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Ah! Good catch. Thank you!

Hey all,

I'm putting together a mouser cart with some parts for the Tone Virus. The 4017 chip is available with different numbers of circuits and inverting vs Inverting/non-inverting. The Small Bear page linked in the build doc doesn't have details on the type they are selling. Anyone know the correct 4017 version for hte Tone Virus?

Thanks

Looks great! Nice work. I am excited to get to this one when the queue abides😎

Love it! Very cool layout and labelling.

Great job!

Great score! That looks like a lot of fun/hard work. Good luck!

Nice job! I did the same thing you did. Have been sitting on it since the first run. Too many projects:)

Looks like it's viral marketing, and we all took the bait. 

Ugh, I hope not. I don't really begrudge EHX, but something like that would be lame.

Also I'm trying to actually give a crap about this. I've used the same tube amp as my main amp for twenty years. I replaced the tubes exactly one time, well over a decade ago and it still sounds great.

I've had more than one conversation with techs that don't get why people replace their tubes so much. Their thinking was if the amp is working well then don't mess with it. I tend to agree with that mentality.

It is also a miracle that tubes aren't already way more expensive than they currently are. Think we've all been working on borrowed time with that one. Not to say I want prices to go up, just that I think a price spike was pretty inevitable one way or another.

I haven't used my M/B 400+ much in the past eight or so years, but I played and gigged (locally) it regularly for about a decade and I never re-tubed it. Mainly because it'll cost a billion dollars, but also because it always sounded awesome and I never felt the need. I always did feel like I was playing with fire every time I brought it to a gig since I didn't have a backup, though. Now I'm wishing I'd bought a replacement kit because I don't know what they'll end up costing after the dust settles on this.

I have some amps that tubes last forever in, and some (Marshall Plexi style with EL34's and a Dr Z MAZ38) that burn through power tubes to where there's an audible change to the tone (goes fizzy). Especially in recording you can notice when its time to change. Other than preamp tubes going microphonic and the "fun" of tube rolling to get the amp sounding good I don't change the preamps hardly at all.

I actually got a shipping notice on these. Went back for more and they are gone

My hunt for a quad of 6L6's led to Sam Ash who took the order and then went silent. If looking for preamp tubes check out Brent Jesse (https://www.audiotubes.com/). Its mostly NOS but full of great info and shockingly high prices on some rare tubes. They've been great for me getting (somewhat) inexpensive tubes for fancy builds. I've even sent in a set of tube measurements from a pair I had and they matched them with a new set so I could go stereo with an eq build.

Sounds really good. Maybe a stupid question: Is the drive coming from the pedal due to the circuit design or is that the amp?

Ha! I got mine the same time and haven't started it. I do intend to go all out with it, though. I will hopefully get a chance to run through most of the Lovetone lineup

I've got an epiphone sg that I'm storing for a cousin. Haven't dug into it yet.

Man, there's a lot of SG players on here! Good stuff. I lurk here from time to time to look at builds but have been building amps and rack gear, which takes ruining other forums, too Still, this forum was and continues to be a great place full of great people.

All the best,

Marty

Pretty cool looking! And I haven't gotten into smd yet, so I honestly don't know what I'm looking at for some of it:

Is the big black piece a heatsink for the chip?

Is the circle on the right with "330" a heatsink for a transistor?

I see that you have some smd caps next to box caps. Is that signal vs power circuits?

How do you like those Phoenix style board mount wire connectors in a pedal? I have used them in bigger builds but not in pedals. Good? Bad?

Thanks and good to see you posting again!

Marty

Very cool. Nice job!