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[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1424695280' post='2699177'] I suspect it might not be that simple. When you insert a jack plug it does two things, first up it connects the signal to the input of the amplifier, secondly it quite possibly removes a connection from something else (an anti thump ircuit for example). Worst case scenario is that you 'might' need to stick a jackplug into whichever socket you aren't using. If that's the case, and I never wanted to use the front socket again, I'd be inclined to slide a couple of thin plastic shims between the socket contacts and 'arms' to break that front socket connection. [/quote] I did wonder about that, but then, for some reason, chose to not consider it. Would one way around it be to disconnect the post break lugs of the front socket from the circuit board, then wire them to the pre-break lugs on the rear socket. Then go from the post break, rear lugs, back to the front, into the holes left vacant by the front socket? Does that make sense?

[quote name='RustInPeace90' timestamp='1424658716' post='2698893'] edit: on closer inspection and comparison, it's a 4 pin mono socket so i've just ordered some 4 core shielded cable (£1 per metre) and a 4 pin chassis jack socket (£1.25) from Audio Spares. £2 postage. Should be here Wednesday. In the mean time though, i still need to know how to do this haha [/quote] You only need single core shielded cable, the same stuff that you would use for a guitar lead. You would run the core from the tip pin, and the shield from the other, both from the two pins after where the contacts spread. Then you would connect them to the pins before the spreading contacts on the rear socket, again core to tip and the shield to the other. This would make it so that the rear socket is disabled if something is plugged into the front socket, but it won't disable the front socket of something is plugged into the rear.

It looks like the socket is the kind with switched contacts. So if you wire the rear socket after the switched contacts the rear socket will be disconnected if there is anything plugged into the front. I am trying to think how you can do it the other way around, too, but can't get my head around it right now, too bloomin' tired. I need to figure it out, though, because I intend to do the same with my Peavey T-Max.

My first proper amp was a Laney Klipp. From what I can gather, they were more popular among bass players than guitarists. I did eventually destroy it but I suspect that has more to do with me not knowing anything about valve amps at the time and not being very careful with what I plugged it into.

Probably not considered that weird anymore. Took me twenty years to finally get mine and I love it.

My very first bass was one of those in the silver/grey. I adored that thing and miss it like crazy.

[quote name='Weststarx' timestamp='1424449242' post='2696466'] I'd love that!!! [/quote] This was a disco gig back in the early 90s. While setting up mid afternoon in a very, very posh hotel, for the night's do, a waiter turned up to ask if we would like some tea. I had never seen anything like him before, outside of the telly. He was immaculately dressed, he almost looked unreal. When he came back with the tea, it was a proper, full silver service, I dread to think how much it must have been worth. It was surreal. What was even more odd was that the do was the annual "Travellers" Christmas party. That evening over 300 men, women and children, descended on the place from all over the country, wherever their caravans happened to be parked. It would probably have gone OK if it wasn't for the damned kids. They destroyed everything they got their hands on and I was constantly being threatened with physical violence if the DJ didn't play the song they wanted NOW! My job was normally to do the lights, but the boss decided he wanted to do it that night, so he could hide behind the console, and he made me sit up front to take requests. Gawd he was a tosser. The adults weren't so bad, there were only a few full on fist fights.

[quote name='ColinB' timestamp='1424419409' post='2696042'] I found this: [i][color=#000000]A neon indicator lamp (and its series resistor) are wired in parallel with the appliance and indicate that the power is on. Once lit, it has an extremely high resistance and the current flowing through it is tiny. If you wire it in series with the appliance, the current flowing through both will be very small and nearly all of the voltage drop will be across the neon lamp.[/color][/i] [color=#000000]....and found [url="http://www.intl-lighttech.com/applications/light-sources/neon-lamps"]this[/url] about series resistors for them.[/color] [color=#000000]Hope this helps.[/color] [/quote] This is what I ended up thinking, but it didn't work when I tried it in parallel. The unit already has a series resistor built into it. Thanks for the link, it was interesting.

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.