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  • in reply to: SWINE FLU!!! #104521
    Ned Flanders
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    Dont your government give out free swine flu vaccinations? In Australia we get it for free and i had mine months ago.

    in reply to: EHX pedals and True Bypass…. #104494
    Ned Flanders
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    Nano’s are TB.

    in reply to: Certain type of degree to make effects at EHX? #104137
    Ned Flanders
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    To design your own fuzzes you need not be an electronic engineer, take devi ever nee tim shortnacy and aen from drawfcraft for example, they have zero training. I remember just 2 years ago aen asking me how a 3PDT worked,now he sells his pedals in all the bootweekers stores US wide.

    To design things like the HOG, POG etc you do need to be an EE or at least an extremely competent DIYer thats been doing it for years and years.

    I design my own dirt pedals,its simple but it does take a few years to understand what you are actually doing and tweaking some one elses design is NOT designing your own pedals, this is what dwarfcraft,or aen, does. There’s nothing wrong with tweaking and heavy modding but just admit thats all you are….a tweaker,not a designer!

    in reply to: floating tremolo vs fixed bridge #104136
    Ned Flanders
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    Bad? its not bad at all! In fact, its the most stable trem ever made IME. Yes you do need to know how to set them up correctly though.

    in reply to: floating tremolo vs fixed bridge #104105
    Ned Flanders
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    The is question is flawed as a bridge and tremolo are two different things. it should be “floating trem or stop tail” as both still require bridges!

    I’ll take the jazzmaster/jaguar tremolo over any other any day BTW!

    in reply to: Certain type of degree to make effects at EHX? #104104
    Ned Flanders
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    To design pedals yes, to assemble them, no.

    Anyone can do production line assembly of anything, you use diagrams at first until you know every part by heart. It is an unskilled job.

    To bias the more complicated pedals someone else would do that anyways, you would just be an assembler. I could teach anyone of the street to build big muffs and with in a month they wouldnt even need a diagram.

    I dont work for EHX either BTW..

    in reply to: Where are you from? #103877
    Ned Flanders
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    where/whats oceania?

    i think its like a group of islands in the south pacific. kind of between southern asia, and australia. i’m not sure exactly where it is though.

    it also includes Australia and New Zealand.

    in reply to: Where are you from? #103876
    Ned Flanders
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    Australia.

    in reply to: Values and types of caps in triangle Big Muff? #103835
    Ned Flanders
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    Not at all…we’re talking about old EHX here remember, there was zero consistency from time to time.

    I have a V5 and all the caps are the correct value but totally different types than others I’ve seen, I’ve seen ramsheads with all CC resistors or just one, I’ve seen triangles with only a few ceramic caps,the rest greenies.

    You have to expect variation with vintage EHX, its not really a problem anymore though as all pedals are pretty much identical nowadays.

    Today the only reasons any two big muffs of identical model would sound different is transistor hfe and component tolerances as all value/parts are selected (and PCB’s populated) by machines not by hand so they get it right all the time. But, machines cant match tolerances,well they can but EHX don’t.

    in reply to: fender ’63 reverb tank #103695
    Ned Flanders
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    The best advice I can give you is to visit http://www.surfguitar101.com/ and post this Q there, some of them guys know a whole lot about fender reverb tanks.

    The forum link is on the main page. Plus they can tell you how to make it even better…sounding more like the original.
    Ask them about the tube and cap swap for details.

    in reply to: Creamy Dreamer? #103529
    Ned Flanders
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    People should just quit trying to sound like so and so and find their own sound and pedals via experimentation, thats my two cents anyways!

    in reply to: How to remove ring washers on old EHX switches? #103528
    Ned Flanders
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    Mel, in Oz we call them “multi grips” for obvious reasons.

    Stew-mac has sold them nut tools for ages!

    I just use pliers as the grip fits the nut exactly. But i have been planning on buying the tool from stewmac anyway.

    BTW, the gibson type nut and the Carling type nut are indeed the same size. I have some of each here for comparison and they seem to be identical.

    in reply to: Oh My Goodness!! DELUXE Memory Boy! #103527
    Ned Flanders
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    Seems like a cool new pedal…for everyone else as delay doesnt exite me very much at all. I have a SMMH and it does everything I need and rarely gets used anyways.

    in reply to: Little Big Muff Pi in black & blue #103271
    Ned Flanders
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    The PCB inside these pedals is identical to the full sized versions it just turned sideways. If you want to adjust the tone and sustain you just adjust the value of a few resistors that set the tone and sustain to pre determined levels, or in the case of sustain if you want it on full you remove the resistor all together and jumper it from lug 3 to 2 where the pot would normally be.

    For the tone, its good to have a 100k tone pot to hook up to it, set it how you like it and then measure the Kohms on it, then you can make fine adjustments on the tone switch once you know what value resistors to use on the switch.

    These pedals came in both the 3034 transistor version and 1322 IC version.

    in reply to: Modding a v1 Small Stone… okay to do? #103269
    Ned Flanders
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    Must be nice to be so rich you never ever have to sell anything … and the odd time you do, you’re so flush with $$$$ you’re happy taking a major depreciation hit ;-)
    Wish I could find that clip of Jack Waterson on Fuzz, the Sound that Changed the World

    I have a multichannel bypass looper mainly because I can’t be bothered modding every vintage pedal that I come across — it’s cheaper, easier, and I can still sell gear on to collectors at a profit…so I can buy more… Win!

    Me, rich? That’s a joke! I’m one of the poorest guys I know, I just dont sacrifice the musical equipment I buy for anything! It takes me so long to buy anything expensive so I’m hardly gonna sell it to pay a bill when you can just phone up and get an extension to pay on said bill.
    It took me a year to buy/pay off a 66 mustang so I’m far from being rich.

    Like, I want the Moore jazzmaster, I estimated its gonna take about 7-12 months to save for it but if I want it that’s the only way I’ll get it. I Know how to save for gear but I also know how to keep the gear I buy.

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