Passinwind

13 minutes ago, Mykesbass said:

 

Too Hard to Handle - can't find anyone else who wants to play it in the Otis Redding style.

 

Heathens! Any version but the Black Crowes' would be my strong preference though.

On 23/03/2024 at 02:46, nilorius said:

Have You ever made any fx pedal by Yourself and are satisfied with it ? If yes, what type of pedal it is? Pics, please !!!

Yes, pedals (delays, EQ, overdrive, etc.) and also rack effects, preamps, amps, and speaker cabinets. Reasonably satisfied with most of those, certainly enough to gig with them regularly when I was still gigging, but just as with all commercial equipment I always end up feeling they could be a lot better.

On 19/03/2024 at 03:20, PaulThePlug said:

Home Made and Own Painted if thats ya bag... but it will sound the same...

If purchasing, how much of the cost is the artwork?

 

Here in the US Pacific Northwet, most of my UV prints cost me $6 plus one extra shipping fee since I have enclosures drop shipped directly from the vendor to the UV print shop. I typically buy two or three at a time, often different designs,  since that's the most economical play as far as mitigating shipping cost. And then paying the same guy to do most of the drilling greatly speeds up building time on my end, so I usually go for that as well. But the print guy has become very busy lately and I'm sure his prices are bound to go up a bit.

For reference, here are a few of his jobs he's done for me:

1 hour ago, Rayman said:

I really want to get Stu Hamm…… but his solo stuff in particular just leaves me cold. I saw him with Joe Satriani many years ago on the G3 tour, and absolutely loved his contribution, but having listened to his solo stuff, including live performances…… I just do not connect at all.

 

Who do you feel you should like, but just don’t?

Everyone who does bass covers or play alongs on YouTube? 

This one's not meant for bass, it's for my banjo/dobro hybrid instrument. But I have a spinoff version in mind for a fretless that I 've been threatening to add a piezo pickup to ever since it was built.

The purple knob is key, it blends in the resonator mounted piezo element and adds a reverb/chorus sort of vibe to the proceedings. Top row handles the magnetic pickup EQ, bottom row is mix section plus resonant LPF for the piezo pickup, which amounts mostly to "anti-quack."

A couple of new open source resonant LPF pedals, I think this design is just about ready to go public now:

These fit in a standard pre-drilled Tayda 125B enclosure and I'll be sharing the artwork in a variety of colors to accommodate the many Tayda box colors. All parts are through-hole format on this one as well.

This is based on Pedal PCB's knockoff of one of the British Pedal Company's so-called Dumble amp in a box pedals. It's a very basic circuit, but does sound surprisingly good IMO. It's going to a friend who plays mandolin, which I think it will excel for.

19 hours ago, Chienmortbb said:

It bugs me that:

• any bass is not offered in Black.
• a headstock on a 4 string has a 3 + 1 machinehead pattern.
• someone says they can only use one brand or type of bass,

 

What are your prejudices?

Ruh roh!

Don't like frets, painted finishes, anything plastic, top routed control plates, screw on necks, glossy maple fingerboards, ashtrays. And FSOs of any ilk definitely need not apply.

On 27/11/2023 at 03:47, asingardenof said:

If you want a free DAW I can highly recommend Cakewalk: https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk?lang=en

Yep, much better than Reaper in my book. I am also a longtime N-Track user and am just about the upgrade my version for the first time in a decade or so. Even at this late date, it's only about $40 to jump into the latest version, but I;ll have to give the new one a go before I decide if I want to bother, since the v7 actually still works great for me.

Just realized I hadn't posted a pic of my mutant Goldtone Dojo here:

A new upright bass player came into our long running Bluegrass/Americana jam and I decided to give her the bass chair to bump up her learning curve and try something new myself. The dojo is lot more wife friendly than an actual banjo as I learn the ropes, and I am expecting to get a banjo sooner than later too, but I soon sussed that the dojo works much better in Open E tuning for my current playing situation, so I reckon I'll just hold off for at least another six months or so and just concentrate on one new thing at a time. There's a piezo pickup on the resonator as well as the magnetic pickup, both of which port out on a single stereo jack. I've built a couple of different breakout boxes and am currently working on a full blown all in one blend/EQ box, which will look something like so:

So there are two filter sections a la Alembic/Wal, one for each pickup. And then Bass/switched Mids, High Pass Filter for the magnetic one. All of this has been vetted using other DIY bits and it works very well, going through my Audiokinesis Thunderchild 112 and a variety of commercial and DIY amps. I'll probably just cop a Spark 40 amp for this application though, as the Thunderchild cab is serious overkill for jamming with a few electric-acoustic instruments and no drums.

On 28/10/2023 at 03:35, jimbobothy said:

... on another note, has anybody had any experience of replacing SMT stuff? I've heard it's pretty hard, not that I need to though, just wondering how it's done.

