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Different thing, you were working on a passive filtering circuit for bass and had given it to a buddy to test. The circuit i drew up was for guitar and yes not only completed it but added a locally sourced switchable mid boost (+25db @500Hz). The first draft of the new diagram is a rats nest but I know how it all works now.

Maybe they will now the hard work has been done for them! :) Generally, the chinese factories wont bother copying anything technically complex, especially if it involves research and development. This is from a chinese entrepreneur i know. How's that passive circuit we discussed coming along?

Using a printed circuit board? Hobbyists don't do that.

Hmmm, dismiss it as you wish if you're cynically inclined. Like I said, best of my recollection. Besides which searching for the post is going to take time away from things that are more important to me.

Someone on the jaydee fb group claimed to know what had happened to it.

A basschatter and jaydee collector owns one of the jaco jazzes as well as a couple of other jaydees

It's known but i cant recall clearly right now. I think the blue one went to charity. The pink one might have been given to a roadie.

he did a custom jazz for me once, it didnt look like the jaco one though

thanks to fifties goldtops being converted

And two thousand quid for fifty quids of material and labour is two thousand quid for fifty quids worth of materials and labour. It's the law of shameless opportunism vs cash rich pensioners.

Ah, maybe there was a typo between the year and the total number in my source then. Ouch.

Just a thought but I wonder if the body on this bass was original? I mean, given how many JE smashed up and all that in the late sixties... Also, I thought there were 66 rather than 25 made...?

Very little came from his EQ. He used the EQ like a ersatz crossover between both the MkV heads on the Live at Wembly DVD. Most of his tone came from finger strength over the bridge pickup, the dominance of mahogany in the Jaydee and the Trace 4x10's. The Mk V amps were pretty flat sounding - something that changed with the Series 6 that followed. His 0002SA and 0003 basses were fairly mid-growly in comparison to the other instruments he used.

If I had the space, I would be reacquainting myself with a full electronic kit but needs must with the drum machine. It's also hard to punch in when I'm also playing.

It's possible yes. I started with Cubase back in the 90's and that was fine for both MIDI and audio, then I moved to Pro Tools and it was a PITA for MIDI. Currently waiting in the wings are Audacity and good ol' workhorse Ableton but it seems like a number of PC based DAWs have limitations of one sort or another. Which is yet another tick in the column for hardware based solutions.

I use mine for graphics, music, website administration, movie watching, music practice and teaching preparation. And I don't have the collection of rack hardware with me at the moment but when I do, I'll need to set all the MIDI connections and patches up within the DAW in order to access them via a keyboard or MIDI bass or whatever. So, like you, I tend to see the PC as a job for recording the bones of a piece once the framework is done rather than something for trying out ideas for a framework as they happen. But unlike you I don't have the experience or skill to form songs in my head. I need to externalise it first.

Mainly so I don't have to use a computer. The setting up to record saps my creativity and I'm firmly opposed to designed obsolescence. This is after having spaffed hundreds of quid on otherwise perfectly functional NI kit that became obsolete after 7 years simply because drivers no longer being supported. I want dedicated kit that I can turn on and muck about with ideas on without wasting time.

Looks like I'm going to join that club, then...!

I expect Morgan Roussel probably owns it.

I'm mulling over a drum machine purchase later this year. I'm looking for something that allows beats ahead and behind the tempo for that human factor...does such a drum machine exist?

The prices of stuff, both used and new are so out of proportion to salaries these days. I would feel like a mug paying some of the asking prices. Especially given that there are some really good instruments around if you want to stray away from the mainstream brands or even go back twenty years. It seems like COVID gave mainstream brands an excuse to hike their prices and they're keeping them there until salaries catch up. But maybe those lump sum pension payments are a better metric.

I've had quite a few bits and pieces off them over the years but for the first order I had to send them a pic of my serial.

Is the website still up? Im aware of most of the currently active ones. But the wayback machine can help with dead sites.

Yes, that was the Cricketers. I used to live not far away but it was about ten years later. I was going to try and write a bio on him but he was so private and unassuming that he didn't leave much material behind, apart from his music.

Dunlop Tortex 0.50mm (red triangles) because I have a fairly light touch and I find the flexibility forgiving of an occasionally errant technique.