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Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?

172 by VaticanShotglass
Dr Tony Balls wrote: Fri Nov 05, 2021 8:12 am No volume drop and I think the octave effect is definitely worth it. The real question might be how worth it is to have it footswitchable...like how many times is one switching between the two sounds. But at the end of the day it doesnt hurt anything to have the footswitch, just takes up a little more real estate to make it ergonomical.
That's what I meant to ask about, the footswitch. It mostly comes down to what enclosure I'd like to use. The octave sound is sick as shit!
Dr Tony Balls wrote: p.s. as an interesting aside...a while ago Foxx was resurrected and sold reissue units of the Tone Machine. That lasted for a bit then they went out of business, but at the end they were selling off their enclosure stock. I got one and this is my personal Tone Machine:
Way cool. I think there might be some flocking material around here somewhere.

Oh, quick side, side question. Balls, where do you get those little metal plates that you print all your labels on. Like this:
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Are they aluminum? I want to fool around with some etching for all sorts of bullshit and figured little aluminum plates would be best to experiment on.

Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?

173 by Dr Tony Balls
VaticanShotglass wrote: Mon Nov 08, 2021 9:42 pm Oh, quick side, side question. Balls, where do you get those little metal plates that you print all your labels on. Like this:
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Are they aluminum? I want to fool around with some etching for all sorts of bullshit and figured little aluminum plates would be best to experiment on.
They're plastic (most of them, anyway). I get them from a woman in Indiana who runs a faceplate etching service called Precision Design. Are there undoubtedly closer options to me to get such a thing done? Yes. But i've just been using her forever and so I keep with it. She provides all the faceplates for Weber amp kits, and so it was easy to start customizing amp plates through her, and eventually ones for pedals. But yeah anyone with a laser engraver/cutter could do the job i'm sure.
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Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?

175 by VaticanShotglass
Dr Tony Balls wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:35 am They're plastic (most of them, anyway). I get them from a woman in Indiana who runs a faceplate etching service called Precision Design. Are there undoubtedly closer options to me to get such a thing done? Yes. But i've just been using her forever and so I keep with it. She provides all the faceplates for Weber amp kits, and so it was easy to start customizing amp plates through her, and eventually ones for pedals. But yeah anyone with a laser engraver/cutter could do the job i'm sure.
Ah. I'm looking for something aluminum to practice chemical etching just for fun. Those plates look really good though, I see why'd you'd stick with her.
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