THAT Corp - SHIPPING TIME!

samuraipizzacat29 · Post by **samuraipizzacat29** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:01 am

Ok, it's REALLY GO TIME!. Please check post #2 below for your name and quantities as that will be what I'm working off of when I send paypal invoices. I just need your paypal payment email address so that I can send an invoice. Paid paypal invoices is how I will be keeping track of this mess......

I WILL NOT BE ORDERING EXTRAS so please make sure your order is right.

Pricing: see quote attached for per chip prices. I will be adding 3.5% to those to cover paypal fees for the transaction.

Shipping/handling/exorbitant group buy mgr's fees: From my experience, domestic shipping under 4 lbs will avg about $4-6 usd with usps increased rates. Int'l will run 8-10. That's right, prices have nearly doubled, especially for international.
I'll be using non-conductive foam to bed the ics, placing that in a static-free bag, and placing that in a jumbo poly mailer. I think that'll work nicely to protect your order.
http://www.mailersusa.com/shipping-supp ... l?___SID=U
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221178094438?_t ... 97.c0.m619
http://www.correctproducts.com/ESD-Pack ... m-Sheets_2

Therefore, I feel $17 total shipping and handling per order for domestic and $22 for international about covers it. If you have a larger order, it's up to my discretion the best way to ship it. I've shipped quite a lot over the last two years..... Anyway, if it turns out I'm cleaning up at that rate, I'll do something mutually beneficial with the leftovers. things I'd consider mutually beneficial are: paying muff for bandwidth, free pcbs, t-shirts, idk...... you get the idea.

Invoices will be hitting your mailbox shortly. Please check my accuracy!

thanks,
Nate

samuraipizzacat29 · Post by **samuraipizzacat29** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:02 am

so far totals:
4301 909
300 545
1510 80
340 520
2180B 832
320 20
2252 33

see attachment for names/ quantities.
YELLOW=Invoice Sent
GREEN=Paid
RED=Shipped (nobody yet.....

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L-1 · Post by **L-1** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:04 am

Nate, have you contacted THAT Corp? I wanted once to order 100 chips from them but no answer..

samuraipizzacat29 · Post by **samuraipizzacat29** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:07 am

strange - last time a sales rep contacted me straight away and was very good customer service wise. That was six months ago, and was for only 25-2181B. I'll email again with a rough idea so that we can get a quote. I just don't want to inflate the numbers for the quote and then have to relay a higher price

L-1 · Post by **L-1** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:10 am

Okay. Will think about my big order. I want smd chips too.

Pfurmel · Post by **Pfurmel** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:11 am

I'll be down for some 340,s, too. I'll have to see what prices you get but definitely 10 maybe 20.

I'll also take 10 2181s, again, I may bump that depending on price.

**Edit for 2181s**

samuraipizzacat29 · Post by **samuraipizzacat29** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:34 am

2nd post updated to just show totals w/ attachment for reference.

keninverse · Post by **keninverse** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:21 am

I've also had very good experiences with them with small orders of 2180s. I had someone contact me by email a few days later and a call back the week I made the call.

That said I'm definited in for a few more 2180s and 340s.

spotta · Post by **spotta** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 12:45 pm

well I'ld be down for a Vocoder's worth and a Quad VCA's worth thanks Nate.

synaptech · Post by **synaptech** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:56 pm

Count me in for a vocoder's worth:

25x THAT4301
12x THAT300
1x THAT1510
1x THAT340

samuraipizzacat29 · Post by **samuraipizzacat29** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:00 pm

second post updated

astroschnautzer · Post by **astroschnautzer** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 5:24 pm

I will have to drop my order to only one set...

janvanvolt · Post by **janvanvolt** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:46 pm

Count me in for a Vocoder's THATs set and one Quad VCA THATs

hexinverter · Post by **hexinverter** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:00 pm

Woot! So awesome to see the L-1 vocoder finally taking shape!!!

glitchpop · Post by **glitchpop** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:52 pm

Unfortunately I can't afford to go in on L1's awesome vocoder project. I am however always interested in adding a few good ICs to my stockpile. In that vein does anyone have a brief (or not so brief) list of sdiy projects that require THAT corp chips? Might be a good way to generally bolster this group buy as well.

hexinverter · Post by **hexinverter** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:15 pm

Without going into too much detail, anyone interested in my designs is going to want 4x 2180 VCA chips pretty soon (read that carefully -- not 2181)

More details later

I don't think that's enough to really warrant a group buy though. Two per project is not so bad to pay full price for

jumunius · Post by **jumunius** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 1:19 am

I haven't been following the boards or doing much diy of late, but I am interested in some THAT chips for L1's VCA as well as a few upgrade projects. A couple questions:

1) why the preference here for 2181 over 2180? Don't you need a THD analyzer to properly trim the 2181? Or is the trimming procedure doable with a basic modular set up and an oscilloscope?

