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[quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1422610009' post='2674495'] Or if your breadboard experiment gives you several sounds that you really like, get a 4/5/6-way rotary switch and play to your heart's content [/quote] This - The DAM Ezekiel 25 does this I think.

My volumes are always at either full or nowt. If I'm too loud I'll just not hit 'em as hard...

I'm there Karl. I'll see if some of the guys from Slander are free too.

Nice gig! I'll see what I can do...

Bought Marek's DHA VT1 EQ. Well packaged and quickly despatched, and he even put it on hold for a week to allow me to sell my existing pedals to raise the readies. All this, coupled with a link to the courier so that I could track my parcel makes him a class act all round.

I had an engineer make me up a Neutrik and Van Damme cable up over 20 years ago. It's outlasted every other piece of kit I've ever bought, and I'm still gigging with it. If OBBM's using these brands then I'd say you'll not go too far wrong with one (or even a couple) of his. For patch cables I swear by George L's though.

Chord OC-50 does a great job of sounding and behaving like an OC2. Cheaper than an OC2 to leave set to 'sub only', just need an A/B looper then...

Did he not treat you to any 'Half a Shilling'? http://youtu.be/-X3vwPLCB1c

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1422512752' post='2673506'] I have decided that it is time to reopen my Big Muff/Musket and mess about with it, again. [b]For no other reason than I can.[/b] Does mixing diodes and LEDs work? I have seen some bonkers options, with a dozen diodes pointing one way and only a couple pointing the other, so it seems the options are endless. [/quote] Point 1) That's the best reason for doming anything, go for it. Point 2) Changing out the clipping diodes has a massive effect on the sound of the pedal. LEDS sound a 'softer' than Silicon diodes, and Germanium diodes sit somewhere in the middle. Putting more diodes pointing one way than the other will give you asymmetrical clipping, which may or may not be a good thing depending in your tastes. Best thing to do is to wire a breadboard in place of the original diodes and then chop and change to your heart's content. I think I remember reading somewhere than Boss patented putting one diode pointing one way and two the other way. Rotters. A dpdt toggle switch is a great way to flick between two lots of clippers (Si and Ge), take the diodes off the board and wire the middle lugs of the switch in their place, then stick your diodes to the 2 remaining pairs of outside lugs.

Lovely post Shell, glad you're enjoying it (it [i]is[/i] the best instrument though isn't it?)

Short scale (30" scale) Hohner Baron Bass in black. Horrible 2 + 2 BBOT bridge and really skinny tuners. I started sanding it back to the wood one summer and hit chipboard…. Says it all really. [URL=http://s1221.photobucket.com/user/paul_510/media/360_8bde68b911a5d2d3dc0fe5a07c3f6e03_zps5c50f6e1.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd471/paul_510/360_8bde68b911a5d2d3dc0fe5a07c3f6e03_zps5c50f6e1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Gigged it quite a lot though way back when.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1422435388' post='2672482'] I've seen some seriously messed-up tripe through following this topic, but that gets very near to being the worst yet. [/quote] That's a pretty big claim there Jack, I reckon you might not be too far out though… Why do we not have an 'antiGAS' smilie?

NICE!

I didn't think the music industry [i]had[/i] standards

Best sounding rig was the SVP Pro and matching power amp through aHartke Hydrive 410 cab. weighed half a metric tonne and was a pig to maintain due to the problems I had with my SVP at the time. I had to buy a replacement transformer for it and had my local valve techie guy fit it, but it was never the same after that. Currently my SWR SM400 (with the 'aural enhancer' scoop defeated) is plenty loud enough, and most of my EQing comes from pedals etc… anyway, so I could probably get away with using a dedicated power amp. I've kept the Hydrive though 'cos it's shiny and punchy and all them other words.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1179655295' post='2773'] Uh-oh. Counterpoint time. I've owned ONE fully tube device, an Ampeg SVP-Pro. It can work fine, and when it does, it sounds lovely. It has never made it through a whole gig, no matter how short. It just cuts out, and won't come back. It's been looked at 3 times, and no-one can fix it. YES! Of course it's out of warranty. And it always brings its buddy, captain 50hz hum to the party. It has had a second full set of valves, supposedly "good" ones, yet still it happens. [/quote] Mine did this too - there's thermal cutout on the transformer (single strand of wire across the top) that might need looking at.

Teasmaid. On its side, obviously.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1421968203' post='2667380'] I'm a big fan. Recently made the move to my own premium subscription after borrowing my wife's one for a while, the 99p for three months offer hooked me in. I'm listening to music more than I have been for years, enjoying making up playlists and generally having a nice time. Haters gonna hate. [/quote] I think Spotify and what it does with regard to making music accessible to new listeners, and the option to introduce it via network to your friends and family is a great thing, I just wish it paid a sensible royalty to the composers. I'd rather link a YouTube video when sharing a tune, as at least the artist gets a better royalty rate. I can name several independent musicians and composers who have removed their material from Spotify for exactly this reason.

At least it's true bypass though.

Generally speaking the FX send and return will be post preamp/EQ, so plugging an external preamp into the FX return should do what you want it to.