The Sushi Box FX Secret Society

[Sushi Box FX]

I see you are following the first two road trip rules- 1: Don't go below 1/2 tank of gas (someone is going to have to use the bathroom anyway) and 2- always have extra snacks and drinks.

Yessir, we know what we're about. We basically fill up the car every time we stop for bathroom breaks instead of the other way around, and between my wife and three daughters we stop fairly frequently

I'm torn. On the one hand I know the capacitor is basically a tiny beer can filled with blue smoke. And once you release the blue smoke the sound pressure is gone. Learned it in ECE382. On the other hand, I really love that smell, it reminds me of my uncle's model train set. Smells can bring back family memories.

Yup, very true. Fortunately (unfortunately?) My pedals after about March or so use tantalum caps instead of aluminum electrolytic, tantalums don't explode as excitingly or have the same smell. So don't blow up my pedals for the memories

Waiiit….. come back…… we miss you…. Build more pedals.

I mean I'm still around, you can't get rid of me as long as I have an internet connection but obviously I won't be building anything anytime soon. Should have time for some board layouts though

I actually had the prototypes for the SMD version of Underground Accelerator ordered and they were delivered to my house....yesterday. They've been picked up so they're safe, but knowing there is a new design that I haven't even seen yet sitting in my house without me is killing me

 

[NKBassman]

So I'm still driving, but there's a big accident on the freeway and we haven't moved in 15 minutes, so naturally I put it in park and pulled up TB

So one of the nice things about regulating everything internally is that the majority of the circuit is isolated from the input power, so the number if things that are even exposed to the overvoltage are very limited, there won't be any damage downstream.

Nothing in your picture looks fried, and the only things that are in line that could be damaged would be the input capacitor (yellow guy in top left, says '107C') and the SMPS oscillator (the only 'chip' on the board). If either of these things were blown and you tried to power up then worst case scenario it just wouldn't work, I doubt you could really damage anything further.

So here's what I want you to do: plug in either a 9V or 12V power supply and see if the LED turns on. Also tilt the pedal at whatever angle you need to in order to see the tube filaments and see if they are lighting. If LED and tube are both lighting up, you're probably fine, plug into an amp and try it out. If tube lights up but not the LED, the overvoltage may have fried the LED but the pedal itself is still fine, plug it into an amp and try it out.

If the tube heater doesn't light up after a minute or so, unplug it and get it ready to send it back to me.

My guess is that it's probably fine, there's really two electrical smells, fried components and hot components. If they were just hot but had a chance to cool down then I would expect them to be fine. So you have my express permission to plug it in and see what happens

Stopped 30 minutes now and still no moving. Good thing we have 3/4 tank of gas and plenty of snacks and drinks

So, not only do the tube heaters and LED light up, but it is making sound. And it sounds effing gnarly (that’s a good thing).

 

[Sushi Box FX]

So, not only do the tube heaters and LED light up, but it is making sound. And it sounds effing gnarly (that’s a good thing).

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Excellent, glad it's still working and glad we don't have to deal with the exciting international shipping process again

 

[Kelly robinson]

New slogan for SushiBox pedals - “ Smoking Hot and Still Going Strong “ .... Sorry not my best effort here but somebody else should have a better idea . Coffee hasn’t kicked in properly yet ! ... Kelly

 

[Real Soon]

New slogan for SushiBox pedals - “ Smoking Hot and Still Going Strong “ .... Sorry not my best effort here but somebody else should have a better idea . Coffee hasn’t kicked in properly yet ! ... Kelly

"Sushi Box: Smell Something? Check Yer Stove"

"Sushi Box: Because Some Sushi SHOULD Be Cooked"

"Sushi Box: Pan-Seared Sounds"

 

[Zbysek]

Been waffling back and forth about ordering something for a while, but I'm in for a Space Heater!

I just placed an order for one!

 

[JonathanSV]

I just placed an order for one!

That was post#6666, are you sure you didn't order a devil heater?

 

[Zbysek]

That was post#6666, are you sure you didn't order a devil heater?

 

[Zbysek]

For a guy like me- the onboard preamp, half the other effect and preamp pedals, and the amp, has some type of a tone sack, and then I have a HPF and a LPF. Adding EQ on EQ, on EQ, on EQ... it gets to be too much.

