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[quote name='Cameronj279' timestamp='1403474162' post='2483104'] I just came over all funny... [/quote] Poor All Funny, the forgotten Dwarf.

Thanks for the link to the Shep article, now my ideas have become even more complicated! I haven't started building the power supply yet because I don't want to start until I know how many pedals I need to power with it. Currently the idea is to have half of it - the transformers and bridge rectifiers - mounted in the back of my rack, and the second half - the resistor and capacitor filters and the voltage regulators - mounted on the pedalboard, all linked by a 5m D Sub cable. For the cable I want to use is 20 core scart cable. The plan is to have the transformers go down to 18 volts to transmit down the wires, then use the regulators at the other end to go down to 9v (and one 12v for the LEDs). This way it will be a shielded DC power cable alongside the audio cables. This is the cable I want to use: http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/20-way-overall-screened-scart-cable-priced-per-metre-xs44x Is this feasible?

Thinking about it, I do remember there being an Atari 2600 in the house when I was a kid, we actually had the infamous E.T. game. Before that there was an orange metal box with joysticks that had three versions of Pong on it.

[quote name='Allie' timestamp='1403187623' post='2480631'] So was mine - with the cassette tape for loading and backup. Did you ever get to play Galactic Trader? (pre elite-type game with pixel graphics) -oh the memories. [/quote] It came with Crazy Painter, Cuthbert Goes Walkabout, Cuthbert Goes Digging, Pengo and Keys Of The Wizard. I never saw any other games for it that you could buy, all the other games I played came from books I got from the local library, I had to type them in myself.

My first home computer was a Tandy TRS80. I have owned a Speccy 128+2 and a 48k rubber key. Plus a Commodore PET and a Commodore Amiga 500+.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1403073762' post='2479373'] I tend to go for the path of least resistance (if you'll pardon the pun) and browse tagboard sites, particularly this one: [url="http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.co.uk"]http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.co.uk[/url] I'd particularly recommend the Coloursound Bass Fuzz layout. doctortweek.co.uk carries a good range of quality components - especially JFET and germanium trannies (for lovely tube-y tones) at very reasonable prices. Hope this helps. [/quote] Thanks. I actually put in an order for a bunch of stuff with DoctorTweek last night. Damn am I looking forward to that parcel turning up!

Going to start making some pedals soon. I have ordered the parts for the first three, but they are very simple. A double bypass loop pedal, order switcher and a three switch pedal for my Peavey T-Max (channel, eq and fx loop switches). All really simple, but still useful, to get me started. The only worry I have about them is finishing them, but I have some, what I think are, nice ideas for them. Actual effects pedals that I would like to make would be a Bass Big Muff Pi with as many mods as I can find, a bass chorus and a bass flanger. The thing is that I don't want to make my own PCBs and I don't want to buy them, I would far rather use stripboard. Finding plans for such pedals is proving difficult. Can anyone help with suggestions for pedals and where to find plans for them? Unfortunately I have forgotten almost everything I learned when I did electronics in college, but I can read instructions/diagrams and I am still quite handy with a soldering iron. I am hoping some of what I learned will start to come back and help me with experimenting, until then prepare for a bunch of stupid questions...

Digitech Bass Synth Wah. Cheap, versatile and fun, fun, fun!

One of the biggest mistakes I ever made, and one of my greatest regrets, is leaving a band that was really good, one where all the members were great people. It was the most fun I had ever had playing music, I adored that band. Unfortunately I had to leave it because of an overbearing, bullying and violent ruler (My Dad. Only in my case I was trying to escape him.). I had had to skip town because I didn't want him to find me, but I did eventually go back. Even though I had been well respected in the local music scene, I was never able to get back into it and never got to play in another proper band again. That was over twenty years ago.

Surely, of all the things wrong in the world, you can't truly believe that God has decided he thinks your mad bass chops suck and has told you to quit? I think you should try to find the true source of this feeling, you may be able to sort it out in such a way that you can be happy. Even if you still end up quitting, knowing why will help, I'm sure.

I use a toothbrush for the bad bits, but kitchen paper if it's not too bad.

Maplins PCB cleaner: http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-pcb-cleaner-200ml-n64an Just don't get it in your eyes, it's not nice. Edit: Yeah, what Flyfisher said.

