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Passinwind

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  1. Short answer: put it in medium to wide bandwidth mode with some boost, sweep frequency until is makes things worse, narrow the bandwidth as needed, go to cut mode rather than boost and fine tune the frequency. An experienced user can do all that in a couple of seconds. A really experienced user just dials in the primary problem frequency that they already recognize and cuts it. Another possibility is playing with cab placement, for instance getting it out of a corner or closer to or further from a wall or the floor. It may also be worthwhile to make sure it's not related to unwanted bass getting into the microphones and/or exciting the drum kit and creating ringing that way.
  2. Yes indeed. I used a DSP board from MiniDSP that included programmable EQ capabilities as well.
  3. Zero, for coming up on 6 years now, and I'm fine with that. When I was gigging the answer was almost always one, and that's all I even owned for couple of decades. In about 40 years of gigging I only used a fretted bass all of twice, IIRC.
  4. I spent a long lunch break at NAMM with Jule in 2020, it was a complete blast.
  5. Ouch! Heal up fast. And this kind of work takes however long it takes. 😉
  6. And a different color shifting enclosure from Cusack/Stompbox Parts for this one: That enclosure came via a group buy, but the vendor says they may make it a regular option since it sold so well.
  7. FWIW, I finally got around to installing a second DIY filter in my 5 string Marco Bass, so it's now one per pickup rather than one inline with standard bass and mid controls. I tuned the neck pickup filter considerably differently than the bridge one, after doing a new bridge pickup tuning as well. My simple mixing scheme works really well and this whole thing is now back on track to be part of my open source project series. I'll post details on Github soon, but I have two hybrid filter pedal designs to wrap up first. My goal is to have a loose builder network built up worldwide for those who don't want to or can't roll their own, but keeping it primarily DIY is my strong preference. Great to see all these new takes popping up. I'll post a few clips when I can con one of my pro player friends into helping out, no one wants to listen to me playing a fretted bass! 😎
  8. And the new econo one, using through-hole parts all sourced from Tayda, and a very inexpensive Tayda case in a pre-drilled standard format they do for various Pedal PCB effects, which they also printed for me: ......................................... Compared to the one pictured directly above, this would take a hobby DIY builder maybe 1/4 of the build time. Once it's well tested all the details will be available here: https://github.com/Passinwind/PW3B-LPF
  9. Just yet another hybrid filter preamp build:
  10. I haven't done up a Spice model of this yet, as I have a lot of customer work going on at the moment. Thanks for the heads-up!
  11. Nice to see you on here! And all of that sounds pretty familiar...😎
  12. I can take a stab at doing a better one later, but at least it's mostly readable now.
  13. Putting it in a photo editor and inverting black and white via an edge detection algorithm made it quite a bit easier to read, FWIW.
  14. FWIW, I did this cut with my Travis Bean fretless as a bit of a goof several years ago:
  15. I seem to end up in two bassist situations fairly often. By now my default choice for lead bass stuff is to use a slide. Much easier on fretless, I reckon, but since I so rarely play a fretted one I wouldn't really know!
  16. I got a headache looking at it and quickly gave up trying to make sense out of it, in all honesty. Have you managed to sort it out though?
  17. Yep, pick and place machines for SMT parts at vendors like JLCPCB have made that a quick, easy, and often very cheap alternative by now. Au contraire, I do it all the time and have been for over a decade. There's excellent free circuit design and PCB layout software available these days and I can start a design from scratch today and have a finished build by the end of next week very economically, no problem.
  18. Some are made in China, but the higher end ones are made in Canada and sometimes go for Alembic/Wal sort of money, with delivery waits to match.
  19. 2nd order is 12dB/oct, as stated in that link.
  20. What did the Talkbass crew have to say? If you want a passive solution I'd suggest looking at how G&L and/or Peavey have done it in their basses. Outboard implementations in pedals or amps tend to be used quite differently and passive solutions tend to be lossy and therefore work pretty poorly in most of those cases, IME. And once you add makeup gain it's not really passive anymore, IMO.
  21. The Noll 50K/50K pots are definitely detented, as are his standalone balance pots, which are 220K IIRC. There are some custom options available too, but you'd have to ask Klaus Noll directly for the specifics. The last time I heard from him he was still dealing with supply issues, as so many of us have been for the last few years. Prices have gone up radically for the less common formats as well. I'm not familiar with the Bongo electronics package at all, I'll see if I can get a little smarter about that. In many similar situations I've suggested that the customer just go to stacked Vol/Vol and do away with the blend, which I personally rarely like all that much in the first place. But I find all stacked pots to be evil, really. 🙉
  22. https://www.noll-electronic.de/potentiometer/ Go to "DOUBLE SHAFT (STACKED) MULTI-FUNCTION." Not an inexpensive solution though.
  23. Agreed, but for less than 5 dollars more you could just have Tayda do a UV print directly on that box before they send it to you with all the rest of the parts. Nice to have options in any case!
  24. A contributor to my ongoing open source preamp project submitted this idea for an inexpensive FR-4 pedal fascia plate sourced from JLCPCB: They offer several other board colors as well, and their turnaround time is typically very short. I'm spoiled by having a really great local option for direct UV printing, but that seems to be far from the norm, unfortunately.
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