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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society
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A quick fiddle about with a passive P Bass straight into my EVO interface put a big smile on my face. Was able to get the “just a little bit of hair” setting quickly and it sounded great! Looking forward to putting it through its paces. And it lights up purple!
I was way off. Kind of. Have fun with that thing. This one is going to get a thorough testing out on the board tomorrow.
By far my favorite of the Sushi Box preamps. I do have to give props to the HW Finally. For me, a UA into the Finally, thru to a parametric EQ (hpf/lpf and correction but mostly gain) and power amp. DI to FOH might just be my ticket this festival season.
Last season it was an F1X. This season it was going to be a vintage F2B... I had it recapped and while it was in the process, someone got wind of it and offered me stupid money for it... only so many fish in the river... I am pretty well versed in the Alembic stuff. The UA is kind of amazing in that it can hold my interest...
I've had a couple people ask me when I will have custom ordering back up, and unfortunately it depends on how long it takes me to get the UV printer sorted so I can print enclosures again.
So how's it going with the UV printer, you ask?
Not great, my dudes. Not great.
So how's it going with the UV printer, you ask?
Not great, my dudes. Not great.
I do, that's where all the acrylic footswitch washers still come from. But none of the current production pedals in their current iterations have ever been lasered so I would be starting from scratch in the artwork department. Not to mention the fact that the laser was never as precise or repeatable as the UV printer, and also the laser takes a lot more time to run and prep/clean up. It would be a headache for me and a price increase for everyone, and the artwork still wouldn't look as crisp. The laser is rated for around 300dpi, the printer will do 1400dpi. The laser is a $300 hobbyist machine, the printer is a $3k professional machine.
So the main reason I had the printer taken apart that much was because I got the last of my replacement parts in today and got them installed, only to drop one of the pieces down inside the machine. So I opened it up and found the part, and it's now 95% put back together. I just tested the main part of the printer that was having issues before and it's working now, so I think I FINALLY got it going. It will take a couple hours or so tomorrow to get it the rest of the way back together and do a full test print, but so far things are looking up. But it's 1:30AM and I need to sleep now
The issue is that DW sticker. The drummer in my band swears that DW means "Doesn't Work", and their division of PDP drums stands for "Please Don't Play"
He's entitled to his opinion, but he's wrong. DW was good enough for Neil Peart, it's good enough for me. It's an acoustic instrument, if something doesn't work that's on the player, not on the gear.
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Nice kit! As a drum tech (and Neil Peart fan), he says it jokingly to those that play DW when he refurbs their kits.
Wow! It's not often we see acrylic drums in the wild.
Yup, this was my dream kit for years before I finally jumped on them. I heard someone demo them at a guitar center as a teenager and loved the sound, so I knew acrylic was the way for me to go.
And to answer a question before it's asked, yes I have LEDs mounted in them, and yes I rewired the LED controller to take a trigger input so they will light up when I hit them. Because I'm obnoxious.
I'm old enough to remember when acrylic kits were all the rage, I played with drummers that had the various color Ludwig VistaLites and Fibes kits. Clear, Smoke, Orange, Red, Blue and Green. Concert toms [batter side only] were also the thing.
I had a sweet Blue Sparkle '64 Ludwig kit when I played in a C&W dance band. Wish I still had that kit.
I had a sweet Blue Sparkle '64 Ludwig kit when I played in a C&W dance band. Wish I still had that kit.
Question for Dreamcatcher owners and inventors. When that red channel is really pushed and moves from overdrive into almost Dist/fuzz, what does that tone remind you of? When I push it and have the combo of a little boost and running through Finally into amps tube preamp, it sounds to me an awful lot like a pushed SVT. Maybe I’m crazy.
