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For my tastes and questionable hearing, the Bassrig 15 was the winner. The Linden into the Luce was pretty good too. Like krispn, I’m intrigued as to the mystery box, as it sounds pretty good too.

@krispn Not £21, but very affordable and something I have a bunch of and use regularly!

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I hope the mystery box is a cheap £21 temp purchase. I liked the Bassrig as it has none of the low mid weight of some of the others but something a little more pleasing high end which might just become more prominent in a mix.

I’ve been playing about with a valvecaster circuit recently. I’m running it at 18v with an internal 12v regulator for the plates on the ecc83. Pretty nice but still playing about with a blend circuit on it too!

It must have something to do with the forum software, because Basschat is the only forum which enables this feature in my browser.

Mantle vs the rest of the world... for anyone who may find it useful!

Finally got around to editing my shootout... took way longer than expected so I hope it helps someone out there! The Linden/Luce combo is always a pleasant surprise to my ear.... and the LUCE holds it own here anyway!

Trace Elliot TE1200 run flat and clean

It can work that way. It all depends on how your amp is set. It works best if your amp is set clean and you don't use drastic EQ settings. It's best to experiment. If you run the pedal into the effects return only it gives you the best idea of how the pedal sounds. Take care as the master volume on your amp with this method may no longer work.

Ours last night was more arranging, including three from the original album.

The ones Ixve used had a cupboard of gear.. you could ring up/message and ask to take stuff.

Yes, it seems that everyone values and likes print - so whilst there will be a digital issue for those that want it, print will be our primary product.

This one even has an eye!

at work we were 12 months into a product development and the power supply the product relied on was embargoed because the company in china making them was also selling them to Iran to build Russian drones - right set back that was

I think any 60W 12V power supply would be ok to try. Obviously it should be DC and one not designed for this purpose might not be as quiet but it would let you test to see if it is the power supply. @Chienmortbb is more up to date than I am on these things so maybe wait for his input before trying that. https://cpc.farnell.com/c/electrical-lighting/batteries-power-supplies/power-supplies/12v-power-supplies/12v-5a-power-supplies

Hey folks Any users on here running a Tech 21 VT into the front end of an amp ? Looking to get a more Ampeg kind of tone with some drive when required

Here's a strange one, an old japanese "multi-effect", from 1968, the Shin-Ei ME-7. I found a vero layout on dirtboxlayouts. I don't know what they were smoking and dropping back then but somebody had an idea along the lines of "let's make a wah and volume pedal, add some white noise generators and to top it off let's throw in some siren sound that mimics air raid horns. Ok?". Well .... sure, I'm game. Here's the schematic, that was inside the pedal. Apart from the 8 tranistors and the transformer, it calls for a 4P4T rotary for the 4 modes, but as the only guy (thanks Ian!!!) who did comment to have built it mentioned - "Hurricane is pretty loud, surf is quiet, Wah isnt bad and siren is instant 'Blockbuster' - The Sweet!!" - and I couldn't seem to find a 4P4T, I decide to ditch the quiet Surf setting. As for the Wah/Volume part, I went for a potentiometer and installed a expression input for that. It works fine with my Moog. Then I also added a toogle switch that let's you choose between the potentiometer or a LDR, placed between the footswitches. When engaging the LDR, a bright white light (with a trimmer for brightness) goes on and you can use your foot to control the Wah/Vol potentiometer. Works, but the sweep is not as good as with the potentiometer or the expression pedal. What else? Ah yeah, the Siren. I put that on a momentary footswitch. It's present on all 3 modes. So, when in Wah mode, it's, well, a Wah. And in Volume mode, its a volume pedal. I kept those modes, although they are nothing special, I'd say. When in Tornado mode, the Wah/Vol potentiometer changes the pitch of the white noise. This mode is my jam. There's a short taste of this mode at the end of this post, using my "bass test loop". The "Siren" and "Tornado" knobs are volume. Finally, after some initial testing, I added a LPB-1 boost at the end. I'm not too sure, that I wired everything correctly, if it comes to rotary switches, I have switchlexia. A big part was just "try and hear". And the spaghetti inside.

Yes made me suspicious as well as generic parts for most things can also be purchased - mind you it is true that specific circuit boards often need to be sourced from manufacturers, but thus said if you can get the schematic they can be made for a lot less. However, lateral MOSFETs are apparently a problem: https://www.electronicsworld.co.uk/its-the-end-of-the-production-line-for-the-lateral-mosfet/34469/ but can be solved if you pick up some broken amps and scavenge!