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I think these are rather awesome... My kids would love them!

I'm currently only playing with myself (oo-er), and I'm not a fan of the baked-in darkglass sound, and even I'm interested in this amp...

Has anybody any experience of Audiofly IEMs? I'd never heard of them until watching the DTP tour vlog and Mike St Jean (DTP Keyboard player, programmer) is an endorsed user. Prices seem pretty good at £370 for quad driver on Amazon.

Pickup height and string gauge would be the 2 things I'd look at. My last rock/metal band I was tuned to D with a 110 gauge set of Elites on a P-bass and I wouldn't want it any looser so maybe thicker gauge strings for a start. You're only a semitone away from the B of a 5 string after all, and they're mostly .125-.130 gauge.

Gone beyond me now I'm afraid!

Yes you do. Every bass player does IMHO...

[quote name='rushbo' timestamp='1476223669' post='3152546'] Just down the road from me...don't think I'll be bidding, but could help with collection or courier-ing... [/quote] If things go my way (which I REALLY doubt!) I may have to take you up on that rushbo!

'tis I, l'eclare!

Octave into gated fuzz into envelope filter. Job done.

Darkglass head features in Beav's rig rundown for current DTP tour. https://youtu.be/gFZiZc5o7To

Speak to the guy who designed most of the Trace Elliot gear: [email protected]

That's a proper bargain! Well done!

Another beauty is in the eye of Noddy Holder moment. I think the non-X version is hideous, but for the life of me I couldn't tell you why. Whereas the X version is sex on a stick to me. Love it. Go figure.

Thanks folks! I roughly figured about 4.7 cubic feet going by external dimensions minus 3/4" of material per face and recessed grill. Didn't go as far as to account for bracing (probably minimal!), volume of port tube or drivers. I'd guess from that that it's maybe slightly more than 90 liters, but probably not much more than 100, 110. I'll unhook the crossover first and take it from there as suggested.

I know there's another sealed cab thread running but I don't want to muddle it. I recently bought an old Peavey 410TX cheap. It has had the 4 original drivers replaced with 4 (older model) Eminence Beta 10 drivers. There's been no attempt to retune the cab for the replacement drivers, and it was originally a 4 ohm cab, but the new drivers have been configured to 8 ohm. I always run the cab with the tweeter all the way off. The cab sounds... mediocre, although all I have to compare it too is a Barefaced 2x10 which is unfair in the extreme. My question is, rather than going to the time (which I have little of) and effort of retuning the cab for optimum ported performance, could I take out the crossover and tweeter, patch the cutouts for the port and the tweeter, add some stuffing to the cab and use it as a sealed cab?

Guma drive and antique kits ordered!

[quote name='FretNoMore' timestamp='1474915273' post='3141516'] Yes, what I did was - Mount pots in enclosure, straighten legs and align pots as good as possible - Put a piece of cardboard with double-sided tape across the pot backs (Holds pots in position and at a distance from the circuit board) - Turn over and drop the pot assembly out of the enclosure - Mate it with the circuit board, making small leg adjustments where necessary - Put board plus pots back in enclosure - Tighten nuts lightly - Solder legs [/quote] Good work! [quote name='kodiakblair' timestamp='1474926147' post='3141619'] Has anybody built the Growling Krizzly from musikding ? [url="http://www.musikding.de/Growling-Krizzly-Deluxe-kit?lang=eng"]http://www.musikding...xe-kit?lang=eng[/url] I've got a feeling it would be beyond me but that's never stopped me,course I could see sense and get somebody to build it [/quote] Haven't seen any built, but they must sell some of them as they were recently out of stock. Looks moderately complicated that one. The electronics wouldn't be the problem for me. Drilling and finishing the enclosure is where I get bored...

[quote name='FretNoMore' timestamp='1474833927' post='3140952'] Finished the Into The Unknown, moment of panic when nothing worked at first but luckily found two bad solder points. This is a quite mental pedal ... [/quote] Did you mount the pots first? Did it help?

[quote name='FretNoMore' timestamp='1474738794' post='3140176'] Halfway through assembling a Musikding/Parasit Studio kit, Into The Unknown. It will be a fun task for tomorrow to line up 8 pots, three switches and two diodes ... [/quote] Let the enclosure do the hard work for you. Mount all the pots and switches to the enclosure as straight as you can, then offer the pcb up to them, then solder. Worth a try!

Agreed it's a good skill to have as a DIYer, and if I was better set up at home I would tackle it no problem. I just don't see the point of risking it myself when I have the correct equipment at work is all. I think with the loss of a lot of FETs, etc. as through hole devices it's likely that there will be a lot more SMD required for DIYers in the near future.

[quote name='DanEly' timestamp='1474557593' post='3138809'] Interesting, what is stopping you from attempting the SMD soldering at home? I'm a huge Darkglass fan so I'm very attracted to this kit because I'd actually use the pedal a lot. Do you really think it's no wise to have a bash? [/quote] ESD for one, no microscope for another. And my soldering iron tip is a little too chunky!