About an hour ago I left the Circle K at Ajo and Kinney. There seems to be a dog that’s wandering around the parking lot looking for its family or just someone. She would back away when I approached. I tried to call her over to me but she didn’t want to get to close. Anyway, just thought I’d post this here in case someone is looking for her.
Every summer we serve a peach pizza at my pizzeria near Phoenix, Arizona. We normally get peaches from Utah — I was born in Utah and I grew up eating my grandpa’s peaches from his backyard in SLC. So I feel a strong connection to Utah peaches (they also happen to be delicious).
I got an email a few months ago from a vendor that a late spring freeze wiped out the entire stone fruit crop in Utah. I got nervous because we love making our peach pizza and our customers love it too. It gives us a much needed boost in sales during our very slow summer months (running a restaurant in the Phoenix area in the summer is not easy; those who can leave do so, and everyone else stays home because it’s just too hot).
Anyway, I found an orchard about three hours away in Willcox, AZ, that has peaches. So I drove out on Saturday and picked up a few cases. We also have some friends with connections to peach orchards in Colorado (which fared better than Utah) so we’re hoping that after we use up the Willcox peaches that we’ll be able to get some peaches from Colorado.
We top this pizza with low moisture mozzarella, fresh mozzarella, and fresh peaches. Then we bake it in our wood oven. After it comes out with finish it with four-year aged Gouda, crushed pistachio, and crispy sage.
I’m working on an order for a couple pedal clones I want to build: a Crowther Hotcake and a DBA Octave Clang. Both pedals require some hard-to-find parts.
The Hotcake requires a B22K pot and the Octave Clang requires a 42TM002 transformer. The closest I can find easily are a B25K pot and a 42TM022 transformer.
Any idea if these will be a proper substitute for the parts that are called for?
Hi everyone, are there any safety precautions I should take before opening this solid state amp to clean the scratchy pots?
This morning I found myself wishing I had an EQ pedal to create some lofi guitar sounds. Then I remembered that I had a Metal Zone. I cut the bass and boosted the mids and highs and turned the distortion down as low as it goes. It was just what I was looking for. With the compressor it sounded even better.
There’s this little nub thing on the side of potentiometers. What is it? It is necessary?
A few new pedals since I’ve posted here.
Polytune > Pulp N Peel > Pardner w/Fuzz War in parallel > Red Llama > Seattle Driver > Float > Supro Chorus > Obscura > Ether > Supro Tremolo > Infinity Verb > Simplifier
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I’m not much of a compressor guy, but I love the Pulp N Peel. I appreciate the blend and EQ knobs. I use it when I’m playing clean without an amp (most of the time). The dirt is a bit disappointing but I don’t really care because I have plenty of other dirt options.
Red Llama is great but I’ll probably replace it with a DOD 250 soon.
The Seattle Driver is so cool. It’s a Boss Power Driver clone with a couple extra knobs. The Air knob is for high EQ and the Vacuum knob is an octave — it’s more like it’s boosting octave up frequencies rather than adding an actual octave. Or something like that.
The Float takes some getting used to. I feel like I’m starting to get the hang of it.
Supro Chorus is awesome. Really nice Vibrato option too.
I love the Obscura’s tape delay option. I might swap it out for my Carbon Copy, though. Still, awesome delay pedal.
I was looking for an unconventional reverb and the Ether hit the spot. It has three modulation options: vibrato, tremolo, and harmonic trem. All three sound great. You can mess with the wave form with the depth knob. The shimmer isn’t my favorite shimmer but it’s still really cool.
Supro Tremolo is kinda meh. I like that it has a gain knob but there’s always a tiny bit of overdrive as a result. I’ll be swapping it out for my trusty Danelectro Tuna Melt trem soon. I’ve been thinking of building a small lo-fi board and the Supro Trem might have a home there. If not, I’ll sell it.
Infinity Verb for always-on reverb when I’m not using an amp with reverb. The infinity footswitch is set to self-oscillation, which I love.
This all goes into my Simplifier amp, which usually goes into my headphones. Otherwise, it goes into my Supro Delta King 12 at home and my Vox AC10 when jamming with friends.
Besides a couple easy swaps, I’m hoping to keep this configuration for a while so I can organize the power cables a bit better.
I’m looking for a bass overdrive. I’ve heard EDQ Plumes does pretty well on bass, but I also know that the Blumes is geared more toward bass. I play guitar more than bass so having a pedal that’s also suited for guitar (Plumes) is appealing. But in this case, I want to get what is best for bass.
Has anyone here tried either or both on bass?
Business Card Boost PCB from Drunk Beaver, my first build. I only ruined one other enclosure and soldered the diode in reverse, but other than that, it works!
The Drunk Beaver instructions from their website were very thorough and easy to follow. I got all the parts I needed from Amazon and Amplified Parts.
I was skeptical about ordering the JST pin connectors but they were actually really helpful when I had to disconnect the PCB in order to fix the diode.
