paulbuzz

Sorry, realised I didn't actually directly answer your question! I think the reason you couldn't really do this is that you would essentially be connecting your two expression control pots simultaneously, in parallel. This might initially seem like a good idea - you could then set the control pots as required to get any desired mixture of envelope and external expression control - nice idea, eh? There's a problem though: if you set one of them to maximum and the other to minimum, you would be shorting the 5v expression voltage directly to ground through the wipers of the two pots - bad! With some tweaking to the circuit I'm sure this could be made to work, but it would require someone a bit more competent at electronics than me to figure it out 😄

I think this would be it, unless I've done something stupid!

Ermm... it's a long time since I thought about and did these mods, so it's possible that I might spout absolute nonsense here, but I think I've got it right... - In the pedal's original form: Without an exp jack plugged in, the normalising contacts on the socket feed the control signal from the envelope trigger to the filter's control input (TRS = control voltage/5v/0v) So: when a plug is inserted into the exp socket, the signal from the envelope trigger is disconnected, and the filter gets its control signal from whatever appears on the TRS plug that's plugged into the socket. ie: the switching between envelope control of the filter and external expression control of the filter is handled by the normalising contacts of the exp socket. What I wanted was to be able to footswitch between envelope control of the filter, and external expression control of the filter, without needing to unplug/replug the external expression pedal from the socket. So, what I needed to do was: 1) Remove the exp socket from the main pcb. I removed the socket whole, and re-used it. This was a bit tricky, but manageable if your desoldering skills are ok. The alternative would be to carefully dismantle/destroy the socket in place until just the legs are left, remove them one by one, and use a similar replacement socket. So, the six pads on the PCB that are now free of the exp socket represent the output of the pedal's envelope trigger circuit, and the input to the filter control circuit (3 contacts for each) 2) my new footswitch needs to be able to connect the 3 contacts of the filter control circuit (ie the PCB pads where the exp socket's Non-Breaking contacts previously were) to either: a) the 3 contacts of the envelope generator (ie the PCB pads where the exp socket's Breaking contacts previously were), or: b) the 3 contacts of the exp socket (using the Non-Breaking contacts) which will bring in the control signal from the external expression pedal 3) So i) the 3 'common' poles of the 3PDT switch should go to the CV/5v/0v of the filter control circuit pads on the PCB ii) one set of 3 switched poles of the footswitch should go to the CV/5v/0v of the envelope generator signal pads on the PCB iii) the other set of 3 switched poles of the footswitch should go to the CV/5v/0v of the external expression pedal (via the Non-Breaking TRS contacts of the exp socket) When replacing the exp socket in the pedal enclosure, I put it in upside-down relative to its previous orientation, to keep its contacts away from the newly-rewired PCB pads. Reading this back, it sounds like a kinda complicated thing, but it's really not. I think this is just a bad way of explaining it! Hope it may make some sense to you - ask me again if not! I'll see if I can conjure up a diagram or two that might make it simpler to follow.

Wow, this really is The Thread That Would Not Die! After this amount of time, I can't remember the answer to your question, and would need to take the pedal apart to be sure. Looks as though it would be a switched connection to the board/circuit ground. I think it might be the negative/switched connection to the 'expression socket active' LED? Not certain though. To be honest, if I had done these mods in any anticipation that people might be looking at them, I would probably have tried to do the whole thing much more neatly! 😳 But it does work well 🙂

I suspect (with no evidence whatsoever 😁) that as bass players, we might find a moderately high level of consensus as to what constitutes an interesting bassline, whilst disagreeing wildly on the merits of the resulting music. For example, whilst I think that Mark King is a talented and inventive bass player, you couldn't pay me to listen to Level 42 - I'd much rather listen to Dee Dee Ramone go 'dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum'! 😆 Though by horrible misfortune, I did once see Level 42 on two successive nights, and only one of them was because I was getting paid...! But I did get a large collection of discarded and largely unused bass strings at the end of the night, as all his basses were being restrung nightly, and the removed strings, used or otherwise, thrown on the floor of the hall. I didn't have to buy any strings for several years, so thanks Mark 🙂

Having come up with his proposition, Stub has tested it by comparing today's top 10 against that of 50 years ago. It's a smallish sample size, but it's a fairly reasonable approximation of a random sampling, and not subject to the bias you suggest. It could be improved by testing a few other randomly selected past/current weeks against each other, but I don't think anyone's aiming for a publishable research paper here. 😆 It is of course restricted to 'top 10'-style music, but that's the point of Stub's proposition. Personally I wouldn't care to venture an opinion one way or the other (not least because I haven't the faintest clue what's in today's charts), but it's a reasonable and (subjectively!) testable hypothesis.

I made one of this type a while ago. It's ok, but not as good as the velcro (because less adjustable), and significantly more effort to make.

I've tried various washing-up sponges etc etc - I find that it's difficult to get exactly the right thickness to get the amount of muting you want, and also that it's diificult to insert/remove them quickly when required. Also it looks a bit mad having a washing-up sponge jammed into your bass.😁 This works better for me

In my quest for an ever more thuddy sound from my Harley Benton violin bass, I have just invented (maybe!) the Patent McCartneyizer mute: Both halves of a strip of velcro, sandwiching the strings at the bridge, superglued together at one end to prevent the two halves from fully separating. Adjust muting strength for each string by trimming the width with scissors. Works really well Total cost: about 20p-worth of velcro?

So do prescious and prescient have the same meaning? Or is there a distinction I'm missing?

Nice, like it! I would have missed this tweak if you hadn't posted, since I had used Stylus (gawdblessit!) to adjust the display to my preference, as is my habit! 😁

Nice! If I may be so bold, I'd like to offer a couple of opinions, not on the functionality but on the UI. 1) Maybe have less bandnames per page? I think 24 is perhaps too many to take in at a time? On the other hand, on my (ordinary-ish?) size screens, on page load, without scrolling, I can only initially see 8 names on my desktop screen, and 4 on my phone. Since the 'generate' button is readily accessible, I would be more inclined to simply press 'generate' to see more, rather than scrolling, except... 2) The UI animations: a) The fireworks are fun, but become distracting and a bit much after a few hits of the generate button. b) The fade-in of the band names slows you down if you're hitting the generate button repeatedly in quick succession Do feel free to ignore me completely - maybe other people have larger screens than me...? Nice URL, btw

Wow, that really is a labour of love! Fair play to ya!

Haha! It's an unavoidable feature of random generators, I think. After all, unexpectedly striking combinations are pretty much the goal. Even with the super-limited wordlist in the pubrock band name generator, a few questionable suggestions do pop up occasionally. Safe to say I don't think I'll be auditioning for The White Vigilantes any time soon. 😮 Jean-Luc, how have you been weeding the word lists for your generator? Surely not by hand?

All good for me (Windows/Firefox). Nice one J-LP