All the ideas are fun and I will buy one whatever it is.

I'm gonna start breadboarding on the delay/ring mod idea today and see where it leads me!


Side notes:

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:24 am

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 9:21 am

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:26 am Longer delay time than a MM or longer than most delays like a MM? This is maybe possible.

Yeah, probably the former? I know Analogman would do a mod to increase the delay time to 550ms...but what if it was longer?

You can cascade delay chips together for longer times but there's diminishing returns there. A DMM already has two BBD chips cascaded together, but doing any more will make things a lot more noisy.

On the topic of this....cascading delay chips will always make things more noisy, but cascading lower noise digital delay chips (i.e. PT2399) ought to make for a way to do this without adding too much noise. It also would keep the part count down. I saw a design yesterday that was cascading 3 of those chips and claiming TWO SECONDS of delay, but it seems to me that might be more like ~1.3 seconds. Still, that's hefty. I'll have to give that circuit a whirl when I get a chance, but it might be a lot for the charity build.

VaticanShotglass wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:31 pm A lot of DIY folks online seem to be using Tayda, a company I've never worked with, to do one off UV prints with good results. The price seems fair. I've thought of it for shits and giggles for one or two nicer builds for the sake of learning current layout software.

Thanks to VaticanShotglass for hipping me to this. I'm giving them a whirl on a small run of five enclosures right now and we'll see how it turns out. Gonna be making some tube drives a la BK Butler. Here's my personal prototype:

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:40 am Gonna be making some tube drives a la BK Butler. Here's my personal prototype:

Oh hell yeah. I might be interested in one of these.

I mean...that looks amazing.

Could it be used as a mic pre in a pinch? Like, not exactly a Colour Box, but something along those lines with XLR and 1/4" ins and outs. That you could use as an all purpose tube stage for recording an instrument direct, a mic pre, a boost pedal, etc.? Is this an option for the charity build? Because personally, that would be exactly the type of useful thing I would want. I've got a lot of pedals, but I would use something like this for practically everything.

Tom Wanderer wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:52 am I mean...that looks amazing.

Could it be used as a mic pre in a pinch? Like, not exactly a Colour Box, but something along those lines with XLR and 1/4" ins and outs. That you could use as an all purpose tube stage for recording an instrument direct, a mic pre, a boost pedal, etc.? Is this an option for the charity build? Because personally, that would be exactly the type of useful thing I would want. I've got a lot of pedals, but I would use something like this for practically everything.

I'd be way into this too! With an XLR and 1/4" input (or combo jack might be okay). It may or may not need an instrument/mic switch to compensate for gain.

As an aside, Tom Wanderer the Colour Box V2 is pretty awesome.

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:40 am I'm gonna start breadboarding on the delay/ring mod idea today and see where it leads me!

OMG

tommy wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 10:00 am As an aside, Tom Wanderer the Colour Box V2 is pretty awesome.

I'm sure it is! But I'd be WAY more inclined to actually buy something like that if it was tube based and built by the good doctor.

The Yeoman Ghost wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 11:50 am
On that note, I do love that “Freak Scene” flange sound, which is—I think—a Big Muff into an Electric Mistress. I’d love to have that in a single pedal: something that can take a completely clean, JC-120 clean sound to “Freak Scene” jetplane flange with one stomp. With a blend control. (Maybe there’s something already out there that does that. Kerble me gently.)

I'd throw down money for a one stomp freakscene flange right now.

Peavey Bandit in a pedal, complete with single blue knob and aluminum side rails?

TylerDeadPine wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 2:36 pm Peavey Bandit in a pedal, complete with single blue knob and aluminum side rails?

This guy did a Rage 158 clone which has to be pretty close. I was going to gift one to Josh for Christmas a couple years ago but the MFG had to discontinue his original layout and design due to a cease-and-desist from Peavey and went to a generic case. It's too bad as it was 100% spot on which was half the charm.

https://peperspedals.bigcartel.com/

Not seeing this up there any more at all though unless he had to hide it further under another name. I'll bet Peavey continued their shit on them if anyone needed another reason to hate what that company has been for past 20 years. That kind of legal nonsense might make me say "to hell with this" and never build another one too.