LukeFRC

The HX stomp, in my mind is in a class of its own. 
If you're going digital effects, for price/size/features and everything it's well worth it. 
 

58 minutes ago, TRBboy said:

I do really like the idea of having one box that can do everything, and also be used for guitar, as I'd like to get back into home recording.

It is exactly this. ESP if you're thinking of guitar it's even more useful. 
Of your current pedal board it can replace everything but the volume pedal and wireless. 

And they hold value secondhand consistently, which can't really be said for the sonicake.... 

I would just find a HX stomp secondhand... if you don't like it, sell it on

(just for Andy) 

15 minutes ago, walshy said:

Dont fight it, accept the inevitable 😂

You know for the next one you're going to have to find some vintage Yamaha BBs 

I may have gone a bit overboard on the caveats!  

1 hour ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

What is the middle hole for the then (not the small crooked one for the bridge ground wire, but the bigger one pretty much exactly in the middle)?

No idea! Holding it on the router maybe? 

On 11/10/2019 at 17:49, ikay said:

They screw into threaded inserts in the body as part of the bridge mounting mechanism along with the three screws at the tail end

 

Quoting a post from another thread… the “bollards” are machine bolts that go into the threaded metal inserts set into the body 

On 27/02/2024 at 23:37, lee650 said:

This and the matching preamp, are still on my bucket list to own.

+1 , never going to happen but we can dream

31 minutes ago, stewblack said:

I think @admiralchew has won.

Can we close this thread now.

Nah, he’s got at least one more board to build first!

17 minutes ago, SamIAm said:

After a few years of multi-fx I've discovered (mostly) what f/x I like to use and decided to have a go using physical pedals.  Took it along to a jam evening on Thursday to have a play and it does produce some really nice sounds.  I'm using 9v batteries for power (button batteries for the tuner) to save the weight of a PSU.  It could do with a volume pedal and perhaps a chorus & reverb ... tho at that point it outgrows the pedalboard I've got and also starts to come in quite heavy.

Sam x

 

The post were Sam has nothing she hasn’t programmed herself in some way!! 

1 hour ago, admiralchew said:

They're all Rockboards. In the bottom picture, the two big boards at the top are Rockboard 4.3s, I think, the Broughton and IE boards are 4.1s, the 3 Leaf and EAE boards are 2.2s and the Noble one is either a 2.1 or 2.0. I really like them for routing options, they fit power boards easily and they're sturdy. The only thing I dislike is that the size up (so extra space at the top/bottom) doesn't really assist if you have top-jack pedals because of where the gaps are for wires. I'm not sure I want to go for three rows though!

 

I've got on more 4.3 board sat here, power connected but waiting for pedals. I have a couple of plans but they may take a while to do, so I though I'd share these pictures now.

 

 

they look good, my board (singular!) is a voodoo labs small ex, and was comparing it last night on rock boards online thingy and the 4.1 are a handy size - but very deep front to back!

the crazy thing is I'm pretty sure you've still got pedals not on boards too! 

What make are the pedalboards? 

3 minutes ago, tauzero said:

I think I'm in a state of Schrodinger's abstinence. I've bought a PCB for @LukeFRC's Iron Man pedal, and ordered a few components for it, but does it yet count as failure or is it only failure when the pedal is assembled? Knowing me, that could mean I'll be out of the 2026 abstinence challenge.

Surely diy comes under a slightly different catagory 

WEIGHT?

11 minutes ago, 0175westwood29 said:

Looks like I found what I’ve been looking for in the US 

 

https://www.underhillbass.com/product-page/the-full-english-standard-version

I would touch bass with @funkle … he’s the expert around here

I found silicon Christmas tree work for me, - they go in the ear canal but are held in by a gentler pressure than foam buds. I couldn't get comply style foam to work consistently. 

I had a EQ1 in a Warwick streamer as my main bass for about a decade. 
complex but very learnable once you understand what you’re doing. 

17 minutes ago, Maude said:

I'm more than happy with the HW in my avatar. Genuinely can't see the Rick being any better. 

I was thinking that would be the best way if one wanted to avoid remortgaging to afford it!

And the rain mixer at the end of chain 👌 - I have no idea why it wasn’t a factory patch to do that and add clean blend after everything 

25 minutes ago, Linus27 said:

If you have any other patches then please share.

Lots of guitar based patches on r/zoommultistomp but would love to have some more bass bassed inspiration. (I got my ms70cdr last week after someone on the forum answered my wanted ad) 

The metro Japan basses are lovely... but the "they are all lightweight" is something they started doing in the Warwick-Sadowsky era - so don't presume that it's going to be lightweight.

I have a 4 string Will Lee metro - I only got it in a trade as it was going to be easier than my bass to sell on... that was 6 years back and it's been my main bass since

What the other three said - from what you’ve said you’ve not played live much before… church is a great way of learning to play live - aim for getting the simple things bulletproof before adding anything else.

the main skill to focus on isn’t playing interesting lines, but listening to the others in the band and learning to lock in and play in a supportive way.

It’s very easy to come up with the best riff ever at home and then get to Sunday and find the drummer has a different idea of what the rhythm is doing and it doesn’t fit

that depends on the bass amp's effect loop. Mine is series so that wouldn't work. Parallel would. 

7 hours ago, Quatschmacher said:

Sadly I can’t post my latest pedal acquisition as I’m beta testing it and it’s not released yet.

stop telling us things that there are things you can't tell us! 😝

oh man - where have you been? 

short answer - yes, almost

Oddly enough, I like it low gain in barbershop type territory, but it feels more alive than the barbershop clone I made.