Well, I never posted the pics of my (well if you want to call them completed) projects. but the way/point in which I stopped at the sontec
this time just had to be shown, I wasn't going to take pictures tell I was "done"done" but, I got a load of crap from some freinds that I should picture of the tupperware version and the other projects as is..
In between projects I either do a new build or fix the little annoying things with the current ones..
I basicly haven't finished any front plates, but rather have just been happy settings things blind and having good noise floors and tone..
(it's such a detatch from being a in-the-box mixer with gui feedback.)
The pultec I managed to get the power finnaly working on (and just replaced the third PS with a torroid, BTW, and it's -10db quieter @ -95db)
there is another front piece to this but it's still doesn't have any printing on it. I "started" this in december, it truely took longer than anything else, but
that's because I was constantly making it sound better.. rmaa sheets at the end. It finnally works like I tihnk it should, can't hear it at full volume
and no burning powersupplies and in stereo..
Here's the SSL, I still have to put in the other side, lazyness just exists there, I toy with it, but every time I go to really use it, it never fits sound wise so I don't have that much incentive. I tested both modules and used different opamps in one, just so they where a little different, the other side has ad797's on a sockets. But metal/front panel laziness set in.
I hear they work good in parralell so I really should get on the stick.
The calrec was by far the close second to as much trouble as the pultec, for whatever reason, getting it to work right took forever. The new gain fix is stil not been added but I fully intend on doing that here i a week or so.
Then come the 1176's one is the old board, one is the new mnats board, they are within 1db of each other and such tracking (I actually had more fun and less trouble getting those two close then I did with the calrec problems, I shouldn't have but maybe it was because I did these later.)
You can't see it but the black 1176 actually had an attempt at lazertran, it just didn't show up for shit and didn't look good at all. The two holes await me soldering the simple dpdt switch for all-crunch, but at that point I'll probably tackle true stereo and that might be funky with the two different kinds of boards, who knows, maybe just that pin will work. At this point sx3 prefers the devices in mono, so no incentive there.
And then, what I thought would be the mountain of DIY, the one that would take my the longest only took the balance of a afternoon, some sleep and then some drilling in tupperware and although yeah, I'm being lazy and haven't ordered metal, it sounds awesome. (I am considering bagging making the case, because it's appearant I can't make a frontpanel decal/label/paint worth a crap) Drilling holes, maybe I can do, I figured that out with a drill press thanks to the meta.
So, on the one i'd probably just order the case for, I don't have a front panel design file for.. sontec? [/img]
Here's the rmaa for them, case people want to check with what I got, I know on the pulltec it would have been nice to have.
http://rockthemountain.com/~watkins/audiopics/diycompare.htm
The calrec didn't get quite straight....
And the sontec's not hooked up right now.. but it was almost exactly like the calrec noise wise.
It's funny, finding the dang parts/part numbers/getting the right part takes longer than building the stuff, that is ironic to me.
this time just had to be shown, I wasn't going to take pictures tell I was "done"done" but, I got a load of crap from some freinds that I should picture of the tupperware version and the other projects as is..
In between projects I either do a new build or fix the little annoying things with the current ones..
I basicly haven't finished any front plates, but rather have just been happy settings things blind and having good noise floors and tone..
(it's such a detatch from being a in-the-box mixer with gui feedback.)
The pultec I managed to get the power finnaly working on (and just replaced the third PS with a torroid, BTW, and it's -10db quieter @ -95db)
there is another front piece to this but it's still doesn't have any printing on it. I "started" this in december, it truely took longer than anything else, but
that's because I was constantly making it sound better.. rmaa sheets at the end. It finnally works like I tihnk it should, can't hear it at full volume
and no burning powersupplies and in stereo..
Here's the SSL, I still have to put in the other side, lazyness just exists there, I toy with it, but every time I go to really use it, it never fits sound wise so I don't have that much incentive. I tested both modules and used different opamps in one, just so they where a little different, the other side has ad797's on a sockets. But metal/front panel laziness set in.
I hear they work good in parralell so I really should get on the stick.
The calrec was by far the close second to as much trouble as the pultec, for whatever reason, getting it to work right took forever. The new gain fix is stil not been added but I fully intend on doing that here i a week or so.
Then come the 1176's one is the old board, one is the new mnats board, they are within 1db of each other and such tracking (I actually had more fun and less trouble getting those two close then I did with the calrec problems, I shouldn't have but maybe it was because I did these later.)
You can't see it but the black 1176 actually had an attempt at lazertran, it just didn't show up for shit and didn't look good at all. The two holes await me soldering the simple dpdt switch for all-crunch, but at that point I'll probably tackle true stereo and that might be funky with the two different kinds of boards, who knows, maybe just that pin will work. At this point sx3 prefers the devices in mono, so no incentive there.
And then, what I thought would be the mountain of DIY, the one that would take my the longest only took the balance of a afternoon, some sleep and then some drilling in tupperware and although yeah, I'm being lazy and haven't ordered metal, it sounds awesome. (I am considering bagging making the case, because it's appearant I can't make a frontpanel decal/label/paint worth a crap) Drilling holes, maybe I can do, I figured that out with a drill press thanks to the meta.
So, on the one i'd probably just order the case for, I don't have a front panel design file for.. sontec? [/img]
Here's the rmaa for them, case people want to check with what I got, I know on the pulltec it would have been nice to have.
http://rockthemountain.com/~watkins/audiopics/diycompare.htm
The calrec didn't get quite straight....
And the sontec's not hooked up right now.. but it was almost exactly like the calrec noise wise.
It's funny, finding the dang parts/part numbers/getting the right part takes longer than building the stuff, that is ironic to me.
) )
