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Boss FT2 Dynamic (Envelope) Filter for sale (trade for mini/micro qtron)
Bigwan replied to Bigwan's topic in Effects For Sale
Original post amended to include trades for Qtron mini or micro. May entertain other effects, but don't hold your breath! -
Could I interest you in a boss ft2 by any chance?
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Really enjoying my 3 Leaf Proton at the minute. Made a little mod to lengthen the decay time a bit and now it's getting pretty close to being perfect! A few more things to try on my filter quest - have a Tonefactor 442 incoming from Shep and the components for a meatball clone on the way so more experimenting to do. Will probably keep 2 filters on my board so don't have to whittle it down to one!
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Boss FT2 Dynamic (Envelope) Filter for sale (trade for mini/micro qtron)
Bigwan replied to Bigwan's topic in Effects For Sale
The 3 leaf is SO close to being great, but the decay of the filter is a little fast for me. It's staying in the meantime. I've just ordered the parts for a meatball clone so we'll see what happens there. I would be willing to have 2 filters on my board so the best 2 at the end of all this will stay. -
Hi guys, I'm on the seemingly never ending filter quest! As a result I have for sale a Boss Dynamic Filter (FT2). Bought only a few weeks ago from ebay after reading what people on here thought. Alas I've also bought a 3 Leaf Audio Proton and Shep's Tonefactor 442 so something has to go. I'd describe this as more predictable than most filters. It's very musical, but it's greasy and whacky that I'm looking for and this doesn't quite do it. Seems to like higher output basses this one, which can't be said for all the filters I've tried! It's in reasonable nick with the wear you might expect from a pedal of this vintage (see pics for the worst of it). These are getting hard to find so I lept on this as soon as I saw it on the 'bay. I paid £50 + 8.99 postage (yeah I know - poked!). I'll take £50 posted for this. Would trade for an EHX Mini or Micro Qtron to modify to further my filter quest! Cheers Ian [attachment=106623:ft2 1.JPG] [attachment=106624:ft2 2.JPG]
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SOLD: EBS Unichorus, Tone Factor 442 Red
Bigwan replied to pantherairsoft's topic in Effects For Sale
I'll take the 442 filter mate. PM on its way! -
Oh that is just sublime... -
Your Mileage May Vary
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I wrestled with this in a pub band and it really wore me down, to the point that I quit. The annoying thing was that any time I tried to improve the situation I was labelled as being petty, but I had to take on board any of the other members criticisms or there'd be a row... More concerning is that the longer the situation went on the less bothered I was about improving - that was the sign it was time to go.
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For the sake of a few pennies and an extra few minutes with the soldering iron I'll maybe give it a blast. Just looking at my reduced perfboard layout there's enough room to fit it all on the same board - just!
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I'll maybe try the NSL32 first as farnell have them. You might be interested in reading this with regards to the blend issue you mentioned: http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=54508.140 You could mod your pedal very simply to gain a more useful blend control - in my case since I'll be replacing the rotaty mode switch with a spdt for band pass/high pass, I can add a tiny little daughter board with a single opamp and half a dozen resistors on it and use a dpdt switch instead, using the other pole to flip an opamp with unity gain from inverting to non-inverting and just stick that circuit in line with one side of the blend pot. In theory...
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What vactrols did you use in your build? I'm leaning towards the NSL32 R3 instead of the VTL5C3.
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That's useful info - I'd assumed the bandwidth switch was going to be useless for my purposes and wasn't going to include it at all! Even more resin to do a fully featured build before I trim the fat!
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Cheers Technicality! Nice YT clip. That'll explain why Spencer at 3 Leaf chose to leave off the blend on the original Groove Regulator then - couldn't understand that decision. Good to know. I'm assuming you use your blend set fully 'wet' then? I'll be building the full circuit to start with so I can play with it and see what works for me and what I 'set-and-forget'. I can't see me using the 'down' sweep going on my previous experiences, and 4 options for Range is more than I'll use so I'll choose 2 and put them on a toggle switch. If the blend had been any good I'd have kept the Bandpass option, but by the sound of things it'll be permanently hardwired to low pass! I've just measured up a drilling template and if I have to use all 6 knobs and 3 switches it should all fit ok if I use 9mm alpha pots and the smallest knobs I can find - it'll be SERIOUSLY tight though. The battery I decided to discard very early on!
