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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society

I'm still playing my Dr. Wattson daily. There's an upper-midrange grit/sweetness, but without treble harshness, that I haven't found anywhere else. It's the closest to my beloved Traynor YBA-200 of any pedal I've tried.

Based on that description, what other Sushi pedals should be on my radar?
The Underground Accelerator for sure. I have the PAX which shares the same basic circuit. It's somewhat reminiscent of the Dr. but it's fatter and thicker. The Dr. can get a little grinder, but I find with both I can dial in a nice sweet spot.
 
AND... while I do enjoy the cryptic product page, and have full confidence in myself to figure it out, I'm sure I'll be asking for a refresher on what the controls do at some point...

I'm taking a quick snack break, so now seems like as good a time as any to give a description of Fluffy Kitten. I'll get it updated on the website soon as well.

Fluffy Kitten is a high gain distortion using a low-voltage JFET setup. Each JFET stage is manually biased to play nicely with the others, with the goal of getting as much rich gain as possible without oscillation. It will still get noisy as you crank the gain though, as you would expect of a high gain circuit. Fender style tone stack with capacitors tweaked a little for more low end. Plays well with guitar and bass.

Controls:
Bite = Gain
Meow = Presence
Rawr = Volume
Growl = Bass
Purr = Mids
Hiss = Treble

Takes 9-12V input, but actually now that I think about it I think it can go up to 18V. I'll have to double check. Typical polarity protection I put in everything so polarity of input doesn't matter. Super low current draw, like it doesn't even register on the lab power supply that I use for current testing. Safe to say less than 10mA.
 
Thanks! That is a lefty Warwick Vampyre, made in Germany. Maple body, ovangkol neck, wenge fingerboard.

So please make sure to keep it away from the Vampire Slayer at all times. I would not wager such a fine looking bass on the Sushibox being able to distinguish between a 'Y' and a 'I' that are phonetically the same in the given context.

Ah, and sunlight.
 
My old head! crazy bastard made it way up there lol (you want to hear some really nice bass, run the head into a load box and output the XLR, I've seen folks pass up $1k plus preamps to use the transformer on that unit for recording
I just got my first Warwick, every morning when I wake up I slap myself in the face to why I haven't bought one yet... such an amazing bass. Custom CV
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My old head! crazy bastard made it way up there lol (you want to hear some really nice bass, run the head into a load box and output the XLR, I've seen folks pass up $1k plus preamps to use the transformer on that unit for recording

I just got my first Warwick, every morning when I wake up I slap myself in the face to why I haven't bought one yet... such an amazing bass. Custom CV
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Congrats! Love the transparent finish!!
 
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Oh hands down, no contest. Two tubes using all four gain stages gets heavier than a single JFET pushing a single tube.


It really is. I'm hoping to have time this week to finish it up and get it back to you, but in the meantime I've been enjoying rattling some windows :p

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I have a LB30 also, it is a great little amp. I have some NOS RCA’s in the preamp section and love it.

What exactly were you doing to it if you don’t mind me asking?
 
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Since I got my UA, I had retired my PAX to the parts drawer. I didn’t want to sell it because it is a great sounding/performing pedal.

So since I have the UA assigned to my heavy gigging tribute band board, I am now using the PAX for my church band IEM board. So far all is good!
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I just got my first Warwick, every morning when I wake up I slap myself in the face to why I haven't bought one yet... such an amazing bass. Custom CV
HOT!

This will be my sixth, although I sold two of them. I still have a Streamer LX, Corvette $$, and a Fortress One. I may have a problem :)

Apologies for the threadjack.