The Sushi Box FX Secret Society

[Sushi Box FX]

Caution - peanut gallery commentary ! Hefty or pot bellied ???? Fits well with the Fluffy estetic for sure but why the white horizontal line ? It seems distracting to my eye anyway ... Kelly

I see where you're coming from. That was supposed to look like beams of light coming fron the LED, abd in the first draft it looked really cool, but then the unicorn moved up and covered the starting point. There are still a couple tweaks I want the artist to make so this isn't the final version (you can see the gain label is a little off alignment and the sushi logo is falling off the edge) but I got excited and wanted to print it.

 

[Kelly robinson]

I see where you're coming from. That was supposed to look like beams of light coming fron the LED, abd in the first draft it looked really cool, but then the unicorn moved up and covered the starting point. There are still a couple tweaks I want the artist to make so this isn't the final version (you can see the gain label is a little off alignment and the sushi logo is falling off the edge) but I got excited and wanted to print it.

Hey Senor - I should have known by now that you 'd catch that ! Will be looking forward to the revised version since the Fluffy Kitten came out so well .... Kelly

 

[Sushi Box FX]

Hey Senor - I should have known by now that you 'd catch that ! Will be looking forward to the revised version since the Fluffy Kitten came out so well .... Kelly

I actually hadn't, I'm pretty slow at catching visual things @Sonicblaze let me know about your comment and informed me that he agreed with your assessment, which made me look at it and say "oh yeah, I get it now." So if anything ever looks off visually, don't be afraid to let me know because I probably have no idea

 

[Mayo Fan]

I was going to wait until this was fully assembled before posting pictures, but LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL THING.

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But eh... Where's the tube? It looks fantastic already and it will probably sound equally good. Still, a Klone that's both bass oriented and tubified would really set it apart in the market. Just some thoughts, although you probably have your reasons. Of
course one could always supplement it with one of the many great tube pedals in your catalog.

 

[Rich48]

I don’t see any vents in the box. Will this be tubeless?

 

[4Mal]

I see where you're coming from. That was supposed to look like beams of light coming fron the LED, abd in the first draft it looked really cool, but then the unicorn moved up and covered the starting point. There are still a couple tweaks I want the artist to make so this isn't the final version (you can see the gain label is a little off alignment and the sushi logo is falling off the edge) but I got excited and wanted to print it.

Oblique I guess bit... label the controls G T O and make the whole thing less busy...

I am so looking forward to hearing a Dark Star into the Slampegg mini and then the HWSH... then to compare against the HWSH alone. Dark Star into the PAx is pretty dang cool!

 

[psychovox]

Dr Wattson X in classifieds. TA

 

[SemiDriven]

Regarding Dr. Wattson X:

Milliamp Draw is: 900mA @ 9vdc Warmup, 480mA @ 9vdc After Warmup

I've got a Cioks DC7 (7 outlets at 660 mA @ 9V each).

Do I need to be concerned about the initial warmup draw of 900 mA if I only use one of the DC7 outlets?

Tried searching this thread but came up empty.

 

[Pedalnetics]

Regarding Dr. Wattson X:

Milliamp Draw is: 900mA @ 9vdc Warmup, 480mA @ 9vdc After Warmup

I've got a Cioks DC7 (7 outlets at 660 mA @ 9V each).

Do I need to be concerned about the initial warmup draw of 900 mA if I only use one of the DC7 outlets?

Tried searching this thread but came up empty.

It should warm up fine at the lower limited current, just might take a few seconds longer. I have a Black Eye X (dual tube) I can run on a single DC7 port without issue myself.

 

[Sushi Box FX]

But eh... Where's the tube? It looks fantastic already and it will probably sound equally good. Still, a Klone that's both bass oriented and tubified would really set it apart in the market. Just some thoughts, although you probably have your reasons. Of
course one could always supplement it with one of the many great tube pedals in your catalog.

I don’t see any vents in the box. Will this be tubeless?

This will be tubeless, just like Fluffy Kitten, and if it ends up released as-is will likely be the same price.

When I saw these comments I was all ready to launch into my "this is why I don't do tube versions of solid-state circuits" speech, because generally it either a) doesn't sound like the original circuit anymore or b) doesn't sound as good as a tube circuit could if I ignored the original circuit. A fine example there is Glass Clover, my 12AX7 Tube Screamer. It sounded better than a tubescreamer, but not as good as like a Dr. Wattson. I could design a better tube overdrive by ignoring the tubescreamer bits.

But when I go on with this speech, I tend to overlook a fine exception: Lab Rat. Lab Rat sounds better than a stock Rat, and frankly if you're looking for that flavor of dirt, Lab Rat is hard to beat, and replacing the solid-state bits with more tubes would no longer get you the sound I was after when I designed it.

So obviously a tube Klon is doable, but it becomes a matter of how you implement it. My first thought would be to replace the input buffer with a tube input buffer and add a tube gain stage to the output. Klons really shine (in my opinion) when they run mostly clean but with a high output level and push a tube stage into breakup. So it would basically be getting the typical Klon sound with a little tube-ness in the beginning, then would also give you the saturated tube sound at the output (could be switchable if you just wanted to run a Klon, more options).

