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Everything posted by LukeFRC
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You pick up the issue in your reply - it's not R&D but brand positioning
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C4 synth I bought last week off here for the same price… I used to own one, liked it, sold it, wanted another, saw one at a good price, bought it and then remembered why it didn’t really fit into my rig. it will do synth, it will do octave, harmoniser, arpegator, phaser, drive, distortion, Wavefolding and pretty much every filter sound known to man… it’s just not what I’m going to use. oomos original sale post here
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If most their business is in guitars then I’m not sure G&L will have kept the Fender C-suite up at night. what it might let them do is have fender as the heritage brand and G&L as the wackier ideas brand, in bass world like you said they haven’t really changed much that catches on since moving the jazz pickup - it gives them two/three bass models that actually do something different - a decent 5 string and a more muscular humbucker
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having just glanced at it (and not tried it) I would be trialing just chords before onsong. What's the file format @GoodShowSir? I got used to the onsong syntax, is it similar?
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I have the 2020 onsong - it was pay once and then no subscription model. It works if everyone has apple devices and uses it. I've spent so long building up a database of every song we ever sing in onsong format - to then find the new person who heads up the person reverted ... not to PDFs, but to folders of paper. I will be looking at this just chords thing
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Except G&L's bits stand out are the things Leo developed while there - the bridge and pickups are an evolution of Fender, the preamp was ahead of its time (though probably dated now). I don't regret selling my 1981 L1000 - but really wish I hadn't had too. It was like the ultimate evolution of a P bass
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out of interest, would you disagree if he was? 😁
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I watched a music video of theres and was immediately looking at the G&L website - I’m not even a guitarist but if you’re not getting your I stuments out there with current players what are you doing?
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On the other hand Active Di and phantom power has been a solution for the last half century 🤣
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Though - not reading the title of the thread - orchid is not passive
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Just bought Dave’s C4 pedal, super fast postage, impeccable packaging - deal with confidence thsnk you!
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Orchid DI - simple cheap and works well
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I know a nice place to have a burger and pint in Caernarfon that isn't fun to get to from here...
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full marks for graphic design
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Trade offers listened too... including with ££ going your way if needed... Things that have caught my eye recently… MXR bass synth (like that will happen) FI4 Source Audio Artifakt dunlop mini vol/exp pedal Fender Japan sunburst 57ri serial R003045 Microkorg2 A telecaster oh and a wee bit about me. I’m a bass player with a day job in design and set myself the challenge of building something that looked great, sounded great and was really tiny, I only wanted to make one for me and one for Lee, but the way the economics of PCB assembly worked I ended up with ten boards - so I made up six, and then these as the last. Making them so small made them fairly intricate to put together - and took a while - someone asked me if I was going to make small runs of anything else … and it’s not for me. I’m amazingly impressed with the way folk like @Goliath_FX (try his hornburg) make a business out of pedal making, with electrical and mechanical design and business planning and so on. Hats off to them. i realise that I’m going utterly off topic in my old sale thread, but hey ho
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TLDR version: It's my clone of a Prunes and Custard in a really small case, it's a DIY pedal I made myself but to a fairly high standard. It sounds amazing! The last three I'll ever do... Long version: I like making pedals, and have made quite a few for myself - often of things, like this, that seem to be unavailable to buy new. @lee650 convinced me to try a Prunes and custard. But I didn't have space on my board - so wondered if I could fit it all in a mini (1590a) size enclosure... Then I saw the fancy Gorva M45 which is 5mm or so wider ... but crucially if you use the right Lumberg jacks, you can get top jacks into it! The PCB is a combination of SMD parts (resistors, a couple of ceramic caps, most diodes and IC) and through hole for capacitors and one diode. Mini 3PDT footswitch is low activation pressure and nice. The Gorva M45 is the most expensive part of the build in matt black - and I designed a fern leaf design for it printed in gloss on black by Gojira here in the UK. The original Prunes and Custard being made in New Zealand, and the fern leaf and er... All Black design influenced by the country of origin and watching the All blacks as my kiwi uncle introduced me to rugby... Importantly the LED is green. This is the kind of detail that matters. But making a small batch it meant I could get the SMD parts of PCB assembled and it made the unit price on the printing make sense. I had 10 PCB and bulked a bit at the cost to build them all up (plus that gets out of hand!) so made 6. Seems quite a few of you wanted and sold. Then someone messaged me asking if I was going to make more, I wasn't but due to being in the country for only a short time, they took mine - so I guess I had to build the rest up. These are the same as the last batch - with the following changes... I made a breakout board for the footswitch. Lumberg seem to have stopped doing their power jacks - this has a multi comp pro one (ie not a no-brand cheap one) I used CPC's own brand jacks, they are Japanese made so high quality. One of them I'm keeping but there were three more I made up Like before I offer the final three here for £85. Which will be £89 including first class postage here in the UK. There's one where I scratched the finish slightly - so there's a discount - which will be £75 or 79 including postage. SOLD ONE LEFT! Controls are gain, mix and volume, high cut is guitar/bass on the original (I think) and ... cuts the top end, low cut is contour on the original and in the down position adds clean lows back in. It sounds like a prunes and custard. It's very small. Did I mention how small it is? NOTE: compact jacks, like EBS, needed.
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I don't think you will find a reverb kit for £35
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I stuck a pedal pcb clone of a broughton HPF/LpF at the start of chain and it had a really nice effect. also tried the Euna clone which was an ok buffer too so i mashed them together… with variable input impedance, the bass switch from Euna and the ability to switch the HPF in and out … it works not sure if it’s an improvement as I’ve rearranged the pedalboard since and it has way less effect also doesn’t fit in the spare gorva m45 I have … made the board a couple mm too wide
