LukeFRC

and finished (but naked)

Vong …

A 50's batsman is big heavy and expensive - and underpowered by todays standards - so outwith a studio environment that's not the greatest idea... Slightly simplified, a modern bass amp is a preamp feeding into a power amp - and a lot of the same class D modules are used in them.... if you get a separate preamp, in this case in a pedal, and stick it in the effects return you can use it instead of the inbuilt preamp... which can be quite fun if you want a different tone or sound for something...

I like it - it looks like you could play that bass anywhere and it would kinda fit in.

My thinking too, but couldn’t be bothered to go look it up!

Elecrow - they seemed to be good!

Also - price of a pint in town and about a week or two from ordering…. hopefully they work!!

I started my Vong kit last night - it’s nice, hardest bit will be the enclosure graphics

question - anyone make use of an expression pedal into your stomp or fx? and what for?

cheers - I found this informative... https://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=98464.0 I'll try my 1.8k and see how we are with brightness...

help! What's a normal value for a LED protection resistor? Standard 9v supply, 5mm LED operating voltage 2v .... I got a load of 1.8k resistors but think they might be too high?

I was enjoying this build thread until the end

Is a FET based SVT style circuit - not what you want!

That sounds great!

It will be laminate of some kind.

Looks very like an old Cimar I had - it’s not a Cimar though. I would imagine laminated body of some kind the bridge is not original and good news probably worth your purchase price on its own … @Bassassin helped me with info on mine. FWIW I regret selling my old one - on of the best jazz basses I’ve played. I know where it is and it’s not going anywhere:(

We may need a “I want to decorate my pedals but don’t have the kit @disssa has” support group

That could be it - he’s doing basic home air guitar - he’s not practiced the stage air guitar - anther one for Mr @warwickhunt when he’s setting homework next time!

That looks amazing. I love proper old stuff that’s been modded and played and no-one cared about ‘vintage value’ cos that wasn’t a thing - great find

I have no idea what’s going on, I skipped forward a bit and he seemed to be hiding behind the guitarist on the left making obscene hand gestures. 😳

So I ended up ordering the parts to the Frog FX1 I want to build, a Vong filter kit and also had my eye on the Baja LA-2A style compressor circuit ... (Essentially a Demeter Compulator that he's changed to be feed forward and another boost stage, like the LA2A rather than feed backward) Started googling how to etch my own boards and Etchant etc... and ended up hopefully learning how to use KiCad and getting a company in china to make me 5 boards... bit mental but a lot cheaper than a bottle of Etchant.... even if I don't use 80% of the boards they are making me! so HOPEFULLY no mistakes in what I've sent them!!