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Never heard of the vendor, but thanks for the link.

I buy from them often. Great prices for Xvive and Coolaudio vactrols, BBDs, commanders, etc...

 You must be out of it, because your booster was Moderna, not J&J

Glad to hear your side effects were relatively mild... Curious whether you had a more severe response to the first shot (compared to the second) or if you have reason to believe you were infected with Cov2 at some point? Anecdotal evidence would suggest one of those two scenarios may lessen the side effect of the booster shot.

Cabintech now stocks FV-1 chips. Thought others might be interested in low cost FV-1 chips with very reasonable shipping charges (in the US).

https://www.cabintechglobal.com/fv-1

Great pedal and better story!!

Has anyone here built the reverb? I just got one in the mail and I'm hoping I can at least find a gutshot as there are some connections that aren't obvious to me.

I had the same problem and Drew helped out. Pay close attention to the expression jack and momentary switch wiring.

But according to an article I just read, Pfizer may only last six months then you need another, which I hope isn't correct

According to a public statement from Pfizer/BioNTech, they have data that indicates the the vaccine is 91% effective at least 6 months after vaccination.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-confirm-high-efficacy-and-no-serious

I read similar things. Some people are saying immunity will start to drop off after six or seven months and decrease slowly. But hey, if we need a booster shot or whatever once a twice a year that really isn't a big deal. Most people get flu shots every year anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up being similar.

The thing I have wondered about with all of this recently is, while the closest analogy we seem to have is the 1918 flu, the worlds population has increased by almost an order of magnitude since then. Does the high population allowing the virus to mutate more quickly, and what will that mean for the vaccines long term. Is this just going to be drawn out until a large enough percentage of the world can be vaccinated to prevent further mutations? I hope not, but either way things are a lot more hopeful now than they were a year ago.

CoV2 will likely enter permanent circulation, as has been the case with virtually all pandemic viruses. It will also slowly mutate and force the need for modified vaccines and booster vaccinations. However, the threat posed by CoV2 (if you are fortunate/smart enough to be vaccinated or had COVID19), is effectively over. CoV2 is no longer a novel virus. Novel viruses are problematic, not just because they're unpredictable, but also our immune systems are completely naive to infection and disease is much more severe as a result - think small pox effect on native Americans in the 1600s. In other words, CoV2 will still cause disease and it makes sense from a public health perspective to continue to vaccinate against it, but the chance you'll be hospitalized or die from it is, by comparison to the situation in 2020, vanishingly small.

Tbh, I'd worry more about the next novel virus that will cause a pandemic. It sounds crazy, but we lucked out with CoV2. CoV2 is less infective than measles, less lethal than Ebola, doesn't cause birth defects like Zika, doesn't have a long incubation period like HIV, and is not hypermutable like influenza A. There is not much preventing a virus from being above average in all of those categories, and that would result in an existential threat to mankind.

But according to an article I just read, Pfizer may only last six months then you need another, which I hope isn't correct

According to a public statement from Pfizer/BioNTech, they have data that indicates the the vaccine is 91% effective at least 6 months after vaccination.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-confirm-high-efficacy-and-no-serious

Got the Moderna and the first shot made my arm pretty sore the next two days and i felt barely a little funky the next day.

I received my first dose of Moderna on Saturday. My experience was similar to yours.

damn it ... reached the usage limit ... was going to punish them something fierce

You have to be a registered user/login to use the code.

Did anyone else pick up any of the other "kits?"

Yep - Whetstone, Fix'd Fuzz Deluxe, Cadvernous Reverb, and Crystal Dagger

The cadavernous reverb looks pretty cool.

Kyle (Blackout Effectors) only had two Cadvernous kits. Drew bought the other and traced the circuit. I don't want to make any promises on his behalf, but it seems that if not boards, a schematic at least will be available to DIYers.

I saw someone said he only had 2. I raced over to eBay and, of course, they were gone. Is that an FV-1 pedal?


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Did anyone else pick up any of the other "kits?"

Yep - Whetstone, Fix'd Fuzz Deluxe, Cadvernous Reverb, and Crystal Dagger

The cadavernous reverb looks pretty cool.

Kyle (Blackout Effectors) only had two Cadvernous kits. Drew bought the other and traced the circuit. I don't want to make any promises on his behalf, but it seems that if not boards, a schematic at least will be available to DIYers.

Did anyone else pick up any of the other "kits?"

Yep - Whetstone, Fix'd Fuzz Deluxe, Cadvernous Reverb, and Crystal Dagger

The Small Bear prebonded is easily the nicest wire I've ever used. I think there is one other guy that sells prebonded that everyone swears by, but I can't remember the name now.

Barry @GuitarPCB?

Heresy! Surely the greatest scientific achievement in recent history is the sequencing of the centaur diode genome... or maybe it was those sequences at the beginning of Baba O'Riley.

But in all seriousness it's an amazing achievement.

it's quite incredible how much we have been able to achieve in the past century. 100 years ago half the homes in the US didn't even have electricity, but now we can listen to sounds recorded on a different planet. That's a big leap in a small amount of time.

Haha! Before Louis CK was ostracized (rightfully, I guess)...

The mRNA vaccine is the greatest scientific achievement in at least 50 years.

In that case I'm sure you'd like to learn that the vaccine isn't actually a Pfizer invention, it's from the small (compared to Pfizer anyway) company BioNtech in Germany. Its inventor is a son of turkish immigrants named Uğur Şahin, who is also one of the founders. Pfizer simply supplies production capabilites and logistics for distribution. I find it interesting how rarely this gets appreciated, instead it's always "the Pffizer vaccine" when talked about by Americans or the media.

You would think people would have their facts in order before firing off a condescending reply...
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman are consensus co-discoverers of mRNA vaccine technology and have been developing the mRNA vaccines for 15+ years- long before Pfizer, BioNTech, or Moderna. Their research was largely performed in the US and funded by US tax payers.

Uğur Şahin is an oncologist that founded BioNTech in 2008 (note the first mRNA paper was published in Science in 1990...by researchers at UW-Madison). BioNTech doesn't have any bigger role in "the discovery" of the mRNA vaccine than Pfizer, and to say "a son of immigrants invented the mRNA vaccine" is a fairy tale. In fact, i'd say the senior vice president of BioNTech had a bigger role in the discovery of mRNA vaccines... that's right, the senior VP of BioNTech is Katalin Kariko.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243