rwillett

@LukeFRC any suggestions for decent AWG 24 wire? Most of the wire I buy is crap

Luke It's finally working but just as I got it working one of the brand new switches failed so it's now a seven switch. More switches are on order. What I did get working was the ability to switch banks on my Mod Drawf and also have the bank displayed on the PM8. The key part is it being synced for names on the rather nice colour display. Setting up midi keys for turning effects on and off is easy but it was doing the banks that's proven difficult. I had it working for a while but it seems to have gone wrong and I can't work out why. The mod dwarf explicitly stops bank changing midi commands when you are using the UI to debug it. So it's difficult to debug, though it appears to me that the Mod Dwarf is changing the order of pedal boards in its banks which is not supposed to happen. I've made my own case for it. which I say humbly, is far better than the case the guy sells. The next case iteration will have a battery compartment lid. If you come to the bass bash you can have a play.

My 'band' consists of a drummer and me. I swing between bass and guitar, but tonight was guitar. I have no pride and no skill. As a laugh we decided to do one of my original songs as if sung by Lemmy in Motorhead. I was using a Laney LC15R valve amp with a Strat, brought from this very parish from @kwmlondon. As Kim lives London and I live North Yorkshire, I only managed to pick it up at Xmas and due to other commitments, tonight was the first time it got used in anger. Bloody hell, for 15W it's loud, it's very loud. Its my first and only valve amp and I still don't understand why a tiny 15W valve amp should be so, so loud. Not just loud, it sounded really good as well. We wound the gain up, wound the volume, I did my best to channel Lemmy and play and sing at the same time whilst Bev the drummer was laughing so hard, she couldn't play. We did a second even faster run where we tried to combine The Ramones and Motorhead and it was a wonderful joyous experience. It's been a utterly sh1tty week at work with issue after issue and escalation after escalation, so putting it all behind me for 90 mins of manic singing (badly) and playing at stupid volumes was great therapy. Now I can't speak as my voice has gone and I still have lines in my fingers from playing so fast and hard, but it was worth it. We've decided we're going to do it at the rather staid open mic sessions in either Settle or Sedbergh. I suspect they'll kick us out but it will be fun. Rob

Only if you are very lucky, Tizer and brown ale more likely, though I might have a decent Chablis cooling for afterwards.

You're very welcome. We're a bit like a Hilbert hotel. We can always find space. However unlike Hotel California you can leave 😁

I'm one

You could say it's rare, very few Mustangs have been used as a shovel on a building site. I can see why it may not have been played for 10-15 years, the site foreman still used it. Would love to see the routing under the second control panel.

"Blues no good to me" is rather a dark song about a pair of lovers splitting up and both of them dying in violent circumstances. "Another lonely man" was based on Edward Hoppers picture "Nighthawks" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks_(Hopper) Sadly "Where is love?" Is way beyond my skills now

I did my first singing open mic last night. Not sang in public since I was wearing shorts and did "Where is love?" from Oliver in the school play. I did two songs of my own, "Blues ain't no good to me" and "Another lonely man". Sadly I didn't do "Where is love?" in my best Aled Jones voice as various structural body arrangements shortly after the school play, meant I could no longer hit the higher notes or quite a few of the lower notes either. Never sung with a microphone, never sung whilst playing a guitar and never in front of a crowd. So popped my cherry a number of times there. Thankfully they were gentle and of the six people who did things I was the only one with original material so that was a slight bonus. People were very nice afterward. A Sennheiser E935 is now winging it's way to me. Not making that mistake with a mic again and will practise an awful lot more. I didn't bomb but I did learnt a lot. Rob

Does that mean I'm now getting more valuable then....

That's good news. There's a fair old walk from your place to the town centre and I think there's some up and down as well. The soft tissues are always the issues, at least to me. I've never broken anything too serious but lots of ligament, tendon and soft tissue damage sadly. One slight good thing about the physio work on soft tissues is you can do a lot at home, for me, lots of small exercises did me the world of good and don't require expensive equipment, I had small blocks of wood to do heel raises and sitting on the floor with rubber bands stretching things out. You can do this in your own time and at your pace. I look forward to hearing of your entry in the London Marathon for next year

I use the Basschat 8" speaker with a Gnome Warwick amp, a Mod Dwarf and a Strat. I turn the EQ to what is supposed to be flattish (10:00 Bass 3:30 Middle 10:00 Treble) and it sounds great to me. I turn the EQ back to normal for bass and it sounds great there as well. I;m amazed at the flexibility of the cabinet. Rob

I can guarantee there will be a significant change in value after doing this change The more effort you make, the bigger the change in value.

ChatGPT -> can you put this in English for the hard of understanding please?

Turn up with the lot and we'll do a Doors jam with the organ. LA Woman is great Hows your leg by the way? Rob

So far we have @rwillett- A couple of 3d printed basses or guitars, this will encourage me to finish my next two off. A couple of 8" Basschat cabinets. Might be interesting to try these with other peoples amps. One is quite loud, not quite finished the other one so not sure quite how loud they go. Since I'm about 100m away, I might bring anything or everything. Might even bring and setup a 3d printer if people are interested. If there is any interest and you need something thats more than a few hours to print, let me know well in advance. @neepheid - Probably bringing the contents of a smallish country @Frank Blank @Stub Mandrel- TBC @zbd1960 - TBC @ossyrocks @lee650 @80Hz @peterjam @misterhank @GreeneKing @LukeFRC - TBC @jimbobothy - TBC @TPJ

Yes, there seems to be comprehensive support, this might mean more to you than me There are two 1/4" sockets for expression pedals but I don't have one yet to check if they work.

