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Just seen this: https://bassbros.co.uk/product/1969-fender-jazz-bass-3/ Neck doesn’t look right to me. Date stamp is far too clear and little to no colouration on the headstock. All the vintage Fenders I’ve had have a beautiful orange glow to them. Not suggesting it’s a fake (I’m implying it could be).

On a midnight train. Gladys knight atp

We've got a rehearsal tomorrow night so I'll give it a go. 80-90% of the time will be on the vintage channel, but we've got a couple of rockier ones that I may try using the overdrive channel

Bloodstone Guitarworks Herrick Pickups. Fletcher Pickups. Armstrong Pickups. Fife Pickups. There's also a lad called Martin Harmer, I've an alnico 2 spilt coil from him along with a 51 alnico 2 single coil and a pair of 51 singles for a Tele jazz bass. For the latter Martin cut me custom bobbins to match my string spacing at neck/bridge positions, wound the bridge pickup hotter (to hold it's own against the neck position) and RWRP for hum-cancelling. Turnaround for the pair was 1 week and they were under £100 with postage.

Little board update from last night’s gig!

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.

I’ve just sent an email too - I’ve only received up to issue 11, I’ve had 15 PayPal payments taken, never received the strings or a reply to my email chasing them up 😕 I used the online form on the website to get in contact - did anyone have more luck using a different way to get a reply?

I don't have children but the summer before last drove from Cardiff to Bangor. I had all day, took my time, drove up through the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia national parks. Probably the nicest drive I have done in the UK, especially as the next morning I went along the north coast back into England.

Devil Went Down To Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band

I saw a Pink Floyd tribute act years ago called Ummagumma. They played songs exclusively from pre-Dark Side of the Moon Floyd albums. Therefore, no Money, Wish you were Here or Comfortably Numb, but everything from Live at Pompeii except that song where they wheel out a dog. 8/10 for authenticity.

is it your own PCB or a commercial one? And am I understanding you built it on a breadboard first and it worked fine ?

Mandela effect… ha. See what I did there. i used one of these years ago and recall a certain sound it did. I’m not sure it does it 🫣

I like my Sandberg Bassic... Cheap and works for everything from slap to dub!

Monster (What's That Coming Over The Hill?) - The Automatic

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!

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive

I think they are $10-12000 NZ but probably one day I'll get a go on one there's an original Tobias down South .....

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

Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee

Sorry, managed to miss this, yes that’s what I’ve heard….my electronics knowledge leaves a bit to be desired as far as spotting those things go…I should read a book!! More an enthusiast than anything. Does this look about right? Cheers Si