LukeFRC

[quote name='JackLondon' post='785357' date='Mar 24 2010, 11:55 PM']Yeah I've been inhaling too much lead It's a great little effect, so simple with just 2 pots, I love simple stuff that sounds great and I can't stop playing through it [/quote]

the thing gets me is what's the stock one like with just a wee switch?

well done! you made less of a pigs ear to it than I did to mine! I read your first 'its not working post' and thought the wee trim pot cant be working... but you worked that out!

Try a few warwicks before making a judgement on them, for instance I doubt my old Streamer stage one is that much like a new streamer $$, they will be different. That said if I had to have just one bass I doubt it would be my Warwick. Dunno why, just sometimes, like at the practice I was at tonight I want that P bass tone and the way the notes sound.
I should try a stingray somepoint too.
What didn't the sandberg basic do?

By my reckoning this is the nicest most interesting bass at the best price on basschat. Have a bump. Unfortunately I have a only 3 basses rule.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='783398' date='Mar 23 2010, 01:31 PM']Random idea:

High gain distortion reduces all dynamics from the input signal. What if a pedal "read" the dynamics of the clean signal, then obliterated it, then used the "reading" to vary the volume of the output?[/quote]

so something on the input to read the level which then changes a resistance to the output?

like the narrow depth of field in the photo! and nice bass too

I was working infront of an open window most the time and got into the habit of holdinhg my breath when the fumes come. (sprint training years back does have a use!)

Tried out the pedal just now, its awesome. chorus volume drop not noticable if the sft is on, the wiring inside possibly causing that! The muff sounds good, have to play a fair bit to get a goo sound.
To be honest that SFT is amazing, it would be worth having two of them in a box for two different channels!
I am happy

[quote name='Protium' post='782572' date='Mar 22 2010, 04:54 PM']I can't use lead solder the smell makes me feel very sick, modding american pedals is horrible
I thought the sale of it was banned in the EU?[/quote]

the local place i was getting stuff from probably had half the same stock for the last 30 years. No doubt if you could go through his stuff you could find some really interesting old parts

fli me al, ive just found the ric copies you've built!!!wheewww

[quote name='Al Heeley' post='782444' date='Mar 22 2010, 11:25 AM']excellent job! Thats quite an ambitious project there, hats off to you for getting it solved![/quote]

thanks! I'm not sure how i feel now! Part of me is fed up of electronics and wish i had just gone and bought the real things!


EDIT: although I will add i couldn't have afforded them! the SFT is worth making though! I cant wait to use it on through a crap amp. My H&K head here already has a lot of the tones it can make, the crap heads i use at church should enjoy the SFT

I'm left handed. When I picked up guitar first (unsuccessfully) and then bass I found fretting hard. Strumming and the rhythm I found easier. It made sense to me to have my better hand doing the thing i found hardest so learned righthanded. This my be why my right hand technique is a wee bit unconventional with me walking my fingers into my thumb and moving the thumb to the string above (below musically), because it gives me greater control on a hand that could easily be flailing wildly.

my guess would be summit wrong in the wirring. take it to someone who knows what they are looking at

[quote name='OldGit' post='782280' date='Mar 22 2010, 12:00 AM']Sure. When you are up to your bum in alligators ....


So now, having done a few gigs consolidate and review and refine.
Spend one rehearsal in 4 (minimum) actually rehearsing the performance rather than learning the tunes or practicing your sounds and amp settings.

