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  1. Quatschmacher
    This is a bit of a feeler. Due to a change in my family circumstances I’ll need to move house in the next few months and will need money for deposits and household stuff. This means having to sell a couple of instruments (including my Rhodes Stage 73). This is a beautiful example of a Sterling. I struck lucky on this (I bought ten years ago from a store in the USA via eBay) as it’s a lovely, resonant thing with lovely grain. Weight is 4.2kg There are a few little marks from the previous owner - see pictures with the 5p coin. There are two tiny cracks in the outer frame of the battery compartment which were there when I got it and have never worsened. They are just visible in the picture (one is by one of the screws). The centre detentes aren’t as positive-feeling as on a new one but are still feelable. Comes in the Road Runner hard case pictured. Collection from Sheffield preferred or I can potentially travel (via train) to deliver. I’m fairly flexible about where I’ll travel to as I have friends in various parts of the UK I could visit and I can bring the bass along. I’m due a London and a Bath trip in the next month or so. Currently strung with 50-105 Chromes but there’s a set of Fender 50-100 flats and some D’Addarrio rounds 50-105 (not sure if they are nickel or steel as they came with the bass) which I’ll include as they are cut for this bass.
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    Indeed. Why one can’t edit parameters on TC stuff on one’s phone is a real shame.
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    You’re welcome. Did you buy it?
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    Have you hooked it up to your phone yet and swapped out the models? You can get 12 on at a time if you put a different one in each channel of the 6 available slots.
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    @scannerman
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    You beat me to it. I was literally about to message you about this!
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    Last time I was at Jon Shuker’s he was telling me about a “self-tuning” bridge that currently exists for guitars and that a bass version was in the design stage. Essentially one tunes the instrument and the bridge senses any changes in string tension and compensates according to maintain stable tuning. I think it might have been the Evertune he was talking about as there’s a page on his website devoted to them.
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    I don’t think this is wholly out of place here:
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    Seems you knew the answer all along, Bas. 😄
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    I asked them about this and apparently they are. It’ll be eurorack format. The square and sawtooth waves will still be on it as they are built into the chip so there isn’t much sense not including them. The refreshed Squaver and Convertor will be dispensing with the tracking filter and replacing it with a gate with variable threshold.
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    If that was indeed the case then your pedal was defective. With the clean signal off and the filter fully open, the Down knob should produce audible results very quickly when dialling it up from zero as no frequencies are being filtered out. However, if the clean is off and the filter is fully closed then you’d not hear very much when turning up the Down knob. This is because only the very lowest frequencies are being allowed through and, on the V1, these didn’t have a high enough output volume to be audible.
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    I feel like I’m in Groundhog Day!
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    If you reread you’ll see that, in part, we’re saying the same thing: … which is why you can now hear the lower frequencies when you’ve got the filter almost fully closed on the V2 (and the clean signal turned off) - because those frequencies are now physically louder on the Down signal than they were on the V1. No. As before, overall output volume is governed by both volume knobs, just that on the new version, the Down knob has more volume available. On the V1, the only way you could hear (for example) 30Hz at a high enough volume was by dialling in the clean signal. This was because 30Hz on the Down signal didn’t have the same (maximum) volume as 30Hz on the clean signal in actual dB terms. On the revised model it’s most likely the other way round now (i.e. that the output of the Down signal is higher than the clean at any given frequency). Hence now, 30Hz becomes audible at lower clock position of the Down knob. This is why you describe it as “being governed by” that knob now.
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    There’s an analogy in visual motion: imagine a pendulum swinging at a low frequency (say twice per second). If it’s only moving a short distance (a few millimetres) you would probably not see this easily. Moving a short distance is the equivalent of low volume (ie the amplitude of the pendulum’s swing is low). If it were moving at a frequency of twice per second but covering a distance of a metre in that time then you’d definitely be able to see that. That is analogous to higher volume as the amplitude of the pendulum’s swing is large.
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    If the low pass filter is fully (or almost) fully closed then you’re only letting frequencies probably around 20-40Hz through (bass A string is 55Hz). Those close to 20Hz are around the limit of human hearing so if their amplitude (volume) is low, as were ALL frequencies in Down signal of the V1, then you’ll struggle to hear them. (Volume can be also thought of as proportional to the back-and-forth distance your speaker cone moves; small back-and-forth movement equals lower volume as the air isn’t being pushed as hard. Frequency is how many of those back-and-forth motions happen per second.) Can you shoot a video clip of this happening? The volume (amplitude) of ALL frequencies in the Down signal has been boosted, hence when you roll in the filter, thus stripping out the higher frequencies, the remaining lower frequencies are at a louder and more audible level (ie have a bigger amplitude) than they were on the V1. In simple terms, the Down signal is louder/hotter. Low frequencies at the edge of human hearing are difficult to hear unless they are given a bigger amplitude.
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    Yup, Octabvre nails it.
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    For furthermore clarification, VOLUME is amplitude of the waveform, that is the height of the peaks and troughs (vertical distance). (Frequency is the number of times the waveform repeats per second, and is intimately related to the horizontal distance between two adjacent peaks.) Higher harmonics are naturally at a lower volume compared to the fundamental. So by turning down the VOLUME knob you will get to a point where some of those high frequencies become inaudible. By contrast, a low pass filter REMOVES the higher frequencies ALTOGETHER, but leaves the lower frequencies intact (their volume remains unaltered). Since extreme low frequencies are difficult to hear anyway you might PERCEIVE the applying of a low pass filter as a reduction in volume (as the higher, more audible frequencies are gradually removed) but that’s not what’s actually happening as it is not modifying the amplitude of the fundamental waveform. I can understand how you’ve conflated these two phenomena, after all, the end result is that the audible frequencies become inaudible. However, the reasons why that is so is different in both scenarios - low amplitude versus not being present due to having been filtered out altogether. I hope that makes sense.
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    For reference:
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    It’s not the filter which lacks volume, it’s the sub octave output which was of low volume. The low pass filter simply removes the high frequencies from the octave down signal, gradually removing frequencies lower and lower as you apply it. Again, this is misleading. In the original pedal, turning up the clean was simply adding some more audible frequencies in (i.e. your bass’s clean signal). In one sense, they may have been the “same” frequencies that the filter removed (numerically speaking, eg, 100Hz) but not the “same” in the sense of coming from the same source signal. The filter only removes frequencies from the octave down signal, whereas you were adding frequencies from the clean signal.
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    I’d like to try this new version. I loved the sound of the original but the two issues I had were the low octave down output (now fixed) and poor tracking on my bass (though Tom suggested some components could be altered if one were handy with a soldering iron).
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    I’ve just ordered a Squaver P1 and will report my findings.
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    @Ruck, @N64Lover, @GisserD
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    I’m hoping I won’t regret this but something similar (but more expensive) has caught my eye and I’d like to try it so I’m going to have to let this (and potentially some other good stuff) go to fund it. This is a great octaver and synth pedal which has knobs for clean signal, octave down signal (with its own low pass filter) octave-down synth and original-pitch synth signals (both independently switchable between square wave, narrow pulse wave and sawtooth wave). I can even probably post today if you’re really quick. @andybassdoyle, @lee650
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    Any update on this?
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    It’s the same octave pitch, ie one octave below your input signal. The two voices (girth and growl) are EQd and filtered differently. Girth is a lowpassed subby kind of voice, whereas the growl is a thinner, square wave kind of affair. There is a volume control for each so they can be blended to taste. The dry simply adds the original signal. The mid switch adds a mid boost (there is an internal switch to toggle between 400hz and 850hz and a trimpot to adjust how much boost is applied). There is no octave up on this pedal.
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