You have a preamp, UA, and a tube DI, finally. Just a nice pairing to have for many setup type uses.
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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society
- Thread starter kranahan
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That, Sir, jut might be the most cleanly assembled board I have seen!
The pico board (14.5 x 5.5 inches) is complete….
I'm in the middle of swapping a patio door so I can't do anything in the workshop right now, but I got the revised DIY Space Heater boards in today. I haven't had a chance to build one up, but I checked for the previous manufacturing issue and it has been fixed. So I'm optimistic that I'll have them available for sale in the next day or two.
I have a couple emails and a couple messages on here, I promise I'm not ignoring you, I'll reply when I get to the computer.
I have a couple emails and a couple messages on here, I promise I'm not ignoring you, I'll reply when I get to the computer.
Your DIY boards remind me Aion, in fact I just had my Refractor (Klon clone) by them open earlier today (so I could make sure the buffer was on)
And since we're all posting pictures today, here are what I guess are my three favorite distortion pedals for guitar:
I didn't consciously realize they were my favorites until I noticed that they're the only pedals that I keep out all the time...
That Black Eye is one of the coolest looking pedals ever. What colour are its' LEDs?
I'm sure it has been answered somewhere in this thread, But I have some questions about Finally.
Does the dry pass/pre out effect only the 1/4" output or the XLR as well? And can the XLR and 1/4" output be run at the same time? (I assume yes, but I want to make sure)
Would be cool if there was a version with side knobs, since it has no footswitch. Would be cool to stack your favorite SB on top of the Finally for space on pedalboards (since the Finally seems to find its way to the end of signal chains anyway and the venting wouldn't be an issue). Just a thought.
Is there another SB DI Box on the horizon?
Does the dry pass/pre out effect only the 1/4" output or the XLR as well? And can the XLR and 1/4" output be run at the same time? (I assume yes, but I want to make sure)
Would be cool if there was a version with side knobs, since it has no footswitch. Would be cool to stack your favorite SB on top of the Finally for space on pedalboards (since the Finally seems to find its way to the end of signal chains anyway and the venting wouldn't be an issue). Just a thought.
Is there another SB DI Box on the horizon?
Dry Pass only affects the 1/4" output, XLR is always preamp output. You can absolutely run the XLR and 1/4" at the same time.
There is another DI box on the horizon, but it's still a ways out as I have a couple pieces I want try independently to make sure I like the way I designed it before committing it to a big complicated box.
This is referring to the "Fancy DI". More is pretty well wrapped as a D.I.-less preamp, I'm planning to release it for next month.
The main thing I want to try out separately for the fancy D.I. is the tube HPF/LPF section. I have a design laid out for that by itself that I will be ordering for try out in the next couple days. Once I have a chance to go over that I can spin a prototype for the fancy D.I. with all it's bells and whistles.
Definitely gonna grab one of those space heater PCB's. That was the first YouTube demo I saw with one of your circuits played through bass and it sounded really good.
I noticed a lack of demos. Weird considering how strong the community is here. I have heard the audio demos on the website of course but video demos are so much better.
Well you see, I'm kind of neurotic... and because (in my opinion) so many other builders before Sushi Box ruined the aesthetic of putting LEDs under tubes by doing so in their inferior products, I really didn't want any LEDs in my Sushi Box pedals. Because in my mind, Sushi Box are great without having to pretend to be something they're not.
So I have a London Underground X, Slampegg X, and Black Eye X all with footswitch rings instead of LEDs behind the tube... but then I got a Finally, which doesn't have a footswitch. Rather than annoying Nathan with some dumb custom request, I decided to just accept it as-is (with a "white" LED).
And honestly? It doesn't bother me so much anymore... the quality of Sushi Box's pedals are noticeably better than other tube-based pedals, so they deserve the right to rock any color LED they please, they earned it.
Now in my opinion, the color temperature of the "white" LED in the Finally is a little too cool/blue. It looks to me like it's around 6,000K and I wish it were more neutral white, around 4,000K. If I could, I'd have an always-on "neutral white" LED put in my Slampegg X and Black Eye X, and a "warm white" LED put in my London Underground X (but keep the footswitch rings on them to show when they're active).
Anyways, enough of my TED Talk, have a pic!
NOTE: You might've noticed I'm using the Dry Pass on the Finally in that picture. I have an old GE 12AU7 in there and really like it for bass, but with a guitar (and the Black Eye X) I noticed that it was really rounding off the edges of the distortion, a bit more than I'd like anyways... so now I'm gonna roll my little tube collection through it again to try to find one that sounds good with both bass and guitar.
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I agree. I was really surprised there weren't more bass centric demos out there to really compare. I think that's why I was a little unsure of which one to get to meet my needs.
I guess I'll make a demo when I get mine and find some settings I like.
However, that Space Heater demo I mentioned was fantastic. In case you haven't seen it (and it might very well be somewhere in this massive thread... but I didn't see it).
I bet a Dress Nut would look really nice with that since they're both round. Dress Nuts are a little over 19mm and those LED's look to be around 21mm. So just a hint of color peeking out... that would be sharp.
Haha, I completely agree and actually that's exactly what I wanted to do!
...but unfortunately, Dress Nuts are designed to go over a smaller retaining nut and there just isn't enough thread left above the LED ring for a Dress Nut to grab... which is why I decided to go with an oversized nut as a next-best option.
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