OT: You know you're an FX geek when...

[Phorhas]

When you beg old ladies to give you their old worn out radio sets in  exchange to a new HiFi thingy... only to end up staring at their puzzled faces...

:?

[RDV]

There is a cool looking box of SPAM at supermarket next to tuna and sardines... Dont know if I can eat SPAM

Spam is the world's greatest food! Bow!!.. to the almighty SPAM :!:  :!:  :!:

Seriously; just slice it thin & fry it up & put on your favorite bread with your favorite cheese...then pop a few anti-cholesterol pills of your choice!

TASTY!

RDV

[puretube]

... when you have the diystompboxes.com forum as your internet explorer startup page :mrgreen:

et tu, mi fili?

[Ge_Whiz]

I'm pink, therefore I'm spam.

[Phorhas]

Now I have that whole Monty Python SPAM scketch stuck in mt head

[Alex C]

When you DREAM you're walking the copper traces of a circuit board... and looking for a better route!  

- Doug B.

...when you dream you're in the supermarket and you discover that they now sell the Maplin's catalog in the US (and in the dream you actually flip through the pages and read the specs and look at pictures of components).  

...when you not only beg but *command* family members not to throw out old computer monitors, modem boxes, VCRs, etc., because they're filled with salvageable components.

You know you're an amp geek when...

You flip out after seeing an "AC30 Product Manual" on the kitchen counter, only to realize it's a troubleshooting guide for the swimming pool pump.

...when you gather hundreds of feet of leftover household electrical wiring, each about 2 feet long,  from the trash pile at work (home construction) because you can't stand to see it go to waste.

Alex

[sir_modulus]

Your best pickup line is:
I'm high plate voltage, and my cathode resistor is all hot for you....baby...

[Paul Marossy]

Boy Alex, I must be a DIY geek!  :oops:
Several of those things you wrote have crossed my mind before. I might add that dead computer power supplies and fax machines can yield a lot of different parts, too. I have two amps that I have built now that have salvaged power supply fans for cooling. And I have built several stompboxes with the polystyrene caps that I pulled out of a dead commerical quality fax machine.

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

....when you take all your FX to a gig, but forget your guitar... and everyone says you sound the same as always! :oops:

[zenpeace69]

Funny stuff.  :lol:

[william]

when you relate better to your iron better than other people.  sad as it is, at least I understand what makes my iron work........

[Somicide]

...when you compare you're friends musical tastes to diodes (I like Korn 1n4918); (I like Cream Ge)

[Arn C.]

....when you end up with so many pedals and supplies to build them with, that you have to tell one of your kids, "It is time for you to leave our home now!", so you can use their room      

Peace!
Arn C.

[zachary vex]

when i wake up and realize i'm still me.  this thread isn't funny for me.  i'm a little verklempt.  talk amongst yourselves.  i'll give you a topic... star trek.

[EdJ]

When you are exited for the postman to arrive,bringing you some new resistors.(I am :oops: )
Ed

[RDV]

...when you start talking to ordinary citizens about what you're doing and they look at you like you've grown a second grotesque head.

...when your 13 yr old son calls you at work to tell you your parts came in from eBay. YAY!

...when you make up a little name for your imaginary company and put it's little logo with your picture on the forum. Ooops. That's me.

RDV

[Prive]

this is the most stupid one....
thinking about changing your lamplight on-off switch with a 3PDT one + led indicator which tells you when the light's on      

Obviously TRUE BYPASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[zener]

When your building more effects than you'll ever need or you can get the same sound out of the effect you're building with that of the one you already have.

I'm guilty of that :roll: .

I have more stompboxes than the a guy a few blocks away from my place who plays in a band. I have 5 distortions and 2 wahs and the guy only has a distortion and a delay or flanger. :shock:  Furthermore, there are still at least 8 more stompboxes in my to-build list. :shock: And I don't play in a band,  just playing all by myself :shock:  :?  

Another thing, in my Ecology class in college, we were sent to the park to do some planting. But I had another thing in mind. :twisted:  I volunteered to go to the junkyard where old PC's where dumped and I said I'll get monitor cases and turn it into pots for the plants. My friends noticed that I was gone for almost an hour. One of the prettiest girl in the class followed me to the junk yard and there I was, armed with a screw driver and wire cutters, scavenging all those precious film caps, many of which are .1uf.

"What the hell are you doing there, Zener"? asked the pretty girl. "You said you're out for monitor cases, didn't you"?
"Well...uh...recycling. Ain't this time for our Ecology class"? I answered  :wink: :mrgreen:

I could have scavenged maybe a hundred caps if not for her :evil:

Another story I laughed at. Last Christmas, many of my aunts, uncles and cousins were in our house for a dinner. I was busy DIYing in the basement and I didn't have the time to meet them upstairs. Then my pretty (prettier than my classmate who caught me in the junkyard :wink: ) went on the basement and saw me armed with a soldering iron doing my Big Muff while all other stuff are scattered all over the place.

"Merry Christmas, Ner". Oh, I thought you were taking up computer stuff in college. So, it's EE, huh"?
"Uh...No, I'm not taking up any computer course or EE in college. I'm taking up Business". (and that's the truth)  :wink:  :mrgreen:

[el duderino]

When your dad arives home from work with the boot of the car full of weird boxes with circuits inside and you have to smuggle them into your room before your mam finds out!

when one of those devices is a hugemungus really old heart moniter with laods of knobs on it (23 to be precise!) and you stare at it on your bedroom floor in awe for about a week and then rip it apart!!!    

later
eamonn.

[brett]

...when you boss walks into the office when you're designing a PCB and says "Are you still at that?".  You're closing application windows as fast as you can and avoiding his glare and say, truthfully, "yes".  And it was three weeks ago that he last saw you...

I have more stompboxes than the a guy a few blocks away from my place who plays in a band. I have 5 distortions and 2 wahs and the guy only has a distortion and a delay or flanger.

...yeah, a common symptom.  I got 20 boxes and can hardly even play the guitar.