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Desoldering requires more skill than soldering. If you leave your iron on the cap too long, you run the risk of lifting the trace on the circuit board. Every time you hear the trace up you’re running the risk of having it separate from the board. Do you know how changing the capacitors will effect the circuit? Is there any record of anyone modding this pedal for use with bass?

Get a portable recorder, Ableton Live, and the control surfaces that an EDM producer would use. You can record samples with the field recorder, then manipulate them in Ableton with the control surfaces. You can get a MIDI controller like the Looptimus to control some of it with your feet while you’re playing bass.

I find the idea of buying monitors based on look rather than sound to be absolutely absurd.

Call the airline and buy a seat for the bass. By the time you price out a flight case and the extra baggage fees, buying a seat is cheaper. And safer.

DW nickels on my ABZ6 and either the DW nickels, nickel Super Brights, or a set of TI Jazz flats. I preferred the tension of the older stainless strings, the ones they made right before they came out with the nickels, but I hate the coarse feel and tone of steels.

No flight case on earth will protect your bass if the case doesn’t get latched properly when it gets searched. Most damage occurs when TSA doesn’t secure latches and locks properly, and then the case comes open during loading/ unloading.

Absolutely. I couldn’t fathom letting baggage handle two basses worth over $2500USD each new with an 18 month wait from the shop, even in a couple hundred dollar case.

Yes, I paid for a seat that the basses sat in, guess that wasn’t super clear in my post. I could see how inverting a double bass would work, but I’d be worried about the neck though!

Well, you have no idea what you're doing. Your ideas may not already exist because the ideas are actually too complicated for smaller custom shops to build at a reasonable price point, or they're so niche that someone already determined the cost of producing more than one on veroboard for themselves wasn't worth it. Maybe it's because the pedal you want to base it on hasn't been reverse-engineered. Just because you like the pedal idea doesn't mean anyone else will want to buy it, and especially if you're getting them produced by a builder that already has high prices on their own end product. Mass production will need significant capital up front, not to mention interest. Even for just 10 pedals. Custom builders that have the time to respond to you may actually be too busy building their own line of pedals to even warrant getting involved with your venture. You run the risk of seriously frustrating a builder because you have literally no idea how any of what they do works. You say you don't have time to learn to build... you don't even have the time to order a kit and soldering iron and try to put it together? Now imagine the time it takes to design a circuit, prototype it, test it, reprototype, retest, design a PCB, get those manufactured, populate the circuit boards, design the artwork, get the enclosures decorated and drilled... Do you know anything about actually doing business? You'll want to make a website, establish a social media presence. You'll need to be able to record high-quality audio and video demos of the gear because just having a website where you say "This pedal is like this pedal but with this added" will not get you any interest.

You should be aware that a pedal in a 125b enclosure with top jacks takes up as much room as a Nano (1590a) with side jacks. Way more excellent options in the larger box size.

Congrats on buying your first Dingwall!

I flew from Minneapolis to Detroit to Providence to Dublin, and then bussed from Dublin with two basses. Taking advice from Sheldon Dingwall, I bought a golf club travel bag that fits almost every airlines size restrictions for musical instruments that you’re buying a seat for. The bag fit my two basses in their individual gigbags, two pairs of shoes, two cables, strap, and Pedaltrain Nano in its bag. It was far more cost effective to do this rather than throw money into a flight case that wouldn’t guarantee absolute protection of my gear. The only downside is that it was awkward to wrangle in and out of the seat.

Southampton Fifth Gear v2 is my choice. I've been through a crapload of overdrives to arrive at this one as my one-and-only.

I've read of folks using the Digitech Jamman pedals that can accept an SD card for this. Each sample is stored as a separate loop, just scroll up to the right one and set the looper to play the loop once. Otherwise you'd have to look into some of the units that drummers use.

You need to sustain one note? EHX Freeze will do that. The 9 series pedals reportedly don’t sounds good on bass if you’re playing lower than an A. And they won’t add sustain.

Cool.

Since the migration Basschat simply won't load pages when I'm on my iPhone using Safari (sorry, I don't use any other mobile browser to check this against). I hit my bookmark for the homepage, and then try to click into a different subforum (doesn't matter: Basses, Effects, any of them) and it just hangs with the blue status bar never reaching more than about 1/3 of the way. Sometimes it will load into the subforum, but then threads won't open (hangs on loading). Everything works fine on various browsers on a laptop, though.

[quote name='Quatschmacher' timestamp='1509824364' post='3401942'] Cool, thanks. Is it possible to set one side up to solo the sub and the other side to switch in the square wave? i.e. removing the bypass function altogether? If so, you could set it up thusly and use an LS-2 as the bypass switch, giving more options. [/quote] It might be, I'd have to ask Josh himself since there's no manual.

[quote name='Al Krow' timestamp='1509613975' post='3400235'] OMG - this sounds amazing and really tempted to try out from your description. I'm guessing it's analogue rather than digital? Can you share a bit more on my ususal (boring) Qs on what is this like in terms of speed of tracking (latency) and depth of tracking i.e. how low on the scale you can comfortably get to with 'held' (rather than quickly plucked) notes before it starts glitching? Most analogue octavers (or most of us - apart from [i]dannybuoy[/i] who has obviously mastered some clever technique he should patent ) seem to struggle to get lower than the A or G on the bottom E string. The MXR M288 has a reputation for being the best of the bunch in terms of depth of tracking. [/quote] I'm so used to playing octavers that don't track below A that I don't even go there with the Octabvre. Tracking and sustain are really dependent on technique (yeah, yeah, I know, that's what they all say) and also the tone you're feeding the pedal. I find all octaves track better with the tone control on your bass rolled down at least partway. Play clean, don't throw any errant notes or harmonics at it, and I find the Broughctave can sustain notes as low as A for longer than an OC-2 could no matter how it was played. I always have my compressor on, too. It's based on the OC-2, so it's analog, but does [i]way[/i] more than most other analog octavers. [quote name='Quatschmacher' timestamp='1509636077' post='3400508'] The Broughctave sounds very interesting, I'd certainly like to try one, though it looks like they may be hard to come by. Do you have a PDF of the manual and any video clips? I'm curious to know about the dip switch settings. [/quote] No manual, maybe I can get some videos of it in action. The dip switches let you set the function of both footswitches. Mine is set so that left is bypass, right solos the sub signal. You can also have it setup so that the right brings in and out the square wave signal.

If others hadn't started cloning and improving on it, I'd still be using an OC-2. Bought one a few years back just to play [i]Sledgehammer[/i]. Eventually discovered the fat sound of the solo'd -1 octave and the synthy tones one could create with it, and needed more. Eventually moved on to[b] two[/b] OC2's, one for the clean + octave down, and a second for just octave down so I didn't have to bend over and twist knobs. Flipped both for an Octabvre (original, not Tim-tuned). Liked it, kept it for a good long while until Josh Broughton came out with the Broughctave. It's like an OC-2 on steroids. Filter controls for clean and octave signal, [b]tons[/b] of volume on tap, a dedicated square wave function, two footswitches whose functions can be changed via internal dipswitches. The only octave I would flip this for would be a custom Broughctave with a third footswitch to engage/ disengage the square wave.