GarethFlatlands

I've not clicked on the link but I'm guessing it's the Valnut? Awesome video!

Quite possibly. Ask him to bring it down tomorrow!

Kind of but with smoothing so it's a constant tone, plus the fade in/out option. Plus my DD-3 is playing up at the moment. Volume drop issues and such.

My soldering isn't great but I reckon I could knock together a fuzz or something similarly easy. Got a jiffy bag full of transistors, including 4 NOS AC127s, going to order the rest of the parts this weekend. I might do a build diary and post it up here, see how it goes.

I'm considering getting the new EHX Freeze pedal. Anyone tried one out? [url="http://www.ehx.com/products/freeze"]EHX Freeze[/url]

Let us know how you get on with the build(s)! A friend of mine makes his own pedals so he's hooking me up with 5 enclosures which he's drilling for me. I'm going to make a bunch of fuzz pedals in my week off on Nov 1st. You want me to ask where he gets them from?

My friend has/had one. Very tight, thick sound on the guitar, very much like a cranked tube amp. Not tried it on bass.

I use the ER20's; much better than Boots foam ones and more confortable over long peiods than the xmas tree type. They only protrude a lot if you leave the cord on. Sound quality is also very good and I've had them for years with no hearing problems.

[quote name='fretmeister' post='983455' date='Oct 10 2010, 04:29 PM']Eighty Five Pounds!!!![/quote] What's the problem, that's pretty cheap.... I'll get my coat.

[quote name='stevebasshead' post='979470' date='Oct 6 2010, 03:20 PM']I don't know if you're registered on Finnbass (I think you need to be registered to view posts there) but Brycee has a thread about a dirt cheap built in overdrive circuit (circuit! It's a fiendishly simple 2 diodes) which would fit anywhere without any woodwork and costs pennies. [url="http://www.finnbass.com/showthread.php?t=1384"]http://www.finnbass.com/showthread.php?t=1384[/url][/quote] Sounds like it just adds clipping diodes to the output stage. I reckon you'd need to drill a hole for a switch to bypass them though?

Meh. I liked my POD for headphone jams and demos (until it died) but I can't see myself using any Line 6 stuff live, except possibly the DL4 if I ever get my mitts on one.

[quote name='Finbar' post='978744' date='Oct 5 2010, 08:11 PM']i officially want one. a few online stores seem to have them in stock?[/quote] Electro in Donny is saying they have them in Chris.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='926176' date='Aug 16 2010, 09:38 AM']I was supposed to get one from the first batch in the UK thanks to my contact at Korg. However he was off on holiday when they finally arrived, so I missed out. Apparently now they are massively back-ordered so if you haven't actually paid to reserve one it may be a while before you can get hold of one. I'm now waiting to here back from my contacts in Japan to see if it's any more widely available there at the moment.[/quote] I was back home at the parentals 2 weekends ago and Dawsons in Chester had at least 1 in stock. Might be worth giving them a call to see if they still have any in. Edit:- just saw your post saying you had one! They look like they'd be good fun with a looper....

I'm rewiring an old bass with 250k pots, Fender schematics recommed a 0.05uf cap. As to why, I'm not smart enough to know but the above advice all looks solid.

Nope, both still available. PM me if you want details, they're 100 watts (I think) and 8ohms each.

hotrox.co.uk are doing them at £229 new which is the cheapest I've seen.

[quote name='Bero' post='965085' date='Sep 22 2010, 10:41 PM']ok, have Digitech Bass Squeeze, Fender Tuner, Boss AB2, Behringer DI, Boss EQ[/quote] I'm pretty sure they're all standard 9v barrell type plugs with negative ground so a standard supply should work. Nothing out of the ordinary that might use 18v or reverse polarity.

Keep your eyes peeled on here and on e-bay, I'd pretty much given up when I came across my pedal with a BIN of £120. It even came with it's own flight case and 9v PSU. I threw a tuner and patch cable in there and and it's not my pedalboard.

Why not get a pre-drilled enclosure and a decent footswitch and migrate the insides of the Behringer?

Yeah, the output is really weak unsuprisingly. I've ordered some mini pots for the cavity so I'll sort it all out in one go when everything arrives.

Thanks, mousemat foam might be the way forward. Pic below to show roughly what the problem is:- [attachment=59369:IMGP0201.JPG] I'll hit maplin tomorrow for a cheap mat as well as some other stuff (got a Crybaby sat waiting to be modded).

I have an old (ridiculously heavy) Vintage 5 string sat in my room gathering dust. It needs new pots and a re-wire but the main problem is the pickups. They sit way too far from the strings due to the stupidly deep routing. What would people recommend for raising the height of them? I don't have any tools or wood to make blocks to sit under them, which would have been my first choice. Thanks.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='963500' date='Sep 21 2010, 04:35 PM']Wanna sell it?[/quote] Hmm, not really. Bumping the mids up on the amp helps if you go through the front end. I'll live with it for now thanks! Unless you want to swap it for a VT bass deluxe....

[quote name='mcnach' post='962174' date='Sep 20 2010, 02:07 PM']£70... just to remove the frets? or any additional work?[/quote] Filling the slots with veneers and a setup too I think. I deleted the email as my MOT is coming up and the bass needs some more remedial work before I can use it again anyway.