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whiskey_face wrote:sold the SLX tonight
and a sunn pa
and a peavey graphic eq amp. . . (sorry antihero)

things are coming along swimmingly

Had an I'm a fucking Idiot moment tonight. I've been reworking the board the last few days, tore it apart (it's wood) sawed a bunch of shit off, glued a bunch of shit on, started finally putting pedals back tonight. My DIY looper/volumes had taken a bit of a beating. I was messing with it and noticed there were some loose jacks, and one of the channels was bleeding into the one next to it. also filthy So I took it downstairs to where i have all my tools, opened it up, noticed the one channel had one wire going to the wrong place, fied that, tightened everything up, brought it back up started plugging shit in, halfway through it stops passing signal. I figured it was the jack I had just plugged shit into, NOPE.
So back down to the bench it goes and I spend the next 3 hours trying to figure out where the fuck its grounding out. I go over it and over it, my eyes start to hurt.

After stupidly disasembling and reassembling different parts of it for no reason I notice the positive of the input jack is awfully damn close to the enclosure. Sure enough, theres a bit of extra wire poking through on the other side and its grounding out..

TLDR
I'm dumb. Should have started at the bigining instead of going over what I had just fixed thinking I fucked it up. A quick turn of the jack and some elec tape for good measure. It's all better now.


FUZZZZ! Once that fucking nightmare was over, time to redo the building of the board. Instead of setting it up how it was, I decided to go from lowest gain to highest.
I started with the Pharaoh as is a really great sounding pedal even when not doing what it's famous for. I've noticed that when you stack it into something with a ton of gain of its own, it does not matter as much if the Pharaoh isn't maxed. You still get that nice low end flavor. So I gave it it's own loop, next was Burial chamber (lastr/ocd)>revelation>QM. Burial is taking the Pharaohs old spot, I can always turn it of and hit the Pharaoh cahnnel for that same sound I was getting. Ape BLaster go its own channel, Again, I want to be able to have just that on. Then destroyer, and the eq. So as I go right to left it just gets heavier. Really pleased with how it came out, I feel like I can get more sounds out of the same pedals and not loose what I had going on.

But what does he really think?

There’s so much regurgitated music in all genres but especially in heavy music. It’s so completely rare to find any shock and awe these days so for me, it’s rare that a band has any wow-factor at all.

99% of black metal bands are bullshit clones (no need for any more), grindcore is boring (no need for any more), retro metal has been done to death, open e-chord generic hardcore and pogo punk are worthless…and one man band laptop experimental knob twiddling “noise”, yeah right?, is basically a nerd with no musical skill pretending to be cool. Hmmm…basically I’m a bitter old man I guess. Get off my lawn.

now there are waaaaaaay too many bands. It’s no longer magic and excitement, well it’s been severely diminished, when a new band is on the scene because it’s all been done and heard before. “Too many bands, not enough fans”. I can only speak for myself, but music just has to have that intangible magic quality to it in order to be captivating. It’s difficult to wade through all the muck of sameness these days.

Music creators having limited imagination and the acceptance of subpar regurgitated normalcy in music by the masses both combined are the greatest detriments these days. Heavy music has the excitement of buying a bag of socks at JC Penney

http://www.steelforbrains.com/post/7707 ... alan-dubin

Timm Grimm wrote:So Conky, I wish I would have realized you were playing in atl. I definitely would have been there. That's too bad.

It was a fun show. Repellers completely blew me away. Death of Kings were pretty cool too.

HeavyXIII wrote:I'm going to see if I can snag this AOR I've been watching

Hopefully this works out.

My guitarist just sold his 5150 and is bidding on one of these on ebay right now. I hope you two don't end up in a bidding war over it. I'm trying to talk him into getting a Musicman head but he doesn't think 65 watts will be enough for us. I'm not really sure because I never played one but I've heard they are pretty damned loud. There is a 75 watter on ebay right now though. He just missed out on a 130 watt model.

