The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[new05002]

I know we discussed this months ago, but I can't seem to find it anywhere: What is the DOD Boneshaker Distortion circuit derivative of?

Nothing in particular. It's composed of different circuit ideas from different places.

[D.o.S.]

For fans of Mastodon.

[emptyparadigm]

Thanks for picking up our vinyl, dudes! For anyone who wants one and is all about those collectible, short-run color vinyls, you better move quick. Our stock is all but sold and 20 Buck Spin's is moving quickly as well. If you are cool with black vinyl, then you should be good (though, those are moving as well). Thanks to all y'all good people for supporting our rock musics. It really does mean a lot.

[HeavyXIII]

I know we discussed this months ago, but I can't seem to find it anywhere: What is the DOD Boneshaker Distortion circuit derivative of?

Nothing in particular. It's composed of different circuit ideas from different places.

Do we know if it's asymmetric?

[Joe Gress]

Thanks for picking up our vinyl, dudes! For anyone who wants one and is all about those collectible, short-run color vinyls, you better move quick. Our stock is all but sold and 20 Buck Spin's is moving quickly as well. If you are cool with black vinyl, then you should be good (though, those are moving as well). Thanks to all y'all good people for supporting our rock musics. It really does mean a lot.

I dig the fancy colored vinyl so I picked one up from 20 Buck Spin.

[new05002]

I know we discussed this months ago, but I can't seem to find it anywhere: What is the DOD Boneshaker Distortion circuit derivative of?

Nothing in particular. It's composed of different circuit ideas from different places.

Do we know if it's asymmetric?

What do you mean by asymmetric? Do you mean are there clipping diodes and is the arrangement such that the clipping is asymmetric?

[Wes Mantooth]

Thanks for picking up our vinyl, dudes! For anyone who wants one and is all about those collectible, short-run color vinyls, you better move quick. Our stock is all but sold and 20 Buck Spin's is moving quickly as well. If you are cool with black vinyl, then you should be good (though, those are moving as well). Thanks to all y'all good people for supporting our rock musics. It really does mean a lot.

Thanks for the reminder, still need to pick up a copy for myself. Killer album!

[CaptainBoxman]

Going to put together baby's first fuzzbox soon, what advice can experienced builders give a man who also tends to rush things

[KaosCill8r]

Take your time, and double check that each component is the right component in the right location before committing to solder. Practice some soldering beforehand. Also check each component with a multimeter before putting it in the board. It will save time troubleshooting a faulty component later.

[AxAxSxS]

China cheapo LP finally got here. I got it a few days ago but I wanted to get it into a usable state before posting about here. I know a few of you were interested and had asked me to post the rundown on it.

I'ts pretty IMO.


I asked for no logo, and didn't think to ask not to have the "made in usa" that a lot of these have. They left it off anyways which was good on them. all it has is a serial number. Back carves looked nice at first. there was an issue with the heel blend. They blended it steeply at first, and then tapered it but went to far down the neck, about 2/5th's of the way. This resulted in uneven neck relief and had to be corrected by removing wood until it had a correct neck thickness all the way to the heel.



I really like the burst. The top appears to be real and not a veneer, I scraped some of the paint off inside the floyd cavity and it appears to be one piece. Sanding through it would be the only way to conclusively state that, and I kinda don't want to do that.

Body is 4 pieces and oddly enough, they did put a veneer on the back.



Binding's ok, may put my own inlay in later, not sure what I want to do yet. Something weird likely will end up on it.



one piece neck with no scarf joint. I would not have minded, but some prefer this.



Inlays are cool, but the fretboard is clearly not ebony, and was in a somewhat unfinished state. I have since done a lot of careful sanding and have it shiny and smooth now.



A little slopp in areas, not much though, and this was cheap as fuck and will be used for shows ad shit where it's going to be abused so I don't really care.



the good- Appearance, finish, bridge correctly located. Tuners are grovers or knockoffs and work well, did need tightening. Potentiometers are the larger style nicer ones. Seems to be a well put together collection of wood. Price.

The bad- Did not arrive set up at all, needed lots of fret levelling. the nut was not recessed enough and I had to remove material to get the string height at the nut correct. The biggest thing was that blend of the heel that went way to far down the neck. If I had not realized what was going on there, this thing would be firewood. some rough removal with a belt sander and some quality time spent hand sanding it to where I wanted it has it good to go now. The 3 way switch is junk. Pickups sounded fine, went to adjust a screw on one and it pushed in. Doesn't grip whatever it's supposed to be threaded into at all. Junk parts.

TL;DR If you can fix everything on a guitar, great value, I can't get all the parts im keeping on it and wood together this cheap. If working on a guitar scares you, stay away.

[t-rey]

Thanks for the rundown, Ax. That's a pretty snazzy looking LP.

[HeavyXIII]

I know we discussed this months ago, but I can't seem to find it anywhere: What is the DOD Boneshaker Distortion circuit derivative of?

Nothing in particular. It's composed of different circuit ideas from different places.

Do we know if it's asymmetric?

What do you mean by asymmetric? Do you mean are there clipping diodes and is the arrangement such that the clipping is asymmetric?

Yes I'm fond of my screwy OCD with only a single correctly wired clipping diode.

What has me intrigued is the parametric EQ; sometimes I feel like my OCD drops some of my mids (I would think it has plenty) when I turn it on. And I have the volume above unity to compensate, whereas my Naga Viper doesn't have that issue.

I suppose the only real way to decide if it's the right dirt texture is to play one myself.

[whiskey_face]

So I've finally gone through the entire SVT preamp and picked out every component that has drifted in value (or gotten slightly cooked), and it turns out that it's modded to use 12ax7s instead of the 12dw7s that it originally came with. Should I keep that the way it is or put it back to stock and get some 12dw7s in there? Is there anything to gain back from making that switch? Also, how the fuck do I get these metal tube protectors off of the socket without unsoldering the whole socket from the board?

Edit: I'm dumb, I figured out the tube protector. Although now I see that the last tech actually put 12dw7s in the preamp and didn't notice that it was modded for 12ax7s... So now I guess I'll be modding it back to its original design then!

I have 2 69s. One is OG 12dw7s the other is 12ax7s. I VASTLY prefer the 12dw7. Its very piano like, full and beautiful sounding. The other one is gainier and just kind of sounds flat in comparison.

The DWs are magic

[theAntihero]

Who made the cheapo lp?

[HeavyXIII]

Who made the cheapo lp?

Some odd collection of underpaid factory workers in China. Or possibly outside of China but owned by a Chinese company.