LukeFRC

Bingo!

“Bigredx mentioning Gus in a completely unrelated thread” was the last thing I needed for the Basschat bingo game.

On 04/11/2025 at 17:07, tauzero said:

 

I am saving this for when my wife moans about my mess!


(I need to google what PiPedal is!)

5 hours ago, Bigwan said:

You should NEVER spend time building a board and not check it before you stick it in the enclosure...

go on, you never played effect pedal Russian roulette you've never lived - supreme confidence and you just go for it- like skydiving where you jump out the plane before checking your chute... 

2 minutes ago, Cato said:

Given their actions so far, I'm not sure that Fender will have much interest in putting the workshop Leo used to design non Fender branded instruments on display.

 

I don't think they necessarily want that part of his history memorialised.

- why not? They own it now. (That bit of his history) 

is that Ashdown recreating a LS-2 in a handy pedalboard sized enclosure? 

15 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Needed..? Certainly not, but quite useful, in an oblique way. It gives some insight into the mindset of the poster; this may serve as a 'filter' of sorts when appreciating other posts from the same source. It's an indication of 'banter', a bit like the building site 'wolf whistle' that could be heard in days of yore. Some continue these 'traditions'; these posts are remnants of those times gone by. 

Good point to recomend listening to the exceptional and recently released track “Fairchild” by Dave, that kinda touches on this kinda thing 

If I were Fender …

I would keep the Fullerton site and Leo’s stuff and make it a museum/shop and maybe move custom shop there if feasible, for the legacy thing 

I would use Leo’s signature and face on things loads more…

I would leave it a few years and then bring a few G&L designs out the custom shop… 

then a limited version of the legacy line made abroad …

2 hours ago, rwillett said:

Gibson must have worked out the costs of Shopify vs roll your own.
 

Building your own isn't cheap either. However most big brands tend to build their own to get the site exactly how they want. Gibsons annual revenue is circa $300M per annum so they can afford it. 

 

Still strikes me as odd for Gibson to use Shopify though. 

But their model is via their dealer network isn’t it? Direct to consumer must be a much smaller part of that annual revenue. 
also the shopify costs go on a bit of the ballance sheets that looks far better to investors than taking staff on to manage what could easily become a tech liability. 

oh gosh

oh gosh

37 minutes ago, neepheid said:

Also - buy my bass.  Please.

 

LOL

knock £150 or so off and I'll take it? 

39 minutes ago, binky_bass said:

I'm a terrible human and those that have met me will confirm!

I’ve not met you, but imagine you have larger hands than average! 

14 minutes ago, Bassybert said:

I’m sure some people are pressing refresh on the classifieds pages on a minute by minute basis the way some things get snapped up round here 😂

Or have the notifications for new threads turned on…

If you think back 12-15 years - the pound was fairly strong, interest rates were very low and it really was either basschat or eBay to sell things. 
it kinda makes sense that a smaller forum would have a sense of value of things that would be fairly static- so me buying a Mesa from @Beedster in 2011 for £400 and selling it again 3 years later I would probably sell it here, for about £400 - we all had ideas of value based on past sales. 
 

since then- inflation has shot up, the pound lost a lot of value because of B…reasons and general prices of new things have gone up lots-  even compared to inflation. EBay has been joined by fb marketplace and reverb as places to sell - and reverb prices asked rather than sold or auction encourages higher asking prices. Covid left a lot of musicians with no work, and a lot of other people with money to burn- all pushing some prices up… 

in that environment and a standard USA fender nearing £2k new, how much something is “worth” isn’t as nailed down. So people’s behaviour changes 

mind you there’s some stuff in the for sale forum that’s been there ages - it’s not flipping if it doesn’t flip! 

6 minutes ago, Beedster said:

that simply wouldn't happen today, both in a Minder meets Smiley's People meets Crimewatch kinda way

I think I may have missed those stories, and am too young to pick up the pop culture references! Apart from crime watch  

I think the days of basschat being a lovely community where people sold on to fellow bass geeks and no one was trying to flip gear have well gone. 
 

