LukeFRC

20 minutes ago, bassist_lewis said:

As we're doing shelves now

 

It feels topheavy with the Moog and ampeg at the top! 

1 minute ago, Downunderwonder said:

80hz would be as good as any?

Crossover fully down is 100Hz on the mini XO - IMO it sounds better higher cleaning up the low mids a bit

10 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

It's for sale.

 

I'd like to hear it at 10 20 30% OD pretty please!

With XO where? 

45 minutes ago, Rich said:

 

The programmable helicopter arrived  and I've put it the new version of the Loopy de Loop box (as I'm now calling it  ) and can report that it works really well. Strangely, the first switching after it's initially powered up does click, but then the subsequent ones are silent. And because it's a momentary SPDT switch, it's really soft touch. I'm half tempted to try to squeeze one of these into all my true bypass 3PDT switch pedals. 

I've got a load of similar but are slimmer to fit about the width of the switch - I think latching or non latching relays have quite an effect on power consumption? 

sound clips (with a variable XO frequency @matybigfro  ) of my pedal at various settings... sorry for the bad playing - single takes late at night

1 hour ago, joel406 said:

So the real question is ....

 

For the Bassist who has everything. 

 

What would you get?

why do you need anything? I know that's what forums like this do, gravitate on the latest new shiny thing.... but you don't need it.

Double bass and lessons? 

I found it really interesting making sound clips of mine - far easier to hear recorded than while playing! 

lovely

9 hours ago, MichaelDean said:

I guess after the initial excitement, I'd also be wondering how my wife came across $4k that I can fritter away! The list of things to do in the house never ends!

She won £100k on the lottery and is being generous 

A specific pre EB stingray someone I knew had...root beer brown, unassuming and sounded amazing and played itself. I couldnt' afford it when he moved it on so he sold if through Andy Baxter... - do be fair I would sell a couple of my current basses to get that one... it was one of the best basses I've ever played. I think it was a 1978. He had a matching 1977 one that he sold later when I could afford it - but it didn't sound the same. 

Otherwise I have a very short GAS list any more so whatever I could stretch the ££ too.... :

• Fender Fullerton '57ri Precision
• A beat up 1963 Precision that had had all the mods that reduce value- but sounded great. Someone was selling but then withdrew it. 
• My old status shark. I almost bought it back a few years back from @megssab - every so often I think I should have. 
• Fender Roscoe beck

On 10/02/2024 at 09:17, Rob Bisby said:

Someone's not gunna like what I say.. but get an EQ pedal and boost lost lows 

Which isn’t going to do the same thing as allowing more bass through a circuit by changing the caps. 
 

So I've had about 3 people asking "what does it sound like" and "are there any YouTube reviews" which there isn't as there aren't that many about...

So I've tried to do some recordings... which proves I'm not a great bass player! 
So here's me messing around with the same wee riff and recording different settings.

Sadowsky metro, passive, both pickups, fairly old sadowsky blue label strings
> Into pedal  >Into Behringer Q802USB mixing desk > into GarageBand

No EQ or compression, I tried to keep the volumes about the same.
Normally drives sound a bit fizzy and nasty completely clean so I've done a second set with garageband's inbuilt bass amp and 810 cab sim set clean and no eq.

I am not a great player, and this is a super hacky low-fi and low effort attempt at recording, one take while tired and not really focusing  - so sorry about that. This kinda bi-amped sound I know is used in some genre more than other - I've no idea what genre it is though so you've got this line from a song I've played - it's a bit busy but I'm not @Dood and  I really don't know what the best type of noise is to demo a overdrive/distortion pedal. 

First few have the crossover all the way down (100Hz) so is the closest it gets to what a standard drive pedal would do... then I stick the crossover roughly in the middle. 

Oh I stuck a few other pedal's I've built on at the end while I had everything set up... 

I have a uni pre in a Lakland 55-94 - it’s great.

but passive jazz are also lovely as passive basses.

what are you plugging into? If using a preamp pedal tweaking that for the jazz can give you the flexibility you want with the benefits of a passive bass…

that said the uni pre preamp gives most preamps a run for their money soundwise!

Did I overprice this? Let’s try a price drop  £105 posted 

On 21/09/2023 at 07:36, andruca said:

RainSel (like the LineSel but with a dry/wet balance when on)

question for you - but how does this work?
Could you do something  like full wet reverb into bit crusher on the trails..., and then into this to act as the master dry wet blend? 

I think my post was too long... 

here's info from his website to make it easier for you...

 

His spiel from the full size one (my edits taking out the features you can't access on the mini):

I've been working on a bass crossover distortion for the last several months and finally dialed in everything that I was looking for in one. Most, if not all of the crossover pedals offered today aren't very user friendly to set up, and many have a 'baked in' tone that's impossible to dial out, so my goal was to make one that sounded organic, easily capable of retaining your original tone (if desired), with a wide range of sounds, yet simple and intuitive to use. The result being, in my opinion, the finest and most versatile bass overdrive/distortion that I've built to date.