OOPS I DID IT AGAIN

AxAxSxS wrote:

Had an I'm a fucking Idiot moment tonight. I've been reworking the board the last few days, tore it apart (it's wood) sawed a bunch of shit off, glued a bunch of shit on, started finally putting pedals back tonight. My DIY looper/volumes had taken a bit of a beating. I was messing with it and noticed there were some loose jacks, and one of the channels was bleeding into the one next to it. also filthy So I took it downstairs to where i have all my tools, opened it up, noticed the one channel had one wire going to the wrong place, fied that, tightened everything up, brought it back up started plugging shit in, halfway through it stops passing signal. I figured it was the jack I had just plugged shit into, NOPE.
So back down to the bench it goes and I spend the next 3 hours trying to figure out where the fuck its grounding out. I go over it and over it, my eyes start to hurt.

After stupidly disasembling and reassembling different parts of it for no reason I notice the positive of the input jack is awfully damn close to the enclosure. Sure enough, theres a bit of extra wire poking through on the other side and its grounding out..

TLDR
I'm dumb. Should have started at the bigining instead of going over what I had just fixed thinking I fucked it up. A quick turn of the jack and some elec tape for good measure. It's all better now.


FUZZZZ! Once that fucking nightmare was over, time to redo the building of the board. Instead of setting it up how it was, I decided to go from lowest gain to highest.
I started with the Pharaoh as is a really great sounding pedal even when not doing what it's famous for. I've noticed that when you stack it into something with a ton of gain of its own, it does not matter as much if the Pharaoh isn't maxed. You still get that nice low end flavor. So I gave it it's own loop, next was Burial chamber (lastr/ocd)>revelation>QM. Burial is taking the Pharaohs old spot, I can always turn it of and hit the Pharaoh cahnnel for that same sound I was getting. Ape BLaster go its own channel, Again, I want to be able to have just that on. Then destroyer, and the eq. So as I go right to left it just gets heavier. Really pleased with how it came out, I feel like I can get more sounds out of the same pedals and not loose what I had going on.

Hahaha I do stuff like this all the time.

Most recent incident- was making up a rangemaster that calls for shielded wire from the ground of both the input and ouput jacks. The output jack's ground goes to the footswitch, but the ground from the input goes nowhere per the schematic. I used legitimate shielded wire and for the life of me couldn't figure out why the pedal wouldn't pass any signal at all when the effect was on. I tried switching around the germanium transistor, thinking I might have wired it wrong, still no signal.

So Then I replace one wire, still no signal. Then I look at the legit shielded wire and realize when I had soldered the actual signal wire to the jack, it had melted a little bit of the wire between the shielded wire and the signal wire and it too was grounding out, thus no sound. Swapped it for some 16 gauge speaker wire and it worked perfectly fine

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 5 thousand posts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get a job

conky wrote:

Timm Grimm wrote:So Conky, I wish I would have realized you were playing in atl. I definitely would have been there. That's too bad.

It was a fun show. Repellers completely blew me away. Death of Kings were pretty cool too.

HeavyXIII wrote:I'm going to see if I can snag this AOR I've been watching

Hopefully this works out.

My guitarist just sold his 5150 and is bidding on one of these on ebay right now. I hope you two don't end up in a bidding war over it. I'm trying to talk him into getting a Musicman head but he doesn't think 65 watts will be enough for us. I'm not really sure because I never played one but I've heard they are pretty damned loud. There is a 75 watter on ebay right now though. He just missed out on a 130 watt model.

There's a good chance we are, and it's flown out of my budget. I was hoping no one was watching it so I could snag it for a song, but it's gone above and beyond what I was hoping. Some of these guys listing heads for like $1k are starting to frustrate me. If these prices go any higher, I'll be building my second amp head. Which isn't really a bad idea when you get right down to it... Cab is GO TIME.

Ancient Astronaught wrote:WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 5 thousand posts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats bud. You're catching up to me haha

CaptainBoxman wrote:Get a job

I have one, and its internet based and allows me to be on here during the day.

skullservant wrote:Congrats bud. You're catching up to me haha

hahaha thanks! I doubt I will ever catch you!

Hahaha it's getting to be a little much, my post count that is....

SOMEONE SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT MY NEW COOL AMP ASSHOLES

I CANT SEE THE PICTURE ON MY WORK COMPUTER
WHAT IS IT

IT'S A FUCKING 50 WATT SERIES 1 AOR

CaptainBoxman wrote:SOMEONE SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT MY NEW COOL AMP ASSHOLES

It looks great dude!!!! How's it sound?


Oh and for the love of Crom wipe down that 4x12!!!!