LukeFRC

Can you rout the wood on the edge out so it fits? Wood is easier to bodge than metal

Ground control to @warwickhunt…

I had a beat up Lakland 55-94 which has a lovely fat tone that the eq wasn't doing anything for - boosting mids was too boomy, cutting seemed to kill the whole bass. But there is a way, and their is a master - and his name is John East and his Uni pre is lovely. Now I have read online that the lakland on it's bridge pickup doesn't sound the same as a stingray. And I have measured and compensated for the scale lengths and found that yes, it is not in Leo Fenders 70's sweet spot... But control over bass and treble boost frequencies, and A-B ing it against a borrowed 1976 Stingray got it pretty close

love those knobs. Kawai is on my list to try sometime, though I know the pickups are pretty much impossible to replace when they go

Is it Ziebek ? Or Zwiebek or something? I thought I remembered a version with less switches

what's the submarine? It has more switches than what I thought it might be

I can. "Hey, you know the click you suggested really works out, key player programmed the bass lines too and will just send that to the FOH, so erm we don't really need you."

A dolphin thumb reverse explorer thst got drunk - I like it

I was going to reply but Funkle said exactly what I was going to … unless you are really good and can already make a nicer playing neck than Yamaha… mod something existing…. I’ve done enough builds to know that the reason that I don’t play things is that the neck and playablity isn’t as good as things I already have

Scroll to page 170 http://www.introni.it/pdf/ITT - Integrated Circuits for Consumer Applications 1977_1978.pdf

What’s the DFZ - from a pure design pov that’s really lovely looking

I think it’s more Interesting how many of the boards you see have so many pedals released in the last couple of years - now there’s been a bit of miniaturisation going on but i do wonder where all the 20 year old pedals end up

I always thought it was a great way for pedal addicts getting around the “no room on my board” problem and justify feeding their addiction….

I've posted these before, and they really are not good photos... but... it really is quite pretty (the Ibby got sold, turned out I hated it!)

For me, I doubt I would have got my Capone if it was a true headless… as my mental image of headless is 80s cheese that my personal taste doesn’t quite fit with… the faux headstock means I’m quite happy with how it looks and I imagine non musicians don’t even notice the difference.

sorry

I'm very lucky to have found this at the right time and right price. It's exceptional. (a fair bit posher than I am used too, ideally the house project we're doing lets me keep it)

EBay, reverb and basschat/talkbass for used prices. if that doesn’t tell you rough prices then either: nobody cares and it’s worth £30 or theres a community of geeky fans of that instrument online somewhere and you need to find them. if the company is still going how desirable was it when it was released, how desirable are other similar basses from that maker.

They are to stand the bass on so it doesn’t rest on the tuners. they are crazy carving shapes. plus a pigs teats would be more down the body

But the good thing is - in discovering you are a moron you have gained a nice preamp pedal! some people are morons the other way and feed too much power into things or middle up centre negative and positive… which to be fair… they cancel out?

Are you saying that if I had given into my temptation to try and fix it … it wouldn’t have been the fun rewarding project I thought it would have been?!

it's just some of us will die with a Anima preamp they didn't know they wanted

I have spent a bit of time on Freestompboxes and DIYstompboxes - and what that's taught me is that there is some snakeoil - people for instance taking a common circuit and then releasing it with a few mods that someone on a forum developed. Then you have people who take something and then do the R&D to create their own variant - that might or might not have a merit as it's own thing... but it's subjective. Sometimes it's a variant on something, but often it becomes its whole new thing with features that people want for some specific need. And then you have some people who create products which have been properly engineered, or with a sole pursuit to some certain level of specific excellence, that with all the DIY skills in the world you wouldn't have a chance of getting near. Or other times is just good, and gets a reputation for being reliably good in a mix, and people buy into that. Add to that low supply production and it's easy to see how lack of supply leads to high prices on things - I'm not sure that's always hype or snake oil, and for me it really depends on the circuit we're discussing. As @admiralchew says above 3leaf stuff works, and does what it does really well - and then people want that. Importantly no one is forcing you to buy or want anything, and quality cheaper options exist

Ooooo not done the enclosure yet, and don’t have a multimeter that can do micro volt AC to calibrate…. But worked first time!

Lovely…. my ocd is screaming if you switched the beta and wounded ram around it would all tesselate better!