down with clones

[owel]

Unbalanced to balanced converter (bi-directional, with ground lift switch)... on a $3 Radio Shack case.

My noise floor went down from -66dB to -74dB using this thingy.

 

[Marik]

Stereo ribbon microphone in pencil holders in case you forgot this one (actually, I did):

 

[Guest]

I like the clone PCBs - because I manually draw them out and try to figure out what the hell is happening.

I once read a thread somewhere (I have it printed - I think it was the big mic pre thread similar to the Harvey Gerst Bif Mic thread) where it talks about a mic pre being split up into components..
Input, amplifier, output etc... and all a mic pre does is link all these components together
It took me ages and ages to figure out that a TLxxx, NExxxx, 2520 opamp and Neve BA284 were all just doing the same sort of thing... (I hope I am right)..

What I would like to happen is for us to divide up the a generic circuit into it's component parts and then go from there...
i.e. create a perfboard/pcb for differing opmps with connectors, another perfboard/pcb for input, another perfboard/pcb for output....
Apart from a great learning tool - we could mix and match component blocks to get differing sounds..
I have been thinking about this for a while but have been a bit embarrassed about suggesting it - as I think you guys know all this...

 

[Peter Simonsen]

An early stage tube preamp "prototype project"....for a client !!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/PSL-Design/PSL_tube_2203_preamp.jpg

A re-amp "prototype project"...for a client..!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/PSL-Design/33081cd7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/PSL-Design/d62b5f25.jpg

Kind regards

Peter

 

[mshilarious]

I started out doing my own crossovers on perfboard. I even built-in 2-way speakers in my TV with crossover components wired p2p and hot-glued to the TV chassis.

Then I found this board and delved into the wonderful world of modding.

Now I'm making my first PCB, trying to get my projects to look a little more pro. I didn't know I was going about this backwards :wink:

 

[Gus]

I am suprised no one asked what Emperor-TK is building.

 

[pmroz]

... i'll bite... whatcha building, TK?

Gus, great thread! Surprised there are not more cookie tin pics etc on the forum... love that stuff... but i guess clients are not impressed with buttery flava. Does anybody actually like fruitcake? TK, did you eat what was in that can or just toss it?

For me, stuffing a PCB is lazy and its real easy to corner yourself in that laziness to not want to build on perf. I see where gus is coming from, its a good practice for guys starting out to build on perf, you'll really get a lot out of it. If you've only stuffed PCB's, you should give it a try, especially for a circuit like a 312, you'll laugh that you ever waited on a board to do that project, you could bang one of those out on perf in probably 2o minutes.

...sounds like good advice. i've never stuffed a PCB until now. At the moment just trying to understand 312 schem, looking at that so much the PCB looks 'wrong' to me. Can't imagine building pres until i get how they work. Perfboard sounds good, I'll try after the PCBs are done and working... probably try to make it look like the schematic...

i did fab Fabio's DOA 'BC' board on breadboard, just to look at it. now have world's largest DOA... won't fit on pre though.

Thanks for the tip... enough outta me... more cookie tin/perf pics !!!

 

[Flatpicker]

[quote author="Marik"]Stereo ribbon microphone in pencil holders in case you forgot this one (actually, I did):[/quote]Hehe, I didn't. It's too cool to forget! :green:

 

[fum]

[quote author="Flatpicker"][quote author="Marik"]Stereo ribbon microphone in pencil holders in case you forgot this one (actually, I did):[/quote]Hehe, I didn't. It's too cool to forget! :green:[/quote]

That does look pretty sweet. Hadn't seen that before.

ju

 

[Emperor-TK]

[quote author="pmroz"]... i'll bite... whatcha building, TK?

Gus, great thread! Surprised there are not more cookie tin pics etc on the forum... love that stuff... but i guess clients are not impressed with buttery flava. Does anybody actually like fruitcake? TK, did you eat what was in that can or just toss it?[/quote]

Alembic FB-2 bass pre-amp with DI. And yes, I do like fruitcake, but only this type of fruitcake. Made by monks at the Assumption Abbey. Monks make good stuff, fruitcake, Duvel, Chartreuse...

 

[CJ]

Duvel? what do you see in that swill?

 

[nacho459]

The only thing I have ever built on a PCB was the GSSL, of corse most everything I have built, LA2A, Pultec, various guitar amps, etc are old tube point to point circuits.

 

[Emperor-TK]

[quote author="CJ"]Duvel? what do you see in that swill?[/quote]

LOL! I mention Duvel, fruitcake and Chartreuse in the same sentence and Duvel is the one that makes your taste-buds curl. :grin:

That reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer goes to Manhattan. He stops at a pushcart vendor and orders a Coke. The vendor says "no coke, only Mountain Dew and Crab juice". Homer says "eeeeeeeeeeyuch!....OK, give me a crab juice."

I liked most of the Trappist beers, but Duvel was particularly handy at chasing away a panic attack one night when I was weakened from burning the candle at both ends while on tour in Europe. I don't indulge in any of my old vices anymore, but I do remember Duvel fondly for helping out a brother in need. :twisted:

Now back to my crab juice...

Chris

 

[volta]

Here is my 2 cents.

It's ugly.but it sounds api ish with a bit of a smooth mid booty hump softer than the 3124 sumthing or other............fun. fun
no caps in the audio path.um.........weeeeeeeeee .



es fat.