There’s a section to add diodes for clipping. I haven’t tried them yet but I probably will in the morning.
If you order a pedal from Drunk Beaver (recommended) they include one of these PCBs with your order. (You can also ask them to include a daughter board for the footswitch.)
Anyway, I had a great time building this and I’m looking forward to my next build. I’ll probably try something like a Bazz Fuss next.
Earlier this week I came across a listing for a bunch of Pizza Hut pizza pans. While it’s not always very well executed, I enjoy Pizza Hut’s pan pizza, so I bought the pizza pans, thinking it would be fun to do a pan pizza pop-up at my pizzeria.
Our pizzeria is a wood fired pizza joint, so we’re not very well equipped for this style of pizza but I managed to bake off a few pretty good pan pizzas in our convection oven this afternoon.
The dough is 50% bread flour, 25% AP, 15% semolina, and 10% whole wheat flour. All flours except the semolina are from a local mill, Hayden Flour Mills. I added a bit of olive oil and sugar to the dough, neither of which is in our wood fired pizza dough.
I par baked the dough in the convection oven, just long enough for the dough to set. Then topped it, then back in the oven. I need to add more oil or butter to the pan next time because they didn’t turn out as crispy and greasy as I would like for a pan pizza. Either way, it was a lot of fun and I look forward to making more!
I’ve been wanting to get into building pedals for a while but I’ve felt a bit overwhelmed. In order to go easy on myself, I decided to make a two-button footswitch with on/off LEDs for my Supro Delta King 12 amp.
I’m trying to measure the voltage for the footswitch output so I can use the correct components. I’m taking measurements on a TRS cable coming out of the footswitch output. The TRS cable will attach plug in to the footswitch that I’m building.
Using my multimeter, I made the following measurements:
Black probe on tip, red probe on ring: 1.2 v
Black probe on tip, red probe on sleeve: 15 v
Black probe on ring, red probe on sleeve: 13.7 v
Am I understanding that correctly? Granted, I know very little about electronics, but that seems like a big disparity between the different multimeter readings.
I know this is a sub for guitar pedals, but my problem applies to how I’ve been using with bass guitar. Hope that’s ok. After, a bass guitar is a guitar.
First of all, please excuse my untidy cable management.
Anyway, I recently picked up a bass guitar that I’ve been excited about for years, a Peavey T-40. The issue: it sounds like shit when I play it through drive/fuzz pedals. The only way I know how to describe it is that it sounds like it might be going in and out of phase.
Depending on the pedal, there might be almost a slight vibrato effect happening (much like when I use a phaser pedal with subtle settings). Other times, it sounds like some of EQ settings drop in and out. I understand that the pedals I’ve been using aren’t designed for bass so there can be a loss of low end, but that’s not what’s happening here.
Some pedals I’ve tried: Way Huge Red Llama, Drunk Beaver Seattle Driver, Walrus Iron Horse, and EHX Op Amp Big Muff (the latter two I played through my Tri Parallel Mixer to preserve the low end). To some extent, the issue exists with all the pedals I’ve tried.
Does anyone know why this is happening? The bass sounds fantastic otherwise. It’s only using drive/fuzz pedals where this happens.
Mine is: a good overdrive pedal doesn’t need more than two knobs.
Ok, I don’t actually believe that but my favorites lately all have two knobs: DOD 250, Red Llama, and the Lasso section of OBNE’s Pardner.
Anyway, I picked up this Red Llama last week and I’ve been loving it.
I have two amps that I love, a Fender Deluxe Reverb and a Supro Delta King 12. I play mostly at home along with a monthly jam session with friends. Most of the time I’m the only guitarist and we do semi-psychedelic/jam-band covers of folk/classic rock/90s alternative. Volume-wise, the Delta King 12 has been perfect for both home and jamming with friends.
I want to create a stereo rig. As much as I love the Deluxe Reverb, it’s just way too loud. I’ve thought about just getting a second Delta King but I think it’d be fun to go with something else.
What’s everyone’s favorite low-wattage amp? Let’s say 10-15 watts. Tube amp is preferred but not required. Budget is up to $700.
The Cvlt sees it first.
About 20 years ago, I played an out of town show with my band. As we were setting up, I broke a string on my bass. I didn’t have any extra strings, but one of the other bass players was kind enough to let me borrow his. It was a Peavey T-40. I loved it and I’ve wanted one ever since.
After some mishaps with FedEx, my T-40 finally arrived yesterday. I was out of town till today so I didn’t get to play it today. I love it. It needs a set up so I’ll be dropping it off at a music shop tomorrow.
What’s everyone’s favorite vibrato pedal?
Budget is $150, new or used. Not looking for Uni-vibe, just up and down pitch modulation. I’m cool if it does more than one thing, like chorus or flanger.
Edit: I don’t mind knowing about the stuff that’s over my budget too.