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i recently bought one of these two-knob marvels from guyl, and i'm [i]really[/i] impressed so much so i'm considering invetsing of more of dave's creations just a quick question or two though...the power supply gets very hot...is this ok ? and there's no problem with using other valves is there ? i'm assuming not, but it sounds very nice with a 12AU7 in there at the moment.

i've not really changed musch, although having seen the quality of the hook-up wire inside i think it would be worth it at some point !!! all i did was to rewire the pots and take the battery leads to the 9v socket, take the board-mounted sockets off and replace them with flying leads to the chassis style sockets. i did have to redrill the housing though - the stock pots are an unusual size, and i had to put a hole in for the 9v socket.

ok...here you are, a few quick shots. i'm didn't bother refitting the battery clip, but i always use power supplies anyway, so it's not a big thing for me. what are your plans for yours ?

it was time to say goodbye to the crappy board-mounted sockets, crackly potentiometers and 9v batteries, so i ordered up the parts and after a bit of drilling and soldering the muff's all pimped up to F%£k !! switchcraft jacks and pots 9v socket from pedalmods.co.uk the LED holder was a little mangled in the upgrades (ahem), so i'll need to replace that, but it's overall the pepals a [i]lit[/i] more tougher-feeling. nice relaxing hour on a saturday afternoon

i only found out tonight that my swr has castors not feet. seeing as it's kindof ot, would anyone know where to get a set to fit ?

[quote name='Mr Fudge' post='248172' date='Jul 25 2008, 11:33 PM']looks the dogs, what about a tort scratchplate? mmmmmmm ....[/quote] naaaah...a [i]black[/i] one... either way, it's still one of the best-looking basses i've seen...you lucky dog.

bought a DHA VT-1 from guy, arrived well packed and with great dispatch a gentleman and a scholar if there ever was one... cheers fella !

so, you pulled the trigger on a fal eh ?

it's pretty gross, but then i don't like basses with highly figured woods. 'coffee table basses'

i've got a behrinher ep2500 (2.4kW bridged into 4 ohm) that's up for sale...been gigged as the power amp in my rig about 4 times. £100 ? it's heavy tho. let me know if you're interested.

that's a classy bit of work there...how did you find fitting the badass ?

"it's all around you" by tortoise. amazing album...amazing band.

i'll let you know when i get mine home !

yay ! i fixed the active circuit /much rejoycing/

PM'd

ok...so if that's the active sorted, theoretically...i see another problem. as the blend control was handled by a single pot, it must have been controlling the blend using a mixing circuit on the pcb. so, if i'm to keep the look of the bass the same, i'll need to address that. more head scratching needed. any ideas folks ?

yeah, but what kind do you play ? if people ask me what kind of music i play, i normally say 'folk'. it usually stops the conversation dead. especially good for when you climb into a taxi with a bass case and don't want some long diatribe from the taxi driver about some music-ralated issue.

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='244173' date='Jul 21 2008, 12:27 AM']tried it once- never agian, made them feel wrong. keep the dirt, it keeps the funk in or summit[/quote] i didn't really like the feel of them after either ! and to me the improvement in tone wasn't significant or long-lasting enough to make it worthwhile. i wonder if you could heat the string up and anneal it...how would that affect the tone ? i'd always assumed that the slow work-hardening of the metal in the string that caused the eventual loss of tone, so annealing it might actually help. dunno...that was a bit of a mental bimble there

[quote name='Raggy' post='243877' date='Jul 20 2008, 04:17 PM']GK=Loveliness GAS to follow!!!![/quote] no, nope...no GAS. no... well, maybe a whiff

one setting i like on the mxr is to have the drive at almost minimum, and then have the blend at ~9 o'clock, and then boost the bass very slightly. give it a try...see if you like it. mind you, if you want a beefy rat tone, you could get a rat and send it off to the people at pedalmods...it's what i'm going to do now i've got my rat back.