So I have a side venture now, I am going to be building pedals.
I was out looking for electronic components in Chandni Chowk which in India is pretty much the go to place for all electronics, discrete or assembled.
Shop 595 is for components when you want to build projects, shop 611 is for all kinds of integrated circuits and rare semiconductors that you cannot find in 595.
So I was in 611 looking for 2N7000s (low voltage FET), TL082's (dual op-amp). If you can't tell already, I am trying my hands on building a FullTone OCD overdrive pedal as my pilot pedal project. I have scavenged an MXR Dist+ that I couldn't use much, for the enclosure, jacks and foot-switch.
So the shop has this neat system of inventory with stacks of boxes that have labels of the IC numbers that I can read over the counter.
I saw the TLC series and the TC series and my eyes went through the sticker on that box until I saw TC4420 which I had really wanted a decade ago when I was obsessing over Solid State Tesla Coils.
I suddenly just wanted to buy it and asked for the price. However, something happened at the moment and I realized that even if I bought it, I probably wouldn't be building a SSTC any time soon. The time has come for me to focus on doing the right thing at the right time, Right now, I really have to build pedals, nothing else should be taking my time away except my academic obligations maybe.
So yes, focus, it is important. I have someone who is in the know of business and wants me to work the way he knows that it will work. So I will be building guitar pedals, acoustic guitar pickups and vacuum tube amplifiers. This is important if I want to have a business, to make things that sell.
Let's get the Fulltone OCD going.
