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Passinwind

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  1. Cool, looking forward to seeing how this progresses! I've been toying with the idea of making some DSP based DIY widgets for a while now but I already spend far too much time in front of a computer screen and also have a lot of new analog projects to finish up or get to anyway. 😉
  2. That's a UV print job from Amplifyfun in Portland Oregon. They are very quick and very inexpensive if you live in the US, and all they need is a basic PDF done on templates they send you in various formats. He offers laser etching and CNC machining as well. That print job cost me $6US plus shipping and the whole process took less than a week from inception to my mailbox. Another Portland vendor drop ships powder coated enclosure to AF, gets there next day. AF typically takes a couple of days and once they ship it gets here next day. I may be a bit spoiled! 😎
  3. Carrying a phone or Pad to gigs would have been an instant deal breaker for me (phone always stayed in the van), but I could have lived with using my iPad for programming at home. Love the open source aspect of this BTW. I've been doing open source hardware for musicians for several years now and find it a very fulfilling diversion in my retirement years.
  4. v2 of the WTHPF pedal, a bit more aggressively voiced than the first one and using some new-to-me opamps: On to the open source fixed frequency high pass filter next, which will be my first 1590A build ever.
  5. Yep, Noll sells a dual section pot that can be switched from active to passive funtionality, or you can just set it up to do both things in active mode and act like a normal passive tone control in passive mode. It comes standard on some of their preamps too. What's really slick about it is that the passive section only works from noon counterclockwise, so when using active boost the passive section won't mess with that even if you leave it wired in all the time. I used that pot with one of my DIY preamps for a customer build and it worked great without any need for a switch.
  6. I know people who have a whole lot more than that invested in pedalboards, so I guess it just depends!
  7. REW is pretty danged good IME and the price is right. I bought the full version of True RTA eons ago and so I mostly just use that because I like the memory storage format for A/B capabilties. One gotcha is that many commodity interfaces have non defeatable HPFs built into some or all of the input channels. Steinberg UR series, I'm looking at you! 😎 As far as your original post, I've been wrestling with this for several decades by now. I used to help out on installs in many different sorts of spaces and in churches I would rather hilariously often get drafted to read from the pulpit because I have a big voice and a decent feel for the behind the mic experience. Dead flat was pretty much never the goal or the end result, but it makes for a uniform reference at least! I happen to be building some new preamp pedals this week and testing various HPF formats. By the time you factor in rolloffs in various amps and onboard preamp stages just spec'ing a net 4th order HPF at 30Hz is a lot less straightforward than one might expect. At some point taking the box to an open mic and letting half a dozen bassists play through it often teaches me more than a zillion RTAs and Spice models do. But of course once we can correlate all those things reliably we're way ahead of the game!
  8. I like that idea a lot! He's pretty well known for throwing in freebie extras, and in my case he even sent me a bunch of raw cuts to reshape and finish as I pleased. So I ended up getting a dozen of the walnut pick shaped ones in three sizes, plus two sets of four round ones in matching wood, all for about what a quartet of the fancy finished ones go for. And then he does discounts for returning customers too. For me it's almost like dealing locally, as his stuff gets here in 1-2 days via snail mail.
  9. I really like working with this guy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PickKnobs He loves doing custom work and the pictured stuff on Etsy barely scratches the surface of what he can do.
  10. None of the ones you mentioned as being clean with the possible exception of some Glock models really are, IMO and IME. I've built a few that were closer but IMO very few people really actually dig that for bass guitar. Perfect for upright though, which was my primary goal at the time. OTOH, I absolutely love the sound of my BGs plugged straight into a mixing board without even a DI, but there's still always at least a bit of voicing in the onboard electronics I build myself.
  11. No foot switches needed or wanted, do it on the bass with a simple keypad. Desktop unit, knobs and buttons fine as long as I can switch presets plus control the most important parameters such as volume, drive, and EFX blend right on the bass. No web, no DAW, no control surface unless it is on the bass. Not asking too much, right? 😎
  12. Cool! I want full control on a wireless or possibly wired connection from my bass. Anything living on the floor that requires me to bend over, ever, is out.
  13. All the ones that use the same footprints, yeah. Make sure you update your libraries when you do so, it'll save future heartbreak.
  14. It's a good idea to look at the drill tolerance specs from your fabricator, JLCPCB call +0.13m/-0.08mm for instance. Doing my own footprints for just about every component can be a definite time suck, but it's worth it!
  15. I started hanging on there recently myself. I love effects but not the pedal format so much, however it's a great crew and I'm actually learning some new things, so all good.
  16. Same here. I can walk around NAMM all day and barely even notice 95% of the FSOs. I wouldn't necessarily call them ugly though, just a bit boring. And as others have mentioned, safe and boring has its definite place. As far as what I do like, a proper upright bass looks worlds better to me than any bass guitar ever has or ever will. No paint, no plastic...ah, so nice!
  17. Bench tested yesterday, on to listening tests today: I'm hoping to have one of the well known pedal PCB suppliers port this to a simpler one board format with through hole parts for DIYers and sell it on his website. As usual, no commercial stake in this for myself, although this build was done on a commission and with luck I may even make something close to minimum wage on the assembly part!
  18. Not quite science fiction, but the Peacock Mantis Shrimp has a bit of scary sea monster vibe, no? 😎
  19. Ah, you mean a proper upright bass. And you're not wrong about that!
  20. I have the board and LDR for the Aion OC-1 and just need to work out whatever "my" build spec is going to be and buy the rest of the parts. To say I'm not very good at following published build specs would be a huge understatement! 😎
  21. And here's the actual box, which got to me two days after submitting the graphics art to the printer guy the same day I posted that:
  22. Next up in my build queue, adding an HPF and shrinking the box size:
  23. That's already kind of what I do, little daughter cards like so with flying wires: But yeah, right angle header pins and a sub board is a pretty standard solution that makes for a more secure mounting scheme and I may well go that route.
  24. Yep. But I'm also looking at little 3D printed boxes for the boards on some of my pedal builds, since a few critical pots I use don't come with 90 degree mounting pins.
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