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Schematic for "Stac in a box"??????

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2/7/1998 5:12 PM
Paradiddle7	Schematic for "Stac in a box"?????? Does anyone happen to have the schematic for this unit?. Any good things to be said about it? Thanks Jeff

2/7/1998 10:42 PM

Craig Anderton's article w/schematic describing how to build the SIAB appeared in the Feb. '93 issue of Guitar Player Magazine.

http://www.paia.com/" TARGET="_top">PAiA has the http://www.paia.com/tubehsch.gif" TARGET="_top">TubeHead schematic online, which is very similar, but it lacks the output filtering of the SIAB and is set up for line-level input rather than guitar.

Jack Orman has some http://members.aol.com/jorman3/siab.html" TARGET="_top">comments on building and modifying the SIAB on http://members.aol.com/jorman/index.html" TARGET="_top">DMZ.

2/7/1998 11:47 PM

Adam Frankowski

>Does anyone happen to have the schematic for >this unit?. Any good things to be said about it?

The unit wasn't too bad. My friend bought one used. It had already been assembled by someone.

I had an old stereo laying around that I wasn't using anymore. The stereo had one of those do it all POWER AMP IC's. I think it was 50W a side.
Anyhow, I hooked my friends Stack In A Box up to the power amp and ran two sets of speakers off of it and it had a real nice sound to it.

Sounded great with a cd-player running through it.

As for guitar.. I wasn't too crazy about it.
The speaker/cabinet emulation kind of sucked. The distortion could have sounded better.

It only used one 12AX7 and I think it had a few operational amplifier ic's in it as well.

I guess it could be "OKAY" for direct recording.

Maybe playing around with some of the values might give it a better tone.

I wouldn't buy one. I don't know how PAIA's Tube Mic Pre-amps sound. I wouldn't mind having one of those.

Later.

2/8/1998 4:56 AM
harlan stephens	Adam I agree with you on the s.a.b. I built the paia kit and get a better tone with a amp and mic set up .I want to try a compresser on it ,I think thats what it needs.h.y.s.

2/8/1998 7:48 AM
Paradiddle	Thanks for the responses. Do anyone have a scanned photo of the schematic?. How does the tubehead differ?....does it sound much different?

2/8/1998 4:35 PM
harlan stephens	Sorry jeff I dont have a scanner the schematic is avilable in craig andertons (projects for guitarist)isbn # (0-87930-359-x)Flam Tap.

2/9/1998 3:20 PM
Mark Hammer	I have the magic combo of scanner + schematic at home. I'll see what I can whip up over the next few days. Look for a largish GIF-file in your mail.

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