MoonBassAlpha

Touch of Zappa about that- nice.

I think the tune you're thinking of was "I don't believe in a thing called God"

Great solution to weighty problem!

That would make a cracking advert for Fixadent, or somesuch.

You're most welcome. Everyone in this area uses Tim, but he's clearly a go-to man for many labels getting their back catalogue remastered, and for folks making their material sound the best for i-Tunes releases and YouTube.

Voted! Bit thin on the ground this month, maybe I should have entered both my tunes after all

What about things for Mrs RLP though

I'm minded to pull my first entry, 'Nothing', out of the voting, for possible rule violation, and it does seem a bit greedy having 2 entries in one month. So, just Gardening on MoonBassAlpha from me, unless re-entry is demanded by popular consent. No, I thought not!

Tim Turan https://www.turanaudio.co.uk has a very good reputation as an independent mastering house. I've not used him, but the pro client list speaks for itself.

Never mind the pictures, how does it sound?

Very impressive work @Twincam. Nice one!

Oh yeah, the other Hofner oddity is that the tone controls operate in the opposite sense to everyone else's, 10 is treble rolled off, 0 is wide open. Those crazy Germans!

The little Ashdown ctm15 does this too, it's quite noticeable when playing quietly. I attach my d.I. box to the speaker output, and you don't really hear the hum through the balanced output to the recording interface. The speaker attaches to the d.i. parallel output, but at only 15 watts it would be easy enough to hook up a power resistor as a dummy load for recording.

Ha! Coincidentally, my band Charms Against the Evil Eye has a song called Dark Matter, but it's more than 10 years old, so I definitely won't be adding that one to my entries this month!

I forgot to mention, all the guitars and bass on Gardening were recorded using the direct out from the Blackstar beam (supposedly speaker emulated ) . Most of the effects were done on the unit too, except for the infinite repeat on the vocal and some of the guitar. It does introduce a bit of hiss, but I can pass that off as cosmic background radiation

I bet, if you applied some wax or thin layer of oil or grease to the finish, any excess superglue wouldn't stick to that very well at all.

Pleasant. The end bit brings to mind incidental music from 60s Dr Who.

The other oddity I noticed was that there is no earth wire to the bridge or string anchor plate, with no noticeable adverse effect.

A nice leather strap handle would really finish that off nicely. Great job!

The 10 nF caps might be there to bleed off radio frequency interference? As the 100nF cap is always in series it must be a resonant circuit with the pickup inductance and the pot. Would need some helpful soul to model it for us, but as you say, it isn't a current way of doing things. I had a 60s 185 with a 70s scratch plate which was slightly different, and only had 1 volume pot iirc. I didn't sketch the circuit out as it seemed to work sort of ok!

Would have been an active d.I. box most likely.

At least it most likely cleans the wax out of the grille! One of my old Sennheiser sets went really muffled due to this. Could only really make out it was blocked under a microscope!

I see the rha ones have a 3 year warranty, and designed in Scotland. Might give them a go (ma650) as they seem to be not bass heavy.

Thanks for the recommendations chaps, keep them coming! Would you say the E10 is fairly neutral in balance then?

Well, it's cat among the pigeons time again. I did a different "tune" today, thought I'd squeeze a bone fide entry in this month before I head south on me hols. Can you have two? Which to choose, some kind of play-off? Who really cares anyway?