LukeFRC

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.

Before I found it the eh bass clone was the top chorus I wanted to find in terms of reviews/price/sound

This is of course rubbish - it’s a Tech21 bass boost chorus

And recently reissued I ended up with a Tech21 bass boost chorus that makes me smile when I use it

I think ive fixed what they were trying to say

1985 was prime Fullerton Reissue territory when they started to be good again?!

https://www.musikding.de/MINI-HP-VONG-filter-kit

Forget Bass prices - I’m trying to work out how much our house is worth. Hosing market is crazy - how can my house doubled in value since we bought it 8 years back?!

Metro and Metroline were two different eras of the same line assembled by Yoshi - maybe you are thinking of the short run metro express line? There was also the higher end Sadowsky TYO line too that weren’t exported. In the highly collaborative world of Japanese instrument making who was making the bits for Yoshi’s team to assemble- I’ve heard ESP, which would make sense.

it’s not quite a straight comparison… Sadowsky Japan I think were linked to ESP and designed as a fairly high range small shop. ESP japan make a range of basses at different price points - including Lakland Japan/Shoreline these are supposed to be better than the Cortek made in Indonesia Lakland Skyline … so not everything is the same

I’ve played a handful of each and I would say Yes, easily is the difference worth the difference a different question (and we may differ on the answer)

I think someone like Overwater will pay rent, marketing, electricity, web design and actually look after their employees too. the difference is Fodera use it as a point of their marketing and other companies don’t

@SumOne check out the talkbass thread, the guys from Source Audio take part - from what I can remember the two sides can be set up to act independently as two compressors, but eq etc are global on both paths

is it from someone who's been around a bit? you'll be alright

you realise that if you took your CAD file and went to a CNC equipped bass neck factory they would offer you a range of prices based on material, tolerances, how often blades get sharpened, quality control etc. The same CNC machine could also make wooden toys for my kids, just because there is a common denominator in the machine used doesn't mean that things are the same.