Magic

[PerroGrande]

Their initial start-up wasn't as successful as planned -- or as anyone who has *ever* designed or built anything related to electronics will attest to, it didn't go as planned, but it went fairly close to expectations!

Actually, deep within the recesses of the LHC, the entire unit is controlled by a 3PDT stomp switch.  Somebody forgot the incoming pull-down resistor...   

I could just see that thread now...

PHYZXCat01 wrote:  Okay, so I'm building the GGG version of the LHC.  The unit works fine on bypass, but when I stomped the switch I got that annoying popping sound and several of the superconducting magnets dropped off line.  HELP!

PhysDr_of_Doom wrote:  Noooooooooooob!   Check the wiring to ur switch.

PHYZXCat01 wrote:  I checked everything. It looks okay.  I think maybe I fried the 2N5088.

RockinHadron wrote:  try using your dark matter probe to see which stage is down.

ElementaryParticleTart wrote:  I had the same problem with my LHC.  let me know what you find

PhysDr_of_Doom wrote: Nooooooooooooooob!  Check the wiring to ur switch and try the search function.  It is like u only have 1 PhD.  LOLZ!

PHYZXCat01 wrote:  Okay - I found the problem.  I forgot the incoming pulldown resistor which made the pop.  It said *optional* on the layout so I left it out.  DOH!  Now I gotta order two new superconducting magnet sections and a bunch of liquid helium.  Oh well -- thanks for the help.  Time for another Small Bear order.  Hope they're not out of superconducting magnets.

[WGTP]

"When you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer, Superstition ain't the way,"  Stevie Wonder

Since I don't understand this stuff, it must be Magic!!!  

Recently working with the CMOS 4049 chip, I had to modify my standard approach.  My understanding of the rules that applied to it weren't quit the same as a std. op amp or discrete unit.  

To me, Mojo can be nothing, or it can be something we don't understand yet.  Most of you understand way more than I, or your typical guitarist/musician.   But to us non-understanders, it's Mojo.  

[DougH]

Rules are perhaps more for humans than for nature.  Nature is what it is. 

Excellent point!
And if we think the universe cannot exist outside our understanding or perception of it, just because we have grabbed a small contextual corner of it that is predictable- we're just kidding ourselves...

I must not have been clear.

No R.G., you were perfectly clear, except for that Black Hole stuff which I never really understood anyway...

Anyway, I wasn't responding to your post, just responding to Frank because I thought he made an excellent point- hence why I quoted him and not you...

[Ben N]

So you can't bend the rules, but you can bend light, and you can bend notes, so how about a micro-BH powered whammy work-alike? How cool would that be?

Uh, could someone post a vero layout, 'cause I don't think I can breadboard that.

May be time to update the troubleshooting sticky, doncha think?

[Roobin]

So you can't bend the rules, but you can bend light, and you can bend notes, so how about a micro-BH powered whammy work-alike? How cool would that be?

Uh, could someone post a vero layout, 'cause I don't think I can breadboard that.

May be time to update the troubleshooting sticky, doncha think?

Lol - "DEBUGGING II - What to do if it doesn't work...and you lose something in a micro BH"

"Don't worry - if you lose a screw or resistor, just think, your parallel self now has one screw extra.  Hopefully they will lose one sooner or later, and you should end up with one. Be warned though - allow for some increase in length."

In all seriousness, I'm waiting for someone to introduce superconductivity to FX. I've seen cryogenic pots etc, but I'm just waiting for the superconducting cable -" Because your tone deserves to be free" etc garble garble

[Ben N]

Oh, yeah--nothing less than superconducting cable will do to connect your 1950s technology guitar to your 1930s technology amp. 

[rogeryu_ph]

Is there someone has Psilocybe overdrive schematic out here, Wow I thought Dr. Timothy Leary is death, man this is acid     I can't distinguish LED to LSD now......

[frank_p]

Why Mojo and Science is like a pair of socks ?  Can someone can explain this to me ? 
Why they always come in a pair ?
If you use them to much, you'll end up with holes somewhere;
if you don't look at it for too long you'll end up stinking;
and if you want them always clean, you'll end loosing one in the end.

Unless your "natural mother" is there for you.

%*&@ !!!

I think I'm getting too Rhyzomatic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy)

Thanks again Doug. 

Is there someone has Psilocybe overdrive schematic out here, Wow I thought Dr. Timothy Leary is death, man this is acid     I can't distinguish LED to LSD now......

And when I wrote the post yesterday I was working on the Millenium-Bypass with my plugboard.
I don't know why neither, but every time I work on that, an "Illumination" appears.
Brilliant R.G. !!!  I'm in the Nirvana with that !
Thanks for the book title, it will make a great book for my father birthday, he's not scientific for two cents...

