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Passinwind

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  1. New boards for the next gen open source preamp pedals: And various old and new enclosures the test builds will be going into:
  2. Saw a date on that tour. I was already a huge fan of everyone involved and was lucky enough to have seen Metheny and Mays in small clubs for small money many times, which was easy if you lived around Boston or pretty much anywhere in New England in the mid 70s. Seeing Pat play in a sold out hockey arena and eschewing the rock star persona was just uber cool. The spotlight suited Jaco perfectly though of course.
  3. I've done that many times, on my computer the render time is extremely slow. https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/ltspice-simulation-using-wav-files/
  4. 15mm bush length is a huge ask outside of the usual Les Paul type, even 12mm takes a custom order in most cases. If you can make 10mm work Noll sells one, 6mm shaft diameter though: https://www.noll-electronic.de/potentiometer/ I've used a lot of other similar Alpha variants from Noll with no drama, FWIW.
  5. Really? Is it not the 2R Series III: https://acousticimg.com/assets/docs/Manual-amp heads sIII.pdf ? The original Focus was part of the Series II line IIRC: https://acousticimg.com/assets/docs/manual_amp_head.pdf . If it's the 600 watt Series III, I owned the one channel version without reverb for a few years and used it for gigging on my BSX EUB quite happily. For bass guitar it was a bit less satisfying, but an external preamp helped quite a bit. It was really great for acoustic upright too, I'd highly recommend it for that.
  6. IMO it's generally not realistic to expect people to change just to meet your particular wants and needs. And in my experience that works both ways, I don't see you changing your wants and needs either. 😉
  7. There's an "expand" or "explode" function that'll more or less take care of that for you. While drawing a schematic is pretty simple, there are some less than obvious things needed to make it all work properly. You need power ports connected to various supply voltages, for starters. Be sure to run the design rules checker, it will generally catch that sort of stuff. 😉 And as with many of these tools, library management makes a big difference in ease of use. I do many component footprints myself and a logical set of naming conventions when I started out would have saved a lot of later grief.
  8. I settled on KiCAD quite a while ago, it is immensely better and easier to deal with these days. For board fabrication in the US I tend to use OSHPark or Digikey, but JLCPCB works fine for less critical stuff for me and for bigger boards it saves a ton of money.
  9. Yep, and the Acoustic 360 did not even use valves. 😉
  10. Easier these days than ever before though, at least when the needed modern SMT parts are in stock. 😉
  11. New LeCompte Triple Threat single coil pickups in my Crescent Moon bass (front left), and two new cabs to boot. Marco Bass MV4 on right.
  12. Working my way up to Bill Wyman territory, the challenge is real.
  13. Finished up three different versions of my hybrid filter preamp pedals over the last few weeks: The latter two have some tweaks to enhance use with mandolin or acoustic guitar, but both still work well for bass too. The graphics on the last one came back from Tayda a bit dodgy, but live and learn...😉
  14. Not a problem, as gig pay historically always tracks inflation anyway. Oh, wait...
  15. I think one of those was the first or second fretless bass I ever played, ca. 1972. And yeah, heavy would be an understatement, and I owned a Travis Bean for 40 years.
  16. My good friend Marco Cortes had this one in his NAMM booth last week:
  17. Yep, I have two Marco Bass builds with cedar cores.
  18. Wood knobs, no brass inserts. Even lighter than many plastic ones, and IMO often much nicer looking if done right.
  19. Zero, I already have two much nicer fretless basses.
  20. I grew up listening to that stuff on a tiny transistor radio under my pillow late at night, never heard a hint of bass content ever. Same with my Mom's car radio back then. Exciting? Nah. Maybe once boom boxes came on the scene around the time the Jackson Five became the big thing, but IMO the production aesthetic started changing in a pretty big way around that time too.
  21. Most of the Motown hits would've sounded much better if Jamerson et al played an Alembic. Or better yet, an upright.
  22. If it has a good beat and you can dance to it I'm mostly not interested. Give me "sit down and shut up" any day. But Yelling At Clouds is a great band, even though they're popular as all get out with my set.
  23. Noll sells Alpha blend pots in 250K with 10mm long bushes, they are A/C taper though, not M/N: https://www.noll-electronic.de/potentiometer/ Omeg will happily make you some with 12mm bushes as well but you may need to buy ten. A few of us who play in my long open source preamp thread at that other place have also worked up various bush adapters. This guy did the nicest job IMO: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/the-passinwind-open-source-preamp.1259692/page-49#post-25906207 In my usual fashion I just went to my local hardware store, bought a few lamp fixtures and some superglue, and came up with this for some Tayda/Alpha dual pots I used in a DIY filter preamp build: There are still the stock 7mm dia. bushes underneath the threaded lamp rod, which is 3/8" with a slightly coarser thread than is standard for potentiometers. My hardware store sells a few different style nuts that worked fine though. I had these in my bass while waiting for the Omeg ones I bought to come in and they held up fine. And finally, V/V/T works better than a blend pot in a way that matters a great deal to some of us and not at all to others. And vice versa...no need to rehash that here.😉
  24. I've done a fairly substantial gear purge recently, goodbye to the two 115s and the AudioKinesis TC112AF that served me so well for eleven years. So I now have this DIY 110 job a local friend built: It was built to fit a G-K MB500 head but I was gifted it without a head installed. The little Traynor SB-200H is a great fit for the semi-acoustic weekly jams I play. The tiltback wedge piece serves as a hinged access door to the amp's back panel and there's room for a couple of cables back there as well. And then on the other end there's a new sheriff in town: That's an AudioKinesis TC118AF, which also has a secondary back firing tweeter. Fairly big and absolutely huge sounding, but at 46Lbs it's an easy enough one hand carry over moderate distances, and balances well on the two side handles for longer schleps. I had been coveting one of these cabs for quite a few years and the owner of this one reached out to me when it didn't move locally for him. He happened to be driving within an hour of my place last week and I was able to go pick up without taking him more than a few minutes out of his way. My new tube amp should fit on top quite nicely once I finally get it all bolted together.
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