Bigwan

Good luck finding it! I've often considered selling mine but never bit the bullet as it's such a nice gigging bass, even if I'm more a 5 string/precision player these days.

Dingwall Afterburner

It'll be an envelope filter for you next, and then there really is no hope for you! Never tried the aguilar octave but had the mxr briefly. Didn't like it at all, although it seems to work really well for some. Now have a cheap chord octave (an oc2 clone, £20 from the classifieds here) and it works fantastically for me!

Bought Tony's EHX headphone amp. Wouldn't hesitate to deal with him again.

If all else fails I can fault find and repair it for you if you pay postage and parts...

Ho ho! Meatball clone (mostly) working! Haven't had much of a chance to look at it for a few weeks. Unfortunately the inverting gain stages I've added on the hp and lp outputs aren't working... Something to have a look at tomorrow. Should be something simple (he says with fingers crossed)! The bp output sounds pretty good although not as fat as I'd like - so lp is where it's at for me I think.

Hello there!

[quote name='TG Flatline' timestamp='1366107893' post='2048296'] I'm a fan of etching, so 99% of everything I do is etched, with a lot of bare metal showing on the finished box - others are not so keen though! Good luck with it! [/quote] Was looking at your build blogs on your website. Really cool stuff! What type of paint do you use to fill your etchings (on the Like Rome pedal for example)? Enamel?

And once again a delight to deal with!

[quote name='Gareth Hughes' timestamp='1365331640' post='2038044'] You know you need a tester for your Meatball clone And for the SFT clone too [/quote] Once I have them boxed I'll shout you G! Jnr no. 2 arrived on Friday morning so I'll probably not get an awful lot of chance to make proper use of them for a while!

Yeah I'm all for north facing jacks. Landscape/portrait I'm undecided on. Looking at 8 controls on this thing so if they fit portrait with north facing jacks all the better. The DI is maybe a bit ott, but if there's room I'll stick it in. My only DI pedal is an mxr m80 and it's just a glorified distortion/eq at the minute as the DI has given up the ghost...

I've been mulling over an idea... Like quite a few folk here I really like the sound of my Ashdown hyperdrive, but not its size. Had looked at cloning it, but having traced out most of the circuit it seems overly complicated to me. So my thoughts turned to a work alike design. Blend/bp filter/distortion. Then my mind wandered a bit further. Why blend the distorted bandpass signal back with a totally clean signal? Why not add a nice warm valve-sounding drive option instead, like the sft I've just built but with a mid control too. Also thinking of a DI out. All in a Hammond 1590BB. Any thoughts?

[quote name='TG Flatline' timestamp='1365087492' post='2035138'] Octave and fuzz in the effects loop for a winning good time! [/quote] That's the plan once I have the thing working. Haven't wired the fx loop yet - just something else to be getting in the way at the minute! Once it's up and running there'll be a chord octave and my knobless fuzz (mastotron clone) going in there.

Gk3b and Roland v-bass is the closest you're likely to get. Like Ped of this parish, you could have the pickup installed permanently which helps the look and ergonomics of the thing, but the tracking is excellent and the v-bass sounds are pretty authentic. More a pedalboard than a stomp box but has amp models and effects on board too.

Samuel replied to my wanted ad for a micro thumpinator. Price was really good, but comms were a little lacking after payment and shipping was a little slower than what I've come to expect from a basschat transaction. Still the cheapest micro thumpinator I've seen anywhere though!

The meatball clone still didn't work due to my inability to tell anode from cathode - had the LDRs installed backwards! Hoping to make some "bow-chicka-wow-wow" and "wiki-wiki-wah" noises with it tonight though...

Productive few days. Built an SFT circuit on Monday (worked first time!), and finished off my meatball clone circuit - alas it didn't work first time! Missing 2 jumpers was the main problem, and the inverting amps on the lp and hp filters were referenced to ground instead of vref by mistake. Took some scoping to find that in work this morning! Not an easy circuit to debug, but looking forward to getting home to try it out! Now have 3 circuits to get built up into enclosures - these 2 and a knobless fuzz (mastotron done with trim pots destined for a 1590A enclosure).

Zvex sho maybe?

Weird...

So just to clarify, with the Mesa engaged, and wonderlove blend at 50/50, the volume is louder than with the blend all the way to wet (Mesa still engaged).

The wonderlove I mean, not the Mesa.

I think that's a balanced signal you're talking about, like an xlr/di where there are 2 signals, 180 degrees out of phase with each other.

It's signal and ground you're swapping in that case. I'm surprised spencer hasn't taken "inverting" pedals into account with his most recent design and added a phase switch. Ironically the crap blend implementation of the original meatball would have worked better for inverting pedals!

It's signal and ground you're swapping in that case. I'm surprised spencer hasn't taken "inverting" pedals into account with his most recent design and added a phase switch.