Passinwind

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!

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!

Not quite science fiction, but the Peacock Mantis Shrimp has a bit of scary sea monster vibe, no? 😎

Ah, you mean a proper upright bass. And you're not wrong about that!

It needs a gold ashtray. 😎

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! 😎

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:

Next up in my build queue, adding an HPF and shrinking the box size:

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.

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.

Nope, never so much as a warning. Hard to believe, I know. I've been on here for several years now in any case.

Yes sir!

I know that guy Paul, he keeps looking back at me in the mirror every morning. Stalker freak! 😉 Many of us who are still over there miss you, all the best to you and yours.

Because it sells well and to many of us it often or at least sometimes sounds great. Simple. 😉

Nope, not unless "bass covers" or other play alongs are your idea of a musical goal post. 😉

So organize one yourself Paul. I live fairly far from any urban area but several people from 4 hours or further away showed up at many of the ones I put on. I even flew to the other US coast for one, although it wasn't the only reason for that trip.

To eliminate one of the great many variables in our signal chain? In my case, it can be a very useful reference against the various voicings I build into my DIY builds. I don't need flat to be at noon postition on knobs at all athough, just need to be able to get something close to it at some control position not at one end or the other.

You can do a lot of damage with the braid if you're not up to speed with it, so braid size, temperature control, and proper iron tip selection are all quite important. And like so many things to do with soldering, getting in and out quickly often tends to be the best mode.

In the US it goes by "solder wick" or "desoldering braid", typically. Like so: https://www.aventools.com/desoldering-wick-1-5mm-0-06 I have a pro grade Pace desoldering station but still use braid 90+ % of the time.

My fretless one was #573 and I bought it brand new in 1977, so that sounds right. I assume you've already found this: http://www.travisbeanguitars.com/index.php/ID/b0c3b03f61dd971d41519e82144bafea/fuseaction/database.detail.htm ?

Roger that.

As a player I don't care the tiniest bit where the knobs point as long as I can get what I need and still have a bit of wiggle room in either direction. But I do enjoy continuing to learn more on the design end, especially since I've retired from gigging and have no plans to ever do so again.

Not sure about the MB amps, but Genzler explictly states dead flat with Contour control full counter clockwise for the Magellan 800.

When amps like Genz and Markbass reputedly measure flat/knobs at noon (neither of which I've measured), whatever may be "baked in" must come from somewhere else in the circuit, or perhaps some external factors? It's a genuine question, I'm not advancing an opinion on this just yet.

Hence my question.😉