LukeFRC

1 hour ago, bloke_zero said:

Like Luke I was out by a magnitude of 10/100/1000 - so most of the bands were correct but not all. And also I had a mix of 2%, 5% and 20% tolerance as I'd had to source the parts from 4 or 5 suppliers. And I can be deeply stupid at times!

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....

1 hour ago, warwickhunt said:

Newcastle/North expensive... you're having a larf surely? 

 

If you want to live in certain areas around the outskirts/suburbs of Newcastle you can pay top dollar for property or head out to Darras Hall and join the millionaire football elite brigade (still several million cheaper than the South) but there are loads of nice areas with housing that is 100's of thousands cheaper than comparable homes elsewhere!  

 

Newcastle - 7 miles from the coast and 20 miles from areas of coastal outstanding beauty.  10 miles to 'open' countryside.  50 miles from the countries only dark skies location, Scottish borders, Cheviot hills... blah blah blah

 

Just don't say you're a Mackem!    

 

@LukeFRC visited recently and he hated it... maybe.

 

 

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! 

11 minutes ago, uk_lefty said:

Am walking about at the mo but I remember there being a website where you could plan your pedalboard by dragging and dropping scale images of pedals. It really helped when I bought my first board.

https://www.pedalplayground.com

3 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

This most important question you need to ask is: "Is there anything you'd rather be doing than playing music?"

 

If there is you probably don't have what it takes.

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"

5 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

You need to have drive, determination and the ability to put all your waking time into being a musician

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. 
 

46 minutes ago, Rattle&Drum said:

Have you considered the Jad Freer Capo? I was all aboard the Noble hype train and going to order one but at getting on for £1300 and the best part of a year to wait I couldn’t bring myself to it. The Capo is starting to pop up with some good players, got mine just before Christmas and it’s blown me away. 

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 

6 hours ago, kuetsum said:

Lucky it's a 1000 not 2000...

Oh the 1000 are better!*
 

well different 

being all passive it’s like the best p bass type sound ever with a playing exp to match - the L2000 is more active and fiddly controls - and it has the OMG mode

16 hours ago, Owen said:

sends people into raptures of delight.

There you go - I doubt many of the other basses on here do that.

looks amazing- I kinda miss my L1000

6 minutes ago, bobbass4k said:

our work instructions for leaded builds included the phrase "raw chicken".

That is a good way of remembering it. 

2 minutes ago, KK Jale said:

Ah, you're right, there's one on 21frets with dome knobs. http://www.21frets.com/squier_jv/jvprecisionbass.htm

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

2 hours ago, KK Jale said:

Just a small point - no recollection of them having dome-topped knobs.

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

8 hours ago, bigthumb said:

thirdly the reverse winding tuners don't sit flush on the back of the headstock.

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…

9 minutes ago, Maude said:

 

 

I might send you a bass just to wipe the smug grin off your face. 😄

Will that count? 

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

1 hour ago, paul_5 said:

The only difference between PCB and veroboard is that often a PCB can be made smaller - either electrons flow or they don't. 

The majority of my gigging board is done on veroboard, the only one that isn't is my Lovetone Meatball clone, and that's only because I couldn't be bothered with the masses of off-board wiring - four rotary switches and six pots (plus eight TRS sockets) was a bit too much for my patience...

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... 

1 hour ago, disssa said:

I traced a lot of Broughton Pedals. I noticed that well-known circuits have been modified a little bit. Not more. I traced also a lot of other pedals. Most pedals are based on well-known circuits. I build the pedals for myself. I also don't publish schematics from traced pedals. At most from pedals that are only a 1:1 copy themselves.

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.

On 13/05/2022 at 12:20, matybigfro said:

Ooo this has really piqued my interest.

 

I've just picked up a Source Audio C4, in my search for the cheapest Midi controller options picked up a 2nd hand Digitech Seven and was looking for the cheapest USB host to connect them up

 

My search eventually took me to DIY projects at which point started thinking how useful it would be to have a USB host with display screen that could be programmed with preset and scene info.  For the moment I've picked up all the components to build a USB host of the Adafruit Trinket M0 https://github.com/gdsports/midiuartusbh#readme as cheapest solution but long term I might have to consider something with a screen, my old housemate has a Raspberry Pi lying around doing nothing so might see if I can recycle it. My coding knowledge extends about as far as basic network troubleshooting and installing reaper on Linux on a Chromebook so might be a bit of task.

 

 

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

Just now, Ricky Rioli said:

 

Meanwhile on the thread about not buying basses in 2022, one participant has just bought his 17th bass of the year.

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

27 minutes ago, KingBollock said:

I am very interested in this. I’ve been wanting to build a HPF for ages. I have put together some pedals, but I am not part of a community, so I don’t know if it’s proper to ask this, but… Will there be a circuit diagram or, even better, a diagram for building it on strip-board?

 

I prefer using strip-board. I don’t know why but it feels like using a PCB is like a Lego kit compared to a strip-board Airfix kit (point to point would be like scratch-building, I suppose). And I don’t mean that in anyway derogatorily, it’s more that Lego kits cost more. I’ve seen some very cool Lego kits but I have also seen the prices!

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

15 minutes ago, Passinwind said:

Making non commercial pedal clones for yourself shouldn't really matter a whit to anyone IMO. There's a huge DIY clone building culture these days, think a few heads would explode over this for instance: https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/pcb553/  ? 😉

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

16 hours ago, 40hz said:

I've sampled everything and realised that most basses really are very similar, and there aren't these chasm-esque differences we say there are.

+1 (but without sampling everything)