LukeFRC

Came here for le fay fun - slightly let down

@Owen had one at one point, I tried it. It was ok. Not as nice sounding to my taste as a couple of other boxes he had, but that’s my ears…

Erm 😐 that is not the prettiest bass I’ve known you to own John

Aw cool - I’ve been using a very cheap iron and a big solder sucker for years … I now know there’s easier ways!!

Never heard of desoldering tape before!

The other option is buy a paddle stock 5 string neck and build your own body and try build one yourself - that would be the cheaper and doable way - unless do 12 strings need two truss rods or something?

You can fix it - do you have a solder sucker?

Having made this kit all I can say is he's very very good at what he does and it was painless. Last pedal I build I was swearing at Vero board for a week so for it to all go together first time and work is nice.

If you get someone to clone as much as possible the design of the Hamer you like the whole balance thing should be sorted without having to design additional strap button extentions.... But say you find someone with the skills to make a 12 string (and they will exist), it's not going to be a cheap venture. But gets you your Hamer type looking 12 string... How much would it cost to throw money at someone with a 12 string Hamer and convince someone to sell you one... if you ever move it on you might loose less that way.

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!