LukeFRC

you used to have a PDF of a manual ... do share, my other half is a fluent German speaker...

Oh @Frank Blank - this help? https://reverb.com/item/26547208-grace-design-alix-instrument-preamplifier-used x

If it helps there was some some preamp comparison video a few weeks back and of the preamps (some a lot more pricy) I thought it sounded the nicest

Slap bass? Maybe that would be amazing for you worshipping? or atonal fuzz bass?

I have one - If you want me to open it up and compare voltages going through it I can

Maybe the trick is the 40th anniversary is a limited edition limited to 40000 units!

Awesome! - I’m not jealous, really!

Well far east can range from £30 piles of rubbish to Japanese luthiers who make fodera look cheap and nasty so….

Rainbow fretboard

Thats the quality I like in an instrument, slightly underwealming but then you stop thinking about it when you're playing. Forums like this are awful for that - the perfectly good and great sounding bass you love playing gets swapped for whatever the flavour of the month is... and you join the gear nerd club. Sounds great

If you stick "Nottingham" at the start of the thread title you might get more ppl spotting it... "Midlands" is a large area, sometimes with slightly odd accents, while Nottingham is a big city just off the M1 and easier to get too as a concept

that's what I thought it was, a new sexy online way to say- "learn your bloody scales"

Even better!

Can you make an audio probe?

Oh I think that’s called line6 helix

It is off the shelf … it just comes in multiple parts and needs code installing on it!

It’s the trinket m0 so it can act as a midi host - there’s two socket on the pedal a USB power in from the Cioks and the Adafruit out to the C4 code was done by someone else and I found on GitHub hardest thing was the metalwork!

my first board! So for years - no pedals, or a few and then sell… nicest sound I ever had was a hellborg preamp which was a bit big to take as a pedal… I loved the sound though Then a Zoom B3 which was nice, but got sold Then a Zoom B3n which stayed for a while - mainly playing at church will all in ears setup … so amp modelling is good Then a HX stomp for years but the more I played the more I refined “my sound” down to comp> amp model> HPF/LPF acting as a cab sim and then di out one footswitch for a drive the other for chorus sometimes synth patch ”I could simplify this down and avoid screens and swearing trying to set my gain staging in this box” I thought “it might be cheaper” I thought it wasn’t. But @krispnpointed me in the direction of a colourbox for the transformer channel strip thing I like … and then two big pedals and two power supplies was a bit of a pain wasn’t it… so a change was afoot, @jimbobothy helped convince me of the best approach … the soldering iron came out and much time and more £££ than I want to think about it all works! pedal chain for the one person who reads on after the photo… tuner Source audio C4 synth (plus the Adafruit based preset switcher - ain’t pretty but was cheap) Broughton Omnicomp (optical compressor, sounds nice) “Irn bru” barbershop clone (I don’t like many overdrives on bass - love this) John K mini XO ( crossover drive pedal set up fuzzy and aggressive - thanks to @binky_basswho picked it up from the recycling forum on here broken and kindly passed it on) Frog FX1 preamp - (alembic/fender showman preamp in a box, using a early 50’s telefunken ECC82 running at a scary 180v) tech21 bass boost chorus (very lush) shallow water clone (tape effect random chorus envelope filter thing, sounds great, very sensitive to input gain) Vong filtrung - set up so the HPF on, LPF is footswitchable, and volume knob is to set the input into… JHS colourbox v2 - which to be honest is the pedal despite all the rubbish before it! All a bit over the top for a basic tone needs but it does sound good - esp with the valve preamp, it just sounds warmer and punchier at the same time edit: voodoo labs small ex board and Cioks dc7 underneath

1/8inch =3.175mm for everyone born too late to think in inches