Though I think we have to be careful with the why, not everything is people selling for profit, sometimes time passes and prices change, sometimes things get more desirable quickly - or other times people are having to sell gear for cash very quickly... I have a Lakland which I tried out and liked but was swithering to buy it or not, the guy was like "I need the cash for a car, it's a good price, please buy it" and came around my house to sell it to be en-route to the car dealers... 

What I normally do when selling is have two prices in mind. My mates-rate basschat price, and the advertised price, you know what - there's a big chunk of basschatters who will get it at the lower price, but the asking price hopefully scares off any flippers.

I think there's a place for questioning synth bass pedals and pointing out that an actual synth (or laptop and midi controller of choice) would do more better or whatever. 

But equally, as a non-piano player, I could stick a FI4 on my board and play synth bass stuff straight away with a fairly minimal learning curve (presuming reasonably clean technique), with no additional hardware or stage set-up changes. 

For what it's worth I'ld love a FI4 vip - it's an amazing little box... but I'ld also like a Arturia MiniFreak... not sure where the money for either will come from and how much I would use either....

These things are incredible 

2 hours ago, AxelF said:

That is a shot of the original thankfully - if they'd even cloned the designer's name on the PCB that would be mind boggling! Not that they're too far off that, if at all, already mind.

Ahh - it wouldn’t surprise me tbh

On 24/10/2025 at 16:50, blibbers said:

I'm more interested in seeing the internals to get an idea of what actual circuit they're using, or how they're doing DSP.

 

It looks like the ST-200 uses a MM74HC

 

Cloning circuits if fine

ripping off trade dress deff not! 
having the original makers name on the pcb - awful -

if it opens up easily and I get a chance I’ll take a photo of the inside of a real one

22 hours ago, SumOne said:

 

I think the economics of being in a professional band have changed a lot.

 

Gigs used to be a way of generating interest so people would buy your latest album, seems that has flipped around.

this

1 hour ago, Chris Hales said:

It's a low power bipolar op-amp I'm using.  I'd prefer to use a JFET op-amp but the input capacitance of very low noise parts tends to roll of the high frequencies.  That's not really an issue seeing as it's intended for bass use, but I tend to be a bit obsessive about these things!

my last wee project was mashing together a Euna preamp and a Broughton high-pass/low pass ... running at +-17.5v or so, I had a switch to choose 10M, 1.5M or about 500k input impedance - 1-1.5M feels about right without losing something in the balance of the sound of a Bass IMO. I was just using TL072 though, cheap enough in the PCBA process that I didn't experiment with anything sexier. 

Sounds like you need to filter the DC from the output or something to stop the pops. you'll be no ones friend feeding DC into the PA!

And the last one sold - 9 lovely little things spread out across the world (plus mine). And it's nice to know that they are being enjoyed.

 I only made more than one of them because there was a minimum where enclosure printing didn't make sense and I wanted to make something visually nice. 

I said before I would post the gerbers - I could but I wouldn't recommend it actually - the Gorva enclosures aren't cheap, the 9mm pots aren't cheap and small and good quality connectors aren't either! 

What I would do is buy the Musikding kit of PedalPCB's version here https://www.musikding.de/Curds-and-Whey-Distortion-kit, and build it yourself in a 125b with top jacks (Broughton, Walrus size). Bigger but a lot easier and more forgiving. don't forget to order the knobs! 
Fuzz dog do a version too called Dirt desert https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/product/dirtdessert which will fit in a smaller 1590b but with side jacks (MRX size). 

It's been fun, not sure I'll do another wee batch of things as there's a lot of people doing awesome stuff really well.  

3 minutes ago, LeftyJ said:

That does look remarkably like the fonts on the Fender website. 

It's not, it's Jost, fender use Futura 

I think it's the standard from the shopify theme

that's not something you see everyday is it?