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  1. JapanAxe
    Wired up the input jack and pots, plus some runs of screened cable.
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    I'm guessing the coffee-maker attachment won't make it to the final design...
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    ... until it breaks.
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    I imagine sliders would add significantly to the cost in terms of both components and machining.
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    … and yet I find that many bands to be annoying! I’m fond of the James tone circuit in my B15 clone but it is quite ‘lossy’.
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    Or 17kg with cloth grille rather than metal. I looked at a few one-cab solutions and the Super Twin came out on top.
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    I dunno, that's a bit OTT!
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    Installed some of the hardware. I hate wrestling with bear-trap retainers but not as much as I would hate the sound of a broken KT66 rattling around inside the enclosure. I haven't fitted screening cans for the preamp valves as this is a fairly low-gain design and the enclosure is one big Faraday cage. Also wired up the circuit board. Some of the eyelets are as yet unsoldered as they will take leads from the transformer.
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    How was my gig last night? Rather lovely, that's how it was. Wedding celebration in a teepee-style marquee, in the grounds of a farm-cum-wedding-venue. Bit of a hike from the car park to the teepee but we were well looked after by the organiser and of course the weather was lovely. We optimised the space by putting the drums off to one side - we're all on in-ears anyway.
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    'Must be willing to dress up a little bit crazy' - but not too crazy, don't want to upstage Julian do we? 'The band's image is that of a gang of individuals' - who are so individual that they all have long hair. 'Will best suit somebody who doesn't mind that they aren't the songwriter' - you won't mind making zilch from publishing, even if you came up with the killer bass line that everyone hums when they think of the song. 'Location: Camden, London' - where dreams go to die.
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    Ah yes, the old comedy somersault over a wedge monitor! With subs you may as well display a sign saying ‘stick your glasses here’.
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    Just clocked the price of the new LB - ooft! 40cm wide sounds good, around 15¾inch in old money.
  13. JapanAxe
    'Age 22-40'. My age will soon be 22+40. I have long hair but like Happy Jack I don't usually wear it.
  14. JapanAxe
    In pubs with an open ‘stage’ setup I sometimes have to remove punters’ pints from the top of my amp!
  15. JapanAxe
    I’m a bit conflicted on how to vote! Yes I’d love a small-footprint 100W valve bass amp but I’m well into a 50W build and I have to be realistic about what I can fit in my kit cupboard… Actually the footprint thing is a significant issue for me. My bigger cab is a BF Super Twin which is 19” wide, but many (if not most) valve heads are much wider and I can’t tolerate the overhang. Hence the home brew solution.
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    Blimey!
  17. JapanAxe
    What were the circumstances that led to this?
  18. JapanAxe
    I think the @Chienmortbb is hoping there won't be smoke
  19. JapanAxe
    Marked, punched, drilled and de-burred all the holes in the top surface of the chassis. That's a lot of holes! Also fitted the grommets for the transformer lead holes. Oh yeah, fitted the feet to the bottom plate.
  20. JapanAxe
    DIY Ampeg B15 head into a BF One 10. 22W of vintage tube tone in my music room, although the Origin Bassrig ‘64 has been getting a lot of love lately.
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    Valve socket holes cut and mounting holes drilled.
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    Last night and this morning have been all about metalwork. Never my favourite subject at school but it just has to be done. The big challenge here was cutting a rectangular hole in the rear panel (0.91mm steel - about 28 gauge for our US friends) to fit the IEC mains inlet. I started with a 6mm hole inside each corner, then took out the bulk of the material with a 20mm panel hole cutter. I managed to remove some more with a hand nibbler (yes it's a thing!) before defining the edges with a cutoff disc and a grinder on my Dremel-a-like tool. I'm pretty pleased with the result. That's all the front and rear panel holes done, plus the mounting points for the eyelet board.
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    My current bass heads include Class AB (both valve and solid state) and Class D. Each is a good example of its type and I enjoy playing them all. I see no value in generalisations based on personal preference. If something works for you, that’s a win so go with it.
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    Made some progress on the board: (1) Covered the board with sticky paper recycled from an eBay label and marked out all the positions of eyelets, mounting holes, and bias pot. (2) Drilled all the holes. (3) Set the eyelets. I ended up moving one because I thought it was a bit close to its neighbour, given the 720V between them! (4) Fitted the stand-offs and the bias pot, straightened some copper wire and soldered the earth bus in place.
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    In 30 years of using it I have come across a no-earth situations 3 times. In 2 of these the solution was to run an extension from a good socket. In the last it was an outdoor stage so I got the organisers to create an earth by running a wire form an earth pin plugged into one of our socket strips, to a lamp iron driven into moistened ground next to the stage. It worked and the show went on.
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