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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society

I count 37 pedals? I notice the absence of two very different looking pedals from that batch. One would stick out of that bunch like a dead rat! :)

Not a lot of colors in this months order? Strange!
You caught me :p enclosure finishing time is not linear, i.e. if it takes me x amount of time to finish 1 enclosure, finishing two enclosures doesn't take 2x. So I'm actually doing May and June's enclosures all at the same time, which will save me some time next month and allow me to finish the June batch a little quicker. There are 63 total enclosures, so still a fair bit of colors to do.

And I actually haven't even started the SBVT enclosures yet, I don't want to drill boxes when I don't have a verified design yet. I did get the shipping notice for the new circuit boards though, so fingers crossed I'll have it soon.
 
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Anyone with a Westinghouse, is there supposed to be a pretty significant hum with the voltage switch at 235?

Or I’m thinking I didn’t feed the thing enough amps? I only had my MXR mini isobrick at practice tonight (300ma).
I had a loud hum and settled the power cable in a little better. I noticed that when it gets jostled it can get noisy.
 
Anyone with a Westinghouse, is there supposed to be a pretty significant hum with the voltage switch at 235?

Or I’m thinking I didn’t feed the thing enough amps? I only had my MXR mini isobrick at practice tonight (300ma).
Sounds like probably not enough juice. Try a beefier power supply like 500mA+ and see if that fixes it. Also like @MT Hope suggested make sure it's plugged in nice and snug, it should run pretty quiet in either setting.
 
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I didn't think it humanly possible to make more than that many in a month.I will put down the whip.
Oh if I pretended it was a full time job and worked on it 8-9 hours a day I could probably get 80 enclosures finished (milled/drilled/printed/powdercaoted) in 2-3 days. Circuit board assembly takes a bit longer but it's still nonlinear so doing 5 circuit boards doesn't take 5x as long as 1 circuit board. Final assembly and testing is what really east up time though, because that is linear and each one takes about the same amount of time (unless there's something wrong, and then we get to debugging).
 
I found an old custom Loooper pedal ( loooper.com - hopefully someone picks up this business again) that I haven't used in a few years and made my own Spacehouse. The wet/dry blend knob adds in some interesting characteristics, and I can get a very multi-amp feel out of my AG-700. Next step is to run this into my old SWR SM-400 and see how she likes it.

FWIW the looper is completely passive, the power is only for the LEDs.

I'll eventually put it on a pedal board and make it look clean and pretty. But I'm really glad I had this lying around.


Of course, now I really want to hear a Particle Accelerator into a Westinghouse, just to hear what that tone stack would sound like. Particle House? London House? Sunday House? Dr Wattson's House??

I'll let someone else go there....

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I have been running preamp pedals to the FX loop on my SM 400s and she likes it very much.Great oldie but goodie amp.
 
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Anyone with a Westinghouse, is there supposed to be a pretty significant hum with the voltage switch at 235?

Or I’m thinking I didn’t feed the thing enough amps? I only had my MXR mini isobrick at practice tonight (300ma).
I’m powering mine with 660 ma on a Cioks. No hum. The only noise, a very low level hiss, is of the “airy” variety.
 
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So I was watching the old time-lapse video I made of my build process and realized the majority of it is out of date with all the new equipment I have. I haven't made a complete new video (yet), but I did upload a quick time-lapse of the UV printer throwing down a Slampegg X print from last month.

EDIT: should probably throw an epilepsy warning on that. Whoops.

 
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Just a heads up. I may be putting my Deep Dish in the classifieds in the next day or two. I thought I'd give this thread first crack at it. I have an abundance of tubiness in my signal chain. Much of it Sushi Box. I can't keep every compressor, and I am very reluctantly coming to the realization that this one might have to be my sacrifice. It is glorious. It does have the magical fairly dust that makes everything sound better through it, even with close to zero compression. Anyway, I'm asking $300 and I'll cover shipping to the lower 48. PM me if interested and I'll give you pics and details.
 
Just a heads up. I may be putting my Deep Dish in the classifieds in the next day or two. I thought I'd give this thread first crack at it. I have an abundance of tubiness in my signal chain. Much of it Sushi Box. I can't keep every compressor, and I am very reluctantly coming to the realization that this one might have to be my sacrifice. It is glorious. It does have the magical fairly dust that makes everything sound better through it, even with close to zero compression. Anyway, I'm asking $300 and I'll cover shipping to the lower 48. PM me if interested and I'll give you pics and details.
Make sure you mention that the buyer won't have to wait 3+ months, next available slots from me will ship late August/early September ;)
 
Sounds like probably not enough juice. Try a beefier power supply like 500mA+ and see if that fixes it. Also like @MT Hope suggested make sure it's plugged in nice and snug, it should run pretty quiet in either setting.
More juice did the trick! I have to say, I see no reason to flip that switch down from 235v. That’s where it belongs.
 
I finally finished all the full color and raw/simple printing, tomorrow I'll get going on powdercoating. I thought about doing it tonight since I have tomorrow off from my day job, but it's been a long day already. Also if you're looking at the picture and thinking "one of these things is not like the others," obviously that one is for me.

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I keep looking at that picture of all the enclosures and hoping to find a westinghouse in there
Funny you say that, I noticed the same and was already talking to Sushi this morning. There were extra enclosures done last month that he used to fill this month orders. So they weren't new/in this picture because they were already fully ready.