paul_5

'Alpha' is the brand/manufacturer of that particular component. Not too shabby….

How long is it and what's printed on it? It'll probably have something like 50k B (or similar) on it somewhere. If you need a hand fixing it then PM me - I've been inside many a pedal.

that's hardly a ringing endorsement for Carol though, is it?

7/10. I recognised Hooky, but guessed all the others. Was it the girl from Warpaint? I love their first album but couldn't tell you what she looks like. All of the others (apart from Dusty Gibbons and one other, but I won't spoil it for people who haven't done the quiz) were a shot in the dark.

Yowza! the Tarkin just NAILS it! I [i]hate[/i] being broke right now; that's the tone I've been searching for since, well, forever.

Personally, looking at your current setup I'd be browsing the RME website - rock solid drivers and stellar audio quality. If you've got an iMac then why not do a proper job and get a firewire 800 interface? Or (dare I say it) a thunderbolt® interface?

I just clicked the link to have a quick butchers - my horoscope said that I would 'uncover that which was missing and fulfil my existential precept', so I thought this was for me. It was a really good horoscope too, cost me 7,000 Aussie dollars over the internet, but they told me it was refundable within 7 days if it didn't come true...

Shove some Heaven's Basement in there - their first (and only as far as I'm aware) album has some killer tunes on.

Tony's right - I found my current band on here, good luck with the search.

If you're after bog muff stuff then I'd recommend kit rae's big muff emporium http://www.kitrae.net/music/music_big_muff.html He's gone through all the production big muffs, but so far hasn't posted a schematic for the BBM. It's only a question of time though. Could be worth an email? The problem with the Bass Big Muff is that it's all surface mount, tiny wee components: [url="http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa477/vintage_man/PLAQUETEANDO/Modded20Bass20Big20Muff20Pi.jpg"]Modded20Bass20Big20Muff20Pi.jpg[/url] The bast stab at a schematic I've found looks like this, but some capacitor values are missing. [url="http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa477/vintage_man/PLAQUETEANDO/bassbigmuffincomplete.jpg"]bassbigmuffincomplete.jpg[/url]

Finally finished an 'Engineer's Thumb' compressor. Threshold, Attack, Ratio and Release controls should make it quite a flexible little machine. I'll finally get round to playing with it tonight, now that I've learned to tell the difference between a 4.7µf and a 47µf capacitor... ...stupid boy.

Head? Heart? says you. Ears, says I.

I haven't been to Hyde Park today. I'm very sad about that . Glad you had a good time though.

Very much PM'ed.

Keytar? That's one of those modern words that any right-thinking civilisation would have no need of - like 'Bridezilla'

Disposable golf raquets? I think I missed a meeting...

a Reading gig? Should separate the wheat from the chaff... Hope you find someone soon.

I don't think you [i]have[/i] to spend 4 figures on a bass to get the right one for you. My current squeeze was put together for less than £400, and it's perfect. For me. Western society ingrains in us the idea of aspirational purchasing - this x will make you better/faster/thinner/happy/sexually alluring/whatever because that's just the way it's been set up. Ultimately If you find an instrument that you can't walk past without picking it up then (regardless of cost) that is the instrument for you. The cost of something doesn't necessarily represent its value.

I've never played it, I'm either ahead of the curve, or hopelessly outdated.