Continuation of Plexi-Inspired Build

The rear of the chassis was drilled out for the power (Neutrik Powercon) main and HT fuses, bias test points, and various tone mods.

The main perfed turret board is from ValveStorm. Black turret strips are from Antique Electronics Supply (Tubes and More).

I am drafting the layout in AutoCAD to tentatively coordinate the various theoretical locations of drilling points. All holes smaller than 3/4” will be hand drilled. Holes for tube sockets and capacitor cans will be made with the corresponding Greenlee hole punches.

Finalized wiring layout to come prior to further drilling of the chassis. I am trying to find time to coordinate turret board mounting with the mods (black turret strips), Larry grounding, and transformer wiring based on the specific Classictone transformers I plan on purchasing.

Vox Pathfinder 15R Impulse Responses

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I have started making impulse responses of my Vox Pathfinder 15R 1x8 combo amp.

The signal chain is:

Steinberg UR44 Line Out
Art DTI Isolator
Seymour Duncan Powerstage 170 Power Amp
Vox Bulldog 8" Speaker
Shure SM57 Microphone
Stam SA-73 Preamp
Steinberg UR44 Line In

A 3.0s sine sweep was created in Voxengo Deconvolver. The impulses are 500ms long.

Two 2’ x 4’ x 4” OC703 panels are used to cut down on room ambience, as shown in the photo.

I have started with on-axis captures with an SM57 microphone, and will repeat using varying distances with other microphones.

New Pedalboard

Signal Flow

Loop A

-Monoprice Compressor

-Digitech EX-7

-DOD 440

-DOD Gonkulator

Loop B - External Pedals

Behringer UV300

EHX Small Clone

EHX Small Stone

Ibanez PM7

Mosky Spring Reverb

Ibanez DE7

Pedals were installed on a Donner DB-3. Two Snark 9VDC power supplies power 5 pedals each. The Digitech EX-7 is powered off the factory 9VAC power supply.

Loop B is used to patch in different drive pedals.