Back in the 70's, one of my bass rigs was an Acoustic 360 with its powered 18" cab. Due to it being a folded horn, I found it to be lacking clarity in the top end so I ran a blackface bassman with it's small 2x12 cab along with it. I cut the lows on the bassman since the 18" had more than enough low end and used the bassman for the highs, and could run it clean, or push it into having a slightly dirty top end. I was basically running a "poor man's"  bi-amped rig. Fast forward 40+ years later, and I now can achieve the same thing with this pedal. This is also similar to the way that Chris Squire got his HUGE tone, by running his lows to a bass amp his highs to another. When I saw him back in the day he used Sunn's for the lows and a Marshall for his overdriven top end.

First, I designed a Linkwitz-Riley crossover circuit with a variable crossover point from 100hz to 1khz. Next, the crossover goes into a two channel mixer with separate low and high volume controls. With the distortion switched off and  (not on the mini) both of the high and low controls set at the same level, you can rotate the frequency control from 100hz to 1Khz and the tone remains flat, as if the crossover isn't even there.  If you set the high and low volumes at different levels, you can use it as a tone control for for either cutting highs or lows, or even get reggae or dub bass sounds out of it.  

Before the top end goes into the mixer, it first enters a foot-switchable cmos distortion circuit with it's own level and gain controls. The distortion's character sounds very much like a tube amp breaking up .The variable crossover allows you to have a distorted top end with super clean and punchy lows. 

And from the Mini XO
The mini XO is the mini version of my XO Crossover Bass Distortion, but without the distortion bypass footswitch, 4 band equalization, and master level control in a smaller 1590B enclosure. It is basically a "biamp in a box" and contains the same active Linkwitz-Riley crossover with a variable frequency range of 100hz- 1khz, the same cmos overdrive/distortion, and the same two channel mixer as the XO

This pedal does not have a dip at the crossover point which I have found that many other manufacturer's crossover pedals exhibit. It keeps 100% of your original low end tone and punch while allowing you to select which frequency from 100hz to 1khz to overdrive, from none, to heavy saturation.

This pedal contains a charge pump and should ONLY be run at 9 volts.

The mini XO comes in a polished and etched 1590B, with all top jacks, black anodized aluminum knobs  and a true bypass  My pedals are completely hand-made and I make them in very limited quantities. I prep & polish the enclosures, acid etch them, etch my own PCBs, tin plate them, mount & hand solder  all of the components and wire and test them before they ship, making them a truly hand-made boutique pedal. Nothing is farmed out.

UPDATE  2/5/19: Due to demand, I decided to make three more orders available for a total of five builds. Please allow an approximate 1-2 week build time before it ships.

Not knowing what they were I turned to google - quite powerful wee boxes them! 

3 minutes ago, NickA said:

But which exact Wal positions?

 

I'll bet Paul Herman uses a jig and/or veneer calipers...but the older ones are not very "exact".

I’m pretty sure there were measurements somewhere in the last 30 pages!

C4 and future impact are the top of the line. 
 

there are some others that @Al Krowwill be around to recommend 

42 minutes ago, Aidan63 said:

put the neck pickup in the existing P position, bridge in the J and toward the bridge,

My gut says exact wal positions would be quite useful …

12 minutes ago, drTStingray said:

we have the sh*te exchange rate to blame for that, as it’s quite attractive for Americans to buy them - silly political choices eh…….. 

exactly - sort out the whole taxation/representation thing and they would never have chucked the tea in the harbour! 

18 minutes ago, bobbass4k said:

Not to mention the.completely garden variety TMB tonestack that could have extremely easily had a mids control. But hey, expecting 4 knobs for $1200 just isn't reasonable...

To be fair more controls doesn’t always equal better 

12 minutes ago, bobbass4k said:

Nobel clone from c2c mostly built just waiting for a step bit so I can drill the 22mm hole for the XLR and mount the DI daughterboard.

 

The regular output is better than I thought it would be but still way too transparent to be worth what the original costs... Others who've built it have said the magic is in the DI (it does use a £70 transformer after all) so I'm prepared to be convinced.

 

I was amazed that it used two tubes - but only one for the di …

40 minutes ago, Dood said:

 

As a single dad to two kiddies, your Avatar is awesome mate. Many hours in front of Sarah And Duck with the kids!!

Sarah and duck is pretty good

18 minutes ago, la bam said:

There's SO much good stuff for sale at the moment. 

 

Its a shame we can't all get our stuff to someone like Dood to review before selling. It'd be great to see all the reviews, great for the reviewers social media presence etc and great for potential buyers to see and sellers to sell their gear. 

 

Just an idea.. 

I'm sure for a fee he would...