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+1 if you have a camara and soldering iron we may be of aid ;<

[quote name='josh3184' post='442863' date='Mar 23 2009, 06:50 PM']about 2.30 in this clip: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgWHiZ7aPF8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgWHiZ7aPF8[/url] Apologies for the terrible acting on that video, it was the only one with the full song I could see[/quote] p-bass > ampeg on 11

get some power filtering going on if its in a rack

i had my eye on this to! let us know how it plays, sounds etc. always wanted an aluminium neck after seeing the melvins

[quote name='Dan_Nailed' post='440819' date='Mar 21 2009, 05:36 AM']Works for Meshuggah - both guitars and bass go Line 6 -> PA.[/quote] haha they use vettas though which are the grand daddys of line 6 stuff and are going back to proper amps now. They also have they're own sound engineers all the times i've heard people using line 6 pod xts live they've sounded terrible

[quote name='William James Easton' post='439016' date='Mar 19 2009, 10:48 AM']one minute im going tofgive up the next my friend decides he wants to re live our youth! hurrah i say and we dream up the following.... A grunge band (early grunge pre '91 ala mudhoney, TAD) where the guitar and bass are on a constant fuzz! excellent we think, however insane/genius thios idea is i'm worried that playing a constant fuzz bass is going to get lost in the sound. We have only got it on in the bedroom (OOOH!) so far so not played in a practice room with drummer, so havent been able to try out yet. At the moment im playing with a boss odb-3 and mxr DI (a lovely distortion on its own.) [list] [/list]Shoul I try 'dial' in these 2 pedals to give fuzz without loosing bottom end? (tried in my sucky band but just cant seem to manage it) [list] [/list]Should i try another pedal? [list] [/list]Should a go through 2 amps, keeping one clean and one distorted? (say my laney 210 combo and me new ampeg 115 cab and head - sent back as its not working) fuzz hurts my brain.[/quote] your losing low end with an odb-3? have you tried turning the bass knob up?

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='439259' date='Mar 19 2009, 02:11 PM']sh*t man, really sorry to hear about your stuff getting stolen. Hope you find the f***ers that done it. Have you tried an EHX Little Big Muff? They’re very cheap, very aggressive, and full of rich harmonics in the upper mids. Worth a try if you can get hold of one to have a go on.[/quote] muffs scoop the upper mids ;< +1 on the gremlin and red llama clones

hi i'd love to try out some of your cabs sometime! if there as great as you make out i'll definatly be having one.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='434337' date='Mar 14 2009, 02:45 AM']In an ideal world I'd like something that ran up to 200w. Switchable output impedance like Marshalls used to do. No effects loop. Rotary pots and minimal tone stack - Vol, Bass, Mid, Treb, Presence. Non-master volume. No graphic equalizers. Relatively clean to about 85% then gently increasing 'drive' and soft compression. Round, deep tone.[/quote] i was thinking of a valve buffered effects loop, what would be the argument against this? i think my design so far is going to incorparate a master just before the PI but you can always run it wide open to the same effect as it not being there. in response to everyone i think i'm going to used a baxandall style tone stack which is an extremely flexible 2 band eq and add a mid shift similar to an ampeg. There will also be a rotary FAC pot similar to matamp / orange amps [quote name='alexclaber' post='433733' date='Mar 13 2009, 02:49 PM']I'd like to seen an SMPS instead of power transformer to lower the weight and then switchable rail voltage or variable number of tubes so you can get similar tube compression/break-up at quiet gigs as at loud ones. Alex[/quote] hmm i'll have to look into SMPS's they seem like a good idea i'm a bit warey though as to if they'll be able to supply the voltage / current valves need. I don't like the sound of starved plates with bass aswell as it tends to make the amp bottom out rather than go into proper overdrive.

