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It's done. Squeezing the tank inside the bottom of the pedalboard had me flummoxed for a while. The mounting holes "found" the pass-through holes in the board.

Finally, it dawned on me that Velcro is sufficient, and likely provides more isolation than screws with small isolation bushing.

... Thom

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So I've been wanting to change things up and while clearing out some old work equipment/instruments, I came across an awesome candidate. It's a vintage Brush surface finish indicator, trade name "Surfindicator". I decided to gut the chassis and stick the Surfy Bear board inside, and mount the pan inside my speaker cab that has the Quilter custom 15" speaker. It worked like a charm!
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That is SUPER cool! What the heck is a surfindicator?!! Do you think mounting the pan inside a closed cab with a loud 15” might cause some extra noise? From vibrations? I know Twins have that soft pouch bag and I don’t think those add vibration noise. It would be extremely difficult to test this without a second amp. Anyhow that enclosure is brilliant.

Daniel Deathtide

DeathTide wrote:

That is SUPER cool! What the heck is a surfindicator?!! Do you think mounting the pan inside a closed cab with a loud 15” might cause some extra noise? From vibrations? I know Twins have that soft pouch bag and I don’t think those add vibration noise. It would be extremely difficult to test this without a second amp. Anyhow that enclosure is brilliant.

It was an instrument for measuring the surface roughness of machined parts. It had a mechanical component that had a stylus similar to a phonograph.
I actually did insulate the pan with a piece of foam and some tolex that I had laying around. I should have took a picture before I closed it up but I haven't had any noise issues yet.

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I did another mod to my build and thought it may be of interest to others here.

I installed a tiny module that boosts 9v to 12 (2A) internally. This way I can use a standard guitar pedal power supply like a OneSpot or something similar. I didn't like that the stock supply has the opposite polarity of all my other guitar power supplies and that it required a special 12v one. It works perfectly and now I can just grab any guitar pedal power supply and power it without issue.

If anyone is curious, here is a link to the module I used:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/125104160678

The power supply is adjustable with the trimpot. So make sure to set the module to put out 12v before powering the reverb!

Hmmm, I may have spoken too soon. The module is getting VERY HOT and slightly smoking. But putting out 12v perfectly. I’m gonna look into it and post more if I can figure it out. The reverb board is totally unharmed. I may just revert back to stock wiring and use the standard 12v supply again if I can’t solve this overheating issue with the module.

Last edited: Jul 18, 2022 20:45:43

UPDATE!

The problem was I got the wrong power supply. Both + and - were putting out voltage. Surfy needs 12v on + and 0v on -. And now I got a module that does just that except it powers from 120VDC via an IEC receptacle that I installed. Works beautifully now and super quiet. To power, I just use an IEC cable which I have tons of and venues often have a few laying around as well.

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Anyone who could provide a simple schematic how to add an additional switch for ON/OFF with true bypass in OFF mode? Or maybe how to connect to a connector for foot switch with this option. THANKS!

OK. Dead forum obviously, I move on.

Rustan wrote:

OK. Dead forum obviously, I move on.

The answer is in this thread or the other where you asked a similar question.
Edit:
Google brings me here:
https://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/24295/?page=95#p411380

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I don't know if you built yours yet, but true bypass was a question for me as well.

I put my time into adding a selectable mixer setting - to switch between two 'verb levels. See my post above from 24-Nov-2021.

I took a chance on the buffer being neutral and found this to be the case. I have no regrets about skipping a true bypass mode.

... Thom

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Galibier_Numero_Un wrote:

I don't know if you built yours yet, but true bypass was a question for me as well.

I put my time into adding a selectable mixer setting - to switch between two 'verb levels. See my post above from 24-Nov-2021.

I took a chance on the buffer being neutral and found this to be the case. I have no regrets about skipping a true bypass mode.

... Thom

One thing, easily forgotten, is that when any pedal is engaged, the buffer is on. If the pedal is well designed, a buffer is unlikely to cause much harm. They are, simply, impedance matching devices.

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Hi all

Been lurking here for a while but could do with some help.

I've recently picked up a surfybear classic second hand and having a problem with it. When I hook it up to my amp I notice a significant volume drop.

I have a 68 reissue vibro champ which I normally play on volume 2 in the house. With the surfybear I have to have the volume on 7. Is this normal?

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Hi Andyroo162

The Classic has a high output impedance, same as the 6g15.
The output is somewhat sensitive.

As Tqi committed, how the Mixer control works can give us a clue about the problem.
When Mixer is set to 0, you should get a unity gain signal at the output.

I'd say the volume halves when the mixer is set to 10 Vs 0.

With the mixer on 0 I still had to turn the volume of the amp up

Hmm, that seems strange.

I think you better contact support at Surfy Industries.
Please check the surfyindustries.com website.
/Björn

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