Not sure what you mean. You can do long presses, short presses, double presses and double switch presses and other stuff. The time needed for a double press is use configurable as are a lot of things that I have zero idea about. Everything appears to be adjustable in the web interface. There are so many options I kinda got lost in the interface. I haven't even tried to actually connect it to anything yet as I ran out of time last night. It seems to support Midi over USB, WiFi, apples network midi, Bluetooth BLE and other stuff. It seems to support expression pedals as well. You might have guessed by now I am no expert. I have some more foot switches coming and an expression pedal so will build a second one.

Please don't do that, it might increase the value to $100K, I'm still saving up to get to the $50K he wants.

I wanted a better Midi footpedal than the M-Vave Chocolate so was looking around and stumbled over the PedalinoMini range of DIY pedals. You can see them here https://github.com/alf45tar/PedalinoMini The designer uses a small 32bit System on a Board, so similar to an Arduino, has done some very good software and it looked like it was well supported. If it's GitHub check how many recent releases it has, check the issues and see if the person responds and he does. So I ordered the parts from AliExpress for the 8 foot switch version and they turned up in less than a week. The LilyGo SoC is pretty good, a decent 1.9" display, wifi, bluetooth, what's not to like. I paid for the STL files ($14), downloaded them, printed them out on my 3d printer and immediately thought, I can do better than this. Simple things like he uses screws straight into plastic, this will last five or six fixings and then the plastic will shred and you have a case that has no means of attaching to the base. I also beefed up some of the supports, but to be fair, it was a pretty good design to start with. The instructions are very good, though the wiring diagram requires you to switch your brain around as you wire it from below, but the wiring diagrams are from above and below. Every single step needed to be tripled checked. The only major issues is that the shield you wire into is a point to point, so you then have to bridge the connections to the sockets. It's also very, very fiddly. However apart from one bit of wiring that’s almost impossible to see which joins two LED strips together, its pretty straightforward, but there's a lot of it and it has to fit into a small case. I printed off a mule to wire it into. As I got further and further into the wiring it got tighter and tighter. I then moved the mostly finished wiring into the new case I designed and printed in a rather nice Galaxy Black, basically black with tiny sparkles, who said glam rock was dead The purple tape is simple to hold the LED strips in place whilst I check everything is working. Once I'm happy, the wires and LED strips will be given a good seeing to with a hot glue gun. Somewhat suprising (as I'm a crap solderer), it worked almost first time. Only every second footswitch worked which seemed odd and not a soldering issue. It turns out I'd loaded the wrong firmware in and I think it defaulted to four footswitches rather than eight. Downloading the right firmware sorted that problem out. You need a Windows laptop to really get the initial setup done, but once you have the wifi connected, it works from a Mac and can be configured from there as it's on the wifi. The software seems very good, but I'm still trying to understand what it all does. I still have to put the battery and switch in, otherwise it is powered from the USB-C connector. A 18650 battery will apparently power it for 12 hours. It has wifi, bluetooth, MIDI over USB-C so lets see if I can make it all work with my ToneX and Mod Dwarf. You seem to be able to control a lot of things with it. For the cost of about £40 and one evening and one afternoon of soldering, it seems good value to me. I can't say much more until I've got it properly working. Rob

Excellent

I think I had a full sheet cut into four, one is going to be a sprayt booth, I built two cabs and I have one quarter uncut, so I could make a 3rd 8" speaker OR a 6" House Jam or I could just leave it in the garage to rot away So I think 1220 x 1220 is half a 8" x 4" ft sheet so you should get two out of them. If you do cut them yourself, then I would change one or two dimensions by 2mm or so. It makes zero difference to the volume but makes cutting a little easier. There's something on this in the thread where I discussed it. Basically make the sides 276mm wide rather than 274mm wide, and the top/bottom 276mm rather than 274mm. This extra 2mm should be at the front of the cab and so the volume doesn't change but the 'lip' sticks out 2mm longer. Just easier to cut and thats the only difference. You get an extra 2mm to drop a grill in as well, but thats negligible. My second cab is cut that way from memory,

They sound quite nice as well. I've had zero chance to wind them up due to various things, it'll probably be the weekend before I can try.

I was planning to do an hour or so talk about 3d design and 3d printing at the Bash. A few people have expressed a slight interest. For those of you who remember the village hall in Clapham, there is a little room adjacent to the kitchen, and I would use that. Is this of interest to other people? If so, what would people like to know about? I can't design and print a bass in an hour but I can talk through the basics and explain what works and what doesn't. It's easy enough to bring a 3d printer over and I can make the session interactive. Perhaps show how to design a simple pickup cover, or a volume control or something. Just throwing this out there for feedback and comments (good and bad). Thanks Rob

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