LukeFRC

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

I would Email musikding rather than the creator - he's stepped away from doing it now.

I mean, I know it's internet and YouTube and you can't see the whole recording chain etc - but it sounds very different to the Serek sound I thought they would be aiming for

what has been said - wrong headstock!

Ordered on Ebay 4pm on a Friday. Delivered 10am on a Saturday fitted Sunday night.... no sound. open up, test point showing 180v so it's working trace the audio circuit... oh great I overheated the 3DPT switch when I was resoldering it and the contact is bent... that's why it's not passing signal. this project! EDIT: if anyone has a 3PDT switch spare in a parts box they would like to sell me... . EDIT 2: might have fixed…

Wrong bit of the forum! This is where ppl talk about their basses… you have to wait a few weeks/months/years and look here for for sale basses https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/19-basses-for-sale/

but again that depends on the player, the situation and design objectives. If the goal was "make the greatest bass you can for a pro player who's going to be sat in the pit at shows twice a day for most the year" then the Overwater might be the greatest design ever- because unlike a Sim's thing it's not trying to do everything, just be adaptable. You join a metal band or something and the very design features that make the bass excel in one situation may hinder it. The other thing effecting our taste in thing is how we find out about stuff... some basses are like strong flavours in wine tasting - stand out from the crowd - but not actually maybe as nice a drink as the well blanced, complex flavours that didn't stand out as much. What bass forums like this do is often focus on the new strong flavour, or stand out features - at the expense of less stand out things.

That would be my approach too, interestingly I think we both work as designers so there’s probably a level of our training meaning we both understand design process and also there’s a joy in seeing someone else having their own highly refined creative vision

I’ve had a look at his site - what’s he doing with the neck pocket? It looks fairly standard design to me- or does it dovetail slightly?

In the words of Jim Morrison, Book they and they will come

that looks amazing

it squealed a bit, the designer of the circuit recomended routing the wires slightly differently.... in doing that the legs on the mosfet broke so waiting on eBay seller again!

Dunelm classic I think?