LukeFRC

RE: the worship team, or the anger management that @Dad3353 suggested?

There was an interesting thread on PedalPCB where they were discussing the circuit, 29pedals guy turned up and I think it got out of hand and the thread deleted …

You might be overlaying your own ideas on top of the situation. she may very well have learned somewhere that the most professional thing is to not inturupt anything, keep playing and let the tech team sort the issue…. How long did it take the tech team to spot the problem and get it sorted?

Also - was DI taken before the amp? Lass playing her first gig could very well be hearing herself through the FOH or foldback …

The buffer with the over engineered power supply in a massive box?

You’re doing too much. I’ve had spells where I end up over committing to things, been too busy. The first sign you can tell is getting impatient and having a lack of compassion and care for others. which is ok, it happens: step back and refocus in a positive way. also the Message translation/paraphrase of Amos 5:21-24 is worth a read.

It got the better of me... which is cool as I think you could set the FS on the stomp to do changes on stomp and C4 on one FS

Can you change presets on C4 with the stomp?

Maybe a comparable analogy… You join your pub Sunday league football team. Everyone rucks up on Sunday, some hung over, some just wscaping the kids for a bit. where’s the training, where’s the physio? The game plan and organised automations like you used to work on back when you used to play for West Ham? it’s different - maybe you turning up early and working so hard means the rest of the team don’t pull their weight cos you are always doing too much for them? Maybe a break would be good for everyone, you unwind and enjoy a rest, they realise how much you contribute and when you come back the understanding of your value is there, and maybe also it’s Sunday league - not West Ham level

you'll have fun how complex a pedal board will you be making with it?

the desk yes - but not helpful if the stage interface is something like this...

that does look nice

I also note that there's still space for another effect in that case...

invest in some heat shrink! looking good though!

the boxing reference was clever

You said your personal goal is to learn to read. this fella isn’t going to do that - so I wonder what you’re hoping to learn from him. Go elsewhere.

Same idea - it’s going to flow to hot things

lead based solder melts at a lower temprature - so it's a lot more forgiving and easy to warm everything up enough. Lead free, it might be my cheaper soldering iron, and I find it harder to get the joints to flow together properly. (mind you I never learned to solder properly, but I did learn to weld and braise at uni, and it's similar right?)

Best necro post ever.

So that PCB I’m sorting you with… I guess I’ll do the SMT J201s then for you 🤣 it’s fiddly and annoying and frustrating but not impossible. For not microscopic parts… IC or computer chips with the super fine solder pads I wouldn’t want to touch!! I use solder with lead in - I can’t imagine doing it with lead free stuff

right ... review time of the Lab Series L4 preamp since I've built it... It's the oddest sounding thing I've built! It doesn't sound like I would expect it too, and can't put my finger on why! What I was expecting was "preamp pedal, quite clean, maybe crossed with an low gain overdrive pedal." The closest thing I've experienced to it is my old HX stomp and flicking between two amp models (once set up with non crazy gain) - there's a processed nature to the sound, some compression maybe? and a complexity that feels more like an amp model, esp when getting hairy, than something like most the OD pedals I've tried (or indeed models of said OD on HX stomp or the Zoom stuff) Channel A is pure Fender tonestack, probably more bassman feeling than showman preamp - there's that classic dip in the mids. Channel B is more- I dunno what - I can get more driven rock tones out of it. Deep switch on both just adds more everything and changes the way it reacts. Swept mids is very powerful but fairly wide Q I think. You can set it up so A is lower gain, and B higher, and then bounce the high gain into the post master limiter to keep the signal level under control. Playing with it this way I was thinking "this is finicky to set up and get levels right" ... and then played along to a track and it sounded great - slightly dirty but fitting in the mix and not fizzy or shouty at all - just right and part of the tone I was hoping to get when I built this pedal. Another strange thing... The preamp I built before this was a valve version of a Alembic/Fender showman, and it had quite a lot of output that would quickly clip the colourbox at the end of my chain. This also has lots of output, or at least sounds LOUD- but doesn't seem to make clip the colourbox clip as much - I don't think it's subsonics as I was using a HPF between them but it's very strange. Anyway. slightly fiddly to set up, but rewarding when it is.

not really crossed my mind, but would be cool to hear what you're thinking of building!