Bassybert

I love a pedal build and have built a few of the Jeds Peds and FuzzDog clone type affairs in the past. One thing I've never built is a compressor, and as I'm in the market for one I was wondering if anyone has any experience of building one of the following? The Classic Old Dude compressor from Jeds which is a clone of the Warden by Earthquaker Devices - https://www.jedspeds.co.uk/product-page/classic-old-dude-compressor. This seems to have a decent feature set and is effective for bass. Was also looking at the Maskhole from the same place which is based on the Diamante, a alight variation on the Diamond Compressor - https://www.jedspeds.co.uk/product-page/maskhole-compressor The third option was FuzzDogs Engineer's Thumb which looks suitable for bass with a couple of component tweaks to retain the low end - https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/product/engthumb Lastly, I'm putting together a stripboard version of the Flatline Compressor by John Hollis which is an optical design that's a simple circuit but is really effective for bass apparently. I'm not looking for anything miraculous feature wise, something that fattens up the tone, limits the peaks and boosts the lower volume notes and isn't too sterile sounding. Cheers

That was part of their appeal when they first started I think. That raw, stripped back sound and chunky riffs worked well but you’re right it’s hard to keep coming up with new songs/variation with such limited resources.

‘Tad shorter than a P bass’ 🤪

That’s not really my point though.

Slightly off topic but definitely related. I like quite a lot of royal blood’s stuff and thought they might be a good option to take my daughter for her first proper gig. Went online and looked at the tickets in a couple of venues close to us and with booking fees they were pretty much £95 each 😵‍💫 I realise the band doesn’t have total sway over ticket pricing but I just laughed at how a ‘moderately’ successful two piece could be charging almost a hundred notes for a gig. and I say that as a fan. Obviously we didn’t go which was a shame I thought it would have been a great ‘remember your first gig’ moment.

Pm’d Ben

Bought a set of Fender 62 Precision pickups from Geoff. They arrived really quickly, were well packaged and communication was spot on. An absolute pleasure to deal with 😀 Also, the tone and clarity from these pickups is fantastic, very impressed.

Do you have two spare 9v outputs on the pedal power? If you do you could use a y cable to get your 18v?

This is a thing of absolute beauty! Well done @Chopthebass for producing such a stunning looking bass, it looks incredible. Really looking forward to hearing some sounds.

PM’d

These look immense well done Jon! When you have them landscape do the hf horns need rotating as well so they’re both vertically aligned or are they ok as per the photos?

Thank you that’s worked fine ☺️

They look awesome 😍

I’ve noticed the sub-forum layout has gone squiffy when viewing on my iPhone. No images loading and repeat marketplace overview that looks like it should be hidden. Have cleared cookies and cache and still like it.

Could it also be your amp/eq settings when in a band context? Are the frequencies of notes on those strings clashing with other instruments?

This recent thread will help…

Fabulous yet again @disssa!! Is that a heat sink bolted to the board near the LED/foot switch? Is this your own layout?

I’ve just double checked and it was the tone filter switch that I flicked between for the sounds above (will update the labels). It’s in a plain box as I only recently built it so forgot which switch was the tone and which one was for the diodes. I might have another go at recording and toggling between the diodes as well but as the setting I had it on was using the original diodes it’s essentially the same circuit as an original Univox.

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you @greentext I've been DIY'ing but hopefully these 4 samples will give you some idea of what this pedal is about. There is a caveat - I'm playing this on a P Bass with Labella flatwounds as that's all I've got to hand and using my phone mic, so it's not going to give you MCA's 70s Jazz with roundwounds tone and studio quality recording 😆 Gratitude (1khz tone filter on) Gratitude.mp3 Sabotage Sabotage.mp3 Futterman's Rule (normal tone setting) Futtermans Rule 1.mp3 Futterman's Rule (1khz tone filter on) Futtermans Rule 2.mp3 This pedal is an absolute filthy beast. I love it.

I use Capo on my Mac, seems to work really well.

BMW’s come with indicators? 😁

I’ll see if I can knock something up tomorrow as a demo