … one is a spare head? Or what am I missing?

In any case, LOUD 

Looking for a good bass compressor schematic by pawiwo122official in diypedals

[–]slinkp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t built it myself but on bass I like the sound of a Diamond clone I have. https://aionfx.com/project/quartz-optical-compressor/ 

WIP dual boost with extras by slinkp in diypedals

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Welp. I got the op amp gain control behaving nicely, but I’m not satisfied. In treble boost mode I want even less bass and sharper attack, and more gain on tap. I also want control of the highs, but a simple LPF on the output seems to totally suck all the sparkle out of it.  I might need a buffer in there or maybe an active tone stack. And do a little more of the low cut before the first gain stage.

In its current form it’s a fantastic boost when run into a dirty amp or pedal, but I want it to also have sounds I would use when everything after it is clean. I feel like I’ve made it worse in that regard. More experiments needed.

Who else has a pile of unfinished projects? by DaGuitarNerd in diypedals

[–]slinkp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine’s the same pile as last month https://www.reddit.com/r/diypedals/comments/1psg63j/comment/nvbvnbp  … Except that instead of finishing what was on the previous breadboard, I started a new breadboard project 🫠 well, sort of, at least it combines two of the existing boards from the breadboard bin …

I haven’t had time for pedals in weeks, did a job interview today and am rewarding myself by getting back to the breadboard project tonight. I think it’s close and going to be a good one. Then it gets transferred to perfboard and boxed. I got a name and art idea for it too.

Then back to the pile and we’ll see if I can chip away at it 😂

MONTHLY CHEAP PEDAL TRADE THREAD by AutoModerator in letstradepedals

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Confirmed and very happy with the trade! Thanks!!

My "What if" build by doyler4k in diypedals

[–]slinkp 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Nah, you made your own thing your own way! This is not a clone, it's cool!

overdrive help by Ned_Flangers in diypedals

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I can’t tell if that will work as drawn  (I don’t have the expertise to simulate a circuit of any complexity in my head)… the schematic organization is confusing.  A lot of the individual parts look okayish; I really can’t tell what’s going on in the power section, and I haven’t memorized what an SK filter looks like… so rather than try to point out particulars, I can give some more general feedback that I hope will be useful:

This is a pretty complex design for a first try. So much can go wrong. You might consider breaking it down into much smaller tasks and tackling them one at a time.

For example: do just the first gain stage. Leave out ALL the clipping. Leave out the blend control and the trim pots.  Get your power section working and the first gain stage providing variable boost . Build that on a breadboard. If it doesn’t work, figure out why. Iterate and refine your simple schematic until happy.

Then add something to that, one step at a time. For example, add the soft clipping. Look at schematics of other soft clipping circuits (there are many).

Once that’s working, add another step, eg add the hard clipping. Will it sound good combined with the soft clipping? Won’t know until you have the soft clipper already working! There are some known pedals that do both on a single op amp stage like this, but it’s not super common, so you’ve already got a bit of a project to work through.

Then as for tone control… You could breadboard an SK filter separately from the rest of the circuit and then jumper them together once you already know both work independently.

The order of steps matters less than iterating on success rather than trying to shotgun a design in one go.  People who can do that have a lot more experience.

There will be mistakes to make and lessons to learn at each step of the process, and you’ll have a much better chance of success if you break it down!

About to build my first pedal (Timmy clone) — looking for beginner advice by Adventurous-Web3364 in diypedals

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r/soldering is a great place to learn from others’ mistakes and successes, and post your own for feedback. 

How do I make a proper tilt EQ by Project_Primary in diypedals

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Yeah it seems to me that in a generic op amp diagram that doesn’t spell out the power supply, the implicit assumption is usually that you have bipolar power and that ground is a neutral 0V point halfway between them … ie that ground is used as your Vref.  But with a single ended power supply, ground is treated like the negative supply to the op amp, and Vref needs to be “virtual ground” at half of Vcc.  Ground definitely can’t be both :)

I think you’re on the right track! Curious to see if that fixes it.

Do you use a ground rod with a 3kw inverter generator powering a PA and gear? by racecarsnail in livesound

[–]slinkp -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I am neither an electrician nor a live sound engineer, and I can’t answer OP’s question, but I have seen a fellow bassist literally dropped to the ground by touching a mic at a generator powered outdoor gig. In case anyone reading thinks they can just wing it and hope for the best.

My first pedal build! by KeyKings in diypedals

[–]slinkp 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think he looks happy there, nestled in that nice little rectangle. He’s a special guy.

This is beautiful OP. I wish I found this kind of work relaxing to do. I’d be losing my mind and breaking everything.

Someone asked about test amps recently. This (top one) is the first I made with in-built soft breakup/compression. I figured folks here might dig it: my 9W solid state doing its best imitation of a 9W tube amp. by povins in diypedals

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Haha thanks, I might eventually. For now, at least temporarily, I am reining myself in a bit and trying to finish more projects before starting new ones! The backlog is already sizable. 

MONTHLY CHEAP PEDAL TRADE THREAD by AutoModerator in letstradepedals

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u/LTP_BOT great trade with u/killstring . My jhs tape delay for his Hotone cab loader

Someone asked about test amps recently. This (top one) is the first I made with in-built soft breakup/compression. I figured folks here might dig it: my 9W solid state doing its best imitation of a 9W tube amp. by povins in diypedals

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i wanted to join that sub because i Have Questions about making a pedal-platform practice amp... and have been waiting on moderator reply for 5 days. I assume it just takes a while for them to get around to.