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The 1590B is back on after a bit more thought and some drawing (and some inspirational 1590A builds over pn diystompboxes.com - wow!) but which switches to keep? Thinking of keeping range hi/lo, sweep up/down and band pass/low pass if I can get them all on there somewhere! Unfortunately the fx loop will go too...
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Can't comment on the Evo III, but I've been changing back and forth between a first series ABM and an OTB for a while. The OTB sounds very similar set flat to how I have the ABM set up so that's a win for me. If you need more flexibility from the OTB I'd add graphic eq and octave pedals. I do still love my ABM, but the Orange is punchier and much MUCH louder (although whether you'll use the extra or not only you can say). I had contemplated selling my OTB to get something even smaller... but I don't think I can bring myself to do it!
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I quite like the look of the TC 250 watt 1x12 combo myself, although between my SWR Workingmans 12 and my ABM 1x10 combos I'm pretty set!
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[quote name='umcoo' timestamp='1335177179' post='1626626'] Hi all, I figured this would be the best place to ask this... I spent most of yesterday building a GGG tuned muff and...welll....it doesn't work. I've built 3 pedals before and all have worked first time. LED comes on, but not getting any sound both with the effect on and bypassed. I'm going to have a look at it tonight and see if there's anything obvious, but anyone got any ideas what might cause that to happen? Cheers [/quote] From what you describe, since you aren't even getting the bypassed signal out, it sounds like you've either wired your switch or input/output jacks wrong. Other posibility is something accidentally shorted to ground.
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[quote name='lxxwj' timestamp='1335098744' post='1625662'] http://www.danielzink.com/ makes some nice 1590A pedals. [/quote] Wow! Some serious crammage going on there!!!
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Some options maybe: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f36/tiny-pedals-1590a-pedals-833936/
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Ashdown Bass Hyperdrive pedal (James Lomenzo signature) *** SOLD ***
Bigwan replied to mcnach's topic in Effects For Sale
Have a look at the video of James Lomenzo using his pedal on YouTube. It convinced me! -
They can do clean no problem - They're just very very good at doing dirty too! I use mine for a nice tubey clean sound so the gain is set to about 9pm on the dial (sometimes less). Still LOADS of headroom! I use the factory valves and have no problems with them at all. I don't really agree with them not being flexible - they are what they are. You want more control buy a graphic eq pedal or something.
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[quote name='krispn' timestamp='1334855454' post='1622481'] Thornybank has one which is mint. I've tried it and it's hugely tweakable but £££'s [/quote] Yeah the price is one thing (although that seems to be the going rate for the Meatball) but the size is beyond what I think of as acceptable for my pedal board - the big box qtron had to go for the same reason and i think the meatball is bigger again! I think the "meatball into a 1590B" is out of the question after a bit of measuring and drawing (without going to surface mount components!) but I have a BYOC filter I built a few years ago which is in a slightly larger enclosure of a similar format and that might be a possibility while still retaining all 6 pots and a switch or 2. Just have to find out what it is! Investigations continue...
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[quote name='TG Flatline' timestamp='1334327620' post='1614669'] This would be rather impressive! I also agree there would be very little fun in not making it!!! [/quote] Haven't done it yet! Obviously lots of the switching options will be hardwired - I think it's a toss up between range and sweep direction as to which stays on the top face, but i'm leaning towards a switch to select between high and low range. I'm not a fan of switches on the side of pedals and really for my use I'll only be after one or 2 sounds. So 6 pots and 1 switch on a 1590B - starting to realise how mad that sounds!!! Further trimming may be required, but I'll decide once I've the circuit built what's staying...
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Looking at the mcmeat layout it should be possible to split the circuit over 2 smaller sandwiched boards to keep it to a smaller footprint. It'll be a REALLY tight fit in a 1590B... Probably have to use those 9mm alpha pots. We'll see. I have some perf board, a 1590B and 1590BB at home somewhere so I'll maybe have a go at laying it out to fit in the smaller one. Really it's not a big issue - I'm replacing a big box qtron after all - I've seen smaller cars in Japan...