Crap, I just designed another pedal, didn't I? There are too many damn circuits in this world that haven't been built yet

 

[jbybj]

Regarding Dr. Wattson X:

Milliamp Draw is: 900mA @ 9vdc Warmup, 480mA @ 9vdc After Warmup

I've got a Cioks DC7 (7 outlets at 660 mA @ 9V each).

Do I need to be concerned about the initial warmup draw of 900 mA if I only use one of the DC7 outlets?

Tried searching this thread but came up empty.

No need for concern. I was recently measuring the milliamp draw on my Smoke Signal, using the True Tone device. If it ever pulled more than 550mA, it must have been too quick for it to register on the mA meter. Regardless, it runs without issue on my DC7.

 

[labeledbass]

This will be tubeless, just like Fluffy Kitten, and if it ends up released as-is will likely be the same price.

When I saw these comments I was all ready to launch into my "this is why I don't do tube versions of solid-state circuits" speech, because generally it either a) doesn't sound like the original circuit anymore or b) doesn't sound as good as a tube circuit could if I ignored the original circuit. A fine example there is Glass Clover, my 12AX7 Tube Screamer. It sounded better than a tubescreamer, but not as good as like a Dr. Wattson. I could design a better tube overdrive by ignoring the tubescreamer bits.

But when I go on with this speech, I tend to overlook a fine exception: Lab Rat. Lab Rat sounds better than a stock Rat, and frankly if you're looking for that flavor of dirt, Lab Rat is hard to beat, and replacing the solid-state bits with more tubes would no longer get you the sound I was after when I designed it.

So obviously a tube Klon is doable, but it becomes a matter of how you implement it. My first thought would be to replace the input buffer with a tube input buffer and add a tube gain stage to the output. Klons really shine (in my opinion) when they run mostly clean but with a high output level and push a tube stage into breakup. So it would basically be getting the typical Klon sound with a little tube-ness in the beginning, then would also give you the saturated tube sound at the output (could be switchable if you just wanted to run a Klon, more options).

Crap, I just designed another pedal, didn't I? There are too many damn circuits in this world that haven't been built yet

For those wondering, using a JohnK Au Drive or Quicksilver drives the Fuffy Kitten really nicely, I'm sure it would be the same with any sushi tube pedal. Still don't understand the Presence knob, from 0-100, I can't tell if it's doing anything

 

[Ryan L.]

For those wondering, using a JohnK Au Drive or Quicksilver drives the Fuffy Kitten really nicely, I'm sure it would be the same with any sushi tube pedal. Still don't understand the Presence knob, from 0-100, I can't tell if it's doing anything

Yeah the Presence knob has me baffled too. I don’t notice it doing much, if anything, so I just turned it up to 10 and ignored it.

 

[jbybj]

For those wondering, using a JohnK Au Drive or Quicksilver drives the Fuffy Kitten really nicely, I'm sure it would be the same with any sushi tube pedal. Still don't understand the Presence knob, from 0-100, I can't tell if it's doing anything

Yeah the Presence knob has me baffled too. I don’t notice it doing much, if anything, so I just turned it up to 10 and ignored it.

“Producers” knob?

 

[Ryan L.]

I’m thinking that Wattson X in the classifieds might be pretty cool in a loop of my Helix as the “amp” to base a preset around, like I’m doing with my DI 2112.

The Helix does a pretty good job of emulating the tube thing, but having actual tubes in the signal path could be even better….

 

[Sushi Box FX]

It's important to me that everyone understand why there couldn't be a turret version of Slampegg.

 

[tombowlus]

It's important to me that everyone understand why there couldn't be a turret version of Slampegg.

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I must say, that makes me very much want a hand-wired Slampegg...

 

[Sushi Box FX]

I must say, that makes me very much want a hand-wired Slampegg...

Give me a couple months to work some things out, then I'm hoping to make it available as an upcharge option for standard orders, then as the SMD orders start to fade I'll drop SMD altogether and everything (with few exceptions like Fluffy Kitten) will go to handwired.

 

[Mayo Fan]

Crap, I just designed another pedal, didn't I? There are too many damn circuits in this world that haven't been built yet

I'm not one to complain about more excellent pedals to choose from.

Although I must say, your description of the circuit with the tube buffer in the front and tube gain stage at the back is exactly what I thought the Greenhouse could provide for any tubeless pedals. Or am I talking gibberish?

Man, I wish I was as technical as you are, coming up with new exciting circuits to build all the time. Sounds like a lot of fun!

 

[Sushi Box FX]

Although I must say, your description of the circuit with the tube buffer in the front and tube gain stage at the back is exactly what I thought the Greenhouse could provide for any tubeless pedals. Or am I talking gibberish?

Yup, pretty much. Greenhouse is on the bench right now and I almost built it last night, but I got distracted by something shiny.

So very shiny.