I've been trying for the last few months to design a small board that can cover all bases. I needed to go from a simple, lightly compressed bass sound to a pulsing Moog synth for 80s tracks and a highly compressed lightly overdriven sound through to fretless bass sounds for a new covers project for 2025.
It's finally finished with a little help from a few Black Friday deals. 🤠
From my experience of a few vintage instruments I would be very wary of old pots that worked perfectly. You can take the old pots and replace the insides with a new pot and reseal the old case to make it look original. This happened to a friend of mine who bought a vintage bass. I would prefer a seller to replace the scratchy pots and provide the originals as well.
I would leave them as they are.
After getting rid of most of my pedals a few months back, I'm on the build again.
Trying to keep it small with drive, compressor and EQ / Di.
Might add a flanger / chorus for an up coming 80s goth product.
Any suggestions......................
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