[quote name='Hamster' post='433089' date='Mar 13 2009, 12:22 AM']Anywhere between 200 - 400 watts of power. Not your PMPO - the proper watts that blows the froth off your beer when you're 200 foot from the stage. I like sliders. I like knobs (I'm gonna regret that!) so sliders OR knobs - not a mixture! Speakon outputs NO fixed bias - IMHO the only flaw in the otherwise superb Mesa Boogie offerings None of this 1 - to - 10 markings on the gain/volume knobs - knobs should be marked - Stun - Wound - Kill - Vaporise Beer proof coverings[/quote] haha i'll be rating the amp properly, sounds like kt88s will be the most popular then! i'll be sticking to just knobs to, sliders break to easy, it'll definatly be beer proof aswell to ped i don't think i could add a bias meter as i intend to have seperate bias pots for each valve, so you'd end up with the hole back on the amp being covered in meters!

haha nice the chic version is so much better. reminds me i need to get my flamenco technique or whatever it is he does sorted

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='432529' date='Mar 12 2009, 03:16 PM']Being more of a "power riffer" I'm kinda out of my comfort zone here so I could do with some ideas. A guitar tapping mate sent me a track of his to see if I fancied putting bass line to it. So I pulled up Audacity and knocked one out. :brow: *snigger* Now don't be dissin' me qwala-tee and timin', it's just a one take wonder with me plugged into the mic socket of my pc. [attachment=21888:Finding_...ith_bass.mp3] I quite like it but I gather he's not exactly over the moon with what I came up with. How else could I go about it? Do my dusty end antics detract from the rest? [/quote] sounds good to me although the style of playing he does doesn't really leave much room for anything else intresting to be going on.

[quote name='LWTAIT' post='432878' date='Mar 12 2009, 09:02 PM']bedroom hero crap? i play in a band, but that doesn't mean i dont enjoy sitting down and playing by myself.[/quote] thats what she said

obviously i can only build amplifiers to suit what i want them to sound like which is LOUD and clean. So i'd like to try and get some views from other people as to what they'd want from a valve amp i've talked to a few people and so far the outline is roughly that the amp will come in 3 different bands of power (v2,v4,v6) which is a reference to how many valves are in the power amp and you will have a choice between a 6ca7/el34 pinout and a 6l6/kt88/6550 pinout with seperate bias pots for each valve so no need to get matched sets. The transformers will also be rated to handle any valves you put in there so if you want to change from 6550s to kt88s it'll only need a quick rebias and it'll be good to go. The amp will also have a choice between speakon / normal jack outs(as is i'm leaning toward to just speakon outputs) and will have dummy load protection so if you forget to put attach a speaker it wont blow the transformer. so what other features would you look for with a modern valve amp?

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='432691' date='Mar 12 2009, 06:04 PM']With the Wooly Mammoth you're talking about a copyrighted design with a bucket load of intellectual property. What's been designed here isn't new, it's not original, it's not been well executed, it can be very easily replicated (legally) with a spare couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon, and it’s being sold at a ridiculous price when you compare its functionality and design to what else is available on the market at less than half the price…[/quote] i don't think you can copyright a fuzzface schematic.

different valves have different frequency responses, so affect the sound pretty wildly

[quote name='Silent Fly' post='431060' date='Mar 10 2009, 10:07 PM']I don't mean to criticise anybody's opinion. In the end a forum is a place where all opinions should be welcomed. There is only one thing I can't understand: does it make any difference how much mark-up musicman1 makes? Do we ask a bookshop or at the till at the supermarket how much mark-up they have? Don’t get me wrong, I understand that someone may feel a little bit offended by the offer of something that he sees far too expensive for what it is. However, musicman1 never claimed something that wasn’t true. Quite frankly I respect his openness in showing the inside of the box without hiding anything of what he offers. Nobody forces us to buying anything. What if he has a 200% mark-up? AFAIK, it is not illegal. And believe me, I have seen worse. Ultimately, it will be the market to judge his prices and the quality of what he sells. There also another thing that confuses me. It is the comparison between the cost of the parts (and consequently how much it would cost to build it as a DIY project) and the price of the finished unit. I don’t think it is a comparison that makes any sense. Nobody works for only the price of the materials. At the risk of sounding repetitive but do we complain with a cleaner because we could clean our property for free if we do it ourselves? Do we say that the bread is too expensive because we could make it ourselves for half of the price? We complain if what we get for what we pay is not good enough but musicman1 showed us in sufficient detail what he sells upfront. I don’t think that a variation of quality between the final product and what we see in the photos is likely to happen.[/quote] hes charging 190 pounds in labour for something that would take 2 hours to build, which a bit of an over the top asking price which is what people where saying.

