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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: B Tremblay on June 23, 2004, 12:54:47 PM

Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: B Tremblay on June 23, 2004, 12:54:47 PM
For all you bassists, the Flipster is a FET emulation of the Ampeg Portaflex SB-12. Check it out!

Article, schematic, and PCB/perfboard layout: http://runoffgroove.com/flipster.html
Sound clip: http://runoffgroove.com/salvo.html#flipster

Many thanks to the beta testers!
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: gez on June 23, 2004, 12:57:23 PM
B, pretty soon you're going to need a separate web site for all these emulators!

Nice work though... :D
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: smoguzbenjamin on June 23, 2004, 12:59:35 PM
Cool! Is it any good for guitar though? :mrgreen:
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: Lonestarjohnny on June 23, 2004, 01:01:44 PM
Another Kewl 1 from The RunOffGroove Guy's, 8)  8)  8)
JD
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: puretube on June 23, 2004, 01:03:22 PM
you guyz are amazing :!:  :!:  :!:

(I`m currently designing a pedal under the name of "NAROG",
= "Not At Run Off Groove" - sorry: little joke  :lol:  )
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: EdJ on June 23, 2004, 01:20:28 PM
Great!I will do my wife a pleasure and build it tomorrow!
Thanks very much.
Ed
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: Bucksears on June 23, 2004, 01:33:05 PM
Nice.....I love distortions and have a lot of ones that I want to build, but this is a 'need to build' kinda tool for me.
Thanks ROG!!!!
Title: Flipster
Post by: StephenGiles on June 23, 2004, 01:53:16 PM
This almost makes me want to change that line in The Train Kept a Rollin - you know the one "She was a hipster, and a real gone chick"! Yet another good one from these folks out there. Wasn't there last offering called the English Channel? Well, today all cross channel services were suspended because of rough seas - force 7-9!
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: Marcos - Munky on June 23, 2004, 02:13:05 PM
Cooolllll!!!! :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: B Tremblay on June 23, 2004, 02:41:04 PM
Quote from: smoguzbenjaminCool! Is it any good for guitar though?

It sure is!
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: JonC on June 23, 2004, 02:43:36 PM
Yes, guitars sound good through it as well.  Also, the tone controls are very effective.
Title: Oh, man! Here we go again!
Post by: David on June 23, 2004, 02:50:20 PM
You guys are crazy!

But while you're at it, how about emulating that Marshall bass amp so I can get the Chris Squire sound?

Please?
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: Jason Stout on June 23, 2004, 04:34:28 PM
QuoteBut while you're at it, how about emulating that Marshall bass amp so I can get the Chris Squire sound?

Man I wish I could play half as well as him!
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: RDV on June 23, 2004, 04:39:19 PM
I like that. It's got that 'old school' bass sound.

RDV
Title: Re: Oh, man! Here we go again!
Post by: bwanasonic on June 24, 2004, 12:30:19 AM
Quote from: David
But while you're at it, how about emulating that Marshall bass amp so I can get the Chris Squire sound?


<thread hijacking tangent>
I was a total Yes obsessive in the early-mid 70's, but basically stopped
listening to the *Prog* idols of my youth by '77. I just recently embarked
on a Prog *rediscovery* and that involved busting out my faded and well
worn original vinyl copy of "Yessongs" (with some suspect looking green
dust embedded in the inner creases of the Roger Dean art). It really
brought home how much this music shaped my whole musical concept. It
also reminded me of how much my wah sound *ideal* came from Chris
Squire. I always think of Jimi, Frank Zappa and the 70's era electric Mile
s Davis stuff, forgetting how cool Chris sounded.

</thread hijacking tangent>



Kerry M
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: Paul Marossy on June 24, 2004, 02:20:12 PM
You guys are something else! Where do y'all find the time?!?
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: Jason Stout on June 25, 2004, 09:36:11 AM
QuoteI like that. It's got that 'old school' bass sound.

It sure does! If you play a little with FET types and set the tone controls just right, Jack Bruce tones can be had.

8)
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: EdJ on June 25, 2004, 04:07:22 PM
One question;the first resistor on the pcb layout says 4k7 and the schematic says 47k.I assume the one on the schematic is the right one?
Thanks in advance,Ed
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: B Tremblay on June 25, 2004, 04:13:33 PM
The schematic is correct.  Thanks for catching that, I'll get the parts list on the layout fixed.
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: EdJ on June 25, 2004, 04:43:47 PM
Thanks for your answer.
I hoped to get soldering tonight but it seems i ran out of perfboard and i just can`t find my mini drill. :x
Ed
Title: New at runoffgroove.com: Flipster
Post by: Gringo on June 25, 2004, 05:05:48 PM
Sorry for that mistake in the parts list  :oops:

I already mailed Brian with the corrected pdf.