ongo troubshoo

Hey.
Everything sounds cool, better every time I check it out and touch it's bits.
Except I found a broken solder joint in my guitar that was sucking tone or losing signal entirely. Fixed that.
Gotsum popin' cracks once in a while; going to see what resistors still in 'er are still carbon composition and replace them with scavenged resisterrrrrrrrrrrrr
I think there was a problem with my main cable, as well, that I fixed.  oooooor

more than that, I have nothing for you.  It has been incredibly busy in the hyperbolic chamber.
My XLR cable might be noisy due to cheap.
11R XLR MIC in might have cold joint.  Expression.  

Mouser finally sent components I placed order months ago, expression.  some capacitors for the power pcb.  probably replace.



blog easy.

Sick for two days

and then a day more

I had this crushing space vacuum headache that sauntered down vertebrae  and lathered itself in my knees.

reboot

Off base but on track

Hey, so...
When I started this, I was two weeks through literally becoming this amplifier,
Once I resurrected my tiny demon, I allowed myself catch up on the parts of my life (all) that suffered because of the obsessive monkey; my back aclaw.

In that space of time I have been able to play guitar again--
sweet fucking christ...
and with that I have been able to establish hard communication between the Avid 11R and Propellerhead Reason, my preferred DAW.
This involved a lot of experimentation with the 11R PAD switch (-24db attenuation) and Diablo -30db / 0db switch.
In my experience, I'll forget how hard knobs are set or bump a sensitive knob, hah, and subsequently spend two days trying to figure out how it was positioned.  As such I wanted to leave the gain allllll the way down on the 11R XLR in.  Pad switch position not important, easy error to fix once it finds a proper attitude.
What I ran in to as far as problem:.:;;;;

-amp signal from XLR out too low or clipping during manipulation of -30db switch.  Too loud in the headphones or too quiet, no comfortable position across 11R master volume control
*Avid 11R Rig balancing was the final finger hole for this one.  Set at like -12db or something.
Set to 0db (max clockwise).
Set Diablo to -30db on XLR out.
Set 11R PAD off.
Set 11R MIC gain off (max counterclocks)
Bingo
levels with distortion are halfway up the channel monitor,  Sound liek God.

From there it's been all gens d'arms and dicks stitches.

I have been speaking with the engineer who designed our flavorite favor of amp, less frequently than I would like to have be the truth, Though he is unable to support modifications to the amplifier, our discourse has been very informative.  So I plan on doing something with that in the near future.

&Probably going to make soundbites available for fun or something.

&Maybe videos

&more pictures

tired.