LukeFRC

31 minutes ago, independent.jerry said:

 

It's a preamp. The switches control the response of different freq points. 

 

It's an awesome tone sweetener and has a huge headroom. 👍

 

Is it Ziebek ? Or Zwiebek or something? I thought I remembered a version with less switches 

1 hour ago, independent.jerry said:

 

 

Been using this setup since september last year. There's a thumpinator, a neuro hub and a di under the hood.

 

FIts easily on a carry on luggage with clothes and cables.

what's the submarine? It has more switches than what I thought it might be

41 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

I can't imagine anything more depressing than rehearsing to a click.

I can.
"Hey, you know the click you suggested really works out, key player programmed the bass lines too and will just send that to the FOH, so erm we don't really need you."

11 minutes ago, MrDinsdale said:

Fortunately my dad was a luthier and has all the gear an knowledge to help out. The bass I built when I was 16 has one of the nicest playing necks I’ve tried, just a shame I’ve gone off 5 string.  16 year old me had very different aesthetic preferences too 😂

 

So yeah price wise it ain’t gonna be cheap, at least £300 on woods alone before hardware. It does mean I can get all the luminlay in there and make something really special worthy of those pickups and preamp. 

 

Time is my biggest concern though, with work, the child, the band and just general life stuff it’s gonna be little bits when I can! Modding an existing bass at least means I’ll have something I can actually play with a few months. 

 

A dolphin thumb reverse explorer thst got drunk - I like it 

I was going to reply but Funkle said exactly what I was going to … unless you are really good and can already make a nicer playing neck than Yamaha… mod something existing…. I’ve done enough builds to know that the reason that I don’t play things is that the neck and playablity isn’t as good as things I already have 

43 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I found an old bbd chip, but can't find a datasheet online(!).

 

TCA350Y

 

Best I can find is the pinout.

 

pin 2 : t2
pin 3 : IN
pin 4 : V(+)
pin 5 : t1
pin 6 : Out
pin 7 : V(-)

 

Anyone got any ideas?

 

I seem to recall you need opposite polarity square waves on t1 and t2...

 

Could be the basis of a retro delay or flanger.

 

 

Scroll to page 170 http://www.introni.it/pdf/ITT - Integrated Circuits for Consumer Applications 1977_1978.pdf

3 hours ago, danbowskill said:

Just bought the CTC Ti-Me Delay, man it sounds lush. Like a carbon copy on steroids

What’s the DFZ - from a pure design pov that’s really lovely looking 

1 hour ago, Bassybert said:

I think it’s more a case of so much saturation in the effects market people are constantly looking for the next thing rather than objectively using an effect because of the sound and sticking with it.

 

It’s de rigeur to chop and change pedals, the case designs have become as important as the sounds they make, you’ve only got to look at some of the boards on this thread to see people are as taken by the way they look as much as/if not more than the sound. 
 

With such a bewildering array of pedal choice nowadays I think people find it hard to stick with something in the long run. And building a board and maintaining it is as much of a hobby as playing judging by the size of some of the boards on this thread. 

 

I’m not judging at all, each to their own and if that’s what floats your boat then go for it.

I think it’s more Interesting how many of the boards you see have so many pedals released in the last couple of years - now there’s been a bit of miniaturisation going on but i do wonder where all the 20 year old pedals end up 

8 minutes ago, glassmoon said:

 

I guess my question is this: is this a new norm or an old concept, to put together a board based on the application thereof, instead of a board with one's favourite effects? 

I always thought it was a great way for pedal addicts getting around the “no room on my board” problem and justify feeding their addiction…. 

I've posted these before, and they really are not good photos... 

but... it really is quite pretty

(the Ibby got sold, turned out I hated it!)

7 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Nice, except for the pointless headstock which it costs 350 euros for them to cut off and which you get lumbered with if you have a 4 or a 5.

For me, I doubt I would have got my Capone if it was a true headless… as my mental image of headless is 80s cheese that my personal taste doesn’t quite fit with… the faux headstock means I’m quite happy with how it looks and I imagine non musicians don’t even notice the difference. 

2 hours ago, NikNik said:

Well Jell. 

sorry

I'm very lucky to have found this at the right time and right price. It's exceptional. (a fair bit posher than I am used too, ideally the house project we're doing lets me keep it) 

EBay, reverb and basschat/talkbass for used prices.

if that doesn’t tell you rough prices then either:

nobody cares and it’s worth £30

or 

theres a community of geeky fans of that instrument online somewhere and you need to find them.

if the company is still going how desirable was it when it was released, how desirable are other similar basses from that maker. 