I am really developing my "less is more" mentality. So I really find it refreshing to see a couple of pedals like the Westinghouse and Space Heater- no tone stack- just a tube to add to the chain.

That is my thinking as well: avoid stacking EQ stacks in my signal chain...

 

[NKBassman]

Sometimes stacking EQs can lead to good results, but I usually try to avoid it. Or at least try to avoid stacking more than 2 preamps, including whatever amp I might be running my pedalboard into.

 

[Zbysek]

Sometimes stacking EQs can lead to good results, but I usually try to avoid it. Or at least try to avoid stacking more than 2 preamps, including whatever amp I might be running my pedalboard into.

Me too. And when you count the active bass onboard preamp and the amp's preamp...there is no spot left for pedalboard EQ stack...

 

[BunchyMutt]

Sometimes stacking EQs can lead to good results, but I usually try to avoid it. Or at least try to avoid stacking more than 2 preamps, including whatever amp I might be running my pedalboard into.

I’ve definitely had luck running more than two, but I’ve found that the first preamp has the most eq shifts, and each preamp after that has progressively less use of the eq (high and low pass filtering excluded)

 

[NKBassman]

My general approach when gigging is to use the amp and maybe one pedal to set my base tone, and everything else to modify or enhance that tone as the song demands. Sometimes if a pedal is going to be always on to satisfy the base tone, then I don't mind running additional preamps on/off if some tonal changes are required. But usually I try to do a gig with one main tone and just subtle tweaks from there... I prefer overall consistency VS big changes from song-to-song. Usually once I find my base tone that will work for a gig, I'll sprinkle in some character sounds (overdrive, fuzz, octave) here and there but that's about it. I'm not usually switching preamps with wildly different EQs from song to song. I can only imagine what this would do for a carefully crafted FOH mix in a difficult room.

 

[Zbysek]

My general approach when gigging is to use the amp and maybe one pedal to set my base tone, and everything else to modify or enhance that tone as the song demands. Sometimes if a pedal is going to be always on to satisfy the base tone, then I don't mind running additional preamps on/off if some tonal changes are required. But usually I try to do a gig with one main tone and just subtle tweaks from there... I prefer overall consistency VS big changes from song-to-song. Usually once I find my base tone that will work for a gig, I'll sprinkle in some character sounds (overdrive, fuzz, octave) here and there but that's about it. I'm not usually switching preamps with wildly different EQs from song to song. I can only imagine what this would do for a carefully crafted FOH mix in a difficult room.

Same here

 

[emjazz]

I'd suggest trying to bypass your amp's preamp if you're using preamp pedals all of the time. Most amplifier effect returns are set post preamp, meaning you can go directly into the power section of your amp. I do this most of the time. Give it a try!

 

[macmanlou]

Anybody using a Sushi preamp with a high-impedance piezo bass, like the NS Design WAV4 Omni (which has no built-in preamp)?

 

[NKBassman]

Me too. And when you count the active bass onboard preamp and the amp's preamp...there is no spot left for pedalboard EQ stack...

Active bass EQs don’t count

 

[emjazz]

If anyone has a Space Heater or Vampire Slayer and wants a Westinghouse, I'd be down for a trade. I just want some clean tube width and warmth.

Quoting myself as my Westinghouse has been sold, and I bought back a custom piece that is doing exactly what I was hoping for. It's the tube section of an Aguilar tube DI. I think looking at tube DIs is a great way to come up with a basic tube warmer for your signal, like others are talking about. If you omit the giant transformer and find a way to get the circuit into a smaller pedal size box, then you still get some beautiful tube saturation.

 

[NKBassman]

I'd suggest trying to bypass your amp's preamp if you're using preamp pedals all of the time. Most amplifier effect returns are set post preamp, meaning you can go directly into the power section of your amp. I do this most of the time. Give it a try!

Yeah I do this a lot. I run external preamps into the FX Return on my Aguilar TH500 all the time. The Tonehammer preamp is fine, but can sometimes be a little muffled.

 

[NKBassman]

On the topic of FX Loops, has anyone tried a Westinghouse in the loop of an amp? I'm wondering how it will handle a line level signal.