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Necro revival - Did you envirotex before or after etching?  When I clearcoated after laser etching a primer base I got an photoshop embossed sort of look...

See, after years of hand drilling enclosures while kneeling on the floor, I now have the opportunity to use a drill press. 

Not just any drill press. 

This drill press was a drill press when your grandfather was thinking about using a drill.  It's a REAL drillpress and it doesn't care for your organic gluten free transparent purist corksniffing hipster overdrive pedal.  It spins slow enough you can just about see the curves in the bit as it turns.  Aluminium doesn't stand a chance against it and I don't think it took me 5 minutes to fully drill out a 1550G enclosure that'll have 4 effects plus tap tempo using a step bit.

No pilot holes.  Australian made. 

Cop that.

Yeah.

TL:DR, but I'm really digging Babymetal.  The singing makes me smile and the metal is tight, well produced, and extremely well played. Can't ask for much more than that.

They make no pretence that it's not manufactured, and in many ways it reminds me of the Russian YoYo Team from an old episode of The Simpsons...

Yeah, I keep wanting to give it a go.  I lost the first one - it landed on the small table in front of me, bounced off and I figured that would be the last I saw of it.

Using tweezers to put these in place.  Fiddly little buggers.

I ordered some smd j201 and adapters from chromosphere ages ago for those ubiquitous amp-in-a-box style projects, and every time I looked at the adapters and the jfets I knew there was no way I was going to be able to solder those together.  I wandered into Jaycar today and happened across some some "wire glue"... 

What's the worst that can happen?

I'm dabbing it onto the pads, using a tweezer to place the jfet on the tiny blobs, and little pressure to push it in, and then a tiny dab on top.  Maybe I'm just chickening out, but if this works I'm happy with that.

http://www.jaycar.com.au/wire-glue-9ml/p/NM2831

So, does that include international?

Lol, the site doesn't let me put more than one 1590DD in the cart.

Haven't done the turnaround, but I've done two Crunchboxes on vero.  Does that count!

I've got one of these ready to be boxed.  I found it to be a useful reverb, not particularly over the top.

First thing I thought of when I read the title:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greybeard

There's a theory that the name "James Bond" is a codeword or assumed identity for the agent at the time, not his actual name.  As a result, there have been many Bonds...  Wouldn't matter too much if it was a chick following that logic.

I usually DI into the FOH using a Berry Ultra-D, running from the amp sim output of my Blackstar HT-Dual. The cab sim on the Berry is usable, and I have gone from amp or pedalboard straight to the desk with it before.

I've built a DI that includes a marshal cabsim vero from Sabrotone along with an xlr output, my next one will have the multicab sim built in.  Obviously no tubes or any of that gump, but once you start putting drums, guitar, bass and vocals in a live mix the pristine harmonics of the tube preamp are somewhat moot.

Self expanding foam... Probably a good way to stop things moving around inside a pedal, if it wasn't so final.

Happy second hand new multi effect pedal day to me after 18 years of not using multis at all.  Vox Tonelab LE, scored for AUD$150.

I got it mainly so I could put my Blackstar HT-Dual and gate pedals in the insert, switching them out as necessary, using the other effects for whatever reason. 

Sounds pretty good as a general rule.  I like the 90's marshall sound mostly, with the dumble model not too far behind, but the higher gain Soldano and Boogie models don't really do it for me.  There's a patch called "Eruption" that nails the VH1 sound, as you'd expect.  Surprisingly, no U2, Beatles, or Queen patches come stock, although the prerequisite delay and boost pedals are modeled.  You'd think that given the AC30 is such a part of those band's signature sounds you'd be able to pull those at leisure, even first cab off the rank.

So far, I have four banks with patches set up for clean, low gain, high gain, epic solo in varying amp flavours (vox, marshall, dumble, and one with no amp models so I can use the Blackstar).  Lot of fiddling to get proper relative volumes from each patch.

Willy.

Any recommendations for cheap enclosures in Australia, specifically DD?  Tayda only have up to BB, and Jaycar's are around $30...