I wonder if I should try Shou Sugi Ban to make the poles in the kids sandbox more durable

I forgot to brag yesterday

About body parts?

@PlasmaHH about parts

first try

(yes I know the boards are wonky they aren't my designs)

Hand drawn with much space... Imagine how small it could be as smd

Also I'm considering SMD more and more actually

I dread drilling all of those holes now

Cheap drill bits tend to last for one PCB minus the last hole

Those two things couldn't really be SMD though, they're guitar effects

How does it make then inherently non smd?

@PlasmaHH you need to use all of the crappy special components

because it all affects the sound

heck, some die-hard fanatics won't use PCB-based effects or amps because it "kills the tone"

(said an owner of a hand-wired amp)

Utter bullshit

for the most part, yeah

but there's still something to the fact that instrumental electronics are all about the small imperfections

No, it is all about personal taste

and it so seems that most personal tastes converge to the imperfect analog amplifiers and effects

Either you like your audio without distortion, or you like distortion but only one kind and not the other

@BartekBanachewicz pah, all hogwash, a few idiots blubber nonsense and everyone follows to be cool.

I almost died laughing when some audiophools did blind testing of speaker cables and the technician put in coat hanger wire, which won

@PlasmaHH lol

yeah in all of those tests I did on myself the only thing I could reliably pick out was speakers/headphones

especially when modern digital amps and formats are involved

@BartekBanachewicz maybe sell people a cheap version of this: lessloss.com/blackbody-p-200.html

@BartekBanachewicz There is not a single thing that old electronics does that I cannot recreate as good as any 48bit DAC can ever output it using a floating point processor

@BartekBanachewicz I see EddingEffect

I have correlated Edding ink's adhesion and Copper Sulphate concentration inversely

Results have not been peer reviewed, but red Staedtler works the best up to "pretty old" etchant

Edding pens seem to very much be a Ferri Chloride masker

Also, make sure nips stay fresh, makes a big difference. don't use them on porous materials and such

(paper/wood/etc)

@BartekBanachewicz There is an inherent spacial effect in having a mildly reverberous room that we get used to. Expensive headphones (such as which professional gamers use) with the right tools can recreate those effects pretty well, but that is the one thing in audio experience I can agree on based on factual research

For fun find your closest anechoic chamber and ask if you can sit in it on your own for 10 minutes in a coffee break or some such

Some people nearly loose their minds before the first 15 minutes are over.

@PlasmaHH Especially the clearly scientifically based differences between how an amplifier colours the sound if it's encased in rosewood or ebony are mind blowing!

Anyone know what these are ? They're on a computer motherboard next to the CPU. Some sort of voltage regulator ? Googling the numbers yields nothing..

They're labeled "DO132 FDB GO35"

@Asmyldof that's theory, and yet there are only a few digital modelers at the market that pass the blind A/B testing with analog gear, and they cost quite substantial money

@Asmyldof again, hand drawn just where the transfer failed

this is the thermotransfer sheet that's supposed to be white

altough I have to say that the pen looks like a viable option; it's considerably simpler if the board is simpler as well

@JonasCz probably some FETs

@BartekBanachewicz btw the last times I etched something I used voronoi patterns, saves on etchant (and time)

@BartekBanachewicz that is because it is not easy to model the distortions of old equipment with modern technology, and the market is tiny

@PlasmaHH It's more the tiny market than the difficulty. If audiophoolery would just accept that it is extremely doable, devices that do it would be in the range of $30. But they won't accept it's possible, so they create their own insane market of $5000 amplifiers that "sound super special old timey nicer warm sound stuff things"

The amount of research and implementation required with a mid to low end modern processing platform is microscopic compared to some other things we consider house-hold now

Hm, some "wood gray remover" in the DIY store is 9.99 and the amount of chemicals when I do it myself costs me about 22¢ ... If only I could make that much money on products

You can. It's called being an asshole