hi all,
late last night I discovered that you can just use normal copier/laser printer paper to do layout transfers. Cheaper and faster than PNP or special paper. It's already in your laser printer. Do use the shiny side of the paper -- yes they have two sides. Just iron it on as you do with other heat transfers.
I put some pics on my blog
http://modman.blogdrive.com/archive/41.html
Nobody really tried this before?
thanks!
J
Re: diystompboxes.com
thanks gtrwrks!
Gila: Diystompboxes has just gotten too big -- they caught everyone's eye. That's ok. But spreading misinformation and drawing up blurry rules is a bad deal. Becoming the marketing leg of Small Bear...
maybe we should start a whole new unaffiliated forum for people sharing the same ideas? a free forum means you gotta swallow the adds though
http://www.phpbbserver.com/freestompboxes/
Are they gonna sue me now?
I'll throw some more illegal bait later on .... ;D
ZJ
Re: diystompboxes.com
Glad to see so many familiar people here. MarkM! Nothing is ever going to stop you from stompboxing 
Maybe Zacky was just unable to trace this hidden secret correctly?
Z's boxes are great in the sense that they are economical in every sense: box size, pcb layout, mounted pots, number of components. Especially the latter makes them easy bait for tracing... that is why he's freaking out of course. Not like tracing a Boss Digital Delay.
That Z is present on the board is just self-promotion, of course, aside from keeping an eye out for schemo's. Of course he will help out customers.
If posting schematics (necessarily unprotected -- every analog stompbox is) is threatening to his business, the whole board is threatening his business. And it probably is... Isn't the whole bottom line: you can build your own boutique pedal at a notion of the price you would pay a commerical pedal maker?
Making your box look just like it and selling it off as such is illegal, but that has nothing to do with protected schematics or so, only illegitemate use of trademark.
With a 15V organ distortion preamp schematic based on russion minitubes at hand, I once asked - did anybody ever tried to build a guitar distortion box with them, he answered.
"zachary vex
Posts: 938
Re: Russian mini tubes
« Reply #29 on: November 28, 2006, 03:20:02 PM »
submini tubes aren't good for anything!
8^P"
some months later his pimpamp or whatsitcalled came out...
Re: diystompboxes.com
Analogur, still have to read your post, ...but still
From diystompboxes.com:
Created by aron on 23 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
6-19-07 FORUM IS DOWN. I am working out it.
I hope to have it up soon.
Thanks for the comments, in my view they're all on the mark.
Diystompboxes.com is a great site and will go down in history. But make no mistake, the traffic that is generated by this site represent a lot money. I still cannot believe that Aron can support that gigantic forum with just this little store. I suspect that smallbear and geofex and into the deal as well.
The dissemination of schematics is what has made the DIY Stompboxes live a second youth, and we all know the old soldiers that have made it happen. To blame newbies for doing the same thing, ie spreading schematics, is just sad. Boutique pedal makers too, got their ideas from other schematics too, and learned from them.
Anyway, Aron wants to put a halt to something he cannot stop, just to save his personal friendship with some boutique pedal makers? Discussion will happen, exchange will happen, it will just happen elsewhere, this forum for example. Furthermore, forbidding x and y schematics give the impression that they are the ultimate mojo and great secrets are to be discovered. Blatant promotion of the pedal maker in question, of course.
What is really sad is that a great community gets shattered into little groups, instead of sharing one and the same platform. The bigger the forum, the stronger.
just had to get this off my chest, guys,
thanks for being responsive.
ps: earlier today, i started setting up a brand new forum for diystomp exiles, but perhaps somewhat prematurely. ;D
Re: diystompboxes.com
... but you don´t need to write in german, I think most of us are able to read and write in englisg as well - real english is even better to understand than artificial german created by crappy software!
thanks so much for your hospitality -- I figured this would be the case ...
Zitat von soulsonic
Hallo!I noticed the diystompboxes site was down too, so I also came snooping around here to see what all the fuss was about. I wish I could write German... I can read it well enough to navigate around, but I'd have a hard time posting in German without a translatorprogram.
This forum looks very nice - it gives me a good excuse to learn German!
Makes me worry too, a while ago Paul Marossy still had a forum on his site too, but that's gone without a trace as well.
let's hope it's not permanent
j
hallo,
Ich neu hier und folge eifrig den Diskussionen. Ich kann Deutsch lesen, aber Schreiben ist nicht offensichtlich. Glücklicherweise gibt es on-line-Übersetzer. ;D
Die letzten Monate, verbrachte ich die meisten meiner Zeit an ' diystompboxes.com ' und selbstverständlich elt die neue Diskussion über ' vzex ' zeigte mir die Weise zu diesem Forum rad.
Meine reale Frage war: ist war Haltung dieses Brettes zu dieser Angelegenheit? Werden einige Diagramme nicht erlaubt? ' Diystompboxes.com ' scheint nicht zu verstehen, daß der Austausch von diesem Diagramme geschehen wird, was auch immer ihre Politik auf der Angelegenheit.
Auch ich beachtete, daß die Web site ' diystompboxes.com ' nicht während des Momentes zugänglich ist. Weiß jemand alles über dieses?
danke J
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hello,
i'm new here and avidly following the discussions.
I can read German, but writing is not evident. Luckily, there are online translators.
The last few months, I spent most of my time at 'diystompboxes.com' and of course the recent discussion of 'vzex' pedals showed me the way to this forum.
My real question was: was is this board's attitude to this matter? Are some schematics not allowed?
'Diystompboxes.com' does not seem to understand that the exchange of this schematics is going to happen, whatever their policy on the matter.
Also I noticed that the website 'diystompboxes.com' does not work for the moment. Does anybody know anything about this?
thanks
J
Re: LED in Cry Baby Classic ????
maybe this helps:
http://www.stinkfoot.se/andreas/diy/mods/dunlop.htm
http://modman.blogdrive.com/archive/12.html
zj