I'm a strong believer in planning different types of time in the rehearsal room eg:
- learning or writing tunes and arrangements (can happen acoustically in a house or whatever)
- section rehearsals eg horns, rhythm section, vocals, where everyone else helps the section rehearse without moaning or insisting on rehearsing their guitar lines at the same time as the vox or pacingteh room shouting "can't we just rawwwwk now???"
- loud run throughs of tunes
- effects and settings rehearsals where people get time to work out their settings, try a couple and talk to each other to avoid clashes
- performance rehearsals where you go through the whole set non stop including the talkie bits, in real time and dealing with tuning, hitches etc[/quote]

good ideas. The band i used to be in we used to run through the whole set in a practice before the gig. We would have a 20-40 min slot (not massive but we were a paid originals band so thats what we were offered) And we would fill that time with music as out jokes were awful.
Practice would be the laptop/drum machine set up, and we would finish one song and go onto the next in the time it took the laptop to start playing a file already open in another window. Through the whole set. twice. Then a fag break for everyone but me and the synth player and back to run though it twice more.
We once were involved in this music video project thing, playing one track. You do not know how many times you can play one 3.20s song in a 2 hour practice. We hated that tune by the end, untill we played it live next and it sounded amazing!

[quote name='deathpanda' post='782275' date='Mar 21 2010, 11:53 PM']Maybe, but I'm still lost as to why all these so called guitarists are constantly going out of tune. If a guitarist is insecure about his guitar being perfectly in tune, shouldn't that give him the incentive to splash out on having his guitar setup perfectly and maybe have better tuners installed? Baffles me, my friend has a relatively cheap MIA strat with a professional setup and it just refuses to go out of tune.[/quote]

To carry on the sterotypes, bass players are a more social and less competitive bunch. Places like basschat prove this, and we swap ideas and experiences. Maybe guitarists dinnae do this? multiply that over a few generations!!!

This whole thing of guitarists being ego-centric members of the band, being protective and with something to prove. do you think it is down to insecurity that to be perfectly in tune and have each sound perfect?

I think next time I will be putting them one effect per box! Way way too many different leads. I don't really mind too much about the mess.

The volume drop in the chorus confuses me, I had stuck a different larger resistor on the out op amp to compensate, stuck it in and its very quiet. Upped it again (destroyed the contacts on the PCB in the process ) and its still too quiet. Im loosing signal somewhere, I may check it over to try find the problem. My guess would be a loose connection.

Soldering is a funny one. I was using maplins Lead free silver solder for most of this. I ran out and the local electronics shop sold me some 60/40 tin lead alloy stuff- totally different melting point, so therefore tottaly different technique. Going from the trumpet to the french horn maybe

ta-dah!

It's not perfect. the sustain knob is backwards for the muff part, the chorus has a massive volume drop and i blew 2 LEDs...but it works!



and yes its a mess inside, and yes my soldering iron did have an argument with one of the jack sockets!

[quote name='woolz' post='781913' date='Mar 21 2010, 06:38 PM']ok cheers, will give all these a try. action is definatley not too low, i cant take it any higher![/quote]


how high is it? If you've got it to the max on the bridge then I would think there is something wrong with the set up of your bass!

or the other option is do what I do and just raise the action untill it stops doing it. My guess would be its the way you attact the strings with your fingers.
Another option which I have also done is use a string guage up. They will be more tense so harder for you to make hit frets/pups

eventually! turned out that the resistors were wrong and there was a loose connection in the sustain pot.
It works. not exactly amazing, i think i may have wired some pots backwards but its good enough, i only need one one or two sounds from it.

[quote name='s1ater' post='781179' date='Mar 20 2010, 09:24 PM']Get yourself a Jap fender precision, My first bass and still loving it to this day [/quote]

+1

However nice that ibanez may be I liked the look of it untill I saw the strat style input. Argh it looks horrid.

I had a wee thing for danelectro basses till I got to play one. The EB0 looks nice too.
The thing tht really gets me interested though is the random japanese stuff that crops up, although up here i reacon that bassassain gets it all!

success! It worked momenterally! something to do with the pots..... the curcuit seems fine now phase two of problem solving!


Edit 1: ah i have two lin and one audio pots rather than the other way around, that probably makes a difference

do it!
i'll be sticking pic's of mine up soon as soon as this flipping big muff works!

I like the octavia. how do you fasten the board insidde the enclosure?

I am so tired of this big muff... it works up to the 3.9nF cap in the tone curcuit and also the whole signal seems a wee bit clean!