Stub Mandrel

That ring thing he's using - don't they sell them in the vending machines in the toilets?

2 hours ago, Frank Blank said:

I’m with 

I’m with you @bubinga5, this man is a...

...hang on, you know what? I’m feeling bad about saying that now. Sure I don’t like his style nor his showmanship but perhaps he’s a decent chap and loves his Mum. Nothing about the video does anything for me but each to his own.

It's the drummy equivalent of the 'I paid ten people to record a bass solo so I could show you the seven worst to show I'm slappier than them all' channel.

I dived in at a random point and the first twirl I saw made him hit the hihat well behind the beat 🙂

Well I never liked the MM pickguard, and that locks in my prejudice!

Not convinced by the stripy neck.

1 hour ago, uk_lefty said:

Whoever buys is getting a great bass. 

All Hohner headlesses are great basses!

What about using a baby wipe or similar, after washing the detergent out and drying it? very strong unwoven material, and light.

1 hour ago, Dom in Somerset said:

Dale Dook, front man and bass player with The Dooks (Buzzard County's 3rd best country music act) who happens to bear a striking resemblance to myself. That's his brother Curly on Drums.

Ah yes, the Dooks of Buzzard. Where's cousin Dozey?

ELO + =

Thanks, I was wonderiung if they might be Beta 10s.

32 minutes ago, Jakester said:

Not sure if this is the right place, so sorry if not!

 

We're playing Paul Weller's Changing Man in my band at the moment, and there's loads of bleepy sound effects in the background. I wondered if anyone's band had ever had a stab at replicating them and if so, how you went about doing it?

I think they are a sample of 10538 Overture by Elo, so using a chamber orchestra might be the way to go...

Which model are they?

For a bit of fun, guess which Fender bass has this high-quality sealed construction jack socket?

For a bonus point, where was it made?

I've fixed lower power speakers with the sort of tissue used for model aircraft before, light but strong and conforms well to a curved or textured surface. You could use multiple layers. Several layers fo thin paper will be better than one of thick card as you want some flexibility.

Not a fan of copydex, I'd use PVA diluted 50% with water, as little as you can get away with.

If you can seal the hole, you're good to go for a temporary solution and no bodge on the cone will prevent you from having it properly reconed or replaced in the future.

If it happened when setting up, I would use gaffa tape, one piece on either side of the cone 🙂

8 hours ago, itu said:

My only question is that why should the compressor handle the full bandwidth? I might be interested in the difference of the performance if that HPF is the first thing after the bass.

Less handling noise for the comp, maybe?

I did think of adding a third loop, just for the compressor, before the A loop.

Apparently some people use an HPF between effects and amp to remove 'sub octaves' generated by effects (I can see how chorus/flange type effects could easily generate these).

Next idea forming in my brain...

Switching box with two loops and three switches:

A/B(which loop active if not on both or bypass)

Both (in series)

Bypass(neither)

Rather than the usual A/B/Y arrangement.

And build a high pass filter into the same box.

Planned use:

Bass ---> compressor ----> HPF -----> LOOP A ---> LOOP B -----> Amp

3 hours ago, prowla said:

The one I go to is really good - they cure their own and cut it to order. 

I thought you peeled it off the dual carriageway after  particularly hot day...

1 hour ago, bearhart74 said:

Bowel! I LOVE THOSE GUYS!

I was impressed by 'Semi-Colon', their cover of Ring of Fire.

Then there was their collaboration with Chuck D. and FLava Flav -  Public Enema

Laser printed decal for a 'professional' finish 🙂

Gargh! It's tip negative!

11 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

Quote

I haven't read mention of Thin Lizzy without Phil Lynott.

Scott Gorham said it felt wrong for it to continue with the Lizzy name after a while.

No? They performed quite a lot of Phil Lynotts death.

Yes, but no new albums. All the new recordings are as Black Star Riders.

6 hours ago, bobbass4k said:

Finally got something resembling a board back together, relatively straightforward signal chain. The 3 off the board usually live on the desk for easy tweaking when going into the interface, cabsim, bass pre (logic clone with mods) and guitar pre (Hudson broadcast clone with mods).

 

Wow is that the last Arion 'Stereo' pedal left standing?

I used to have the stereo compressor  - still have the box, full of fishing lures with rusty hooks...

Board and component layout together with Eagle files and a component list if anyone is foolish enough to make their own:

Gumpinator.txt

Gumpinator.brd Gumpinator.sch

I've just completed a tiny High Pass Filter, very simple schematic and board here:

Ok, I've finally got round to etching the PCB, populating its and then testing the high pass filter.

The 50mm square enclosure was challenging - even fitting the two jack sockets was tricky, spacers on the outside. The tall caps and voltage doubler IC (for +/- 9v) fit at bottom right. All caps are either 10u or 100n for simplicity!

The PCB had to be carefully hacksawed(!) right to the edges of the tracks, I used soft faced vice jaws as a guide for the saw. Note one corner was too tight so I had to 'divert' the track:

Power LED just hard wired to the power connector and switched -ve via the ring of the input jack, so not on PCB. Need to put on a proper decoration - and the right way up!

First stick in a bottom B from my home-made frequency generator:

4V P-P, (actually no visible difference between in and out signals up to 6KHz - I didn't bother going higher):

As hoped, gain rapidly drops off below 31Hz.

This is 0.4V at 22Hz:

4.0 top 0.4 is gain of 0.1 that's exactly 20dB cut at 22Hz, which is pretty much excatly what the modelling software predicted. Kudos to Analog Devices!

The nay-sayers will say I should have made the cutoff higher, but it's (supposedly) 'infrasonic' signals below about 16Hz that are the main problem.

12 hours ago, Bluewine said:

Who's Michael Ryan?

 

Blue

Boss of Ryan Air, the airline that charges you extra for everything. In case of an emergency a mask drops down and a sign lights up saying 'Insert 1 euro in slot for 5 minutes oxygen'.

1 hour ago, Chienmortbb said:

My point is that that includes labour and profit . 

Probably more profit than labour, with an automated cable stripper it's less than a  minute to hand assemble those cables if you have the knack and no doubt at Chinese labour rates.