2) why B over A? A has better noise specs no?

3) what is the price? The only prices I see at the THAT Corp website are for 1000 quantity, though they sell as low as 25. Any idea what the price will be?

Finally, in answer to glitchpop's question about where else to use them, L1 has used them also on his VCA-mixer and maybe his compressor. I'm using the THAT 2180/2181 to upgrade a few old DBX compressors as well as the VCA in a Juno 106. All of these used a proprietary DBX VCA that can be replaced with a lower noise THAT version. I'm not planning to make the vocoder at present (I will regret this someday I'm sure) either but could probably use about 10 without even considering Hexinverter's project.

Thanks to SamuraiPizzaCat for another excellent bulk order prospect!

roman_f · Post by **roman_f** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 5:41 am

i'm in for 1 L-1s kit
+ 150 THAT340s

negativspace · Post by **negativspace** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 7:22 am

I'm interested in 20x 340 and would be interested in possibly ~100x 2180B, but not in any 2181B. Don't chisel this in stone just yet, I don't have Excel on this machine so I haven't checked the price list.

decaying.sine · Post by **decaying.sine** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:16 am

I'm interested but have to go through Alex's projects and Hex's future design and calculate how many I'll need.

sonicwarrior · Post by **sonicwarrior** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:08 am

jumunius wrote:2) why B over A? A has better noise specs no?

Maybe but I wonder if anyone here would hear the difference and the B version is much cheaper.

For the trimmable version: I doubt anyone here has the proper equipment to trim those. Think about that.

hexinverter · Post by **hexinverter** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:11 am

Okay, I'm not sure if this actually is possible, but:

Is it possible to substitute the trimmable 2181s with the 2180 (which don't need trimming) for the L-1 compressor?

It is a very important question, because, if so, I am going to need almost 1000x 2180s myself in the next few months. I am working on a high profile project for something I cannot talk about right yet but we are using 2180s in the design and need to order a massive pile of them for it.

So, if they can be used in Aleksei's design, it might be worth it to get them instead and bulk it in with my massive order coming up.

Personally I don't want to adjust and trim 25 or whatever of them in my vocoder anyhow ^__^ The performance difference isn't enough to me, I'm guessing.

Just a thought! Perhaps I will write Aleksei and let him know/ask if it's possible.

consumed · Post by **consumed** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 12:31 pm

hexinverter wrote: Is it possible to substitute the trimmable 2181s with the 2180 (which don't need trimming) for the L-1 compressor?

are you talking about the other project "microcompressor"? or the compressor in the vocoder design? i dont see the 2181 in this part list?

question for aleksei: will schematics be available tor troubleshooting this circuit?
(EDIT: moved this question over to the vocoder build thread)

hexinverter · Post by **hexinverter** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 12:36 pm

consumed wrote:
hexinverter wrote: Is it possible to substitute the trimmable 2181s with the 2180 (which don't need trimming) for the L-1 compressor?
are you talking about the other project "microcompressor"? or the compressor in the vocoder design? i dont see the 2181 in this part list?

question for aleksei: will schematics be available tor troubleshooting this circuit?

D'oh! Silly me. That's right, it's the other THAT chips in the vocoder.

My bad

Okay well scratch that idea then. It's not really worth the hassle of dealing with two people doing group buy orders for only a few 2181s each (and just a few dollars or whatever in savings).

I may not even use the 2180 in this design of mine as it turns out...we shall see ^__^

jumunius · Post by **jumunius** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 1:19 pm

sonicwarrior wrote:
jumunius wrote:2) why B over A? A has better noise specs no?
Maybe but I wonder if anyone here would hear the difference and the B version is much cheaper.

Point taken. I would be using them for non-synth stuff too, and I might get into levels where the distortion is more evident. Also if I am reading the specs right I think the 2180A chip is more equivalent in noise specs to the 2181B chip, perhaps due to the lack of fine tuning via trimming? So a 2180B, which requires approximately the same leap in price would be 2 rungs down from a 2181A, for what it's worth.

Additionally, if the 2180/81 is the cornerstone of your module, spending $1.50 a piece extra seems negligible, but then, again, maybe for synth level uses the difference would be less noticeable.

sonicwarrior wrote:For the trimmable version: I doubt anyone here has the proper equipment to trim those. Think about that.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying!

hexinverter wrote:I may not even use the 2180 in this design of mine as it turns out...we shall see ^__^

Well, if you or anyone else ends up wanting to go for the 2180s I'd probably go for it, so let us know if you are going that route.

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