Sunday, April 3, 2016

Evidence Audio Monorail Bend/Stress Test

So how durable is this stiff cable? How much abuse can it take?

I solder my own patch cables out of these and neutrik jacks, and they are great, but I've been worried they might break if im not careful.

So, to put mr. monorail to the test I cut off a piece of cable and started to do 180 degree bends back and forth over my finger. After reaching one hundred bends I stopped to test continuity. Still works like a charm! I then cut the cable open to see if there was anything visible damage wise. And... not a damn thing. The copper shield and core are pretty much like new.

Just for kicks I cut the core copper wire out and continued to do 180 degree bends. I reached 70 pretty hard bends before the core finally broke.

To sum it all up, the monorail cable is surprisingly tough. The bends done to the cable in this test will almost never happen in real life situations if you take normal care of you patch cables.

No need to worry, rock on!

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Batmodrive...!!

Here's one I've been thinking about for a while.. Finally it's done! The Batmodrive! It's the RAT circuit with all the right parts+3x clipping selector switch and the famous "Ruetz mod". The clipping switch has the standard silicon, like the original rats, LEDs like the Turbo RAT, and germaniums like the "You Dirty Rat". Basically three rats in one! The Ruetz mod makes the rat fuller and reduces the gain a little. Very useful to have this one available on a switch.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Netune Delay

Just finished this one yesterday. A super cool delay circuit by a cool dude over at the BYOC forum who goes by the name "culturejam". It's a digital delay, but sounds quite analog-ish. It features a "crazy" momentary switch. When you hold it down it does a weird pitch thingy...pretty hard to explaine. Do a youtube search for "Neptune delay". There's a couple of cool demos of it there.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

"Clone" Centaur

Here's a couple of "clones". Most of you gear geeks out there know about this circuit. If it sounds as good as the crazy money the originals are going for..? Well, thats up to the crazy to decide I guess. I like it alot! All the right parts and strange values. These two are gone so..need to make another one for myself. Now, where did I put those 392k resistors...