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NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« on: November 23, 2014, 12:28:57 PM »
I figured I would heat the old soldering station up.

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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2014, 12:35:57 PM »
I need to do a small amount of soldering as well.

Trouble is, as the weather gets colder the daylight hours get shorter.... so I'll leave it.
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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2014, 04:03:57 PM »
Cool!

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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2014, 07:55:30 PM »
Cool!

What are you building?

It's a Ceriatone Yeti, Basically a hotrodded plexi similar to what Friedman/Cameron etc are all doing.

It has three modes

70s(plexi) 80s (Hotrodded 800) & Modern Which is pretty self explanatory really. All of these are selectable via the Era switch on the front panel.

I did a little more earlier until Farcry 4 arrived.

The only thing I have left to decide on really is the headshell style. I dig the whole plexi vibe but I also like the JCM800 design which would be smaller and lighter.


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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2014, 08:44:46 PM »
Cool, they"re great especially for the price, more so if you can make it yourself.

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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2014, 08:58:12 PM »
Cool, they"re great especially for the price, more so if you can make it yourself.

Aye they're very cost effective.

Do you have any clips of yours?
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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2014, 09:23:45 PM »
How much does it cost to make compared to buying a premade one?

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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2014, 10:09:45 PM »
Don't hide the diode clipping.

I assume its switched for the higher gain options.

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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2014, 11:25:28 PM »
Don't hide the diode clipping.

I assume its switched for the higher gain options.

Haha i'm not hiding it. Thats how they came and I couldn't be bothered dismantling them.
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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2014, 11:26:33 PM »
How much does it cost to make compared to buying a premade one?

I can't say currently as I haven't ordered all of the parts but i'm expecting it to come out about £450 max. The real cost difference which a lot of people wont want to give up is the amount of time it will take.
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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #10 on: November 24, 2014, 07:31:07 PM »
Sweet project. Most clips of the Yeti sound great. Bet it's nice to have something more straight forward to work on and you gotta have a certain love for a clean turret board presentation. I vote for an 800 style head shell.

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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #11 on: November 24, 2014, 07:36:50 PM »
Sweet project. Most clips of the Yeti sound great. Bet it's nice to have something more straight forward to work on and you gotta have a certain love for a clean turret board presentation. I vote for an 800 style head shell.

AFter the MKIIC+ this is a dream come true! It's pretty sedate. I am leaning towards the 800 style for a personal level but at this point I don't plan on keeping it too long so maybe it would sell better looking more vintage?

This is more about the experience than anything.
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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2014, 05:31:42 PM »
I managed to get 5 minutes in today between all the mayhem.

I wasn't sure about using the 'holy grail' capacitors as I know next to nothing about them but i didn't have any other multisection caps handy so in it went!

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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #13 on: November 25, 2014, 08:55:33 PM »
Hi Tony , couple of clips here, just a field recorder but it gives the flavour. first is plexi mode master & pre amp vols all at about midnight. second is 800 mode with master a 3 oclock and pre amps as before. this means the volume in both cases is about the same.(loud pub gig). first bright switch to the right. very tweakable amp giving pretty much any marshall tone except uber gain. it's a 50w. guitar tokai lp with bridge vh11 engaged.

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Re: NAD: As the weather is getting colder
« Reply #14 on: November 25, 2014, 09:12:42 PM »
and an older clip, plexi mode , lp with p90's