Passinwind

They aren't trying to please everyone, they are trying to please enough people to get the best possible market share at a given price point. If you feel you can do a better job of that, have at it! 😉

Which board vendor did you go with? Meanwhile, I've been finishing up my small run of 3 band preamp w/variable LPF builds. One left to go, then on to other things for the foreseeable future. I'll be releasing the open source spec very soon but parts availability is likely to be an ongoing hassle for at least another year.

I've been meaning to try that as well, but since I discovered someone nearly local who does beautiful one off UV prints for $6 a box it's gone to the back burner for now. 😉

Hookers 'n blow never go out of fashion. 😉

Yes, when I bought my first fretted one in over 35 years. The infatuation lasted about six months but I barely ever play the fretted one now. I started out on fretless though, and I rarely play or listen to rock music, for whatever that's worth.

Plans are not not available to DIY builders anyway, so it's pretty much moot what drivers it uses. 😉

These are more like the Alembic/Wal/ACG thing than your usual auto wah or whatever. Just a different take on a treble control section, basically. 😉

Latest version of my open source hybrid filter pedal: And then I lost my mind and ordered a couple of new enclosures with the sort of cartoonish graphics that are not typically my cuppa at all:

Yep, isn't it glorious? 😎

New boards for the next gen open source preamp pedals: And various old and new enclosures the test builds will be going into:

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.

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/

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.

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.

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. 😉

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.

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.

Yep, and the Acoustic 360 did not even use valves. 😉

Easier these days than ever before though, at least when the needed modern SMT parts are in stock. 😉

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.

Working my way up to Bill Wyman territory, the challenge is real.

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...😉

Not a problem, as gig pay historically always tracks inflation anyway. Oh, wait...

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.

My good friend Marco Cortes had this one in his NAMM booth last week: