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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society

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My new sushi slaying chopS stick... ;) came in today but I'm on a 24hr shift. I convinced my wife to bring it to me at work and because she's awesome here it is!!!!
 
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Sushi Box FX said:
Mmkay, the new HW Smoke Signal design seems to be a winner, which means I should be able to get @bassbrad's Smoke Signal back to him soon. I need to do more thorough testing and I may tweak voicing a little before sending it out the door, but I've confirmed that this revision completely gets rid of the noise issues I had in the two previous versions.
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Oh mercy this is awesome!!
Now correct me if I'm wrong..

This design has the one clean channel, and the other channel is, or is similar to the UA?
 
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Sushi Box FX said:
Mmkay, I'll just get right to it then. So the good news is it's probably nowhere near as bad as you're thinking, so my early anxiety-inducing plan seems effective.

  • Space Heater - pretty much on a dare I designed a DIY version of the circuit board, so I'm planning to start offering those for the fellow DIY folks of the world. I tried to make it as easy as possible to put together, but it's still not a beginner project, so if you've never touched a soldering iron it probably isn't for you.
  • Underground Accelerator - any time I run low on circuit boards, instead of re-ordering the same version I have I look at the design to see if any changes are necessary. Underground Accelerator's time is coming up soon, so I've decided that the production-model UA will finally get the tonestack bypass switch I've teased for a few months. This will effectively let you go between UA and SH at the flip of a switch, and it's only like $1 extra components so the cost will be staying the same. I don't really want to take back existing UAs to swap the boards as it would also require drilling a new hole in the enclosure so I'm planning not to offer it, but with my track record on saying 'no' to people we'll see how it goes.
Anyway that's it, @dedpool1052 came the closest on guessing, and frankly if SH stops selling because of this change to UA then I won't have a problem discontinuing it, but I still plan to keep it around as long as it sells.

EDIT: I just remembered NAMM is coming up next week, so let's pretend that was the big NAMM announcement I would make if I was a real company.
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Sounds great, but I honestly really love the simplicity and effectiveness of Space Heater.

Nw that we're talking about it, is it possible to make a change on my June order? (Enclosure and LED color)
 
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MTN.bass72 said:
Oh mercy this is awesome!!
Now correct me if I'm wrong..

This design has the one clean channel, and the other channel is, or is similar to the UA?
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The Blue / Clean channel is the UA ~ the Red / Saturation channel is a new creation with both channels going thru a tube buffer final stage. It still has the analog speaker SIM for recording, @Sushi Box FX has not really revealed much more that this but I trust him.
 
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TTPbass1 said:
Sounds great, but I honestly really love the simplicity and effectiveness of Space Heater.

Nw that we're talking about it, is it possible to make a change on my June order? (Enclosure and LED color)
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Sure, shoot me a PM with your order number and let me know what you want.

On that note somebody just canceled a June order for two pedals, so two additional slots will be opening up. More on that later (when I get around to bookkeeping.

bassbrad said:
The Blue / Clean channel is the UA ~ the Red / Saturation channel is a new creation with both channels going thru a tube buffer final stage. It still has the analog speaker SIM for recording, @Sushi Box FX has not really revealed much more that this but I trust him.
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There's not much left to tell, the new Smoke Signal will be a lot like the old Smoke Signal, but UA has completely replaced the clean channel and the dirt channel has less gain and a wider response, so it's not as aggressive as the original and the drive is a bit smoother.
 
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Sushi Box FX said:
Sure, shoot me a PM with your order number and let me know what you want.

On that note somebody just canceled a June order for two pedals, so two additional slots will be opening up. More on that later (when I get around to bookkeeping.


There's not much left to tell, the new Smoke Signal will be a lot like the old Smoke Signal, but UA has completely replaced the clean channel and the dirt channel has less gain and a wider response, so it's not as aggressive as the original and the drive is a bit smoother.
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patiently waiting to order a finally
 
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Sushi Box FX said:
Quick instructions for anyone that wants to take a swing at an Underground Space Signal (extremely cool name):

You just need a SPDT toggle switch and a 100nF cap, 250V minimum rating. Also if you don't want the switch to pop you'll need a 1M resistor.

You'll need to lift pin 3 on your Master pot, then tie Master pin 3 to the middle lug of the switch. The 100nF cap will go between the plate (pin 5) of V1B and one of the outer lugs of the switch, then the other lug of the switch goes to the pad where you lifted the Master lug 3. The 1M resistor will go between the switch lug with the 100nF cap and any convenient ground point, probably pin 1 of your Master pot.

3 components and only a paragraph explanation = piece of cake :p
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Would this be the same for a PA?
 
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76jazzbass said:
Would this be the same for a PA?
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Yes-ish. Theory is about the same, but PA is missing an inter-stage resistor divider to drop level between stages, which means it will freak out if you lose the tone stack and crank the gain as you know longer have a grid-stopper resistor before the second stage. So it's still possible, but it's more complicated (plus not as much room internally on a PA to add a switch).
 
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BentonvilleBass said:
I’m glad to see you were able to get in there. Congrats! :cool:
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Thank you! Yes I’ve been drooling for a bit and to be able to essentially “combine” some pedals into one will be great! I’ve also been doing much more recording and not needing the filters on my current DI, and I’ve been keeping the controls centered anyway, so the finally just hits all the marks. I will be losing a headphone out, but I can always use the one on my amp if I really need too.
 
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