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by laurie
Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:32 pm
Forum: Pedals - All Brands
Topic: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures
Replies: 145
Views: 74873

Re: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures

Any manufacturing initiative can have challenges. One of the challenges encountered with the 32 OD is that the PCB supplier accidentally mixed up part of my order with another customer's. They are manufacturing another set of my switch PCBs and sending them... no big deal for us and the small quanti...
by laurie
Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:23 pm
Forum: Pedals - All Brands
Topic: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures
Replies: 145
Views: 74873

Re: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures

The prototype has been running continuously for one month with overvoltage supply and hot input. Design is now confirmed.
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32 OD one month on bench.jpg
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by laurie
Tue Apr 20, 2021 2:05 am
Forum: Pedals - All Brands
Topic: The "32 TB2" pedal...
Replies: 89
Views: 49097

Re: The "32 TB2" Tonebender pedal...

Update. I'm good to go to make some of these as soon as the parts arrive. They will use: - Panasonic "ECQ" capacitors. These aren't vintage, but they are pretty much old-school. - Carbon film resistors, not modern 1% tolerance metal film resistors. - A "reverse logarithmic" potentiometer for the Att...
by laurie
Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:06 pm
Forum: Pedals - All Brands
Topic: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures
Replies: 145
Views: 74873

Re: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures

Main PCBs arrived today. Switch PCBs have an issue that I'm sorting out - will be about another week.

I'm quite pleased.
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by laurie
Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:05 pm
Forum: Pedals - All Brands
Topic: The "32 TB2" pedal...
Replies: 89
Views: 49097

Re: The "32 TB2" Tonebender pedal...

Luke Drifter wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 3:03 pm
Count me in for one of your tone benders, Laurie
Thanks! That makes four so far. All good.
by laurie
Mon Apr 19, 2021 4:56 pm
Forum: Pedals - All Brands
Topic: The "32 TB2" pedal...
Replies: 89
Views: 49097

Re: The "32 TB2" Tonebender pedal...

Hah! It is a tag for the germanium pedals. It will expire when i run out of the transistors...
by laurie
Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:44 am
Forum: Pedals - All Brands
Topic: The "32 TB2" pedal...
Replies: 89
Views: 49097

Re: The "32 TB2" Tonebender pedal...

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by laurie
Sun Apr 18, 2021 6:12 pm
Forum: Pedals - All Brands
Topic: The "32 TB2" pedal...
Replies: 89
Views: 49097

Re: The "32 TB2" pedal...

If I can get 8 pre-orders for the 32 TB2 I can do it for the same price as the 32 OD (USD$95).

If fewer, no worries! The price will be a bit higher (probably USD $140).
by laurie
Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:55 pm
Forum: Pedals - All Brands
Topic: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures
Replies: 145
Views: 74873

Re: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures

I have a 3.2 second MP3 file... (80k) if someone has somewhere to put it I can email it.
by laurie
Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:52 pm
Forum: Boss Pedals
Topic: New BOSS pedals!
Replies: 585
Views: 282964

Re: New BOSS pedals!

The_Doc wrote:
Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:43 pm
I’m down this rabbit hole a long way :lol:
In a very quiet voice... "it's not madness... it's not... must remember that Laurie had nearly 400 pedals at the height of his collecting, so I'm OK... I'm OK... I'm OK..."