LukeFRC

it's crazy isn't it? I've got a mate who's got a bit of inheritance money and would like to buy his first proper jazz bass... he's got £800 to spend. A few years ago that would get you a nice American Fender, or start to find lots of boutique things on Basschat that have devalued a bit.... Now some secondhand Mexican fenders are out of his price range.

He looks good at the weekend though in a Skandi style... till they opens his mouth and sounds like a fishwife

2021 onwards MacBook Pro will do at low level and then I looked at different headphone amps but none of them seemed to have had enough power so I bought a mini behringer mixing desk that does!

So fixed the pedal with 20 components… onto the one with 131 components 🤯😬

First of all - thanks to @Woodinblack for the above help… might be useful for folk more at my level (Ie idiots) to go through how I got it going… Stuck a drum beat or demo from toy keyboard through it. Measured small voltage on input measured slightly larger at test point 1, bigger again test point 2 none at the volume or output tiny numbers wobbling around weren’t telling me much, so made an audio probe out of a Jack socket, a cap and two wires …. Ran that into my compressor at fasted and highest ratio… and into preamp to headphones… followed the toy keyboard beat around the circuit - figured the third stage 2n2222 wasn’t working switched it out for another one soldered it together, followed the beat to the end plugged in a bass and played!!

I have 600ohm ones. sounds lovely, pain in the derrière to drive

I can remember that from my trace... they filters are set differently from each other.... how I don't know cos I didn't finish the trace. ...

Only if you use Tone puppets

Aparently the top producers use them on synth parts too

Don’t worry - in the video Scott is interviewing Steve Albini, Nigel Godrich, Brian Eno and some other producer who’s name I forget and def they give props to our Ped.

I take it you’ve not subscribed to the enhanced pro level package on Scott’s bass lessons? The puppets are covered in the “studio tone secrets - lesson 5” I think. Once you know, you know, if you know what I mean

First time with a pedalboard today - Quatschmacher’s double bass preset on the C4 on one song ”loved watching you play bass and get into the music, couldn’t hear you weren’t on in the mix at all”

How? How much voltage on r2?

I’m now at the FFS it doesn’t work - let’s check everything stage of my builds. Both with no output thing is the only major difference between these two boards and others I’ve made is that these have surface mount J201 jfets - i made a test rig and checked the ldss of them - then soldered them in carefully - the board has space for a leaded version of them too so checked for continuity of my soldering … have I killed my jfets somehow? (Other thing I need to test is try a different power supply )

I’m just miming. It’s actually a keyboard doing the bass line

Good sense of humour - probably shouldn't have called Ped a willy

Sadly lost to covid. Before his time

He didn't have TIM for all this

Random question- what are the 2m resistors doing here? One I think is to stop a pop on switch on? Other set input impedance? should if work without them?

I wish my mistake was that complex. Musikding is great for labelling your resistors. After you test 20 diff values without mistakes you kinda stop... Apart from this time the 2M were actually 2k

Also a lot of Greggs. So if you like cheap sausage rolls....

Newcastle is great. (though there are more than one dark skies location in the UK) Different from Yorkshire, different from the Central belt. I'ld happily live up or around there.

You know everyone says “check every part” and you think “I should check every part” but don’t and sometimes you get away with it and sometimes the 2m resistors turn out to have been labeled wrong and are 2k so that doesn’t work there’s a lesson there for us all, which lets be honest, we probably won’t all do!

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