teatime wrote: ↑2020-11-12 10:30
If, like me, you don't frequent social media, or enter this forum through the lejonklou.com main page (who does?), you might not have noticed there is now a picture of the front of Giella in the news section (
https://www.lejonklou.com/news/)
Apologies that I didn't put the picture in here! Or a bunch of others for that matter. It's been very hectic here, with all sorts of manufacturing issues to sort out, discovering that 75 of the 100 first cases have a fault and need to be remade, etc, etc, etc.
However, the first 25 Giellas will arrive from Mitac to my lab
next week. Then I'll do the final steps on each unit:
• Unpack it,
• Put a fuse in (measured, selected and in the optimal direction),
• Power up and measure it on the workbench,
• Epoxi glue a silver knob to the brass rod perfectly straight and let it harden for 4 hours,
• Adjust the position of the cubic zirconia and tighten the locking screws to the ALPS potentiometer,
• Unscrew the rear plate and rotate it,
• Slide on the slightly bent lid and make sure it neither rattles nor sits too tight when in position,
• Rotate back the rear plate and fasten it with 6 screws and the big nut,
• Fasten the two upper screws of the front,
• Place the Giella on the perfectly flat slab of glass and check that it doesn't rock diagonally on its feet,
• Hook it up to a source and listen to the headphone and line outputs,
• Polish and pack it down with manuals,
• Add the notes about serial number, measurements, date and customer to the Giella data sheet.
And then I'll ship it to YOU! 13 units are pre-ordered, 12 to go. After that, there might be a delay, due to the faulty cases. But I'm doing what I can to have the next batch ready as soon as possible.
nmakowsk wrote: ↑2020-11-12 19:08
If there is a functional light, does that light also change in colors like my Kikkin and Saagatun preamps do?
Thank you for the positive comments and the cool idea about a light inside the knob. The silver knob is however massive and there is no light inside. The cubic zirconia just reflects the light from the room. My mother has also made a few knobs with real diamonds. These can be had with slight colorations (from heat treatment), such as shades of blue, or red, or green, or yellow. I'm looking into how much extra such a knob would cost.
Having a light shining from inside, through the cubic zirconia, not spilling out elsewhere and varying in colour like the indicator on Boazu, Sagatun and Sagatun Mono sounds pretty cool. But it would be very bad for sound quality, because it would require a digital processor controlling the position of the all-analogue potentiometer and then firing the RGB LED in the appropriate colour codes. That whole package is a pain to make electrically silent and Giella would likely perform worse and cost a lot more. Plus I don't know how to transfer that light into the knob, as it rotates and needs a strong and durable connection with the potentiometer. Sorry!!