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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society

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Sushi Box FX said:
The only thing harder than cropping this picture so hard it hides all the details is going to be keeping this thing a secret for 2 more months.

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God I'm slow, I looked at that picture at least 10 times before I realized the writing is printed on the actual circuit board.
Maybe I can start blaming it on my cataracts, I've been told they are starting to form. (I mean, it can't be old age,right?)
 
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Tassieviking said:
I must have been asleep when the power supplies came out as an option with the pedals, is there any more information on the power supply anywhere ?
Is the power supply usable in Australia ?
Can it be bought separately ?
And the most important question for last : Will it be an option with C2CE PCB's ?
Hmmmm, maybe I blinked or something, it seems like the secret society grows several pages every day.
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I don't think there's any formal info on the power supply, I'll try to find a spot on the website to mention it. I don't currently have an option to buy them separately, but I am planning on it. It's a 9V 1000mA "wall-wart" style supply. I didn't make them, but I auditioned a bunch of different suppliers and chose the one I liked best for noise and stability performance.

The supplies can work anywhere from 100-240VAC and 50-60Hz so they can handle power from anywhere in the world, but they are stuck with the US plug on the end so you would need an adapter to plug them in elsewhere. I've been trying to get a version with the swappable ends so they can work anywhere, but the current supplier isn't excited to do it so I may have to find a different supply for international use.
 
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andare said:
Dayum, too late...Finally v3 is already out of stock
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Not for long ;) I'm just slow at updating things. I have a bunch more finished as well as some almost finished. Backorders placed today/tonight will still ship in the morning. I'll try to get stock updated shortly though.

EDIT: Done, 7 units now in stock with an additional 9 that should be finished tonight. Also apparently I forgot to enable backorders for Finally v3, so that has now been fixed.
 
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Sushi Box FX said:
Not for long ;) I'm just slow at updating things. I have a bunch more finished as well as some almost finished. Backorders placed today/tonight will still ship in the morning. I'll try to get stock updated shortly though.

EDIT: Done, 7 units now in stock with an additional 9 that should be finished tonight. Also apparently I forgot to enable backorders for Finally v3, so that has now been fixed.
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Done. I also sent you a request in the Feedback form!
 
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If I'm not mistaken, the chef mentioned a while back something about a custom wound transformer or something (I'm a layman in electronics) that was detrimental to the sound of some kind of amp (SVT?). That part was usually too big to fit into a pedal, but he found a supplier that could make it to his specs so it would fit and would sound brilliant. Pretty vague, not sure I'm of any help here :D
 
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@Mayo Fan here: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/the-sushi-box-fx-secret-society.1484792/page-1079#post-28674917

Sushi Box FX said:
Warning: dangerously nerdy stuff that some might find uninteresting

Mmkay, so it's not really a secret that I've been working on a revised SVT preamp for a while now. I've also decided the Furthermore preamp will have an SVT-ish mids control in its tonestack. One of the special ingredients that makes the SVT mids control work is a custom wound multi-tap inductor that is notoriously difficult to come by. There is one place I'm aware of that sells a drop-in replacement, but it is prohibitively expensive.

Fortunately if you have enough information about something and enough money, you can walk into a factory (literally or virtually) and have them make a thing for you. I was able to talk to the factory that already makes my Unagi E4305 D.I. transformers and convince them to do these for me as well. I tested one in my Furthermore preamp prototype and it sounded excellent, so I went ahead and installed one in my SVT Classic head as well. This thing is a winner.

On the left you can see the original Ampeg inductor, on the right is my Unagi version prototype. I only have a handful right now for testing purposes, but I have 500 more on the way.

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Nate also recently announced that he'd start offering those (and the Unagi Transformers) individually on the C2CE site.
 
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You mean the multi tap inductor that is used in the tone stack of the SVT, it is in the Midrange frequency selector circuit.
I think it is a lot cheaper to make them then to buy them as spare parts and use in the pedals, The Sushi ones can be used in the Ampeg amps as replacement as far as I know.
c2celectronics.com

Unagi Magnetics M1380 – Multi-tap Inductor

The M1380 from Unagi Magnetics is a multi-tap inductor designed as a drop-in replacement inductor for use in an active mids control. M1380 is tapped at 100mH, 300mH, and 800mH. Pin 1 is indicated b…
c2celectronics.com c2celectronics.com

Edit: The other "T" beat me by a minute while I was typing.:)
 
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Tassieviking said:
The Sushi ones can be used in the Ampeg amps as replacement as far as I know.
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Correct, I actually replaced the inductor in my Ampeg SVT-CL with an Unagi inductor to test it, that's where the original inductor in the picture before is from.

Per My Last Email is unrelated to SBVT II though, that's a separate effort that continues to frustrate me after what is now the 5th prototype that still isn't fixing the problem I've been trying to solve. But I have a 3-day weekend this weekend, hoping I can find some time to try out some things to make this SBVT II design work. The tone is exactly what I want, but it's not loud enough.
 
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We just had a long weekend in Australia for Australia Day, it was on Sunday so everyone got Monday off.
I live in the bush and there is a huge area behind me with wild bushland that people like to explore and camp in, Tuesday afternoon the smoke was spotted by someone around 3 pm.
63 hectares burnt up on Tuesday afternoon,Wednesday it was up to 180 Hectares and last count 400 hectares has burnt up.
The fire is out of control and they have 11 aircraft and 70 people on the ground, 4 bulldozers today as well since there are no roads up in the area.
I might have a firesale and get rid of all my pedals and guitars in one day.
 
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Let's circle back and blue-sky this paradigm shift by leveraging our bandwidth to drill down on the low-hanging fruit, but only if we can move the needle without boiling the ocean. At the end of the day, we need to disrupt the synergy of our core competencies and pivot the deliverables into a thought-leadership ecosystem that aligns with our key performance vegetables. If we can get all stakeholders to buy in and touch base asynchronously, we'll have the secret sauce to parachute this initiative into a high-octane, game-changing deep dive that maximizes our ROl on the bleeding edge of the value proposition.
 
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_Tay_ said:
Per my last email ..... I.e Furthermore 🤔
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Nope, not Furthermore according to the chef,
Sushi Box FX said:
Unfortunately no, Per My Last Email (PMLE?) is somehow both more and less complicated than Furthermore, so I already have a production-ready build. I'm kind of kicking myself now though, PMLE was originally intended as an April Fool's day pedal, but it's honestly kind of amazing. I had a wild "I wonder if that would work" idea and it worked better than I expected.
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PMLE makes me think of DUMBLE, but that can't be it, can it?
 
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