LukeFRC

in most cases I don't think you can patent a circuit

but equally the odd thing is a £400 Sire, or even a £150 Harley Benton is fantastic quality at the low price point.

I got some circuit boards made up and posted to me from China for less than the price of some etchant… so for one off things it can be doable. Using the surface mounted parts however suggest more involved production!

Side Jack and 4 knobs?

Who needs a B string? Jaco didn't need one. or Who even likes the Beatles? Macca was rubbish on bass or Bubinga is the best tone wood ever for heft

take care of yourself @Ander87

I thought we were talking about regular muting technique to play in an accurate way that synths like rather than palm muting ?

Quatschmacher has learned good muting technique so they can choose how to use it in a song, or not to get the best out of pedal synths. I however have not got great muting technique. So I can't choose to vary my technique according to the song, can't get the best out of my pedal synths and nobody wants me playing in their band. Be like Quatschmacher

Yeah - sometimes everyone gets very excited over some brands when there is an element of chance in everthing. I do like a nice resonant feel. Add into that I’ve played basses that sing in my hands and awful in friends (and vice versa) as their right hand technique is different

Thanks (for the answer and getting thread on track) things to mull over, we offered to buy a new house today so the whole thing might go on the back burner anyway. the back story is years back I tried @Frank Blank’s Rob Allen mouse, it was fretless and short scale when all my basses are long scale fretted. I figured my next bass build project might be make something along a similar recipe and on the cheap! … I had thought of making a neck from scratch, mainly as I had never done that before… but then seeing retrovibe necks at £60 and knowing my propensity to mess things up…

and everyone exhale.... and then deep slow breath in, and exhale....

I think there’s a few things … Retail prices started creeping up above inflation rates a few years back, it was almost inevitable that the secondhand market would mirror it. Gibson and Fender have both been in financial doldrums at some point over the last few years - obvious solution would be to raise their price theres a bunch of people who earn well and came out the pandemic with lots of money saved. They spent it on high end things like vintage fenders - pushing the price up Reguardless of the politics of Brexit vote it lead to a weaker pound and higher cost of food post covid rise in shipping costs, chinas covid strategy and global shortages all push prices up inflation globally, and with the added Brexit bonus in thr uk covid meant there were suddenly lots of pro and semi pro musicians who couldn’t work - at least some of them started flipping instruments for profit reverb gives an alternative marketplace for secondhand stuff with clear price history - unlike eBay the risk of an auction showing true value isn’t there. The days of I found it in grans loft and don’t know what it is are over facebook marketplace is the simple way to sell stuff too community forums like here used to have people with lots of money sell things off at great prices - those people have less money. but also theres a few people who buy on here cheap and sell on for profit in a shop or on reverb… people stop doing cheap prices

I guess that’s what the original question was coming from - how much difference other than cost of wages is a CNC operator in the USA vs one in Indonesia? The plan would be to defret whatever so ild end up doing work on it anyway… theres a short scale secondhand Warmoth neck on eBay for £300 (which is overpriced) and the same price as a whole secondhand sire u5 for similar and a £70 retrovibe equivalent… I’m sure the warmoth is better - but by the time I rip the frets out etc I’m taking out a chunk of the value I just paid for

oh they exist - this one has a push pull on it too... https://shop.warwick.de/en/parts-for-instruments/warwick-spare-parts/electronics-parts/20276/mec-volume/balance-push/pull-pot-modules?number=D0813137001564882618A2674-A00000127336 But if you couldn't get them, as the blend seems to be a single gang currently I don't think iy will be a issue

Oh and I’m not saying there isn’t any. I’ve owned enough basses to know there really are big differences in almost everything between a £700 instrument and a £7k one. And I don’t judge that, I would gig a fodera (though not afford) or a nice Harley Benton with no problem, but wouldn’t expect them to be equal. I also am of the opinion that the neck is the most important part of bass tone and playability after fingers and pickups/placement.

Slightly clickbaity title sorry… I have in my head a project/build I would like to do that would involve a fretless shortscale. now the last build I did I picked up a musicman neck which was nice… and was half thinking of building my own next from scratch for this though I’ve seen the almost perfect spec neck for less than I could buy the neck blank for, from a brand with a reasonable reputation so other than finish (which I can redo if needed) and care of fret install (which I will be taking out) what really is going to be the difference between the cheap and the expensive? Wood quality/stability? to be fair im pretty sure a £50-100 neck will be better than anything I could make, and far worse than something Jon shuker or Alpher would make - but from a factory what would the differences be?

This pedal I built is about 185v inside - what do I win?

fly cloth is what I used on my BCCab - looks ok to me (the odd stripes are camera artifacts I think )

Crikey you caught it out in the wild!

our desk can do multiple levels, so different mixes for YT and the room. I don't think it's particularly ever used!

Did skylark used to be CGC? I was born and grew up in Chelmsford

while I wouldn’t touch him with a barge pole and would suggest anyone interested read the thread… the guy messed up big time - but that’s sadly not uncommon with people taking too much on and overstretching themselves…. And if this is his income he still deserves to eat, and finished basses via reverb isn’t a bad way of doing it and making sure he doesn’t mess up again

Not that I have recreated your board on pedal playground or anything geeky like that... but the D'addario Expand 1 board looks to be the perfect size for those pedals fully extended... (if you ask ask @jimbobothy he's had one of those boards.)