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LukeFRC

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  1. On the other hand Active Di and phantom power has been a solution for the last half century 🤣
  2. Though - not reading the title of the thread - orchid is not passive
  3. Just bought Dave’s C4 pedal, super fast postage, impeccable packaging - deal with confidence thsnk you!
  4. Metro20 and yould be fine depending how many envelopes and synth pedals you want?
  5. Orchid DI - simple cheap and works well
  6. I know a nice place to have a burger and pint in Caernarfon that isn't fun to get to from here...
  7. full marks for graphic design
  8. Trade offers listened too... including with ££ going your way if needed... Things that have caught my eye recently… MXR bass synth (like that will happen) FI4 Source Audio Artifakt dunlop mini vol/exp pedal Fender Japan sunburst 57ri serial R003045 Microkorg2 A telecaster oh and a wee bit about me. I’m a bass player with a day job in design and set myself the challenge of building something that looked great, sounded great and was really tiny, I only wanted to make one for me and one for Lee, but the way the economics of PCB assembly worked I ended up with ten boards - so I made up six, and then these as the last. Making them so small made them fairly intricate to put together - and took a while - someone asked me if I was going to make small runs of anything else … and it’s not for me. I’m amazingly impressed with the way folk like @Goliath_FX (try his hornburg) make a business out of pedal making, with electrical and mechanical design and business planning and so on. Hats off to them. i realise that I’m going utterly off topic in my old sale thread, but hey ho
  9. (blemished is the one with the masking tape so I can tell which it is...) you can just about see the scratch above the switch on the blemished one.
  10. TLDR version: It's my clone of a Prunes and Custard in a really small case, it's a DIY pedal I made myself but to a fairly high standard. It sounds amazing! The last three I'll ever do... Long version: I like making pedals, and have made quite a few for myself - often of things, like this, that seem to be unavailable to buy new. @lee650 convinced me to try a Prunes and custard. But I didn't have space on my board - so wondered if I could fit it all in a mini (1590a) size enclosure... Then I saw the fancy Gorva M45 which is 5mm or so wider ... but crucially if you use the right Lumberg jacks, you can get top jacks into it! The PCB is a combination of SMD parts (resistors, a couple of ceramic caps, most diodes and IC) and through hole for capacitors and one diode. Mini 3PDT footswitch is low activation pressure and nice. The Gorva M45 is the most expensive part of the build in matt black - and I designed a fern leaf design for it printed in gloss on black by Gojira here in the UK. The original Prunes and Custard being made in New Zealand, and the fern leaf and er... All Black design influenced by the country of origin and watching the All blacks as my kiwi uncle introduced me to rugby... Importantly the LED is green. This is the kind of detail that matters. But making a small batch it meant I could get the SMD parts of PCB assembled and it made the unit price on the printing make sense. I had 10 PCB and bulked a bit at the cost to build them all up (plus that gets out of hand!) so made 6. Seems quite a few of you wanted and sold. Then someone messaged me asking if I was going to make more, I wasn't but due to being in the country for only a short time, they took mine - so I guess I had to build the rest up. These are the same as the last batch - with the following changes... I made a breakout board for the footswitch. Lumberg seem to have stopped doing their power jacks - this has a multi comp pro one (ie not a no-brand cheap one) I used CPC's own brand jacks, they are Japanese made so high quality. One of them I'm keeping but there were three more I made up Like before I offer the final three here for £85. Which will be £89 including first class postage here in the UK. There's one where I scratched the finish slightly - so there's a discount - which will be £75 or 79 including postage. SOLD ONE LEFT! Controls are gain, mix and volume, high cut is guitar/bass on the original (I think) and ... cuts the top end, low cut is contour on the original and in the down position adds clean lows back in. It sounds like a prunes and custard. It's very small. Did I mention how small it is? NOTE: compact jacks, like EBS, needed.
  11. LukeFRC

    DIY Effects

    I don't think you will find a reverb kit for £35
  12. LukeFRC

    DIY Effects

    I stuck a pedal pcb clone of a broughton HPF/LpF at the start of chain and it had a really nice effect. also tried the Euna clone which was an ok buffer too so i mashed them together… with variable input impedance, the bass switch from Euna and the ability to switch the HPF in and out … it works not sure if it’s an improvement as I’ve rearranged the pedalboard since and it has way less effect also doesn’t fit in the spare gorva m45 I have … made the board a couple mm too wide
  13. need to watch an actual review but had a fun 30 min playing around with it on Neuro app on my laptop. Does some cool stuff
  14. we have different definitions of "stripped things back" I think
  15. I’d told Trav “that’s Pete from basschat”
  16. good to see you all!
  17. I like it. Some people like tubes, I like the sound of transformers - my fave preamp I shouldn’t have sold is the hellborg one - that’s based on a neve type transformer and a more modern preamp stage and coil based eq… The colourbox is input and output transformers, two neve style preamp stages and a simpler eq circuit… For me it lets me give a more polished - tiny bit compressed tone to the desk/amp - the eq does any tweaks I want and it just sounds nice - the hx stomp is running amp and cab sims. The bad things: i don’t think it excels at drive sound, it’s that straight into console Beatles thing that works with guitar but I don’t like on bass, esp not last in the chain into a Pa - but you can set it so when it does clip it can clip just the peaks of the notes. if you want that sound I think there are cheaper ways to get similar- Hudson broadcast maybe? the gain, interstage gain and output volume knobs isn’t intuitive to me, and I guess makes sense if you’re going for a driven signal it makes more sense. It doesn’t love hot signals into the 1/4in input - so if you’ve got a preamp before you have to pay close attention to gain staging. I’ve got line level from the stomp going into the xlr in as it sounded better to me. talkbass seems to hate the HPF and write the whole oedal off based on that. At the lowest setting you can combine it with a bass boost for the pulltec type trick and that’s nice. Otherwise my phone has a stocks and stocks app I’ve never used. I don’t discount iPhones just because one feature isn’t made for me. but overall - it’s brilliant and if I had too only have one pedal, my heart would say the colourbox. crayon, for me the joy is a preamp strip style sound with transformers in it. Does Tonex have any neve 1073 style captures - that might be fun? othewise that was a lot of blether from me - go watch Janek Gwizdalas preamp shootout video…
  18. They need to pay you to do some YouTube content - Sheffield's version of IMA...
  19. (The filter/chorus/distortion/drive will get added on again)
  20. I took my board to bits at the start of the summer - and partly laziness and partly not really needing much more this is what I’ve used the last few times … it just works
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