LukeFRC

I went to art college, and we were taught "you can pretty much achieve whatever you want. Just expect to work your derrière off tp get there, work for a decade on minimum wage second job to make ends meet and never be rich ... but you'll be do it and be happy"

this. Everyone I know in any creative field (including my own) only got anywhere through application and hard work. Sometimes talent and skill is a secondary attribute.

I'm confused apart from being able to be preamps with balanced outputs there Noble, Capo, and Stomp aren't even in the same ballparks of one another in terms of why you would buy one over another. @EmmettC - I used a HX stomp for years. If you're into a digital effects workflow it's great. Look at the free stuff Jon Willis has done on facebook his tone lab site for interesting starting places, it will take more than a week to learn and work out what is and isn't working for you... I sold mine as individual pedals knobs is just simpler and I look at screens all day in the day job and you know, stuff... make of that what you will!

@funkleyou win the thread of 2022 award

@Chris2112 - it’s beautiful

That is a good way of remembering it.

My guess is Greco basses from the year before used more domed ones and they finished them up first before moving to square edge

I *think* from memory some of the early ones had more dome topped knobs - one I sold to @Paul S did anyway. I think it looks like a legit earlyish Sen bodied JV there - any stamps in the neck pocket or back of the neck? raised A pickups … no idea. anyway slightly jealous

This is right - and vintage accurate too - the drill holes for the bits at the bottom of the tuners to fit into we’re added later in fender history

My soldering improved no end when someone sold me lead solder as that’s all they had in stock…

He’s very germ phobic- he might have to leave it in the garage for a few days of decontamination….

I was thinking about this while driving tons of holes for the next two builds... PCB, designed well, can have the pots mounted on it and make both the install easier with less off board wiring, and also it is mounted into a fixed position. Last time I did Vero I didn't plan how to mount it and it was suspended on it's own rats nest of off boards wiring...

I find the interesting thing how much of pedals seem based on hype and sometimes carefully chosen components … like one Klon clone gets raved about, the next one not so much and the £30 Chinese version rubbished… and electronically there’s not much between them. sometime price correlates to “better” components, other times not.

I’m trying something similar - Adafruit Trinket M0 and buttons and led screen for the C4 preset number (Ie nothing more complex than that)

it's the cost in strings that gets me...

The pedal pcb version of a broughton HPF and LPF has the schematic - would laying out your own vero layout be like mecano?

Oh I agree, but for every supportive collaborative open source friendly bit of the internet and forums, you also get the other side.

+1 (but without sampling everything)

Meanwhile this evening My task…. measure the Idss on a couple of handful of J201 oh except that’s not it, they are MMBFJ201 surface mount in a SOT23 package - which basically translates too - flipping tiny and painful things to try and get in the right place to get a reading in my homemade tester …

Normally I get a notification of replies in this thread and equivalent on talkbass - so when the house of disssa posts something I see it twice this however, perhaps wisely given the fanaticism, has not appeared on TB

One every 23 days

Out: ibanez Roadster (and HX stomp) In: Le Fay Capone (and loads of pedals) expensive year

We have a cost of living crisis, much more inflation than we are used too, a lack of supply of most things in the market and a weaker pound than normal. All pushing prices up of new and therefore used basses - but people theoretically have less spare cash - with the wierdness that cash in the bank isn’t keeping track with inflation so if you want to use it on a bass you might as well get it now.