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bremen

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  1. Op doesn't say whether the problem got better or worse after shielding. Yes I agree if it wasn't grounded it'd make it worse.
  2. Yes but it was picking up the interference before the shielding was installed, as well as after. Is it well behaved elsewhere? How about if you move it close to an amp? There's a rehearsal room I use that sometimes but not always puts weird noises into my amp. Apparently others have also suffered, but noones got to the bottom of it. Best guess is it's something in the mains, it's on an industrial estate shared with some heavy industry.
  3. For every health tip online there's an associated health scare https://www.jeffersonhealth.org/your-health/living-well/the-trouble-with-turmeric-associated-liver-injuries I think there are as many Daily Fail articles condemning coffee as a carcinogen as there are touting it as a cure for cancer.
  4. That's a weird optical illusion brought on by the parallel lines. Looks as big as the body till you count the segments of garage door, then it looks about half the length of the body. Very pretty.
  5. Old farts behaving badly! https://thejesuslizard.bandcamp.com/track/westside?from=fanpub_fb_trk&utm_source=track_release&utm_medium=email&utm_content=fanpub_fb_trk&utm_campaign=thejesuslizard+track+westside
  6. I decided that I'm a P player, end of story. Then I saw ...does this make me bi-curious?
  7. Well it's a start 😁
  8. I know! I got a Jazz because...er...because I thought I should...um...out of curiosity...? Anyway. Those three knobs! So confusing! Almost as bad as having five strings! How folk deal with active preamps, I'll never know... Edit: this is not intended as sarcasm, to be clear:-)
  9. Ha!Ha! Didn't I say! 🥰😄
  10. I might be wrong and bad, but I prefer to carry on with leaded solder at home. The lead free we're obliged to use at work isn't as horrid as it used to be, but the bad old toxic old shit just flows nicer. https://cpc.farnell.com/c/tools-maintenance/soldering/solder/solder-wire?st=Solder
  11. I'd never heard of him so I consulted Wikipedia and learned that he was to AOR what Brian Pern was to prog 😆
  12. Yes, certainly safer than ebay. I got a beautiful Japanese precision neck here.
  13. I'd be very wary of spending that much sight unseen. If you can find another 100 you could have Jon Shuker make you one, and going by what I hear here you're guaranteed it's going to be as good as it gets.
  14. I think it'd be well worth it, only a few quid and you can reuse them if the varislope is unfixable (which it won't be unless someone's let the air into the valves). I'd put the switchers, with a little extra filtering, into a plastic box and tape that onto the inside of the lid, put a connector for a wall wart where the redundant power switch connector is now. Happy to share circuits here or by pm.
  15. Yes I just got the Official Basschat Soldering Iron! Very handy. You could make a power supply froma 9V wall wart, one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/146033415851?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=fuFx_Xa4SFq&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=hNc7PDPYRJi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY to take that down to 6.3V for the heaters and one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264785680757?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=HWuPrm7wSWu&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=hNc7PDPYRJi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY for the 195V rail. I've used both those modules for valve preamps.
  16. That's not the preamp schematic. Looks like a radio with small power amp stage. If you can solder, I could help you make a power supply for the preamp.
  17. I had the later version and yes, it made a beautiful fat sound with bass. I have the umbilical and service manual somewhere. It takes 6.3V and 200ishV from the power amplifier, is that something you could provide if I come up with a diagram? If not, it'll get a good price on ebay. Just use the word Mullard and you're away 😄
  18. Isn't there a huge difference in tone between A,E and D,G?
  19. Solve two problems at once - replace the oversized, dated-fontsed covers with unbranded, standard covers!
  20. It's OK, works. The stand is a bit of a chocolate teapot (the iron is very light so the relatively heavy cable pulls it off [stop sniggering at the back]). A handy tool for the gigbag.
  21. What are the Jazz pickups like? Loving the P. Just done a rehearsal with the other band, a horrible electropunk country&metal outfit, and it really fits.
  22. I don't know that he's a troll. I think he's just saying that Fenders are overpriced, Squiers are over-rated and he doesn't like them. Fair enough - opinions are, as Adolf Hitler said, like testicles: everyone's got one.
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