KingBollock

I need help, I've gone and stirred up a whole mess of my stupid. I'm asking in here because it's part of a PSU for pedals. The problem: I am trying to wire up a neon power indicator and I can't get it to work. I know it works because if I wire it up straight to the mains, with nothing else connected, it works. But I am trying to go Mains ---- Fuse ---- Switch ---- Lamp ---- Circuit (which is empty right now). The most infuriating part is that when testing, I am getting 230v before the lamp but 130v after it. When touching the terminals with the multimeter the lamp will actually give a weak glow. I have tried wiring it in parallel, too, but that didn't work, either. I am assuming and hoping that, because I have never tried installing one before, there is something about them that I have never needed to know before, and one of you fine gentlemen might be able to give me a clue. This is the lamp: [url="http://www.bitsbox.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=172_184&products_id=1398"]http://www.bitsbox.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=172_184&products_id=1398[/url]

I have built it, in fact I built two, but could get neither to work. It's something about me and ICs. They're fine when I build stuff on a breadboard, but as soon as I put them on vero, even with verified layouts, nothing bloomin' works. I always sockets them but it makes no difference.

Ah, I was getting my blend and boosts mixed up. That is in fact the blend I use. It's the boost I use to correct phases after pedals that reverse it. Otherwise you get a huge volume drop when the blend is around 50/50. I am building a dual loop pedal which will use a boost to switch the phase, and it will have a switch for switching the order. If it works I may well build a larger one with more loops but without the order switcher. [url="http://freespace.virgin.net/alison.jackson/list/ElectronicProjects/BlendLoopBoost.pdf"]http://freespace.vir...ndLoopBoost.pdf[/url] (linked to because the .png I have is massive) I wanted it as small as possible, so I flipped one and have them sharing the ground strip.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1424284500' post='2694769'] Yup, I've made (and still use) a good few of those. Super-useful. [/quote] Have you got a vero layout for it? I've been using the LPB-1, but it reverses the phase and, while I have used it specifically for that purpose, it would be nice to have one that doesn't. I assume, because I see two transistors on there, that that one doesn't.

Christmas 1987, I was 12. I wasn't interested in learning to play an instrument, I desperately wanted a radio controlled monster truck (Vanessa's Lunchbox), but my dad had decided that he was going to make his four sons learn to play instruments, put them together as a band that he would manage and get himself rich... He had decided that I was going to play the drums. I was a huge Iron Maiden and Motörhead fan, so, in a fit of rebellion, I told my dad that I would learn to play the bass. This was an instrument he hadn't considered and he thought it was a good idea. It was definitely the right choice for me. The two youngest brothers, the drummer, and a guitarist who was left handed but was being made to play right handed, both gave up quite quickly. The other brother played for a few years and was quite naturally talented, until his mental health and drug and alcohol addictions sapped his interest in anything else. He never played in any bands, except the ones that I put together early on.

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1424253360' post='2694294'] Wow, that's very impressive. If only they did fretboard binding too. [/quote] I bet that if you were to buy a second set of the blocks (assuming you want the binding to be the same colour as the blocks) and took your time with a good pair of scissors, you could do it.

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1424219867' post='2694123'] Did they suit her? [/quote] I'm not going into that! I think this thread has strayed far enough as it is!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1424217076' post='2694094'] Mine went away for a weekend. Straight away I lost my phone and couldn't find it. She returned and immediately found it in my pants and socks drawer, which was very embarrassing as it was obvious that I hadn't bothered to have a shower or change my pants and socks all weekend. Tchoh! Women, eh? [/quote] Change them?? I don't bother with clothes when mine goes away.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1424216761' post='2694086'] Like hiding her iPhone in your coat pocket then accusing you of stealing it. Tchoh! Women, eh? [/quote] Oh yes! I remember that one! What a gas! Laugh? I thought my pants would never dry!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1424215827' post='2694068'] Stickers are perfectly OK, but spend a bit of time on preparation and application... [/quote] Indeed. They come with instructions and there's a video on their site. But, even so, I still asked my wife to put them on (after I thoroughly cleaned the fretboard) because she does lots of crafty type stuff. We had to use some artistic license because the stickers are for a 34" 4 string and I have them on a 35" 5 string. The scale length wasn't a real problem, but the width was. The sticker for the 24th fret is a long, black bar. We ended up cutting it up and using some of it to cover the dots on the 12th fret where the sticker didn't reach far enough to cover the dots.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1424214730' post='2694044'] Grammar not grammer. [/quote] And that's before you get to his post...

I have the playing card stickers, from the site that Drax linked to, on my Cort. They're actually really good. They're easy to fit and don't cost a lot, so worth a go if you don't want to spend much. And if you don't like them you won't have lost a lot.

