Student budget valvecaster

[Jule553648]

I built this for total of 8$ and parts laying at home.

Still don't know the good way to make labels.

[Yorick]

That looks awesome!
What is that pedal on the background with the led display?

[Manny]

Very nice indeed. 
I think i'm going to put one of these together soon. Did you try both single and double versions or did you go straight for the double?

[Jule553648]

That looks awesome!
What is that pedal on the background with the led display?

That is my homemade FV1 multiefect. The display shows which program is engaged. Awesome pedal.



---------

I went straight for the double. But I put in the switch to choose only one tube or both.

------

Here are some sound clips.
tube valvecatser  c.mp3

0 - 0:30 - 1 tube
0:40 - 0:58 1 tube crunch
0:58-1:35 2 tubes overdrive on minima gain
1.38 --> high gain, but some strange compression occurs so it sound crappy. But i don't play at such high gain.

[deadastronaut]

clips dont work?...no access...

looks good though!.

[Jule553648]

Where can I upload the clips?

[deadastronaut]

Where can I upload the clips?

i use dropbox....check it out..

[blooze_man]

Nice, dude. If you read this: http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=60421.0  it tells you where you can upload clips on Aron's site.

[Jule553648]

clip:

http://www.aronnelson.com/DIYFiles/up/tube_valvecatser__c.mp3

Excuse my playing. I am still a beginner.

0 - 0:30 - 1 tube
0:40 - 0:58 1 tube crunch
0:58-1:35 2 tubes overdrive on minima gain
1.38 --> high gain, but some strange compression occurs so it sound crappy. But i don't play at such high gain.

[Manny]

Sounds good, It may need some debugging to get both tubes working at higher gain, I know quite a few people have had trouble with this.
I like the sound of both tubes at low gain though 

[DavenPaget]

I built this for total of 8$ and parts laying at home.

Still don't know the good way to make labels.

How did the tube glow white like a LED ? O_o

[tasos]

It actually is a led....
If you buy a 9pin tube socket pretty much everyone of them has a hole in the middle that is not used for our projects-tubes....
So you just stick a led in there and there you have it!
http://kukaudio.buyer-buying.com/kukaudio.co/tube-socket-9pin_2017311.jpg

[DavenPaget]

It actually is a led....
If you buy a 9pin tube socket pretty much everyone of them has a hole in the middle that is not used for our projects-tubes....
So you just stick a led in there and there you have it!
http://kukaudio.buyer-buying.com/kukaudio.co/tube-socket-9pin_2017311.jpg

Yep , i got it , i should get a cheap arc rect tube ( is there any tube cheaper then a 12AX7 but around the size ? ) and then stick a blue/white led 
MOJO FACTOR .
I must mention to get the 12AX7/EL34 or any triode/pentode tube filament glow , one should try 3mm orange's and red's .

[CynicalMan]

It actually is a led....
If you buy a 9pin tube socket pretty much everyone of them has a hole in the middle that is not used for our projects-tubes....
So you just stick a led in there and there you have it!
http://kukaudio.buyer-buying.com/kukaudio.co/tube-socket-9pin_2017311.jpg

Yep , i got it , i should get a cheap arc rect tube ( is there any tube cheaper then a 12AX7 but around the size ? ) and then stick a blue/white led 
MOJO FACTOR .
I must mention to get the 12AX7/EL34 or any triode/pentode tube filament glow , one should try 3mm orange's and red's .

Put out an request for broken 12AX7s on the Buy/Sell forum. You could even offer $2 to sweeten the deal, still cheap enough.

[DavenPaget]

It actually is a led....
If you buy a 9pin tube socket pretty much everyone of them has a hole in the middle that is not used for our projects-tubes....
So you just stick a led in there and there you have it!
http://kukaudio.buyer-buying.com/kukaudio.co/tube-socket-9pin_2017311.jpg

Yep , i got it , i should get a cheap arc rect tube ( is there any tube cheaper then a 12AX7 but around the size ? ) and then stick a blue/white led 
MOJO FACTOR .
I must mention to get the 12AX7/EL34 or any triode/pentode tube filament glow , one should try 3mm orange's and red's .

Put out an request for broken 12AX7s on the Buy/Sell forum. You could even offer $2 to sweeten the deal, still cheap enough.

Good call ! I MUST try that , just that i don't know how the shipping thing here works