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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society

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Sushi Box FX said:
Westinghouse -

Mirage Tremolo -

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Dr. Wattson X -

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I just realized I forgot one. I sent my Optipus Compressor to @scubaduba a while back for his thoughts and it had some issues largely associated with 6N21B tubes, so I'm skipping the 6N21B version of that and giving Optipus the X Series treatment as well. The main reason I forgot to mention this one before is that I already have the new boards designed for it and they're sitting on a shelf waiting to be put together and tested. I'll get it together after December has shipped and let everyone know how it goes.
 
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Sushi Box FX said:
I just realized I forgot one. I sent my Optipus Compressor to @scubaduba a while back for his thoughts and it had some issues largely associated with 6N21B tubes, so I'm skipping the 6N21B version of that and giving Optipus the X Series treatment as well. The main reason I forgot to mention this one before is that I already have the new boards designed for it and they're sitting on a shelf waiting to be put together and tested. I'll get it together after December has shipped and let everyone know how it goes.
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Great- Look forward to hearing about this as well....
 
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Sushi Box FX said:
Westinghouse - My take on the Edison preamp. I finished tracing the one I have last night so I will be working on a prototype design with a couple tweaks, most notably the plate voltage is going to have to go WAY up. I'm actually thinking about limiting the sweep of the high voltage control and making it external, so you have a knob on top that will let you sweep from 30V to 200V (I won't let it go lower or higher) so you can dial in what sounds good to you. Granted this will depend on how big of an audible difference there is between the voltages in the prototype, but it could happen.
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Voltage will have to go way up due to the particular tubes you use and/or your tweaks to the circuit or because the existing design shortchanges the tube of possible available voltage?
 
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BunchyMutt said:
Voltage will have to go way up due to the particular tubes you use and/or your tweaks to the circuit or because the existing design shortchanges the tube of possible available voltage?
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Mostly the latter. I'm planning to use the same tube (EF86), which can handle a plate voltage of 300V. It sounds good at 30V, but I think it can sound a lot better with a higher plate voltage.
 
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Alright, there are only 3 pedals that haven't been shipped and their respective owners should know about it, everyone else should have received a shipping email. Post office closes in 30 minutes, so I'm going to hurry and get these dropped off. I'll work with @Sonicblaze to get pictures from this month up soon-ish too. There are some really good ones.
 
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Jaycephas said:
Dang it! Got my wires crossed. The X I got is a PA X next month. But my Slampegg is still coming!
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Yup the top Slampeg X is on its way to @kranahan I'll get the pictures I took of everything else cleaned up and organized then get some posted here so you guys can see them. The postal service is still running a little slow, so I at least want everyone to be able to see their pedals before they show up.
 
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As an aside, I found this video on YT comparing a '63 B-15N (6SL7) with a Jensen vs. '71 B-15S (12AX7).

Note that B-15S doesn't have the bright/ultra hi/lo switches, so it's an earlier B-15S. This could influence if you want a regular Slampegg or an X (or a Fliptop or P-15 for that matter).

The differences are often subtle but they're there.

 
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Am not one for names and such, happy with whatever you come up with.

There is however, a whole realm of names you could tap, given the brand is SushiBox, there's all kinds of Japanese words like Katana, Gojira, Ultraman, Akira, or offshoots like Blade Runner, Black Rain, etc. you could work in to concatenate with English words.

....or not....
 
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