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Swapped the VU meter lamp for blue LED, added blue LEDs behind vents, added resistive dummy load so it can more conveniently run DI without a cab.
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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society
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Swapped the VU meter lamp for blue LED, added blue LEDs behind vents, added resistive dummy load so it can more conveniently run DI without a cab.
I don't mind posting the picture again, I like looking at it
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Hola Sr Sushi. After listening to a bunch of live Neil Young albums over the last couple days, I now need to request a 1959 Fender Tweed Deluxe in a pedal. Thanks in advance.
Added a master volume, I hope that's cool. Should be a little louder than SH, probably needs an attenuator on the output.
LOL nice. I guess I know where my Christmas money is going.
So would this just be the Instrument Input channel then?
Apparently Neil Young's sound has always been a 59 Tweed since the 60s. Everything you hear off the stage is his Tweed feeding various other things (reverb, other amps, etc). What little reading I did yesterday seemed to suggest it was modified, and biased so hot that they had to have fans blowing on it constantly to "keep it from blowing up", so I'm sure the preamp is only a small part of that overall sound. But the clarity and note separation are outstanding, even when he winds it up all the way.
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I mean I don't know that it will be a releasable thing, especially by Christmas, but I expect to throw a prototype together. Also have a Bassman prototype I've been wanting to check out. And yup, instrument channel, all the way up to the phase inverter, threw the master volume right where the phase inverter would have hooked in.
Understood. You've got one pre-sale all lined up, if you decide to pull the trigger.
Weren’t you just recently talking about how you need to scale back your offerings a little bit to make production more manageable
Ahem Bassman with bass treble control, pretty please, if you please Senor @Sushi Box FX
That's why I said "prototype", doesn't mean I'm going to regularly produce and sell themWeren’t you just recently talking about how you need to scale back your offerings a little bit to make production more manageable
As far as actual cost, I generally need to sell at least 2 of something to make it worth the time and effort of designing and building. So in that regards I don't think anything I've offered thus far has been a loss, but some are more profitable than others. From a business perspective it makes more sense to focus on things that a lot of people want so I can maximize the returns from my development effort and phase out things that are less popular and take time away from more popular designs.
That being said designing is still my favorite part of the process, so sometimes I throw designs together for a prototype just to keep the old gray matter sharp.
But that's a '56 Bassman, and it would clash with the '59 Deluxe!
Seriously though, yup that's the plan. Schematic is done, just trying to decide if I want to stick it in the typical two-tube enclosure or if I want to cram it into the little one like Black Eye and Ambassador.
I suspect this comment was tongue in cheek ? but certainly we should all be happy Senor Sushi's brain is so fertile - especially if it involves coming close to a Bassman without the pounds and monetary commitment .... I may have said this before but I may have to actually buy a Sushibox pedal at some point if he offers a bassman a Bassman ! ..... KellyWeren’t you just recently talking about how you need to scale back your offerings a little bit to make production more manageable
Oh Thank you! I like the idea of the smaller enclosure like the Ambassador, are there brite and deep options?
Nope, partially because they weren't on the 5E6 schematic I'm working off of and partially because there would be no way to put the switches in the smaller box with 2 tubes and 4 pots (added a master volume to this as well).
Of course it's tongue in cheek
I'm a Sushi fan and the more new fun stuff he makes the better. And I get it from a production standpoint if he does scale back. But not like I'm an official bizzness consultant or anything
You don't have to sell me on the Bassman sound, my '67 Bassman head was the only amp that I hauled around the world with me and still have since it was purchased from a bandmate in '80. It is my studio amp but I rarely have the chance to record with it anymore. Having a tube pedal that accurately gives me that voice would be as delicious as sushi.
Even my request for the Tweed Deluxe was very tongue in cheek with no real expectation of it happening. Happy to stimulate the ol' grey matter, whether it comes to fruition or not.
Well really happy that's all settled ! Now the only question is - is the Bassman a candidate for the special " hand done version " . To be blunt - I'm cutting my own throat here because anything in the "hand done " range is way out of my disposal income range however that one could be a real treat for those with the cake to afford it . Preorders start when ???? ...Kelly