My wife gets rather annoyed at all the calls the police get on weekends from people complaining about the noise from the pub next door. And they don't just complain about the music, "There are people standing outside the pub waiting for taxis and they are talking!", is a common one, apparently. My wife's view of it is "Well, you moved in next door to a pub, what exactly did you expect? The pub has been there far longer than you!", though she doesn't actually say it.

[quote name='Nibody' timestamp='1402174046' post='2470796'] So it comes as Pictured.... Does that mean she comes with the bass? [/quote] Maybe, if you're playing just the right frequency while she's perched on the corner of the cab. The "pink note" possibly?

I have always ignored the Big Muff until now. Your video got me having a look around at other videos of it. I am going to start making my own pedals soon and I was trying to think of a good place to start. Need to find a schematic now.

I remember seeing one of those Hot Locks videos with a bass player (I can't remember his name, long haired rocker chap in a wheelchair) that would hold the tip of his index finger between his middle finger and thumb, leaving a few millimetres sticking out, that he would use as you would a pick. I sometimes use a banjo picking style on bass, and will use my finger nails. I actually keep them short and use the tips of the nails with my fingers curled up, with an upward pluck. I find this useful when using a pick, too. Hold the pick between finger and thumb, as usual, and use the middle and ring finger for plucking. It's a good way of getting clean chord sounds.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1401807865' post='2467085'] These days Izzy Hale does a better impression of Seb Bach than Seb does [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CX3XxfXgLs"]https://www.youtube....h?v=_CX3XxfXgLs[/url] [/quote] She even does a cover of Slave to the Grind. You're right, she does sound uncannily like Sebastian, but with added testicles.

What about Lemmy? He has a naturally raw voice, and even if you only count from Motörhead onwards, you're still talking 1975. I like a lot of old death metal, but I don't like this new core stuff, there's no depth to it, it just sounds like shouting. I also believe that I am one of only a handful of people that actually likes Dani Filth's voice. Though obviously that's a more black metal style.

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1401698682' post='2465848'] I prefer the Doom Metal that came along a little later based on the original Sabbath type music......Candlemass were great with Messiah Marcolin on vocals. [/quote] The bass player for the rather excellent doom band Serpent Venom is a really nice bloke. They have a new album coming out this month, too.

Could be the comedown from the adrenaline high. Or something.

I was given a Satellite bass for free once, it played really nicely and sounded fine, too. The worst bass I ever played was a £900 Hamer. But that was the only bass I ever played that wasn't nice. As for sixers... I was given an Encore Les Paul copy that was so horrible that I gave it back. But the very worst was a rather more expensive Jackson shark-fin that a paid a few hundred quid for (second hand) after coming into some money. It was nasty, it felt like playing a plank. After a few days I realised I was never going to get on with it, no matter how much I wanted to, so I took it back to the shop and they gave me my money back.

I don't want to replace it with a black one, I want to replace it with a steel one, to match the frets. It was a mod I had always intended on but didn't get around to because it didn't need it. I did some work on that bass recently, replacing bridge parts, I have a feeling that restringing it took some extra material out of the nut slot. A tiny amount, but enough.

Say I wanted to make my own bass nut from scratch but had no existing nut to base it's measurements on. How would I go about making a blank? What I am really worried about is going to all the time and trouble of carving one out of steel and then going a tiny bit too far with the slots and buggering it up. Is there a measurement based on the height of the first fret that I should use and not go lower than? I have been thinking about doing this for ages but never got around to it, however I have discovered that the nut slot on the g string is ever so slightly too low, requiring the action to be higher than it otherwise could be. And I like my action really low. There is already rather more relief in the neck than I would like, so I didn't want to have to increase that. What I really could do with is showing it to someone that can look at it with new eyes because I am getting too frustrated with it. Such a simple thing and I have been doing it for years, but just not getting it right with this bass, possibly because this bass means more to me than the others. If I manage to do this successfully, I want to carve a nut from bone for my five string. I should probably start with that one, I've got everything set fine on that bass, it would just be a case of making a perfect replica. I only want to replace it because bone would suit the binding better than the current black one. See, I am actually really vain, but I am too fat and ugly to get away with it myself, so I transfer it onto my basses.

If the rest of the shaft is 6 or 6.3mm diameter then it shouldn't matter if you put a round screw locking type on it. You can set the screw to fit against the flat edge. I'm having no end of trouble finding knobs for my amp, 4mm shafts, bloody stupid thing!