paul_5

Welcome on board skipper.

"Looks like it's been knocked up in a shed" - what an insult to us "shed knocker-uppers"!

Do it. I was in a band that went from doing standard rock stuff with the odd Queen number to a very successful Queen tribute band. We just learnt the 'Live at Wembley '86' set and played that up and down the country for a few years. Be prepared for it to get a bit grating though - playing the same set at every gig a few nights a week can really send you under.

can't hurt.

I'd have some more modal stuff up your sleeve too - So What springs to mind.

I have nothing against capos per se, it's just that backing someone who uses them can often be a bit tricky...

Once backed a singer/songwriter at the drop of a hat (3 hours notice - including a 45 minute drive to the gig), I had a text message that went something like "[i]song a[/i] - B Capo 3, [i]song[/i] b - D capo 2 etc..." Forgive me for not taking the fretless to that gig

replaced the input cap (10nf) to 0.1µf and it's made chuff all difference. I think I'll have a closer look at the schem tonight. Sounds AWESOME on guitar though... Looked at it in a bit more detail but can't see where the low end is being lost. Maybe there's just too much octave/filth in there...

LOVE this - Jaco just riding the groove and Herbie Hancock on fire over the top of it. Pure class!

[quote name='dougal' timestamp='1370869179' post='2106562'] I resorted to wall hangers. Little b*ggers can't get to them up there.... [/quote] erm, you DO know that if you keep feeding them, they grow...?

Sorry, not got either of those two.

I'll have a look what I've got in my stuff.

Thanks for the post Wal, nice of you to share.

[quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1370861758' post='2106349'] You'd be cheaper buying a used microsynth. Trust me on this... [/quote] sad but true.

My favourite 'go to' bass is a home customised 'bitsa' All in for about £250 including 2nd hand Mighty Mite fretless jazz neck, actives, PUPs etc... Plays and sounds better than any other bass I've ever played. to me at least.

[quote name='Damonjames' timestamp='1370470791' post='2101637'] I think I may have found the problem, I noticed there is a blue wire with a ring lug on it floating about inside the casing. I think that it should be grounded to the chassis??? [/quote] yup, use one of the screw on feet to attach it to the case or any of the 4 screws on top and trap it between the 2 halves of the case.

yup, I was surprised how much of a difference it made.

Samples are up chaps! [url="https://soundcloud.com/paul_5/sets/fx-25-before-and-after"]https://soundcloud.c...efore-and-after[/url] first clip is the modded FX25 (LPF), the second is the FX25 as a stock BPF (I've put a toggle switch to go between the original pinout of the LM3600 and the new wiring). Nice

DHA VT1EQ - lovely tubey warmth/fur and a very musical 3 band EQ. Lovely clean DI too.

The trebly/boomy is due to it being a band pass. The boosted frequencies start way up top and plummet down to teeth-rattling which makes it a tricky one to use properly, when I first got it it took some time to learn how to 'play it'.

[quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1370681858' post='2104263'] ....and Morrissey evasive, truculent and to be of only a moderate intelligence! [/quote] yes, it doesn't take too much grey matter to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, does it. Marr, on the other hand is brilliant, I went to his inauguration lecture as honorary professor at Salford University a few years ago - a lovely little thinker.

[quote name='dincz' timestamp='1370672362' post='2104164'] I never managed to get past Morrissey's consistently slightly sharp singing. [/quote] +1 . It took a bit of effort but it was worth it.

it's a fairly straightforward one but a bit fiddly; basically you cut the PCB track going from one of the caps (0.01µf IIRC) to pin 8 of the LM13600 chip and solder a wire from the same cap to pin 9 of the LM13600 - that essentially turns it from a band pass filter to a low pass filter. Once you've done that it's hella loud, so I stuck a volume control on it to tame the output. Like I say, fiddly but worth it. If you're interested I can open mine up again and let you know exactly which cap it was. If I get time today I'll do some sample recordings and put them up on here.

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1368208638' post='2074558'] You ever tried the FX25? Even simpler and is really good at [i]that [/i]sound. [/quote] Got one - modded it. Even better!

Yup. Transcribed some Smiths basslines a few years ago for a student - really enjoyable to give those lines the attention they deserve.