7 hours ago, Rexel Matador said:

That bass puts me in mind of a pig roasting on a spit. Something about the finish plus those weird little teats either side of the bridge.

They are to stand the bass on so it doesn’t rest on the tuners. 
they are crazy carving shapes.

plus a pigs teats would be more down the body

Just now, Jakester said:

 

I am saying I am a complete moron!

But 

the good thing is - in discovering you are a moron you have gained a nice preamp pedal! 
 

some people are morons the other way and feed too much power into things or middle up centre negative and positive… which to be fair…

they cancel out?

4 minutes ago, Jakester said:

Oh my blimmin' god. I can't believe it. I am actually, demonstrably, the world's most incompetent man. 

 

And I think owe the repairer a fairly profuse apology. 

 

So, what happens, when you have a power-hungry pedal, and don't supply it with the correct power needed? It won't work properly. 

 

In the course of zip-tying and finalising the replacement Bassbone on my pedalboard, I looked at the PSU. "Hang on", I thought. "Are those jumpers upside down?"

 

Yes.

 

Yes, they were.

 

Which meant the PSU was sending 12v to the pedal, instead of 15v. 

 

Which means that when it was tested using the original PSU, it would work fine. But when run off my board PSU (set incorrectly) it would struggle. 

 

I've just tested it again with the original PSU, and it worked perfectly. 

 

And the replacement on the board with the PSU set correctly now works fine too. 

 

I cannot believe just what a humungous todger I am. A full-on, weapons-grade 🔔🔚.

 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!

Are you saying that if I had given into my temptation to try and fix it … it wouldn’t have been the fun rewarding project I thought it would have been?!

1 hour ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

Yes, why even play at all?

 

Who cares?

 

We are all going to die anyway.

 

it's just some of us will die with a Anima preamp they didn't know they wanted

1 hour ago, paulo m said:

But their is an awfull a mount of hype or snakeoil surrounds certain manufactures products that people covert or desire... 

I have spent a bit of time on Freestompboxes and DIYstompboxes - and what that's taught me is that there is some snakeoil - people for instance taking a common circuit and then releasing it with a few mods that someone on a forum developed. 

Then you have people who take something and then do the R&D to create their own variant - that might or might not have a merit as it's own thing... but it's subjective. Sometimes it's a variant on something, but often it becomes its whole new thing with features that people want for some specific need. 

And then you have some people who create products which have been properly engineered, or with a sole pursuit to some certain level of specific excellence, that with all the DIY skills in the world you wouldn't have a chance of getting near. Or other times is just good, and gets a reputation for being reliably good in a mix, and people buy into that. 

Add to that low supply production and it's easy to see how lack of supply leads to high prices on things - I'm not sure that's always hype or snake oil, and for me it really depends on the circuit we're discussing. As @admiralchew says above 3leaf stuff works, and does what it does really well - and then people want that. 
Importantly no one is forcing you to buy or want anything, and quality cheaper options exist

 

Ooooo

not done the enclosure yet, and don’t have a multimeter that can do micro volt AC to calibrate…. But worked first time! 

5 hours ago, Bagman said:

I’ve put the new SGFX Diamond BCP/EQ on the board and put the old BCP1 away for now. 
 

I nearly bought a Seymour Duncan compressor today. 

Lovely….

my ocd is screaming if you switched the beta and wounded ram around it would all tesselate better!  

3 hours ago, DJpullchord said:

Does god play bass?

He can, but leaves it for us lot. He's more like the conductor for the band. 

20 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

 

It's not really a digital pedal, it's digital control over the compression of the analogue bass signal.

 

Odd sentence - 

- analogue keeps everything analogue

- digital goes through analogue to digital conversion and back again.

- analogue with digital control uses digital control over an analogue circuit, I think chase bliss do this on a lot of their pedals, or the tech21 deluxe vt bass

boss bc-1x is digital. (And there’s nothing at all wrong with that.) 

9 hours ago, Bagman said:

Tech21 Bass Boost Chorus is good 

best not to go for "grass is greener" approach and switch it... 

3 hours ago, Jakester said:

Well, I'm looking to get shot of it now, so drop me a line...

I saw (but didn't want to pollute your sale thread).