Mail Day Thread

Funny. I have very little recollection of ordering this. Probably because it was a while ago :rofl:

EDIT: Apparently, I ordered it on Tindie a couple of weeks ago, so maybe you should try contacting them.

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Hey Christian I built one. I am trying to figure out why I have low output on the kick and i think it was the high hat. Needed a few odd components to build like a .15uf tantalum cap, and some JFETS, ( I may have extra) There is some mods, that make it capable of producing some good sounds. I used Mike Desiras.

Here is some sounds of the modded version

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Awesome! I think I’ll build it as intended first and then maybe do the mods. I like the sounds a lot, but I’d like to try it unmodified first. I’m also thinking at this point I’ll try building as a stand-alone unit. If I like it enough, maybe I’ll order a second one for mods :heart_eyes:

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Let me know how it goes, have been looking at that.

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Yeah, that’s a weird one. Like some folks in the forum over there, I don’t see any reason for that being a tantalum; seems like most about any 150 nF would work in that position (or you could use a 220 nF and 470 nF in series, even).

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They’re also puzzled in the build guide. They say the original had it and guess that the designers wanted polarized for some reason, but couldn’t get a small enough electrolytic. Doesn’t make much sense to me either, but I’m pretty sure I can find one at Anchor Electronics and I do like an excuse to go there.

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Today’s mail: ~30 pink bags. You all know what they look like, so no photo :sunglasses:

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Today’s mail, after being held hostage by Royal Mail for an extortionate amount…


It’s an Electrosmith Daisy off the back of their successful Kickstarter. Basically a microcontroller board designed from the ground up for audio. I’ve not had a chance to do anything with it yet and until the temperature drops a bit I won’t be able to (it’s currently 33℃ in here and it’s sending me to sleep), but once I got Windows drivers sorted out it seemed easy enough to flash code and the sound quality is really good.

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Can’t second guess customs…

Just paid the £12.30 ( £4.30 taxes and £8 for the service to tax me!!) for my latest batch of PCB’s worth ~£25 … Yet a £223 printer slipped by untouched…

Rob

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I have an original DR-55. To be honest it’s a permanent loan from my friend and band member. He was cool with me modding it.

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white fart and flux pens like to use it on the parts that are plastic solders quicker [ sockets , switches etc. ] .

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Got my Daisy on Tuesday.

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Today, 10 of these. £1.20 delivered. It’s an annoying siren/alarm/machine gun sound effect module like you get in horrible cheap toys. Changing the resistance between the two pads at the top is the standard circuit bender’s pitch/speed control; K1 and K2 getting pulled up, down or left floating changes the sound effect.

Purpose for me… well, I always liked dub sirens and I remember seeing a homemade one years and years ago using one of these and buckets of reverb. Quite fancy getting several of them all modulating each other via vactrols and, if I break things, the experience will be worth more than the 12p a pop.

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My Electric Druid order with a few AS3360s and VCLFO10s came! Now to pop in the AS3360s in the mixer and get it fired up! It took over a month after shipping so be patient with slow mail right now.

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A Dub Siren with a siren bike toys bend, maybe the same sort of circuit inside

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Where from? AliExpress? …

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Almost certainly the same :slight_smile:

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Yep yep yep! CK9561 if you find yourself needing horrible sounds :slight_smile:

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A set of custom cut (68hp) vector rails!


They’re for a special project that I will show off soon enough :smiley:

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My big order (it was still long but since I had everything in duplicate for free it was cool anyway)
and I will be able to finalize my last modules :slight_smile:

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