I can't remember what music was playing the first time, I just remember my brothers outside the room, giggling and climbing on each other's shoulders to look through the little window above my bedroom door (I put a curtain up the next day). And then my dad trying to open the door (I was using a cymbal stand from my brother's drum kit under the handle because whenever I had installed locks in the past, my dad would deliberately break them (and laugh while pretending it was an accident)), then banging on it and shouting, asking if I wanted a cup of tea (something he had never done in his life. In fact, he was the kind of person that would shout my name so that I would go downstairs to him to pass him his cup of tea because it meant leaning forward in his chair for him to reach it...). I do remember another early fumbling where we had a great laugh bonking away to The Macc Lads' Beer & Sex & Chips & Gravy. Blimey she was a fun girl. I would have married her, too, (and we did get engaged) if things hadn't gone sour with her family. I also remember, a few years later, having a good time to Cradle of Filth's Cruelty and the Beast, with a smoke machine and a strobe light.

Once forgot my strap. But what made it worse was that I didn't know the songs and I didn't have a music stand. We were a sort of mid concert interval thing for an orchestra, so there were plenty of music stands around and not being used while we played, but no one would lend me one. I ended up leaning back against a table, looking over my shoulder at the music on the table. Fortunately it was only for half a dozen songs.

The song You Suffer by Napalm Death. Sometimes we would even go so long that we could play it twice!

[quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1423785837' post='2689161'] Cardiff is GREAT! Some of the inhabitants are a bit grumpy though... [/quote] After the last time I was in Cardiff I wasn't allowed to sneeze for a month.

[quote name='Mr Bassman' timestamp='1423181852' post='2682075'] I also won a set, which was a complete surprise when postman Pat rang the doorbell. Not sure which bass to try them on first, maybe my fretless p bass? [/quote] You should make the choice based on the length and configuration of the basses. It is far easier to go from a 35" scale, four in a row, to a 35", 2+2, than it is to go the other way around. As I discovered with my flatwounds; so the most expensive strings I have ever bought are on the cheapest bass I own.

Out of my pedals, being the only ones I have personal experience with, I would suggest the Digitech Bass Driver fits what you're after. Very bassy and versatile, too. And not expensive if cost is an issue. I love mine.

If you cut the neck of that Bass flush to the body (and give it a clean), it would make quite a cool side table.

My main two basses are tuned half a step down for the four string and standard for the five string. Half the stuff I play is detuned half a step, but the other half can be standard four string, five string, drop D, C and C#, the five string covers all of those. The only times I run into trouble are when I am playing something say in C# and it's a lot of open C# with everything else played up around the seventh fret. Rammstein are a bugger for that. It is very tempting to add detuners to the E and B strings of my five string. Can you even get them for the B string that would allow me to go to C#? It would be very handy, though I suspect too expensive for me to ever actually do it.

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1422959114' post='2678747'] The only 2x18" Vox cabinet that I'm aware of is the Super Foundation. I think there was also a possibly ported 1x18" in the same size cabinet, and a 2x15" with similar proportions but in a slightly smaller case. A couple of years ago I almost managed to win an eBay auction for an empty Super Foundation, and was then also outbid at the last minute on a WEM 2x18". Sorry to hear that you had to part with it. I still miss my V125 Vox cabinet that I used with a Simms-Watts AP100. It was a wide cabinet with a large port and a single 15" speaker with a blue painted frame. My love for 18" speakers came after that, as I replaced the V125 with a brand new Peavey 1820, which I had to special order from the States. Then I recently discovered there was a Peavey 3620 - two 18" and two 10" speakers in a single enormous cabinet! One failed to sell on eBay a month or so ago - not unsurprisingly as it was collection only from someone quite remote. [/quote] I shouldn't have had it in the first place... It was stolen and I new it. And being 13 was no excuse. There had been an illegal rave that was raided. A bunch of people grabbed what gear they could and legged it. I got it for £20, along with a 50 foot speaker cable.

I have used a small sanding barrel in either my Dremel or attached to a cordless grill, for doing that job. Something like this: Dirt cheap from Wilkos and general DIY stores.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1423092182' post='2680814'] Sorry, please read 'bland', 'inoffensive', 'innocent' or similar. I wonder why they chose that trademark, anyway..? "[i]Splitting blinder..? Take Bland, that'll clear it. Not for children under 10[/i]...". Hmm... [/quote] I take it you mean the company Anadin? It's probably from the word Anodyne. Which is what I assume you were trying to spell. "In medicine before the 20th century, an anodyne was a drug that was believed to relieve or soothe pain by lessening the sensitivity of the brain or nervous system (Greek ἀνώδυνος anōdynos < ἀν- an- 'without' + ὀδύνη odynē 'pain'). It was essentially an analgesic." [i]Source Wikipedia[/i] I knew the word anodyne, but was unaware of it's link to medicine. Always something new to learn on BassChat!

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1423047073' post='2679893'] I once asked the wife what was her biggest fantasy and she said it begins with d, ends in o and it fits down here. I exclaimed where the hell am I gonna get a didgeridoo. Now I know ! [/quote] I've got a Didgeridoo, but it's got a split in it, rather than the other way around. [size=2](Actually true)[/size]

[quote name='krysh' timestamp='1423010807' post='2679664'] time 2 learn. [/quote] Indeed. In fact I am going to have a crack at something today. Not for the composition competition, just a cover of a track that only has drums, bass and a couple of guitars in it, with no guitar solo. And it's a song that I play along to regularly anyway. We'll see.