LukeFRC
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6 hours ago, Reggaebass said:
13 years 😁
He must really love his green tuner pedal!
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10 minutes ago, thisisswanbon said:
In reality though, I have no idea how they've made a compressor sound as good as this for 50 quid!
Origin had already done the R&D for them - they just needed to trace it….
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This thread isn’t helpful - at the weekend I was playing through my tech21 chorus and having a whole “if I sold this I could get x instead” :s
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1 hour ago, thisisswanbon said:
Yeah I did notice that! Really bizarre design decision (or afterthought). I know what they're trying to achieve, but for the sake of putting this OUTSIDE of the pedal, they'd have given themselves a lot less grief...
In honesty though, I didn't find the metering on the origin effects unit all that useful... and I've used more compressors without it than with, so I'm not overly put off
I imagine copying a schamatic without knowing what it's doing?
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Talking of your trigger warning-The metering is apparently on the inside of the pcb!
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21 minutes ago, Eldon Tyrell said:
I think it is important to point out that the "cost of guitar" is "price listed in local currency MINUS VAT in that EU member state". So, depending on from where in the EU you buy from, you could actually save some VAT (of course you still have shipping costs, duty and handling fees). I ordered twice from a small shop in Belgium (their VAT is 21%) and got the two basses (one Fender and an EBMM) cheaper than what they cost here. The whole process was pretty straightforward too. I think the real issue comes with returns when you want to get your VAT back (unless the retailer manages it all for you, like Thomann, I guess). Have not tried that one yet myself.
See below for a map for EU VAT and order from a county that has a significantly higher VAT (e.g., Hungary, Sweden, Denmark or Greece) than the UK.
While this is correct - the OP is about secondhand basses
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So 25% item cost is a good yardstick
I imagine that years of being in EU means we instinctively look for secondhand gear there, when importing from the US might be more cost effective now
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In answer to the op - I think it’s
((( cost of guitar + cost of shipping ) x 20% VAT ) x 2% duty ) + any courier fees for handling the item [royal mail is £8]
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45 minutes ago, krispn said:
How is this still here?!?
I’ve been thinking the same
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25 minutes ago, Hellzero said:
And saying he was recycling others idea is not knowing what he's done for the musicians at this time as he was always listening to their input.
A true genius, indeed, always going ahead.
He even turned his cheapskate habits into clever designs, not flaws.
Taking the guitar from an artisan made craft product into a mass manufactured commodity was a massive change.
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90% of the trade dress too
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soul food ... I think that's horse based... we tend not to eat horse
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that's been on Basschat years back
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That was quick!
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53 minutes ago, kwmlondon said:
I don’t want to OWN any more basses, but I’d love to spend some with some just to find out what they were like. In an ideal world there would be an instrument library where you pay a fee and you can loan out one thing at a time.
Basschat? You also need to leave someone with a deposit that’s the value of the bass ….
kinda
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I doubt anyone cares, missing parts ordered, avoided buying another PCB for either the 1590bb or 1590a enclosures I have floating around...
I did however spend a lot of the last couple of evenings with the laptop on KiCad, remembering what Gerbers are moving traces around and hopefully coming up with a PCB that will work this time. About last time I laid up my first and... it didn't work (partly the circuit, partly the PCB, partly me not knowing what I was doing) so I had another go - hopefully it will work! I find it crazy that for the price of a pint at the brewery down the hill I can get 10 PCB made up and posted to me.
In the mean time Disssa will have knocked out about half a dozen beautiful pedals.-
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these are exceptional GLWTS
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1 hour ago, ordep said:
Small update to the mini/practice board.
What’s the black one with no label? Octabvre?
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oh balls - forgot the off board parts. I ALWAYS DO THIS
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If you looks around the forums some of the best analogue chorus for for bass seem to be...
EHX small clone
Walrus Julia
MXR bass chorusTech21 bass boost chorus
Providence Anadime bass chorus.
Cheaper options like valet on aqua flow, or various analogue chorus from nux, joyo etcThe first is easy to find, the next two less so.
There's an anadime for sale here... If I was looking for a chorus right now that's what I would get, heck I'm tempted to get it and compare it to my bass boost chorus and see what I like the best. I've only just noticed you're not in the UK so this link is slightly less useful...In the digital realm you've got things like TC electronics corona chorus - which might do toneprints - or depending on your set up the zoom ms-70cdr could do chorus and everything else if you wanted it too...
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Musikding are out of 2n5457
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5 minutes ago, uk_lefty said:
Yes. No idea but it's just very small LEDs, can't imagine it's doing much at all.
From DIY building pedals... a pedal has a LED and then a resistor to control the brightness - if you make it too bright the LED can easily use way way more power than the audio circuit. I would remove them first as part of your problem solving and working out the power consumption.
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5 hours ago, uk_lefty said:
Thanks, how would I do that pls? Then what do I do with the information once I know?
is the green light also running off the power supply? How power hungry is that?
I let the magic smoke out... but it's back! (actually, it's not...😞)n (actually, it is, I'm a complete 🍆)
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There’s a fun fixing project for someone here @Jakester - if they take a punt … ild be interested but unsure I would use it!