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I've got a soft spot for 'Blame It On The Boogie'.

i'd echo the boiled linseed oil on ebony (and rosewood) boards. I've never used anything else on my instruments - or anyone else's for that matter.

wire all of the grounds together (the bits that touch the long (sleeve) part of the 1/4" leads), then connect the others (tips) to a DPDT footswitch (double pole, double throw) - the connectors look like this (crudely illustrated) ______ | 1 2 | | 3 4 | | 5 6 | ---------- Input goes to lug 4, output goes to lug 3. wire lugs 5 and 6 together, then wire pin 2 to the SEND socket, and lug 1 the the RETURN socket. Ultimately, as long as the INPUT and SEND are on the same side, and the RETURN and OUTPUT are on the opposite side it doesn't matter which way around you do it, just as long as you mount the footswitch vertically. good quality footswitches and jack are available from loads of different suppliers (you can also get them off eBay, but it's a bit hit and miss on quality on there at the moment) Reputable suppliers are fuzz dog's pedal parts http://shop.pedalparts.co.uk Bitsbox http://www.bitsbox.co.uk/?main_page=index&cPath=116_128 for example. The toughest bit about building a box like this is drilling the enclosure (assuming you're going for a metal one). Don't forget to tin your wires!

You don't necessarily need to smile; singing along whilst you're playing can make you look involved and enthusiastic. Lookingat your shoes/hands etc... less so.

[quote name='Callumjord' timestamp='1458414495' post='3007504'] Wow, I had never heard of these pedals before. They look and sound fantastic,absolute bargain at the price as well! I'll hopefully soon be getting my hands on one of these. Has anybody tried swapping the tubes with different ones? Also has anyone plugged it directly into the power section of an amp? [/quote] I've tried both of those. The stock valve is a 12AX7 (ECC83 in old money), but I've used a 12AU7 (ECC82) before now, that just gives less gain, but like any preamp valve, each brand will deliver a slightly different tone. I played a gig a while back where I just took a Laney SP300 power amp and ran the output of the VT1 into that. I bridged the power amp to deliver 300W to one channel and used a single Barefaced Compact cab. Sounded brilliant. My VT1-DI-EQ is my swiss army pedal. I haven't gigged without one for years now. Evan at festival setups, where stage turnarounds are fairly brisk, I velcro it to the top of my amp head, as often there's not time to muck about with pedal boards.

[quote name='Chienmortbb' timestamp='1458073128' post='3004484'] It is a Class A high impedance / low impedance buffer. Priced at just short of £200. The real question is why you would need one? [/quote] If you've got lots of effects in your signal chain and they're all true bypass.

Does 'Groove is in the heart' by Dee-Lite count? Great use of a Herbie Hancock baseline too.

Nice, neat job that - poodle parts stuff is really very good.

That's really impressive. Well done EHX!

I've dipped in and out of compressors fro the last few years, and I bought an Aphex Punch Factory (the older 1404 optical compressor) on here, and my OC2 and DOD FX25 are MUCH happier with the steady input that they receive after the compressor - particularly the envelope filter. I've got a DHA VT1 EQ on the board too, with I use for a little bit of grit (not sure that it's a noticeable amount of compression), but putting my compressor at the start of the signal chain has made a massive difference. I don't think I've turned it off since I put it on the board.

Solid, bare wood fingerboard 2 pickups. Offset body shape. Lovely, slinky neck profile. Fretless Jazz bass it is then!

[quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1457643273' post='3000635'] All you guys with immaculately neat boards are all Patrick Bateman-esque serial killers, right? [/quote] This. Sign of a disturbed mind.

Metallica '...And Justice For All' could have been one of the best double albums ever. If only it had some bass. Absolute madness I tell thee.

I could do you one on veroboard

Frank Zappa's 'Uncle Meat' works for me. Muse's 'The Resistance' is brilliant throughout too. Does Guns & Roses' 'Use Your Illusion 1&2' count as a double album? I remember listening to both albums and thinking that they'd have been better off scrapping half of those songs and releasing a single album.

Theodore Adorno wrote a paper claiming the exact same thing (homogenised, pseudo-individualistic product) in 1936. It's called 'On Jazz' and is well worth a read. Different schools of thought either vilify it or laud it, but it just goes to show that this undercurrent rejecting modern musical 'development' has been happening for a good long while...

Another Rick story here. Borrowed a mid 70's 4003 to run through an Ampeg stack to record with a few years back. Sounded awesome. Felt sh*t. Used a Jazz bass instead

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1456939559' post='2993825'] I use mine in both bands; sometimes just for EQing sometimes for OD - it's great! [/quote] ALWAYS for both!!!

Another very, very happy VT1-DI-EQ user here. I use mine as a rehearsal rig, as well as for every gig, so mine's got the aux in and headphone out sockets, but it's my 'go to' pedal for pretty much everything. The lead guitarist at the weekend complimented me on my 'Frank Bello' tone. I'll take that.

Yup, JapanAxe is correct - that's a 1/8" centre positive adaptor. If you've tried using an adaptor and got the polarity wrong (used a centre negative) then you might have blown the polarity protection diode on the mains socket, which would explain why it's not running on a mains adaptor. It's an analogue unit using a 3007 bucket bridge chip, so I reckon it's well worth keeping hold of.

I'd play fretless all the time, except that for my metal band I need the 'clank' of round wounds on the speed bumps.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1456428576' post='2988999'] If I was doing that I'd put in a new bridge earthing wire. Is the original even soldered to the bridge plate or just trapped between it and the body? [/quote] In defence of unsoldered bridge wires, it's not cost effective (or necessary) to solder to the bridge, as it's an enormous heat-sink, and you'll be at it for hours!