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Stub Mandrel

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  1. Stub Mandrel
    That's a brilliant show and demonstrates just what a talented bassist she is 🙂
  2. Stub Mandrel
    The ACA pedals have a dropper resistor on the ground side of the power supply. Daisy chaining bypasses this as long as you are using a non-ACA pedal. Or you can (reversibly) modify the pedal: http://www.stubmandrel.co.uk/14-music/171-boss-hm-2-pedal-9-volt-psu-conversion
  3. Stub Mandrel
    P.S. Yes it does sound amazing now 🙂
  4. Stub Mandrel
    I reckon I've added some Genuine mojo to my Ibanez AS53 (sorry - 6 strings...) Before: After, with luminous green 80s DiMarzio Humbucker (originally fitted to my brother's first strat) and Gretsch bridge pickup removed from one of his guitars. The pickup cover on the DiMarzio and pickguard are 'modern'.
  5. Stub Mandrel
    Darn it. Listed to a couple of versions and now I'm stuck with a 'Dark Star' earworm.
  6. Stub Mandrel
    I have a dream... and that's to be in a band that does what Hawkwind did at the Isle of Wight festival - just turn up with a flatbed lorry, park near the entrance and play free music... I love the idea of a random 'pop up psychedelic band' .
  7. Stub Mandrel
    eBay own Gumtree...
  8. Stub Mandrel
    Horn is the smaller speaker. Wobbling might make nearby people feel nervous. If it looks like it might fall over if someone knocks against it, you should be nervous and something (like a sandbag) to add stability might be a good idea. Best to make sure it is placed where punters can't knock it. Boost is increasing, cutting is reducing. They probably aren't designed to be used with no speaker attached and I don't see the point... it is a PA not a preamp and any effect of adjusting the controls is meaningless unless in the context of how it sounds through the speaker.
  9. Stub Mandrel
    I could... unfortunately I've ordered ordinary green.
  10. Stub Mandrel
    I've got into a scrap with an amp designer on 'the other forum' who claimed my estimate that a 150W TE could put out a 400W transient. I just did a test with my oscillscope on the output. When driven to a square wave, it was happily putting a constant 350W plus into 8 ohms.
  11. Stub Mandrel
    Well 'Dark Star' on it's own sorts one night... 🙂
  12. Stub Mandrel
    Because his head would fall off. Oh, you mean on the bass...
  13. Stub Mandrel
    That's news to me. You could call it my moment of Epiphony.
  14. Stub Mandrel
    Bet they've just soldered the lead to the wrong tag on the jack. Curiusly tempting but I'll let common sense win, I don't need no djent...
  15. Stub Mandrel
    Good lord! Ian Dury was Lionel Blair's evil twin!
  16. Stub Mandrel
    I've got an Elites 'Put The Bass In' long sleeve T from the early 90s 🙂
  17. Stub Mandrel
    Prototype 3D printed pedal case. It takes over 13 stone.
  18. Stub Mandrel
    Cripes those are cheap! Are they as good as their basses? (OK not quite as cheap as I thought with VAT added, but still cheap.)
  19. Stub Mandrel
    Sound good to me, put a set on Hohner BVa and they sound much better than whatever was one before, especially the B string. I've used elites for years.
  20. Stub Mandrel
    I bet they were tuned properly, given their reliance on keyboards and JJ's classical training.
  21. Stub Mandrel
    I use these, whether you call them cheap depends on what others you've been looking at! http://www.basscentre.com/elites-dbe-series/elites-double-ball-end-v.html
  22. Stub Mandrel
    I have a few Boss pedals ancient HM2 & BEQ7 plus a TU3. While they are great, losing that stupid little screw on the front would be a 'good thing'.
  23. Stub Mandrel
    I fitted proper knobs to my Laney, as a Trace rip-off it originally had little white 'nips'. Rather than fill gaps I fitted proper slider caps. Check out the controls, it's 100% a Trace clone on the outside. Inside it uses op-amp based circuitry, rather than pure transistor like the GP11. Also uses remote FET switches rather than having mechanical ones in the signal path. So strangely its technically more advanced but it doesn't sound as good! It would be a shame to spoil the TE, but I honestly think these knobs do look better: Dang, now I'm getting really BAD thoughts about bi-amping, but that would demand another 8R cab... room for a 15" perhaps?
  24. Stub Mandrel
    These little b****rs cost about $22 a pair to import from British Audio in the US. I need a green one, so I've done a trial 3D printed one, with layers 0.05mm (0.002") high. Unfortunately it's blue, but it looks a lot smoother than the picture with such thin layers, it cold be tidied up a bit and polished. I've ordered some green PLA and I will print another one with 0.025mm layers which is as close to injection moulding as I can get. The white dots appear to be painted on.
  25. Stub Mandrel
    That's not just a bass, it's a biography!
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