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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society
- Thread starter kranahan
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Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
Wow. Very nice pop to those. Me likey.
Looks like that would all fit on a PT Nano.
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Check out the Trace Elliott SM7 pedal. It has the preshapes and the 7 band graphic EQ, but no compressor and it's not tube. It does sound great - I picked one up a few years ago when I sold my TE heads and it's a preamp that will stick around. It really cops the TE tone very well.
They pop up on Reverb from time to time a lot of them pretty beat up. I managed to snag one in good shape. They are kind of a PITA because they are center neg and 18v. Maybe that and a Space Heater?
I'll look into it.
Heavy Box - RAT w/ diode switch
Fuzz Box - Catalinbread Merkin
Dirt Box - Bluesbreaker w/ extra gain
Verb Box - Culturejam Box of Hall
Echo Box - Mad Professor Deep Blue
All the stuff I used to build back when I didn't know what I was doing. Felt like throwing a few together for nostalgia and as practice to keep the old grey matter sharp.
Are these getting added to the lineup? Can I just order a box set?
Nope, they're all almost exact clones of things already on the market, so not planning to add them to the lineup. They may appear occasionally in contests/giveaways every now and then though. I like having something low enough cost that I can give them away without feeling like I'm taking a huge loss. I sent a couple to a friend last week because he's transitioning from acoustic guitar to electric and wanted a pedal recommendation.
EDIT: Apparently RAT and Deep Blue are the only ones actually still available new on the market. I was unaware of this. I mean I knew Box of Hall is a DIY project and the original Bluesbreaker is gone, but I didn't know Marshall wasn't making reissues or that Catalinbread discontinued the Merkin.
I'm still struggling on guitar (going on about 25 years now). I think more pedals would help. Could you please send Dirt, Verb and Echo Boxes to the NKB Charity for Crappy Guitar Players? I think that would help.
Several months ago I purchased a non-working early 70s Ampeg B-25B. I got the power amp working but there's still something going on in the preamp that I haven't been able to figure out so it's still sitting unused in my workshop.
I'm considering gutting it and building a B-15N inside instead, seems like a good December project. Thoughts? (don't give me your opinion, just tell me to do it)
I'm considering gutting it and building a B-15N inside instead, seems like a good December project. Thoughts? (don't give me your opinion, just tell me to do it)
I did, and it sounded pretty good, but Slampegg's output isn't hot enough to really push the power amp as hard as I want. Plus I've always wanted to try the preamp with 6SL7.
So you're too late, I've already started on the board design
Can confirm a 6SL7 preamp sounds pretty great. My Broughton P15 is a keeper. I love the breakup of the 6SL7. It's more crunchy and less hard farty distortion than the typical 12AX7 style gain breakup. Hard to describe.I did, and it sounded pretty good, but Slampegg's output isn't hot enough to really push the power amp as hard as I want. Plus I've always wanted to try the preamp with 6SL7.
So you're too late, I've already started on the board design
I would actually love to play an SVT preamp (with the inductor midrange control) using 6SL7 tubes in place of the 12AX7s.
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That would be super neat, I hope one day we can find someone with the technical know-how to make that happen.
The P15 is the bee's knees. It's also why much earlier I make the difference between the Slampegg OG and the 12AX7 version. The 12AX7 powers many Ampeg heads in terms of pre, but it's not a classic B-15N. It's the heart of my live rig. What it's missing is power amp tube stuff but I can simulate to a degree with the Two Notes C.A.B. M+. I haven't found another small pedal to do that.
EDIT: just saw this. Hm. https://www.simplifieramp.com/simplifier-classic/power-amp-sim
Hey senor - I trust you are NOT multi- tasking again while working on death ray laser projects at your day job ! LOL .... Since some of that recent multi- tasking hasn't always gone completely successfully for you - one wonders how it might affect the day job . We all saw how poorly that turned out for the Russians recently with their new found ability to make space stuff blow up into clouds of cosmic shrapnel - with luck no shuttles will be destroyed by the new floating debris field they created . You wonder if anyone over there actually thought thru what might happen if their device did work as planned - kinda seems like they didn't !!!! Just a thought anyway .... Now back to regular SB pedal oriented programming - Kelly
2022 request: 6L6 power amp sound sim in a pedal that takes a real one and based on the B-15N. 
A legitimate power section with built-in power soak in different tube flavors would be a crazy DI box that I would have zero self-control over.2022 request: 6L6 power amp sound sim in a pedal that takes a real one.
Well that looks neat. Someone in China already makes a $99 clone though, that would be hard to beat
Kind of? I have a handful of meetings today that don't actually concern me but that I'm supposed to sit in on for project stuff, so I call in and doodle schematics in my notebook. Also simpler stuff like turret layouts/amps I can draw a preliminary layout and easily pull it to the computer later.
I've looked into putting a 6L6 or even a 6V6 into a pedal-sized box, and I'm not really sure it's feasible. Power required pretty well means it's going to need a transformer, and since it's a power stage you'll want an output transformer, so two transformers and an octal tube gets big and hot. Rackmount maybe, but pedal sized is a stretch.2022 request: 6L6 power amp sound sim in a pedal that takes a real one and based on the B-15N.
What abenatuesda is not what I want. I just want the simulation of the sound/saturation/resonance of the 6L6, not a whole power section with an amp. I have a power amp. Now, I get why from making such a pedal you may need a transformer or whatever, but that's a different issue. It may genuinely not be possible. I don't want a DI, etc.
The only analog way to accurately emulate a 6L6 power section is to make a 6L6 power section and throw a dummy load on the output so the signal can be run through a speaker sim/IR etc. This is how the SWR Interstellar Overdrive does it, they have a full EL84 push-pull power section with an output transformer and a dummy load on the output so you can run it as line level instead of speaker level. But it's no different from any 15W power amp, they just have a dummy load for it.
The only other way to do it with analog is just filters that have been tweaked to mimic 6L6 response.
