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^ Yeah exactly, I was just about to say that as well. [EDIT: @ tj] Best example I reckon, as kinda 'novelty' stuff like that can get boring after a while (another example of this being Lightning Bolt), but DFA1979 pull it off perfectly, I could happily listen to a set lasting hours. The 'secret' seems to be lots of effects laid onto the high end of a split signal, but done tastefully, to give a very full sound. A lot of people are very surprised to learn that its just a drum and bass 2 piece, and that there isn't a guitarist, and this is the key IMO. EDIT: Hah, got in there before me with Lightning Bolt, and with a very different opinion apprently

Ok cool, thanks guys, will look into those gauge thingys

Hey, sorry if this is in the wrong section, but I figure it's ok here. I'm yet to change the strings on my main bass since I bought it (used), but I have no idea what the current strings are. Don't know the make, don't know the gauge. I'd like to replace them with the same strings. The make isn't necessarily a huge issue, but I don't want to go mucking around with the truss rod, so I'm gonna want the same gauge. How would I go about finding out what gauge these strings are? Can this be done with a feeler gauge? I've heard of them for measuring small stuff but I don't know exactly what they can be used for. Its a Cort Artisan A5 if that helps, because while it may be used I don't know if the strings have ever been changed, they might have just been treated well (I wash my hands before playing, for example). Cheers.

Ok cool, definately just read everything then, should tell you everything you need to know. Then post back with questions on stuff you're unsure of and people will answer, thats how I built mine

Just read this thread my friend, has all the information you are looking for. Go back to the first post and read the whole thread, I promise by the end you will be much more enlightened than you are now. Reading this thread will also probably cause you to build your own mammoth clone as well ^_^

Well it comes to £6 anyway with postage but I've bought one of these myself, they're £3.99 [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3PDT-True-Bypass-Foot-switch-IN-THE-UK-Guitar-effects_W0QQitemZ350251038851QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Guitar_Accessories?hash=item518c96b883&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]here[/url]

^ Well yeah, but that's the point isnt it? Like if I had an effect that I liked but that was particularly noisy when bypassed, I could put it aside with an A/B box. Or if I had 2 different distortions/different fuzzes/of the same pedal, that I wanted to feed into the rest of the loop or direct into the amp, so there an A/B box would let me switch between the 2. Unless I'm missing the point here entirely lol...

Well this moosapotamus looks interesting as it would open up a whole world of sinful low-end-eating guitar pedals to me, plus I now know exactly what parts I would need to buy for it, so maybe that! Ordering new stuff would also allow me to get ahold of a permanent enclosure for my mammoth as well without paying postage more times than I need to. Maybe also an A/B or an A/B/Y box as well, since it makes sense to order the parts for multiple pedals at once. I assume that an A/B box switches between 2 peadals and an A/B/Y can switch between 2 and also have both on simulataneously? On top of that I could also order the parts for the Llama while I'm at it. Basically, as long as I'm using prototyping board I'm happy

Ta Steve! Cheers Nick, you're a legend mate. What on earth is a rectifyer (that's what I got when I googled that 1N4001 component)?

Wow that seems a complicated circuit for what it does. I like it though! What are those 'U' components?

I dont understand a word that has been said in like the last 7posts Maybe I won't build this thing lol.... Out of interest, what other things have people here built/what would you suggest building?

Cool cheers, google got me nowhere for some reason, was late I guess, should have just gone to bed Thanks for the Banzai link, exactly what I was looking for

Hey guys, Have searched and failed horribly. Where do you guys get knobs to go on effects pedals? The best I could find was some cheap nasty crap from Hong Kong etc on ebay, none of the other shops that I used for pedal parts seem to stock knobs at all

Paulo hooked me up with some patch cables to rectify my ridiculous '7 pedals and 0 patch cables' situation. Good comms. Cheers mate.

Hah, just emailed you actually Nick. Already sort of on the lookout for the next project, even though this one isn't completely finished, which may well be that llama clone that you showed me the schematic for

Solderless breadboard and multimeter FINALLY arrived today. After prodding at my current circuit with the multimeter for a while I couldn't find a single thing wrong with it. I was expecting to find cold solders all over the shop but I couldn't find a single one. So to hell with that lol, I made the circuit again on the solderless breadboard (having cut the potentiometers off of the old circuit) and it lives! The layout is slightly different than it would be on stripboard, but even accounting for the time it took me to figure it out and double check eveything it only took me a very small fraction of the time to get it together on the solderless board than the stripboard, and it actually worked this time. The solderless board is also small enough to fit into the housing I have (just a temporary plactic one at the moment to get an idea of the size, with holes drilled for the pots), and was very inexpensive anyway, plus the fact that any components going wrong down the line can be swapped out in about 3 seconds flat without any soldering, so that's where the circuit is staying. The only problem that I have is that 3 of the 4 knobs (the pinch knob being the exception) work back to front, i.e. turning anti-clockwise increases the volume etc. I really don't give too much of a damn at this point, but how would I go about sorting this? By swapping over the way round the wires are on the board (effectively turning the pots upside down)? This issue makes me doubly glad that I can just move stuff about on the prototyping board. Will be rehousing the circuit in it's permanent metal box, which will have to be drilled and painted, at some point in the near future, as well as incorporating the footswitch and led into the circuit (they have been omitted so far in order to exclude some variables in the case of the circuit not working). Cheers.

I have a Tech21 XXL Bass edition. Not too expensive and is capable of some brutal distortion

Met up with Shaun to buy an MXR bass octave off of him (which may have originally be alex's?). Can only add to what other people have already said! Top bloke, had a drink, a game of pool, and a chat about some bass-related stuff! All-round very nice chap, who you can be extremely confident in dealing with without any issues whatsoever!!