Stub Mandrel

Yes but if you got rid of all the sound processing bits?

Wouldn't the ideal be a pedal that uses the SY-1's polyphonic engine to output general MIDI through a USB lead, then you could hook up to a laptop and play sound you wanted. (I've been playing with a cheap as chips mini keyboard and ignite today).

Cripes that's not bad for a couple of hours, what did you use?

Just Tich hornblocks! Plus I calculated the motor power to give approximately the same hauling power as a Tich or Rob Roy.

Interesting! Personally I think of an EUB as very different from a standard bass which I tend to think of as closely related to guitar, because of the shared construction.I'd gold up the mando-bass as evidence - tuned the same but clearly from the family mandolin - mandola - mando-cello - mando bass. Of course it's a bit odd as the double bass is a bit of an 'instrument out on its own', as the obsolete viola and bass violin (tuned in fifths) are more closely related to the violin - viola -cello family, although it bears a strong resemblance to them and is played. Unlike in biology where lines of descent are clear, with instruments it's easy for things to cross over and be novel. The defining feature of the guitar is that it's a chordal instrument and its tunings reflect this. The bass is primarily designed to be played monophonically (notwithstanding guitar solos and bass chords!) and perhaps the thing that distinguishes it most from the guitar is that it is (almost) always tuned in fourths, whatever the number of strings.

Just to show that both terms go back to the early 19th century:

Some interestingly convoluted definitions on the internet - usin g different definitions to make or score points. Personally I consider them to have the same meaning. But this is interesting:

OMG! I remember watching that demonstration of a sampler with dog barks on Tomorrows World! Must have been pre 1980.

True confession... reading this thread has made me turn off Planmet Rock and put on Tainted Love instead. (Back in the 80s it was the only disco song all us rock types would dance to! Oh who remembers the Aberystwyth Pier Disco circa 1982) <edit> Found the proper one - I'd love to get some of these 'dark' sounds from my bass:

If you leave rough cut up on Soundcloud, someone will share/pirate it. Might only cost you a couple of dozen sales but...

I've learned loads of songs over the last six months. I find Ultimate guitar easy because it allows you to quickly change between versions (some songs have eight or more tabs, they can't ALL be right). There are several types, the best are pretty accurate and give an idea of the rhythm. Some just give you little more than a set of riffs and a few are people 'interpretation'. Many have minor mistakes, most have bad fingering choices, and a proportion are just totally wrong. At the moment we are trying to build a setlist of about 40 songs, so lots of playing songs on YouTube and trying to sight read the tab (it can be done and makes me even more convinced I'm dyslexic when it come to the dots!) The worst songs are the really complex ones that don't have a clear bass-melody to stick in your head. For complex ones I find Troy's bass covers on youtube are good: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPqVw7y59QuPZdQ6QkuXKQ You can slow down 50% and play along to the sub-bass to learn hard bits 🙂 I find there are two separate things to learn, which rarely go at the same speed: learning the technical bits and learning the song, ideally you want to be good enough so that if dropped in at a random point you can join in quickly (i.e. if you get lost playing with others you can recover and make it seem like you put in a jazzy little fill...)

It will be six weeks before I can get my hands on this bass. In the meantime my brother has traumatised me with a video of him playing it upside down (he's a lefty and somehow he can play them both ways up) and worse ... he says his partner has threatened to stick a plectrum holder on it - wrong in so many ways!

I live 45 minutes from the nearest of my bandmates... but I used to commute over 70 miles a day to and from Birmingham via Spaghetti Junction.

No 🙂 I want to see Clutch live, I've only heard relatively recent stuff, but it's all awesome. They prove you can play music with a sense of humour without being cheesy. Steel Panther and the Darkness please note...

LOL! They have another video that's a demo by Thomas McRocklin. Last time I saw a video of him playing he was about six years old!

It's 'Southam' a Hudswell Clarke diesel shunter. http://www.stubmandrel.co.uk/model-engineering/127-southam-electric-shunter

https://chownybass.com/product/retrovibe-by-chowny-vantage/

Will definitely make the simple version, may try the more complex one. Good suggestion to use presets - it should be set and forget.

First shot at a design - 'rough and ready' chebyschev , hoping that a 3:1tuning ratio for the second stage won't have too extreme an effect. Bodge from Art oif Electronics ideas plus HPF-pre warning C3 is connected the wrong way round in this schematic - I've corrected the simplified one). Super simple design with -3dB at 30Hz, using Analog Devices online designer which chooses clever resistor values and lets you have a zero gain design so no volume control needed. Inclined to think the simpler the better (edit gone back to E24 to make it more practical):

Take a listen to this even if you aren't a Tull or a bass cover fan. This is probably one of the most astounding basslines ever. Credit must go to Dave Pegg, Glenn Cornick and Bach for their roles in creating this... and Troy for managing to cover it.

If it has plain PUP covers it may even be that he's lifted the cover but the pickup itself is jammed down, has he taken it right off to check it's intact? Tell he him that a skateboard pratfall proves his fitness to be a parent 🙂

It's a bit more crowded than this now with an extr, much bigger, lathe, shaper, larger bench drill and CNC milling machine... Mostly 600mm deep, but I don't do a lot of the brown stuff..

The idea is you don't hear any change - but 'sub-harmonics' and thumps get cut giving you more headroom and a cleaner, clearer sound.

I must admit I'm intrigued by the Boss SY-1, especially having dug up Theme 1 recently, and Kashmir, and Gimme Some Loving, Perfect Strangers and... I think I need one... 🙂

Just add an octave divider and you'll be able to stay at home while it plays both parts for itself...