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Here is my doom machine I built a year ago. It's a Squier Sonic Bronco in Tahitian Coral, heavily modified and personalized, strung with Ernie Ball Bass Flats 2801. Such a fun instrument, easy to play and great sounding. And I think the customising work I've done made it quite a looker, too. Work done: - Swaps: Pickup to Seymour Duncan SCPB-3 "Quarter Pounder" (I had to attach an additional ply of MDF with threads to the bottom and add springs to make it adjustable) Tuners to Gotoh GB11W Nut to Tusq XL Bridge saddles to 3-slotted vintage ones I had laying around (don't know the make) string tree to Gotoh TB54 string retainer knobs to Hosco HK-MKF - Add-ons and personalisation: Fender Vintage Jazz Bass pickup cover in chrome custom order vinyl wrap on pickguard and headstock custom 12th fret "marker" done with ultra-thin vinyl wrap and GitD tape Fender Strap Blocks in Daphne Blue

No I don’t sorry.

I guess we'll need to dissect one of these and re-build them for the purpose? https://sound-au.com/project150.htm https://www.ecircuitcenter.com/Circuits/op_bandcut_boost/op_cutboost.htm https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/filter/band-stop-filter.html

Perfect! Although I’d match the boots to the belt 😂

Funny story about that. That came about because back when I originally put this bass together, I was test fitting the tuners, got distracted then lifted the bass up. All the tuners came flying out of the holes and one of them dinged the back of the body near the cavity. So I turned the ding into a lifting hole. When life gives you lemons and all that...

Just a fun anecdote from last night. Valerie came on the jukebox and a bit later as we were setting up the rhythm guitarist started playing it very quietly. The started singing it and I started singing the bass riff scat style then the others started singing and we even harmonised some bits. We impressed ourselves but sadly the pub was still virtually empty! If only our proper BVs were that good 🤣🤣

Not one I’ve seen traced (I’ve looked) inductor based too

Slither - Velvet Revolver

Lowdown - Boz Skaggs

Were not some of the ‘80’s Squier Ps 32”scale?

It is a modified/personalized clone/upgrade of CoT-50 tweaked for bass. It's a booster and overdrive that saturates the sound and adds low to medium dirt to it. The level of overdrive is input-sensitive. The pots are Level and Sizzle (reversed bias for Boost mode). The toggle switches the LED color and toggles between no Boost (smaller lighting, blue LED) and Boost (bigger lightning, red LED); the rotary switch selects clipping between no added clipping (I), extra Schottky diode (II) or extra symmetrical pair of Schottky diodes (III). I is most low end and volume, least grit, III is the least low end and volume, but most grit, and II is somewhere in between. This thing does wonders with the rest of the pedals, adding more "scene" to the sound of other dirt pedals, also pushing them to more oomph, or, if they are properly dialed, gated and nasal tones. On its own it's also really cool, with warm, bluesey drive.

Good shout, thanks -- pretty sure I have a rev B, but tried with a TRS Y cable and the behaviour seems the same. So leaning back towards something inside the pedal is not quite right?

Welcome to you.

My experience is that people overplay through boredom. Playing the same set every weekend for years on end drains you. But, i find that overplaying on bass or drums can work as long as the players are topnotch. Aslong as the groove and bottom end are still there then really it doesnt matter a great deal. Guitarists that get bored and widdle over everything really destroys the dynamics of the tune, so they get my vote. The pricks.

It's loaded on top of a passive DI box, only a cheapo Gear4Music one. I do pack a 9v supply usually but in this instance I just had my laptop charger to hand so was using that instead.

Crawling king snake - John Lee Hooker

I also have an SQ and it's a phenomenal bass. Previous owner 'JV'd' it, with reverse tuners and a older style bbot.

I'm really swithering over getting this or the valeton gp-5. I'm the same, i need pretty much eactly what you're using this for. My HXstomp is briliant and not exactly bulky but a tonex would pretty much make it a softcase load in which id love. What is the thing the tonex is mounted on. Also, is it powered by the usb cable and is that how you use it live?