It opened fine in Acrobat Reader 8.1. Current version is 9 I think, perhaps you have an old version with which this document is not compatible.

We'd all be interested in some clips if you can manage it.

Have a Good Christmas

Thank you Marin. Happy Christmas to you and everyone here aswell.

Santa arrived early for me. DC-30 kit arrived last Friday.

Here it is

http://ceriatoneforum.com/index.php?topic=871.0

Beware, lethal voltages inside, take it to a tech if you're not confident.

If your happy to delve inside theres a voltages chart published somewhere on this forum (recently if I recall), I'd check yours against this standard. You haven't snuck a 12AU7 in there by mistake have you?

Its not a 240v version running on 110 is it?

Tried a different guitar cable? I wonder if it has an incorrect MV pot in there? Email Nik, you'll find him extremely helpful.

I know you shouldn't have to, but it might just be quicker to take it to a tech and have him check it over. 

Thanks Doc, this time I'm quite hopeful. I was disappointed with the G# on its own in the loop a real tone sucker, but now I've just left the G# volume at 12 0'clock and balanced the volumes with the Klein.

I still haven't worked out which volume/level knob to raise/lower, I've just been jacking them all up a bit at the same time. I dare say I will find theres a minor tone difference by keeping one lower and raising the others. Could do with some experienced K users input really.

I will post some better pics when the light is better and I get to finish off the rear connections. Alos as soon as I get time I'll redo the layout so its correct (it isn't at the moment). If anyone wants a parts list I might be able to knock that together also.

I also made another identical shell which I haven't covered yet (it always pays to make two incase you balls one up). So if anyone in the UK is interested, its for sale, cheap as is, or I can finish it off.

Fitted it all together, the contacts on the tranny were mighty close to the lid so had to insert some foam pads. Mounted it in the shell I made for it.

The the time came to do a full test, and lo and behold it worked !! I have had to use some balanced patch cables that are a bit too long and could be picking up some noise. Will set it up properly with some colour coded George l's so its all neat around the back. The noise is like a low hiss and is not really noticeable.

So far its very encouraging, not had much time to do a great deal of testing, but being able to bypass is worth its weight in gold for the purpose of A/B'ing the sounds, just flick the bypass switch and both the Klein and any FX are out of the loop. I'm finding the Klein is a little too bright with both switches on and just maybe theres a little less bottom end, but I'd say I'm pretty happy with the sound so far.

I think I'm going to find the G# annoying though. Its too difficult to know what patch has what effects/levels applied. I'll have to make up a laminated card that lives in the bottom of the rack unit. I intedn using the G-Switch to swap patches, but that switch won't live on my board, it'll just sit either on top of the unit or on the floor next to it. So far though the reverbs and delays sound nice and the chorus isn't bad either, good enough to allow me to get rid of my Boss unit.

Fitted the diode and resistor and coupled remaining wires up, then found , by a process of elimination that the relay switching was not as expected so had to swap 4 wires over there.

Set the bias on the FET to 22v as per Niks instructions.

Also had a rethink of the footswitch/bypass wiring and made that simpler. Had to replace one LED that had blown. That got all the switching working as expected.....

A number of things come to mind. I find that at home 12 o'clock on both input volume and master volume is very loud, but get in a closed room with a loud drummer and its barely enough. If you've got another loud guitarist aswell its no wonder you're up to 3 o'clock. But this would be too loud for most small venues I'd venture.

Also what speakers are you using. You will get a huge volume increase using 100dB sensitivity speakers over 94-96 dB speakers. Is your speaker cable good? check the connectors and use 2.5mm sq conductors.

I bet you're standing by your rig right? and in a small room you tend to stand closer than normal. In a closed room all you can hear is the rest of the band. Swap places with the guy across the other side so you're hearing what he's hearing. At our last band rehearsal I could hardly hear myself but everyone else said I was too loud, I was stood close to my rig so all my sound was around my thighs!

Parts arrived  today with my new DC-30 kit. I hope to find time over the holidays to get it all finished and tested, but the temptation to start building the DC-30 first will be difficult to resist.

Arrived today. Won't be able to start until new year though.

Don't know eactly but you could try putting the tone stack values into Duncan Amps Tone Stack Calculator and then play around with different values.

http://duncanamps.com/tsc/index.html

I'd be very interested in how you get on doing that. Going for AB763? I think the Super runs with higher voltages than the OTS doesn't it?

I've got Fralin Vintage Hot in my strat and they are very good. My LP Custom with stock pups is disappointing, my Ibanez 335 is much better with Fralin PAF's, but I still prefer the strat with sc's, especailly the clean channel.