Yep, in my experience, the smaller the wire, the harder it is to solder. I have a PCB amp that I rely on that might be more solder than PCB at this point, but it's been soldered by a man who is a master with the stuff.
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
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Yep, in my experience, the smaller the wire, the harder it is to solder. I have a PCB amp that I rely on that might be more solder than PCB at this point, but it's been soldered by a man who is a master with the stuff.
In other news ive placed my order for one of the Dunwich VT125Bs. I cant wait to try it out and compare it to the original Volt thrower. Im hoping that mid knob will allow me to make my dirty tone dirtier and my clean tone bassier.
I think I'm going to blow my tax return on a Moog.
I'm kind of a messy solderer.
What Moog thing in particular?
I like the "rusted atomic age" look 0f the Octa-Hive.
The Fuzzrocious Blast Furnace is a fuzz/delay?
What's all that Sonic Farm stuff? Tons of switches.
What is the Audrey Gore and the other Main Ace FX stuff?
I thought I was good at soldering once, then I finished putting the pedal together and found out otherwise.
Right now a Sub 37... Or maybe a Sub Phatty and a Blofeld... Or maybe wait for the DSI Rev 2...
But the Sub 37 sounds great in the demos and seems relatively easy to make good sounds. It's laid out nicely. Also it has an arp, sequencer, saves tons of presets.
I'll be watching tons of demos and listening to sound samples. So I may change my mind.
I'm kind of a messy solderer.
What Moog thing in particular?
I like the "rusted atomic age" look 0f the Octa-Hive.
The Fuzzrocious Blast Furnace is a fuzz/delay?
What's all that Sonic Farm stuff? Tons of switches.
What is the Audrey Gore and the other Main Ace FX stuff?
At NAMM I tend to try and shoot photos of people I either know or who have something either new or visually striking. I make a point to balance out the giant corporation stuff with the small shop stuff. This year things were so busy in spite of the insane rain on friday and feared traffic on saturday that I didn't get to spend as much time with the booths as past years. I was actually supposed to be photographed playing a bass for a website, but this year I didn't even have ten seconds to sit down.
Yeah, it was the small shop things I was most interested in. That Octa-Hive is one of the coolest looking pedals I've ever seen.
The octahive was some next level audio engineering stuff for guitar and bass.
Just bought a sunnbather from abominable electronics
Psyched for it
Psyched for it
Alright, nearly a week later and I'm realizing that with an infant in the house, even that trip to the local electronics place might be a while. Anybody have any good links online or on Amazon to what I would need? Seems like the stuff I find on Amazon doesn't really tell me much to base my decision on. Mostly the cable and heat shrink, as I think I'm good with finding the ends I need. Thanks as always, gents.
So way way back in the day, Morley apparently made a manual flanger pedal. Sadly, despite the fact that they seemed eager to pair every other effect with wah (including an enormous pedal that was a combination wah/rotary speaker emulator), the only thing they ever paired their Pro Flanger pedal with was chorus. I scooped up the non-chorus variety on Reverb. Curious to see what it can do.
Ideally I'd like it modded to pair with wah in the same pedal. Also to take a standard center negative power supply rather than having its own power cable, and have true bypass.
Ideally I'd like it modded to pair with wah in the same pedal. Also to take a standard center negative power supply rather than having its own power cable, and have true bypass.
Are you talking the Afterlife? Pretty sure that runs on the Belton Brick digital unit like most reverbs from indy builders/DIYers. The BBD analog reverb chip designed in the 80s, the MN3011, was a sort of stop-gap solution, but the digital reverb tech was quickly getting better and able to be made smaller and smaller. DOD and Arion are the only other manufacturers besides Morley's Rock'n Verb I know of to make analog reverbs (the FX45 and SRV-1 respectively). Once Boss was able to make a digital unit small enough to be housed in a pedal (the RV-2, there is no RV-1), that pretty much spelled game over for analog reverb. (Fun fact, the RV-2 is the only Boss pedal without a battery clip, the reverb chip was so big they didn't have space left over for a battery.)
Apparently, the MN3011 chips are very noisy and the reverb room size is pretty small compared with even the early digital units like the Boss and the Holy Grail. Still I've been keeping my eye out for one of these older analog units because I don't mind noisy and I'm just curious if analog makes that much of a tonal difference like it does with delay.
