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Looking to ‘bass-iffy’ a Klone Centaur Clone that I built on veroboard a while ago. My change in guitar playing means that I’m not really using overdrive anymore, as it’s running at 18v I might put an active DI in there and retire my DHA VT1 from active duty.

I know that I find Jazz profile necks easier to play, and therefore practice for longer - this is a good thing. For this reason I have J necks on all 3 of my basses. Electrics and pickups etc... have come and go, but they’ll always have J necks. If you’ve got the choice to tailor an instrument to make playing less of an effort why wouldn’t you?

It’ll never catch on! 😄

I think there’ll be less headroom one the resistor value increases. Of course, this is all conjecture, that’s just the simplest way to fit a ‘make it filthier’ switch!

£20 for an extra switch - it’ll just be a change of resistor to set the minimum gain of the overdrive loop.

Really looking forward to watching this when I get home from visiting family-types.

That’s a DEEP rabbit-hole!

Slayer and occasionally Lamb of God, not really found anything else up that end the spectrum that really tickles my fancy.

After being a huge Rush fan for about 20 years I borrowed a ‘70s Rickenbacker 4001 from a friend to do some studio sessions with. Plugged into my (then) Ampeg rig it sounded immense; both the engineer and myself were grinning like a pair of loons. couldn’t get on with the super skinny neck, so did the session with my Jazz. Shame.

Surely any Peavey kit is a vintage Land Rover or Toyota Hilux?

Guns of Bricks-ton - the Clash

12v dc can easily be dropped down to 9v using a 7809 voltage regulator, you’d need to invert the dc supply though, as the laptop supply would be centre positive.

I’m not likely to need to tow a car out of a ditch though- .115” for an E string?!?

More of the latter, not so much of the former, I’m a pragmatist.

Given that all of mine are Bitsa basses mine would have to be a kit-car of some kind, nothing flashy mind, all ‘utility vehicle’ sort of thing.

Just got a set for £18.50. looking forward to restringing my fretless...

A wazzok of bass players?

Are they any good for.... ...oh what’s the point!?! Seriously though, how do they sound/feel?

Family Affair - Sly & TFS

MoonDance - Bilbo

Just picked one of these bad boys up as a pre for a home-made speaker cabinet to practice the six-stringer through. Very, very good little box. It’s a clone of a discontinued Sansamp, am excited to see what it sounds like as a direct preamp into Protools...

Depends on what sound you want from the envelope. I’ve had pedals set up this way to give the octaver a uniform signal to help the pitch detector, and it also gave the envelope filter a fixed input for uniform synth style attack, like I said, depends what you’re trying to achieve - analogue synth tones, or ‘porn bass’!

There’s a Jam tribute act called ‘Small Weller’ doing the rounds too.

...whatever I tell them to!!

These guys get my vote for best stage names: Ladies and germs, I give you GWAR Ben Eubanks -Johnny Slutman), Dave Brockie (Oderus Urungus), Russ Bahorsky (Mr. Magico) Steve Douglas (Jaws of Death), Chris Bopst (Balsac) Sean Sumner (Hans Sphincter). As of Brockie's death in 2014, Gwar currently features no original members, with a lineup of rhythm guitarist Mike Derks (Balsac the Jaws of Death) drummer Brad Roberts (Jizmak Da Gusha, since 1989) lead guitarist Brent Purgason (Pustulus Maximus, since 2012) lead vocalist Mike Bishop (Blöthar the Berserker, since 2014) bassist Casey Orr (Beefcake the Mighty, most recently since 2019). There have been a few others in between these incarnations of the band...