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George,

Thanks for making these boards available!  Need to find a source for more 4580 IC's.  Need one more to finish up the second set of PD and XTC boards.

Andy

Woohoo!  It makes noise!  And it sounds pretty darn good, too!  I need to try it at stage volume to really see where it sits in the mix, but I'm really happy with it so far.  It definitely sounds like the clips on YouTube to my ears.  Highly recommend this one.

Thanks,

Andy

I used the tone controls on my pedals and amps quite a lot.  I play all different types of rooms and will typically have to tailor the tone controls to the particular room we are playing in.  I can go from a completely dead neutral room one gig to an extremely alive room the next.  Its the difference for me between the acoustics of a room that cause me to constantly tweak the knobs to better suit the situation. 

Andy

I probably could have gone with a B50k and paralleled a ~50k resistor to simulate the C25k.  That's how I've seen people do it for the C150k pot in the Keeley 4 knobber. (B250k || 330k resistor).

I'll definitely report back on how it sounds once I've had some time with it.

Andy

Yup.  Found it at small bear.  The one I wasn't able to find was the C25k for my Pastie drive builds tone control.  That's about as available as a C150k.  I went with a W20k for those.

Andy

I bought a couple of the XTC boards that George was selling and I just finished wiring up the first one.  I'll have to wait till tomorrow to fire it up, but so far it I'm really digging the boards for ease of build.  I'm not one for putting much of a finish on the enclosures so this one will most likely get the standard labler treatment.

I've also got a couple of his Pastie Drive boards in the pipe.  I'll post them once I'm done with their builds.

Andy

I love the graphics on this, and it sounds really good! 

Andy

That is stunning!  I wish I had the creativity and patience to attempt finishes like this.

Andy

Thanks!  Need to start getting the parts pulled together now.

Andy

Sweet build!  I have one of these on deck to build.  What values did you use for the 150k pots?

Thanks,

Andy

Of all the pedals I've built so far this year my top five are:

1. Nautilus - effing love it!
2. Yellow Shark - my go to dirt box right now.
3. Dirtbag Deluxe (MN3005)
4. Sea Urchin - this is left on almost always.
5. Sunking - another almost always on pedal for me.

I'm really looking forward to the new projects coming out this coming year!  I can't decide what to build, so it looks like its a one of everything kind of situation.

Andy

Good to hear about the pot working better as a RA.  That's all I had laying around and was wondering how that'd work out.

Nevermind, I found the LT1054 I had.  This thing sounds glorious!  I didn't have an enclosure for it so I put it in with my Lowrider build in the 1790 and those two together are quite funkalicious!

Andy

I'm trying to wrap up my Honeydripper build, and I just realized that I can't find the LT1054 I bought for this project.  I have an ICL7660SIPA on hand and was wondering if that would work for this?  I know the LT1054 has 100mA output current rating and the 7660 has a 45mA rating, so I wonder the 7660's rating will be enough?

Thanks,

Andy

I'm looking at getting an enclosure for my Warhead build and I have a question.  What enclosures are you guys using?  I have a 1590BB here, but I've seen where guys were using a 1590C.  The 1590BB looks like it will be really tight.

Thanks!

Andy