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You're very welcome. I did derail my own thread didn't I!

regular sunday best.

they do make some amazing looking stuff - getting it from Canada ain't cheap but I just had to pick up the T2 as I've wanted a Maestro Rhythm and Sound ever since hearing Melvin Jackson's Funky Skull LP. At the risk of derailing my own thread...

wow that looks well spec'd and I'm a big fan of EBS gear, but on the expensive side for this one use - plus Templo recommend a dedicated PSU for the T2 as apparently it doesn't like multi-output PSUs. Fussy little thing isn't it.

The Templo guys (guy?) advise linear (and a dedicated psu). I had an 18v switching one to hand and voltage leaked into the audio as soon as I turned the tone up. BUT the one I had was center-positive with an polarity reverser extension, so frustratingly I don't know if it was the reverser or the switching nature of the psu that caused the issue. People seem to like the Dunlop one (is it the only option) but I also gather that one can be squealy under the wrong conditions, and this pedal seems particularly sensitive. If a linear 18v centre neg UK psu exists I'd happy to pay a few quid more rather than start buying more stuff to return.

Hi all I just picked up a Templo T2 https://templodevices.com/products/t2-multi-effect which needs 18v to run. But the catch is it needs a dedicated linear PSU, a switching PSU (like the Dunlop ECB004) won’t do. Any recommendations for such a device?? Or even somewhere in the UK that sells the ‘silent’ Fulltone switcher?

this is beautifully concise btw, thanks man.

Thanks guys, looks like I know what I gotta do.

True that - though I'm slightly off-put by the idea of filling and then re-drilling on almost exactly the same spot. What does one fill with that doesn't then immediately tear out when you drill? The Hipshots were also expensive. If I'm redrilling anyway I might be more tempted to send em back and pick up something more realistically priced that needs four new clean holes and no messing about.

I just picked up a set of Hipshot HB7s to upgrade an old Fender Jazz that has one slightly bent machine head - measured multiple times to ensure they were the right tuners, supposedly a drop-in replacement. Of course, now they've arrived it's clear that the holes don't - quite - match up. The two on the small side are perfect but the other two are a fraction off. Swapping out the old bushings to the new Hipshot ones makes negligible difference (although without the bushings in I can sort of finesse the hole line-up to the point where the deviation for each hole is minuscule, but what help is that?). My question is, since I can see some of the hole, should I just brute force these?? The temptation to do so is enormous. Filling and re drilling is exactly what I'd hoped to avoid by sourcing the (quite expensive) Hipshots. Tips, tricks, advice, cautionary tales and horror stories all gratefully received.

Love El MIchels. I don't know his new one but 'Adult Themes' got heavy rotation here.

Yeah the bass on the track is quite similar. I'm going to keep going with a Jazz bass and pick approach, I'm still finding it hard to quite nail that deep-but-twangy tone, I think it's the depth that suggests double bass. I suppose it's not surprising - these guys had amazing spaces to record in and any number of now-classic preamps and compressors - not to mention producers and engineers that knew what they were doing!

That is lovely string writing. The man could really mix it up - this one does a lovely 180 flip about 3 minutes in. I just wish we knew more about the personnel on these Italian cinema cuts

I really hadn't considered that it might be double bass, how interesting. The articulation feels so solid to me that I assumed I could hear frets, but I'll listen with fresh ears.

Apologies if this is in the wrong section, but I'm trying to nail a particular bass sound for a spot of recording, and I'm going round in circles. I've tried plectrums, mutes, flats etc and I'm not quite getting it. It's the tone from this Piero Piccioni cut - am I mad or is there some spring reverb on it? Is that what's giving it that trebly edge? I'm sure someone here will have some insight - any advice gratefully received!