adamg67

David was kind enough to respond when I posted looking for things to fix, he was really helpful and I now have a Boss CS-3 in my "fix me" pile, which is perfect. 

Paul was kind enough to answer my call for pedals that need fixing so I can get some practice with the old soldering iron. Really helpful with it all, thanks!

The only reason i can resist this is i already have a black 48 with crime stripe  great basses.

Crawford bought my DG Harmonic Booster, top bloke, good comms - perfect. Deal with confidence.

On 05/05/2021 at 22:33, AndyTravis said:

We bought a zoom h2n, works ok. Wish we’d gone with the newest version as apparently they’re a bit better.

second hand, think I paid £75/£80

Zoom again here, a lowly H1n and it still does the job well. I got some Panasonic Eneloop rechargable batteries and a proper charger (one that does each cell individually) and it is just set and forget for a 3 hour session.

I think I'm with @akabane on this. Given what's possible, a lot of effects pedals could just use a common platform with programmable DSP and the actual effect would just be software. Source Audio's One series look a bit like this, but are proprietary (although hacking a one series would be fun). With pedals like that you can have basic controls on the pedal and more complicated setup, presets and stuff like that gets done via another device (tablet, pc etc). Individual devices can be synced using a midi pedal so you can have presets across multiple pedals. It's all doable. Maybe it will get here eventually. Maybe it will grow from something like raspberry pi pedals instead of coming from hardware manufacturers.

Colin bought a Delano pickup from me, couldn't have been easier to deal with - perfect, thanks!

Second hand Ibanez BTB 5 string, 35" scale, there are some around without gold hardware and coffee table wood if that's not your thing (it's very much not mine).

I paid £350 for a sixer and still miss it a bit,  although it could have done with better pickups (which a lot of BTBs have)

On 30/04/2021 at 18:55, bas_anton said:

Main purpose is practice at home and with a musical drummer and the occasional gig in a coffeshop, church or small other setting. Otherwise i have PA-support. I´m used to the big full sound from the supercombo. I realise that I can´t get that from a small cab. But i really like it to have a small footprint.

I like the fact that the drummer being musical is worth mentioning 😁

I like the lo fi rough sounding small vintage amp breaking up kind of sound, usually with some overdrive on it. Lots of great examples out there going back a long way but Jack White does a nice version of it on the "Icky Thump" album and elsewhere.

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For anyone who doesn't know about it, this is very handy for any of the major data leaks / scrapes: Have I Been Pwned

It's a legit site that tells you if your email address is in any of the known data breaches and so is out there for hackers to try against other sites. Mine was in there from the LinkedIn and Adobe breaches, the passwords used were relatively unique so not too many to change to make sure all was well. I think some services like Experian are now providing the same thing. For obvious reasons it doesn't tell you the associated passwords but you can look up passwords separately as well. It tells you which data breaches the email is on so you if you do use the same password for a few things you should know which one(s) to change.

This is why it is such a good idea to use different passwords for everything. Hackers don't try and hack your bank or your email, they hack big sites that aren't as well protected (what can you really lose if LinkedIn gets hacked), grab the usernames and passwords (yes, they should be encrypted but they aren't always can can still be brute force cracked if they are) and then try them against your email and your bank.

Actually email is the big one, since password resets rely on your email. Use something very unique for your email.

On 19/04/2021 at 21:23, paul_c2 said:

I've used Native Instruments' "The Gentleman" only because it came included with the keyboard I bought. They do a few other piano plugins too.

I use The Gentleman as well, I've got NI Komplete and I still prefer The Gentleman to the others in there for most things, including jazz piano which I'm (slowly) learning.

Do NOT rely on a correct email address in an email to confirm who it came from. It is trivially easy to set the from: field in an email to anything you like. I've done this with server applications that genuinely needed to send out email. Basschat itself probably has a setting somewhere in the app for the email address that emails should be from, and I bet you can set it to pretty much anything. There might be some restrictions in what mail relays will handle but it's very easy to set up an outgoing mail server that will handle anything you want.

See things like:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.howtogeek.com/121532/htg-explains-how-scammers-forge-email-addresses-and-how-you-can-tell/amp/

https://www.techlicious.com/how-to/how-to-tell-if-email-has-been-spoofed/

Again, do not trust an email because the email address is correct.

13 hours ago, Rich said:

This is a waste of tim. You clown-whores.

Do you have a better suggestion for how we should use Tim?

The Source Audio Ultrawave has some cool ideas. Morphing between two different 10 band eq settings using an envelope is fun.

I got this done, and I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out, for my second ever go at repairing a pedal anyway - I know it's amateur hour compared to the stuff many people on here can do, but you have to start somewhere.

I wasn't happy with the Bourns pot I found so I looked again at alpha (I needed an alphas one anyway for another pedal) and found what looked like a close enough match at Thonk. Much easier to find the right one on their site than the big electronics places. The main difference is it's a D shaft not a knurled but it was easy enough to convert the knob to match. Other than that it was just a case of making sure the pot was held in position for soldering as it's sitting a bit higher than it naturally would, but with a bit of care that was easy enough.

End result, one £360 (new) pedal that now works perfectly again.

You still can't beat the tone you get from an original Tweed hardcase.

Lack of practice recently (no active project at the mo) means I'm no Adamg67 just at the moment.

I'm pretty sure I've hit my limit now, I can just about claim to tell the difference between a £700 (second hand) bass and a budget one, anything more than that would be wasted on me. I seem to be happy with 3 basses at a time as well, it may go down to 2.

I'm another that thinks that as far as looks go the more you spend the less you get.

Or amp and cab sims versus real amps and cabs.

There are a load of band name generators online, and they seem to do at least as good a job as people do. I liked "Boomerang Highway" last time band name picking was being done, but the rest of the band didn't - it was an omen of things to come

Now on hold

Pulled the trigger, it's arriving tomorrow.