Does anyone else find themselves taking up projects just for the sheer challenge of it? (That was a big reason for me to do the ADA and Lovetone flanges.)
Just started a TH sea urchin project (submitted just now.) Should be moderately hairy.
I could not agree more.
Although I tend to try bringing things together forming someting new that has not been there before.
Ähh, what is a TH sea urchin project ?
Er, through-hole sea urchin in a 1590A. Sorry, need to get to bed :/
Yup, frequently.
The mantra of an FX junkie.
Ive built lots of stuff "just cos". I have a bunch of OD/Fuzz/Dist and barely ever play music which requires them.
Fun to buzz around on when I fancy it though.
The more dirt boxes and swirl fx I build the more I resort to nothing between my guitar and a clean amp but a cable.
Amen.
Kothoma that should go to my signature.
Yeah, that accounts for about 1/2 my builds. "Need" doesn't factor into it too much, it's just fun to put together. However, I don't box (or even drill the box) until I've rocked it out enough to warrant that kind of commitment :P. Hence the big box of "Not boxed yet" below my build desk.
In one hand you have your "wants" in the other hand you have your "needs"
But my "want" hand is heavy handed every time !
It's a hobby with certain need for another hobby. I build for the challenge and to support independent designers like midway fair and Rej. I will end up with about 3 tremolos now with no real need for any, and everyone needs 10 delays, right?
That might be the only reason I build, is for the challenge.
Well, that's why I started anyway.
Now, I also find that the more pedals I have, the fewer I use AT ONE TIME. Instead of having to stack and rearrange two or three distortion pedals, which then requires a noise filter, and probably and EQ. I just use one of the ones I build that actually gets me the sound I'm looking for.
Quote from: jimilee on November 26, 2013, 05:38:48 PM
It's a hobby with certain need for another hobby. I build for the challenge and to support independent designers like midway fair and Rej. I will end up with about 3 tremolos now with no real need for any, and everyone needs 10 delays, right?
No, 11 ! LOL
QuoteWe choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
This says it all. Kennedy had a point, so now lets forget about the whole 'Berliner' thing...... ;)
Paul
I have tried to discipline myself, I really have. I determined to be purposeful in my building. Decide what I need to build not just what I want to build. Ever since that iron willed resolve, I have built only what I wanted, piling one dirt box onto the pile of dirt boxes. I mean, how much distortion does one guy need? :(
I'm now on a vero kick, for some reason I have decided that I need to build everything Wampler. I've built the plexi, pinnacle, ecstasy and today I will finish the Paisley.
I'm so weak. I SUCK!
A hobby is frivolous anyway, no harm no foul!
Quote from: billstein on November 26, 2013, 06:58:06 PMI mean, how much distortion does one guy need? :(
All of it.
So far I have built about 2 dozen guitar pedals and 1 bass pedal (compressor).
I mostly play guitar at home - using DVD or PC based courses. A few times per year I jam with friends. So I don't really 'need' any of the guitar pedals I have built.
The only 2 times I played for an audience in the past year I was on bass & didn't even use the compressor I built.
Quote from: jimilee on November 26, 2013, 07:08:17 PM
A hobby is frivolous anyway, no harm no foul!
I like that. Now if I can get you to call my wife and explain it to her...
Quote from: billstein on November 26, 2013, 09:47:31 PM
Quote from: jimilee on November 26, 2013, 07:08:17 PM
A hobby is frivolous anyway, no harm no foul!
I like that. Now if I can get you to call my wife and explain it to her...
check please!
Quote from: billstein on November 26, 2013, 09:47:31 PM
Quote from: jimilee on November 26, 2013, 07:08:17 PM
A hobby is frivolous anyway, no harm no foul!
I like that. Now if I can get you to call my wife and explain it to her...
+1 ;)
Quote from: jimilee on November 26, 2013, 05:38:48 PM
It's a hobby with certain need for another hobby. I build for the challenge and to support independent designers like midway fair and Rej. I will end up with about 3 tremolos now with no real need for any, and everyone needs 10 delays, right?
But think of all the phasers Jimi!
Quote from: Clayford on November 27, 2013, 11:36:50 PM
Quote from: jimilee on November 26, 2013, 05:38:48 PM
It's a hobby with certain need for another hobby. I build for the challenge and to support independent designers like midway fair and Rej. I will end up with about 3 tremolos now with no real need for any, and everyone needs 10 delays, right?
But think of all the phasers Jimi!
Would you believe I have 5 phaser pcb's unbuilt? And about twice that many i've built.
Can't pass this one up. Nothing to do at all with pedal building so major thread de-railment but here's a nice treat. The late, great Michael Hedges - "Because It's There"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTC7kPZZmuM
Quote from: gordo on November 28, 2013, 03:27:54 AM
Can't pass this one up. Nothing to do at all with pedal building so major thread de-railment but here's a nice treat. The late, great Michael Hedges - "Because It's There"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTC7kPZZmuM
Thanks for the derailment. What an unbelievable talent he was. I started buying his music after I heard Steve Vai had said he was the best guitarist he'd ever heard.
I like what Bonnie Raitt said about him.
"In Michael's hands, a guitar was a living, breathing extension of his deepest parts. It's almost as if he got so inside its body that the instrument was reborn. His passion for creating those exquisite melodies and technique was as focused as it was abandoned. There was simply no one like him."
Ive been on holiday for less then a week and I think ive broken out from a rash from no pedal building...or maybe its heat rash...or I got bitten...anyway, I guess this view will have to distract me from this torture...
Haha :) Have fun, be careful not to be bitten by Australian spiders, or australian snakes, or australian beer, or...
Better go to Rotorua, I think ;)
Lol thanks alan. My folks went to New Zealand recently loved it. Have to go there one day. They really need to lock up that guy in the crazy armor though...sauron Lord of something...could have been politics I think...
With all those pedals you need this board
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdw50D2v64w
Quote from: alanp on November 25, 2013, 08:31:44 AM
Just started a TH sea urchin project (submitted just now.) Should be moderately hairy.
Thought I'd let you guys know what I'm up to on this --
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t282/Gutstwohand/seafleaboard_zpsa78bebe5.jpg) (http://s163.photobucket.com/user/Gutstwohand/media/seafleaboard_zpsa78bebe5.jpg.html)
Deep Blue Delay, using the MB Sea Urchin schematic, on a board of my own design :) (Shotglass is for scale.) Sea Flea! I'll post a proper report once I've boxed it up. A lot more clarity in this one than the Cavedweller.
Quote from: alanp on November 29, 2013, 03:48:20 AM
Better go to Rotorua, I think ;)
Rotorua? Is that the place where they try to wean you off solder fumes by using sulfur fumes? ::)