Build Shit - DIY - What's On Your Bench?

[amishrobots]

That BLMS sticker rocks. As far as I know, he's not making those anymore; now they just say "Love My Switches". I guess he pussed out. I still have some of the old square style styickers, not sure if I have any of the cool round ones like that. So pleasing how nice it fits on your project.

[Indeterminacy]

I've played shows recently the involve me walking into venue carrying everything I will use in one trip with two arms.

Tell me one of those arms carried a DC-300A:

[crochambeau]

I've played shows recently the involve me walking into venue carrying everything I will use in one trip with two arms.

Tell me one of those arms carried a DC-300A:

Hahaha, no. I was relying on someone else to provide sound on that date. Nice amp though.

[Indeterminacy]

This should be fun.

I've had this headstock for 30 odd years. I placed it on a peg
on the wall that my bench is screwed too. That peg was a convenient
place in the moment that was used again under the same circumstances
that resulted in out of sight out of mind syndrome. For quite a while.

[crochambeau]

This should be fun.

I've had this headstock for 30 odd years. I placed it on a peg
on the wall that my bench is screwed too. That peg was a convenient
place in the moment that was used again under the same circumstances
that resulted in out of sight out of mind syndrome. For quite a while.

Oh hey! Looks like a late 1970s Gibson RD standard bass headstock. I look forward to seeing what you build with it.

[Indeterminacy]

Oh hey! Looks like a late 1970s Gibson RD standard bass headstock. I look forward to seeing what you build with it.

The possibility of the gathering whole bass proper is on my mind.

[crochambeau]

Oh hey! Looks like a late 1970s Gibson RD standard bass headstock. I look forward to seeing what you build with it.

The possibility of the gathering whole bass proper is on my mind.

Do you mean recombining the original parts? Not out of the question, I'll have to look back and see what I've got into it. It's still unassembled, I was quoted an estimate of $650-950 from a local luthier and other stuff keeps eating down the gear budget - so it remains body, an unworked neck blank from 1981, an a hard shell case that's probably better off staying with me because DIM weight shipping charges will probably over reach the value of the case.

[Indeterminacy]

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1. It's still unassembled

2. other stuff keeps eating down the gear budget

Are all the other parts still around?

You can keep the case.

[crochambeau]

all the other parts

Not sure what you mean here about other parts. I've got the complete body (with electronics still mounted) and a neck blank.

[FAP]

Since I'm at home sick and the forum's recently received a little bump in activity to boot, I might as well cross this post off my to-do list.

Gentlemen, I present you with the fruits of my past six months' labor:

Named for the mythological creature of the same name, the Cacodemon is, in short, an expanded and improved take on Arthur Harrison and Kevin Buckholdt's Cacophonator, a 40106-based hex-oscillator instrument one might liberally consider a "synthesizer."

If my head weren't pounding right now I'd explain its features in-depth: the photos should be fairly self-explanatory anyways.
The only things that may not be immediately apparent are "STARVE OPTIONS and the the functions of J1 & J2.
To the former: "LIFT" sets the starve pot to function as a rheostat (a maximum resistance of 10kΩ between power and the rest of the circuit), while "GND" ties the first lug of the same pot to ground, turning it into a voltage divider.
For the latter: these link to external modules that have yet to be built. J1 & J2 will eventually connect to a box (or two boxes) of vactrol-based LFOs to modulate the pitch of each of the six oscillators.
J2 includes room for two additional vactrol-based LFOs: one of them is routed out through the "SPARES" (essentially converting my traditional tip-sleeve, two-conductor 1/8" jack vactrol setup into two separate, one-conductor jacks), and the other modulates the power starve.
The power starve modulation can be further specified by the white switch on the front: in "DIRECT" mode, when the LED in a vactrol is "on," the power to the rest of the circuit increases, while in "INVERSE" mode, the same LED state decreases power.
Please be aware this power modulation necessitates the use of a current-limiting resistor: I could reflect on this and other things I've learned from this build, just not today. Likewise, I might post the full schematic later though, honestly, anyone (including myself) can build better takes on this general 40106-based concept by instead reading up on Lunetta synths. As it is, the Cacodemon is rather limited to being primarily a drone synthesizer; the idea is, in the future, to build this out further into a proper Lunetta or Lunetta-like modular synth with other 40xx-series ICs.