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[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1403606541' post='2484321'] Sounds a good outcome. Good work. [/quote] Thanks ! [quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1403609326' post='2484359'] Brilliant news! Also, do you find that your post-electric shock soldering is a bit tricky until the shakes have stopped? [/quote] Very much so ! Just be careful of those smoothing caps folks...watch where your fingers are going when you touch the underside of the board !

Last night I decided to give the power board one more thorough check - still nothing.... So, what the hell I thought....it's going to have to come out anyway, and carefull desoldered and removed the transformer. And there it was... One of the tags on the transformer's primaries had snapped inside the board hole, so although the tag looked nice and secure there was no solid connection - in fact I've continuity tested all these tags before to make sure there was a good solder connection to the board. It must have just been resting against the unsnapped part that was soldered to the PCB. Hence the intermittent cut-outs in the past. So I installed a flying wire on the transformer tag and ran it to the next solid connection on the board, resoldered the good tags in and at ~3am this morning i finally got it working. My pessimistic outlook means I'll refrain from calling it 'fixed' for a while, but all the evidence points to this being the problem. Oh, and I only electrocuted myself once !

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1403537042' post='2483682'] Karmaceuticals.... [/quote]

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1403476951' post='2483148'] Karma. [/quote] I'd spell it ketamine

Just had my 1st quote back - almost £300 including VAT. feck.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1403469934' post='2483041'] The transformer rewir company were recommended by Derek at Watford Valves, so it might be worth giving them a call. If you speak to Derek it won't be a short phone call, but what he doesn't know about about 'pegs ain't worth knowing. [/quote] Brilliant - I've been looking around for some people to call, I'll give them a bell tomorrow.

Thanks- I'll try and track them down.

For some time now my trusty old SVP-Pro has been cutting out, I've had it serviced and tried replacing what seemed to be a dodgy valve, but to no avail. Finally today it completely died. I buckled down witha multimeter this afternoon and finally traced the fault to the transformer, which isn't putting out any juice at all (Plate volatge, heater current, etc - all zero). (Sob) From what I can find on the web, replacement transformers are hard to find short of getting another SVP-Pro. Anyone had any experience of having a transformer rewound ? Any idea on how much it would cost ?

[quote name='Fionn' timestamp='1403429731' post='2482524'] Could the eq controls (Bass, mid-shape contour, and treble) be tampered with to increase the bottom end? [/quote] You could revoice the EQ to give more bass, but i'd imagine you'd still have to look at the input and coupling caps as there's a lot of high-pass filtering going on before the tone controls. I'm not saying it's impossible - others may have more luck in tweaking cap values !

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1403374548' post='2482246'] Be warned this may also change the character of the distortion though. [/quote] This is very often the case and in my experience, often for the worse. The design of many guitar pedals is such that they cut a lot of bass - before, during and after distortion to focus the sound in a particular frequency range (the RAT is a good example). Putting more volume in the low end means the pedal is overdriving a lot harder and in the wrong place, so the tone changes. I've modded quite a few pedals to 'improve' bass response by upping cap values in various ways and it's never got me what I liked about the pedal before with more bass - I got a different pedal. YMMV, but I'd really consider a blend pedal. After years of tweaking I mostly use a Turbo RAT and a Boss LS-2.

[quote name='dudewheresmybass' timestamp='1403103298' post='2479807'] I'm still enjoying mine too mate. I'm using it for more 'vintage' sounds, and it sits well in the mix. I switch the tone out though rather than using it at all Nice to see someone else is enjoying it and not dismissing ehx completely [/quote] Always had time for EHX ! The Glove sounds interesting, especially given what Dan's mentioned about it being an OCD with better bottom end.

Got hold of this a few weeks back, but have only really just got round to giving it a good try on bass. Have to say I'm very impressed - good low-gain, just-breaking-up sounds. Pretty much a clean boost at very low-gain. It's quite a dark-sounding pedal - at minimum gain my tone control is at ~2pm to keep the tone intact - but as the gain increases that darker tone works well with the increasing splat and fuzzyness. Plenty of low end without too much boominess. Not that I [i]need[/i] another dirt pedal for bass....but, you know

[quote name='topheteatwo' timestamp='1402835075' post='2477095'] Maybe a Joyo Ultimate Drive? They're super cheap and based off the OCD circuit, heard good things about, so it could be subtle but sounds nice with the frantabit [/quote] I was just going to suggest a Joyo Ultimate Drive, but found the one I had quite OTT through most of gain settings. I bought a Caline CP-18 (an Xotic preamp clone ?) recently for guitar and it's pretty darn good on bass. Good for low gains and has a two-band EQ, which might be just what's needed to soften a bitcrusher.

I fitted one of these to a passve warwick I used to have. Superb for the price. We do need pics of the wiring !

Oooooh, that's lovely.

That looks lovely - you're right about the different grains. Good work that man !

Each to their own and all that, but a 5W solid state head for £99 ? Not for me thanks

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1401401042' post='2463391'] Well, a range of multi-tap delays... [/quote]

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1400856030' post='2457630'] It's a perfectly capable pre-amp. [/quote] Plus the one. I've fitted a couple - very good value for money.

Tidy job. Good work that man !

"[font=verdana, arial, sans-serif][size=3]....launch ourselves to an international audience (and beyond)"[/size][/font] [font=verdana, arial, sans-serif][size=3]beyond an international audience....wow, they really do mean 'launch' don't they ?[/size][/font]

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1400098127' post='2450827'] Good luck, I've been trying to sell a pair for 5 months! [/quote] Have you ?