[rogeryu_ph]

Why Mojo and Science is like a pair of socks ?  Can someone can explain this to me ? 
Why they always come in a pair ?
If you use them to much, you'll end up with holes somewhere;
if you don't look at it for too long you'll end up stinking;
and if you want them always clean, you'll end loosing one in the end.

Unless your "natural mother" is there for you.

%*&@ !!!

I think I'm getting too Rhyzomatic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy)

Thanks again Doug. 

Is there someone has Psilocybe overdrive schematic out here, Wow I thought Dr. Timothy Leary is death, man this is acid     I can't distinguish LED to LSD now......

And when I wrote the post yesterday I was working on the Millenium-Bypass with my plugboard.
I don't know why neither, but every time I work on that, an "Illumination" appears.
Brilliant R.G. !!!  I'm in the Nirvana with that !
Thanks for the book title, it will make a great book for my father birthday, he's not scientific for two cents...

NIRVANA  this is the way i do to get there easily... I do this modification ....errrrrrrr wrong.... meditation in YOGA posture...... Cross your legs,,,,,,, Close your eyes..... and chant ...............Ohm 1k.....Ohmm.........2k..............Ohm......100k...................Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... I meg.    Note: be sure to use only the carbon type resistor 

[petemoore]

  Whatever it is, if I get it working, I'll let you know.

[WGTP]

Funny how the music that is the reason for the technology is a subjective art, but science as well.  Art, Science, Religion, Politics, etc.  The tools we use, from ancient drums and flutes to electronics and computers.  We have been working on the knife for millenium.  Do we have it right yet?   

[The French connection]

Magic is for religion...For the rest, there's Art and Science! 

"One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word."  (Robert A. Heinlein)

Here's some example:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/top-10-amazing.html

Cool musical tesla coil and Reuben's tube BTW...and i got to find sulfur hexafluoride!

Dan

[petemoore]

  Thanks for the AC, frequency really means a lot to us?
  The energy / mass relationship, although it still works great, it's kinda hard to grasp, even harder to explain.
  Frequency / Math: Periodic table and atomic structure seems to be and extremely elaborate math-language which is keeping track of...everything, at least everything we know about which happens to exists in this physical realm.
  When we crack the code completely we'll be happy or satisfied or something.
  Here's a good one: Although it is possible to track the course of an electron, you would need a map the size of the universe.
  I sometimes like this one: "I was happier before I knew stuff".

[frank_p]

NIRVANA  this is the way i do to get there easily... I do this modification ....errrrrrrr wrong.... meditation in YOGA posture...... Cross your legs,,,,,,, Close your eyes..... and chant ...............Ohm 1k.....Ohmm.........2k..............Ohm......100k...................Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... I meg.    Note: be sure to use only the carbon type resistor 

Yes and after you can beat Karate Kid :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvq1BHpRAbc
That is how they do it :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qHL2PSpecI&feature=related
National geographic don't say if these guys build stompboxes.
They do this to protect us. 

  Whatever it is, if I get it working, I'll let you know.

Peter I found it ! :
Proven !

Now put your Tube Screamer in it and shake if it dont have the good chip.  Now, open and look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ2RolV_XPk&feature=related
Magic ! Woaahh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb2a2pNBR0c
It was not the socks ! ?  Sorry.

It didn't work with my tuning fork but it is still cool magic science.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HioWoXQSSA&feature=related

Will try this tomorow on my MXR Distortion Plus.  I have this melotron tune somewhere... (R.G. will be convinced)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhpJ1t8z4rU&feature=related
Memory of water is well known, so put it in your 10 band equalisers guys, to remember the settings.  It will adjust automatically to the tune you are playing. But remember to put magic sand near the power jack, cause it is hydrophobic.
Will try this tomorow on my MXR Distortion Plus.  I have this melotron tune somewhere...

And don't do this on your axe...: It will not work, I think...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU7jZoq9qD8&feature=related

But if the magic guitar exist, there should be a magic stompbox somewhere...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mExxw_fbsRc

Hope The Tone God will put the magic stompbox contest soon because they are pretty hard to find these days.
Where the hell are they !  But everybody say there is magic stomboxes on their sites.  I am becoming sad cause Youtube becomes my life and there is no evidence that magic stompboxes exist.
I WANT A MAGIC STOMPBOX : DID YOU HEAR ...  not magic pants... hhh.

But there are ideas :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PBkrXAab38&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rasp88nbsRw&NR=1

And with this guide of ultimate MOJO, it should help too.
http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/grimoire/theblackpullett.pdf

The hen that laid golden egg, transmutation of your solderin lead in gold and how to make a fortune out of stompboxes...