I do it quite a bit with larger pitch SMDs and generally find it a little easier than through hole parts in a double sided board with plate-through pads. SMD desoldering tweezers or a hot air soldering/desoldering rig would often be the preferred tool, some ambidextrous people improvise with two soldering irons, and I just use a regular soldering iron with various tips to make things easier. For example, a 4mm screwdriver tip covers one side of an SO-8 opamp chip pretty much perfectly and for me well over half the parts are reusable.

4 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

 

Just wondering if there are just people who’ve hit the same wall - I’m sure it’s been covered before.

I retired from gigging five years ago and have less than zero desire to ever start again, at least on bass. But I still enjoy playing a weekly local jam, sometimes on bass, sometimes on other instruments. Frankly, I miss mixing live shows more than playing out, as I typically made better money and worked with much better bands  on that side of the room.

My DIY onboard preamps tend to be the actual secret sauce, but if a pedal is called for this would typically get the first call:

8 hours ago, Phil Starr said:

there you go, over to you what do you use? What's good, what's not so good?

 

 

An old Shure SM87. Less proximity effect than the SM58 or Beta 58, and just a better match for my scary vocal delivery style in general.

On 08/09/2023 at 02:03, Downunderwonder said:

You entirely missed the point.

 

Most of us know what gain is by definition. We also use the term the wrong way so you'll have to get over it.

 

Gain as in "moar rawk" without an increase in volume, was the request.

 

 

Then just call it what it is: distortion. 😉

5 hours ago, northcountrybob said:

Thanks for all the suggestions! I'll take a look at them all. It's a bit of a shame but my J Bass needs to be returned. Too many issues including one I can't fix with it. 

 

 

I think I found one link to some PCB's that could be ordered and a bunch of vero layouts. https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/dqkkDv24

I did think about ordered that. I don't know if there are other options. The retrovibe seems a bit steep for what it is. I'm almost tempted to do my own PCB layout with lower profile surface mount parts... but I'm also lazy! 

 

 

There are at least a few other options but finding them on OSH is a real challenge. Someone on Talkbass already did a nice looking SMT layout that I'm pretty sure he shared, I'll see if I can find it. Several years ago I did a through-hole one meant for modern parts, which was maybe my very first attempt at doing PCB layouts. Came out fine in any case.

And then I have a fairly standard Baxandall based two band board about to go on share in the next few days, as part of this project:  https://www.talkbass.com/threads/the-passinwind-open-source-preamp.1259692/#post-19535550 . The two band module works great as a standalone thing, and can be configured for Bass/Treble or Bass/Mids as needed. To be clear, I don't sell any hardware, and my stuff is targeted for relatively self sufficient DIY'ers.

20 hours ago, northcountrybob said:

Maybe the MM style 2 band (3 knob) is an option. Pretty steep though. If only John East sold just a PCB. 

Inexpensive bare PCBs for MM2B clones and/or near clones are quite readily available from other sources, FWIW.

3 hours ago, bloke_zero said:

?!?!?!? Banjo you play with a slide with the fingerboard facing up?

You can play it that way, "underhand" with a slide,  with banjo picks, a flat pick, or plain old fingerpicking:

There's a piezo pickup on the resonator, broken out to a stereo jack with the humbucker on the other hot contact. Has a bit of a 12 string guitar vibe when playing chords,  and can be surprisingly mellow and quiet when that's the player's intention. I play a weekly house jam that has way too many bass players, and many tunes I've been playing for decades, so this has been a great diversion so far.

Primarily meant for my banjo-dobro hybrid, but still works well for bass too:

A particularly insidious example:  https://www.talkbass.com/threads/caution-regarding-some-newly-introduced-speakon-cables.1617450/

On 27/07/2023 at 08:39, Smanth said:

OK, so a desert island is not likely to have any power, but ...

If you had to select just four effects pedals (And I'm talking single effects ... not the multi f/x units) on your pedalboard, what would they be?

 

A tuner for myself, then whatever the guitar player could use. Oh wait, a fantasy desert island? No guitar player then! 😉

1 hour ago, fretmeister said:

When I mentioned a similar issue Bill told me that tweeters don't hiss, amps hiss.

 

@Bill Fitzmaurice 

True, and dials also don't crackle, but potentiometers sometimes do.

9 hours ago, LukeFRC said:

It’s actually quite interesting how you see more and more “boutique” manufacturers moving towards SMD construction 

It can radically cut job shop assembly time and costs these days, even in pretty small build quantities. And most of my favorite opamps are SMD-only, which played a big part in my moving to more and more SMD parts in my DIY builds starting several years ago.

21 hours ago, LukeFRC said:

just had a tidy up. It's amazing the selection of random ICs I've collected. Any idea what to do with a handful of LF353?! 

Use them pretty much anywhere a generic FET dual opamp like TL072 is called.

2 hours ago, 2pods said:

That looks very nice

It sounds great amped up with my DIY bass slide bars. I didn't know much about Gold Tone, but they turn out to have some pretty well known endorsers and to be a bit bigger company than I expected. They make lots of lap steels and resonator guitars as well: https://goldtonemusicgroup.com/goldtone/products/guitars?menu_category=round-neck-resonator-guitar,slide,square-neck-resonator&sort=az