[quote name='NJE' post='429153' date='Mar 9 2009, 11:09 AM']Thanks all, I have been doing some investigation over the weekend (with your comments in mind) and found a few bits that I quite fancy. I would really like to give the preamps a go but they are a bit pricey at the moment so maybe when the finances look better I will have a go. I am keeping my eyes pealed for a Boss EQ, I think that is a good sensible step and also looking around for a small gain booster pedal as well (see what comes up first and whats the cheapest) I read a review of a Homebrew electronics booster which looks like it will do what I need as far as increasing signal and also found a few more similar devices which are just one gain control and a switch. I also have my eye on a BBE Sonic Stomp (maximiser) and the Aphex bass xciter to give my passive bass a bit more life as they have both had rave reviews. I think I can get most of these items used from various places so hopefully should be able to solve the problem for about £100 which is great considdering I was looking at £170 for the Aguilar and Sansamp etc. Still welcoming any advice and comments on EQ pedals, (have anopther thread asking advice on the BBE and Aphex) Thanks for all the commenst so far, big help.[/quote] you could always look into making a active buffer in a stomp box? would effect the tone less and also give a low impedence

[quote name='musicman1' post='429545' date='Mar 9 2009, 05:05 PM']hi i am building a true bypass strip for my ACM dissertation that has to be in this year, i just wanted some feedback on who would be interested in a custom built true bypass strip. i am going to be building them myself and have looked at the gig rig which is really expensive and huge. also there is Pedal boards .com which is the same design, but they are in the US with the economy at the moment it is very expensive to buy from there. i would like feed back on the price mainly and would would be interested in purchasing one in the next few months. i am charging £40 per switch so a 6 switch would be £240 here are some pic of the prototype.thanks rob [attachment=21724:IMG_0080.JPG] [attachment=21723:IMG_0078.JPG] [attachment=21725:IMG_0082.JPG][/quote] how much is your mark up? by my working out your charging roughly 30 pounds for labour per switch? that sounds a bit excessive for something that takes around 2 hours. That wiring could be alot neater than it is, you talk about using thicker wire for better tone yet you use alot more length of it than you actually need. The amount of distance the signal has to travel is the real culprit for tone loss, if you really going to make pedals that are worth that much i'd look into using really high quality buffers.

its going to be very loud clean and fat. 4 kt88's is always a good thing for bass!

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='422795' date='Mar 1 2009, 11:28 PM']It's always good to ignore rules of thumb and try things out though. So many people put octave before fuzz for instance, as general consensus says to do so for better tracking. However I think the Boss OC-2 sounds better after fuzz (results in a clean synthesized octave down blended with the fuzz) and many people have never even tried it and just say "hey, they're the wrong way around!". Ears make the final decision![/quote] think people generally put it before because it actually tracks then in my experience oc-2s have a hard enough time tracking a clean signal. Where my pog tracks flawlessly after fuzz and makes for some huge tones ;>

[quote name='DHA' post='405011' date='Feb 10 2009, 08:17 AM']Glowing blue output tubes is fine, is red plates that is not. Sounds like the power supply caps are shot and drying it out is a good idea. There are kits to replace the boards from people like my mate Barry at Torries. Let us know how you get on.[/quote] +1 on barry at torres