IceratzSurf wrote:

Just did a mod to my basement pedal board.
This was my first design built and has become my secondary board.
I needed drop slots for the patch chords and power lines. Also needed a custom patch chord length.
It's super clean now!

Today I got a new Catalinbread Topanga Burnside. It's really nice and not heard a lot here on SG101 about it.
The Reverb is excellent, but now with 18v, great headroom.
The built in Tremolo circuit is very cool but not really vintage. It only enters the Reverb mix on the trails.
So it's very expressive and interesting to play with.

Now this pedal board has 4 Reverbs all very different.

I love my pedalboard, but your board is making me a bit jealous. Nice choice of pedals and very, very clean.

The artist formerly known as: Synchro

When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

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synchro wrote:

I love my pedalboard, but your board is making me a bit jealous. Nice choice of pedals and very, very clean. <<

Thanks Synchro!

I know you are a big fan of the True Spring Reverb. And maybe you had, or still have a Topanga.

I have those other reverbs seen too, the BOING and the Obscura (which is very spacey)

For vintage reverb I feel the TS is very good, but the CatB has a very apparent 'spring' rattle like a real tank, tails shimmering far longer and deeper than the TS. I compare it too my SurfyBear Compact and the CatB has more! I would say at 50% Dwell for CatB equals the trails on the SurfB and the TS.
Comparre to the Priceton onboard tank, and still the CatB has more depth and trails fading.

The Tremelo circuit REPLACES the shimmering spring tails with Tremelo which enters and then fades only on the tails.

Its all so much fun!

Now the BOING is a different animal, more basic, but the best place for it is along with all the other pedal effects, for the best clean tones.
For instance, any of the good 'shimmer spring' pedals are so terrible IMO when you boost them with OD or even a lot of delay.
So the BOING is my lead with other pedals and does an excellent job in my loops.

BTW there is a lower deck pedal board at that basement studio bench setup.
Looper, clean drive, and a Wah.

Last edited: Oct 16, 2023 16:20:55

IceratzSurf wrote:

I'll tell you, I have tried numerous OD units, and the BM is really a great tool. I heard all the fuss with JHS show shoot out, and then his own rebuttal about the cost spikes in used market.
I am happy to say that I got a really good deal on this one, hardly used, its one of the original 'heavy chasis' models.

I just checked Reverb.com and Bad Monkey prices seem to be coming down. I saw quite a number in the $90 price range. There were some at considerably higher prices, but that doesn’t mean that they are selling at the asking price.

The artist formerly known as: Synchro

When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

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Last edited: Feb 01, 2024 02:43:02

Tqi wrote:

This is kind of a change of topic, so new comment time! No news on the 3D printing, had a rough few days with work and just.. recovering from work, that I've not done any printing on another v5, v6 or stang bobbin.

Today though, I did half-assedly drill out a mustang control plate to accept Alpha pots - and found a capacitor for it. Naturally, I'm only using the very best capacitor, the Sprague Orange Drop. Please note that these crappy split-shaft pots are just some random used ones out of a parts bin - they're not even genuine Alpha, I think they came out of an Affinity Strat. Real, solid-shaft ones will be ordered.

I also found a couple of caps for the Jazzmaster:

Because the "orange drops sound different thing" is of course, complete horseshit. That said, it is nice to have a big solid component that you know is of good quality - so I am going to use this .05 OD in the Mustang. I think it was actually a pull from the Jagmaster I'm turning into a Jazzmaster. Meanwhile, I'm trying to cram both the rhythm and lead circuits into a single 2-pot control plate on the Jazzmaster - so clearly I'm not easily fitting these chonk-ass OD's in there in plural. These will work exactly as well. The highest quality came-in-a-random-box-of-maplin-capacitors-10-years-ago!

One small oddity - those who know the JM Schematic will know that the two caps are both .01. These are .01 and .005. Turns out 50K/1M pots aren't a thing either stacked or concentric! Who knew?

Didn’t you know, Orange Drops have 275% more mojo, per uF? I agree, much of what is said about pots and caps would help the flowers grow in your garden, but that’s about the only value. I’m astonished by how much they charge for Orange Drops, these days. I guess the magic elves must’ve formed a labor union.

That having been said, and lacking a capacitance meter, there is value to knowing that you have quality components. The generic caps I used in my Jaguar build have been a bit of a disappointment, which I attribute to the caps not necessarily being anywhere close to spec. I intend to look into it, ASAP, and I might have to swallow hard and pay the toll for Orange Drops.

The artist formerly known as: Synchro

When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

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Building an offset Tele

Have to pay a bit of attention to the upper horn, but otherwise pretty good body from an eBay seller

Last edited: Oct 28, 2023 21:02:18

The neck is from a partscaster that I bought from someone in my neighborhood, I bought it for the neck because it feels great. This will be the third build the neck has been on ha ha. Unfortunately I can't identify who the manufacturer is.

Maybe someone can help identify?
There's this label on it:

Second picture features the following from left to right:
2017 Ford Focus RS
1984 Porsche 911 3.2 Carrera
2001 Porsche 911 Turbo
2022 Triumph Speed Twin 1200

Last edited: Oct 29, 2023 07:26:26

I guess the only reason I didn’t think it would be Fender is that it came to me with a terrible knockoff Fender decal, so I assumed it wasn’t authentic.