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LukeFRC

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  1. LukeFRC

    DIY Effects

    Oh I agree, but for every supportive collaborative open source friendly bit of the internet and forums, you also get the other side.
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    DIY Effects

    Meanwhile this evening My task…. measure the Idss on a couple of handful of J201 oh except that’s not it, they are MMBFJ201 surface mount in a SOT23 package - which basically translates too - flipping tiny and painful things to try and get in the right place to get a reading in my homemade tester …
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    DIY Effects

    Normally I get a notification of replies in this thread and equivalent on talkbass - so when the house of disssa posts something I see it twice this however, perhaps wisely given the fanaticism, has not appeared on TB
  4. Out: ibanez Roadster (and HX stomp) In: Le Fay Capone (and loads of pedals) expensive year
  5. We have a cost of living crisis, much more inflation than we are used too, a lack of supply of most things in the market and a weaker pound than normal. All pushing prices up of new and therefore used basses - but people theoretically have less spare cash - with the wierdness that cash in the bank isn’t keeping track with inflation so if you want to use it on a bass you might as well get it now.
  6. Before I found it the eh bass clone was the top chorus I wanted to find in terms of reviews/price/sound
  7. This is of course rubbish - it’s a Tech21 bass boost chorus
  8. And recently reissued I ended up with a Tech21 bass boost chorus that makes me smile when I use it
  9. I think ive fixed what they were trying to say
  10. 1985 was prime Fullerton Reissue territory when they started to be good again?!
  11. https://www.musikding.de/MINI-HP-VONG-filter-kit
  12. Forget Bass prices - I’m trying to work out how much our house is worth. Hosing market is crazy - how can my house doubled in value since we bought it 8 years back?!
  13. Metro and Metroline were two different eras of the same line assembled by Yoshi - maybe you are thinking of the short run metro express line? There was also the higher end Sadowsky TYO line too that weren’t exported. In the highly collaborative world of Japanese instrument making who was making the bits for Yoshi’s team to assemble- I’ve heard ESP, which would make sense.
  14. it’s not quite a straight comparison… Sadowsky Japan I think were linked to ESP and designed as a fairly high range small shop. ESP japan make a range of basses at different price points - including Lakland Japan/Shoreline these are supposed to be better than the Cortek made in Indonesia Lakland Skyline … so not everything is the same
  15. I’ve played a handful of each and I would say Yes, easily is the difference worth the difference a different question (and we may differ on the answer)
  16. I think someone like Overwater will pay rent, marketing, electricity, web design and actually look after their employees too. the difference is Fodera use it as a point of their marketing and other companies don’t
  17. @SumOne check out the talkbass thread, the guys from Source Audio take part - from what I can remember the two sides can be set up to act independently as two compressors, but eq etc are global on both paths
  18. is it from someone who's been around a bit? you'll be alright
  19. you realise that if you took your CAD file and went to a CNC equipped bass neck factory they would offer you a range of prices based on material, tolerances, how often blades get sharpened, quality control etc. The same CNC machine could also make wooden toys for my kids, just because there is a common denominator in the machine used doesn't mean that things are the same.
  20. I think the problem with a thread like this is it's so based on your income/experience.... if you live in the south east in a house now worth over £2M, work in a well paying job in the city and like your friends at the golf club drive a high spec BMW, compared to your brother who's a senior nurse working in the rural north east in a house worth £140,000 and drive a second hand fiesta to meet your friends at park run..... then the money you might put towards a bass will be different, purely as money has a different value to you. (BTW the fact that these differences exist is kinda here nor there, and it's fairly pointless and divisive to argue over them on a music forum) Also the person with the large income might value spending a little on a Harley Benton and have a low budget for a musical instrument, while the lower wage earner in the north east may value the trip locally to get Overwater to build the bass of dreams. Maybe people are into vintage Fenders and then the price brackets change again. Mental for some, not for others. There will be several differences though... what you pay for is the skill of the builder, in testing and selecting wood and parts, and making it so it all fits together and is set up right and then giving it a pro level finish. If you have those skills - great. But if the parts are £1100, a pro finish equivalent to Lull or Sadowsky would be £300-500 and you're going to spend a few hours on it... if your skilled time is £40ph it's not going to be long before we are in the same price bracket. I have some of the skills, but I am good enough at setting up a instrument to recognise when people who are really really good do it, and I've finished enough instruments to know that the Sadowsky in the shop is in another league. Of course if you have the skills and don't put a price on your time it's cheaper to do it yourself - but that's true of most things.
  21. bass soul food is the Klon cuircuit isn’t it?
  22. I think if you have never really wanted a Fodera, now is not the time to start a longing
  23. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/strangest-peg-head-layout-ive-ever-seen-fodera.312057/
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