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If you using lead/tin solder you MUST use it in a well ventilated room, preferably with an extractor fan - lead does really nasty stuff to people, and it’s ridiculously easy to inhale!

It flows beautifully at slightly lower temperatures than lead free stuff but it’s a cumulative toxin.

Rule one: don’t talk about capacitor club, just save all of your comments and questions until the end, then let them go all at once!

Just make sure that when you solder the replacement in that you solder the cathode (negative leg indicated by the white stripe) facing the same way; some capacitors aren’t fussy about polarity, these ones are. 

here’s John K’s version. I’ve built this layout and it’s great. The transistors were expensive (6 -7 quid each) but there are opamp layouts in the net too.

I’ve got one of these on my main board - great little unit.

Higher end pieces of kit often have an input transformer that is switchable between 110v or 230v for US and UK/EU markets. Different manufacturers have different ways to achieve this - the most convenient is a simple toggle switch, but sometimes it’s an internal procedure.

I've spent a LOT of my playing doing 3 fingers - mainly to distribute the work more evenly. Playing night after night is easier when you don't have finger fatigue!

Polypropylene caps tend to be closer tolerance - so closer to the stated value than polyester caps too, so I'd always opt for those wherever possible.

4 minutes ago, chris_b said:

100% of replies, over 2 pages giving you exactly the same advice.

 

I don't think I've ever seen so many people agreeing with each other on Basschat!!

 

I think you’re all dreadful and all the advice is worthless.😄

There, balance is restored.

I started out life with a DOD FX25 - the same one in the Flea video in the 90s.

Currently I'm loving a Lovetone Meatball Clone which does everything I could ever want from an envelope filter.

In the middle of all that have been a couple of Q-trons, a Q-tron plus, a mini (and probably Micro) Q-tron too, and my main squeeze for a good long while was the a clone of the Chunk Systems Agent 00Funk which is my second favourite.

Bought a multiFX unit from Fryer - really easy sale and quick dispatch. Top guy.

Saw this advertised elsewhere today; very much looking forward to it.

The Queen Is Dead by the smiths. Superb in every conceivable way.

Big Bottoms - Spinäl Täp

https://youtu.be/YjC0vMIrOAk?si=nR2Z6Gos2PoDDR57

PMed

Excellent tune!

Beaten to the punch by Martin B. Good work sir.

Gove Rears Its Ugly Head - Living Colour

I tried to run this a while back in Pro Tools and it just crashed any PT session I opened it in. Took the AAX plugin out of the plugins folder and hey presto - Pro Tools works again. That was the catch for me. YMMV, and I think it was OK in Cubase though.

The Plugin Alliance SVT stuff works and (IMHO) sounds better.

Also Faith No More - Jazzlobber. That one's actually an improvement.

Revisiting Macy Gray’s superb ‘on how life is’ album. Every track is killer!

Also, it helps to drown out the navvies execrations - they’re digging up the road again.

That one could have gone either way - pink torpedo or pink torpedo.

1 hour ago, ezbass said:

This has reminded me of my run in with him (for a value of run in). I was fixing some piece of office equipment at TV AM and he was lording it up around the offices, demeaning various staff members. He came over as a pompous, little prat and I was just hoping he would say something sarky to me, just so I could let him experience the sharp side of someone’s tongue, who didn’t need to be subservient to his ego. Sadly, this did not come to pass.

...musn't pause, mustn't hesitate... 

Bird on the Wine - Leonard Cohen.

Dump - Nirvana

I Wash - Stevie Wonder

Thumb and finger, but not slapped unless indicated.