#54 Recycled backlight LED strip ambient lighting

What with winter drawing closer, and the days (as in daylight) getting shorter up here in the north, one tends to need to turn on the lights more and earlier than in summertime. And since i'm the gathering type, i figured it's about time i put some previously collected materials to (good?) use.

#51 Solar A2.7 & Fishman Fluence Keith Merrow & 5-way install

Local guitarist buddy time again (owner of the Fortin Grind and the Warwick bass amp featured here previously) - after taking several swings at it, he got fed up and let me have a go at installing a brand new set of Fishman Fluence Keith Merrow pickups into his Solar A2.7 guitar. Complete with some custom switching and whatnot, to take full advantage of the entire feature set the pickups offer.

#24 SM Pro Audio TB202 dual tube preamp / channel strip modding & upgrade, part 4

On the note of front panel switches, you might've noticed two extra ones, in the previous post (the part 3). One other idea had crossed my mind, already long before this second stage of modding. It took me a little while, but i managed to get my head around how to implement this. The idea was to be able to swap the order of the two processors in the signal path.

From the factory, as described in the "part one" post, the processing order is input - gain - tube - compressor - EQ - output. But in some cases, it can be desirable to have the EQ come before the compression stage. That way, one can attenuate certain frequency ranges that one would not want the compressor to react to (or conversely, boost ranges for the compressor to react to).

#23 SM Pro Audio TB202 dual tube preamp / channel strip modding & upgrade, part 3

Even before having received the thing, i had already started thinking of daisy-chaining the two channels. In the context of something like a bass preamplifier, for example, one would want a "clean" channel, perhaps with some heavy compression, in order to have a consistent signal (especially in the lower registers), as well as a "dirty" channel, with a high-passed signal having some distortion applied to it.