BabyBlueSound

This seems a bit "off topic" though, like that other tariff post. No offense but I come here to read about basses and switch my mind off. If I want to get anxious over the state of the world, I can just open literally any news site and get depressed in a half second. No need to remind me of all this when trying to bury my head in bass... 😅

It is a commercial (Fuzzdog) PCB, and yes the same works perfectly on the breadboard which I still have around for audioprobing and multimeter testing purposes. Visual inspection does not show bad solder joints, so might be lurking under a solder blob, if that's that. I'll also do comparative voltage measurements between the breadboard and the PCB, just had no time yet.

Boss Tera Echo 2! The weirdo digital reverb. I thought this will be useful mostly when I want to record some spacey guitar backing track for myself, or drone around. I was wrong, welcome to the board, Mr Always On! If I turn the effect volume down a bit, then set feedback and spread time to minimum, it just adds a very nice "body" to the sound by adding just a tiny bit of roomy reverb. It just makes the notes sound more exciting. CAN'T TURN IT OFF NOW!

I am trying to build a 3band RAT, and I messed up my 2nd build as well, even though I managed to get it work on a breadboard. I am using an audio scope to find where the PCB starts to differ from the breadboard. I found that leg 7 of the OP07 reacts to distortion in a weird way (clean when down, SUDDENLY overdistorts at a certain point, despite the linear A100k pot). However leg 7 is the V+ leg of the IC, not for the audio signal. Do I likely have a problem with the power section of the circuit? As I'm extremely surprised I found the overdistortion issue on this specific leg... It's not an output and is not directly connected to the DIST

Maybe they're converting to a pyramid scheme and just want to make a few new sales to pay off the old creditors 😅

I can only add to the Sandberg crowd, I am in love with mine!

@ped this almost sounds like a market gap for a new, proper gear page 😉

I had 30 minutes to kill in London a couple weeks ago and really enjoyed visiting Wunjo Guitars on Denmark street. Nice staff and a lot of stuff to look at, interesting pedals, some beautiful basses.

Someone once told me a lot of these shops barely make any money on expensive instruments, and it's rather the cheapo stuff sold in bulk that's important. Like the picks, straps and strings, where they make pounds on pennies. Don't know to what extent is this true... But Peach Guitars just had a Boss TE-2 on sale, apparently the last one because as I bought it, it went out of stock. Hope it's not a returned item 😅

There are limits on how many tickets you can buy per person for every raffle Edit: I see this is set to 10% of the total indeed!

To imagine my in-laws smoke 2-3 cigarettes every hour... oh my god.

I tried this, didn't win anything on my first attempt. MUST BE FAKE! 🙃

I'm sure Mr Corrupt Multimillionaire Tax Evader doesn't use those trains that much that it would bother him if they weren't even running due to the lack of staff. But workers setting a precedent by demanding a living wage... that's scary 🙄

I am sure his intentions are much better this time, it's not like guys like him have a form 🙄🙄🙄

Nooo, I loved them! Hope the Rumble 40 I bought from them a couple months ago doesn't crap itself now 😅

After messing up a 3-band RAT PCB, I decided to breadboard it out first. I was pleasantly surprised it worked on first attempt, I never breadboarded anything before. I almost cried when decyphering the transistor legs from the schematic, I think I would have been lost there without having an extra empty PCB where I could trace the legs properly, visually. Here's some fun swapping diodes and LEDs, I know everyone loves those 😁

Thanks for the recommendation! If anyone is like me and loathes amazon for any valid reason of the many available ones, here are some other links: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/isbn/9781915858252/ https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Just-Backdated-by-Chris-Charlesworth/9781915858221 https://www.waterstones.com/book/just-backdated/chris-charlesworth/9781915858221 edit: and of course Worldofbooks has some used ones, I just grabbed one from there 😁

A vote here for Nux Mighty Plug. Never let me down, easy to pair and listen to backing tracks

Well for example that Starstream is still out there! If you're saying we can have only one good bass, this industry is in big trouble 😁

FWIW, I just got my first £500+ instrument ever (a new Sandberg Lionel for £1200). I love it, it feels right, it sounds right, I WANT to play it. BUT this could be indeed true for many other basses in other price categories. I bought it new as it was exactly the config I wanted: matte blue finish, black hardware, Precision shortie. Normally I am a "value for money" guy so likely this is my last ever brand new bass, I'll go back to budgets/used ones after this. But at least once it had to be done 😁

You got the proper Ray though, maybe that would have felt better in my hand and would not need to get rid of it... 😁 And I know the problem is with me, I had 2 pro friends try the Sterling and everyone was amazed, even though they don't even like shorties. Maybe it's the thin Jazz neck? I thought I liked those. Yet I always seem to go back to P. So is that a gold finish, or mustard yellow? Hard to tell because of the shine.

Thanks for the kind words and the advice! Good to know the bridge just looks more daunting than it is in practice. The Sterling still has to go, I never connected with it for ~3 years or so. Just doesn't feel right, even though I love a MM-style bass AND it's sounds. It just doesn't work in my hand (and I think I got quite average hands), I rather play the crappy bumpy necked cheapo Ibanez Talman. For that "another tone", I got the aforementioned more classic P Ibanez Talman with the EMGs which I am usually stringing with either Cobalt flats or D'addario black tapewounds. For the Sandberg, I have a La Bella and a Cobalt flat set sitting there ready to be put on, just waiting for the final go-nogo decision 😁 Just want to play the original strings till they're dead, with strings I am frugal like that 😁