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Also, there will be a demo of the UberTuber on Monday. Right now I need a break - two twelve hour days in row is enough for me now

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Now for the one bit of bad news - I had expected to offer up about 20 or so UberTubers with a 6111 tube. I only got them in yesterday and the first one I tested was bad. Right now, I just don't have time to deal with trying to figure out testing all the tubes I got, so it's a no go. Maybe next week I can figure it out and offer the tube for sale...but it's too much of a risk to offer them now.

I have toured the Madbean Shop in person. I demand a t-shirt that indicates such. 

Now available.

I agree with this in spirit, but also...you might re-evaluate that opinion once you've built 500 circuit boards! Actually, I am definitely getting better about it though. I box a lot more now than I did 5 years ago. I just don't spend as much time on artwork.

I might not have 500 pedals or circuits build, but around 200 wouldn't be that far of the mark. I got at least 4 banana boxes full of pedals stashed in a closet.

Thing is though, it's one thing to test a circuit out at home, but I think the only way to find out if a circuit is useful or not is when its on your pedal board in a band setting. I know how it will sound from the youtube vids, I don't need to rock it before I box for that. The vids usually convince me to build something or not. But when I commit to a build, I have to box it in order to rock it with a band.

Does that make sense?

Certainly. These are excellent points

I have some n00b welding questions. Anyone here that can answer them?

I want one with an Illuminati logo.

I can understand that if you're of the rock before you box school. Personally I've never built anything I did not also box. So I don't have that problem. I've always found it so bewildering that so many of you had so many unboxed circuits around and were complaining that you had to box at least some of them. To me building an effect means also drilling and painting the enclosure. And with Tayda a 125B costs less then the average PCB. So it hardly seems like a waste.

On the downside I do have whole boxes full on pedals I don't use. But I reckon they might still come in handy. Waste not, want not.

I agree with this in spirit, but also...you might re-evaluate that opinion once you've built 500 circuit boards! Actually, I am definitely getting better about it though. I box a lot more now than I did 5 years ago. I just don't spend as much time on artwork.

Do you hear my IC?
It's got tons of toan
The hum it makes just proves that it's
the best pedal I own

Do you see what I see?
Glorious Big Muffs
Kirk turned on his wah and now it sounds
like a total piece of crud

Do you need what I need?
Ten klons put in a row
Lars fakes all his double bass
In case you didn't know

Do you know what I know?
I wrote a brand new tune
It's got fat riffs and a hook
I stole from Sad but True

IC2 seems to be a problem area. I'd take that one out and measure voltages in the socket, specifically pins 1, 2 and 3 to see what you get.
Couple of your switch lugs are tack soldered which might be okay, but I'd maybe reflow with more solder or check for continuity between the existing solder and the pads around them.
Soldering on the bottom looks pretty good.

Blackened chicken!
Heavily seasoned!
Stomach pleasin'!
Finger lickin'!

Ate too much
Now I'm hurtin'
Gotta get some
Imodium!

YouTube Live would be perfect for this 

Here's what grinds my gears: youTube. Specifically, if you are making a woodworking video on building something don't put shitty music over it. Or, any music. Use your mic and record what you are actually doing. Do the Diresta thing - when you speed up the video just leave the ambient sound in there sped up. It sounds cool. No one wants to hear the same license-free craploops over and over. It blows!

Also, don't narrate every step. Hit the important points. Show...don't explain.

The first video is going to be pretty basic...just what I have, how it's organized and some details about how I build and also manage the commercial aspect of mbp. Maybe a follow-up video later on with more in-depth stuff with some of the suggestions here. I'll try to incorporate as many of the suggestions here that I can that fit the scope of the first video.