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[quote name='gnasher1993' post='882574' date='Jun 30 2010, 11:16 PM']Pics or it's a DS-1. [/quote] Uh.. Okay? No natural light, blurry shot of the 'hole enlarging' more accurate shot with bits in position, and paper placeholders for the writing.

I'm at the stage of assembly for my OC-2 rehouse/refinish project. Very little has been done in the way of modifying things. Used a DS-1 enclosure, and had to enlarge the power supply hole for the older Boss power supply, as well as drill the LED hole out to make way for the larger LED I'm going to be using. Some new chrome knobs are going on in place of the standard Boss ones. The case has been stripped and now it's gloss white instead. Happy with it. But I digress as none of that is really DIY pedal stuff. The only thing to do before assembling is the lettering on the enclosure. I mentioned it a page or two back, but I've now had an experiment with some waterslide decals and lacquering back over the top, and I'm not convinced by them. The finish of the actual letters is okay - nice and clear and flat. But the line where the decal has been cut out looks horrid to my eyes. It's a minor thing, but when everything else about the pedal is spot on as far as I can see, that isn't acceptable I looked into vinyl lettering, but I think the letters I'm using are too small to be done that way. Hand painted letters won't look good, and screen printing is prohibitively expensive for a one off. So any more ideas? No matter how oddball! Just want something professional looking.

Looks like a Red Onion bypass box to me.

You're an absolute star! Thankyou. I owe you a favour chuck

Either really, I'll take what I can get! But I suppose having it actual size would mean no resizing or anything would need doing? Like I say, the capital O is 8.5mm tall, so the rest should be scaleable from that? There's a link to the image on the Roland site here: [url="http://www.roland.co.uk/assets/media/pdf/OC-2_PSA_OM.pdf"]http://www.roland.co.uk/assets/media/pdf/OC-2_PSA_OM.pdf[/url]

[quote name='Bloodaxe' post='877006' date='Jun 25 2010, 12:05 AM']As far as I can tell, the text for the controls is Helvetica (use Arial at a push), but the Octave text presents a problem. It's possible to put together some outlines that say OCTAVE, but the lower case is very different and there aren't any examples in cataolgue I found. The source font doesn't seem to be around, very likely it's a custom design for Roland/Boss. Three things give me mild cause for concern here... 1. What are the correct sizes? 2. If you don't have the software, how much use is a vector file going to be? ... and the Big One... 3. How do you intend to print/make/confect a white transfer? Pete.[/quote] Yeah, it's mostly just the Octave text that is the problem. The other words would be fine with a near match. At real life size, the capital O in Octave is 8.5mm tall, if that gives any indication of the correct size. I can get the file printed at work (shh), so that shouldn't be a problem, it's just creating the file that is the key for me. And I've refinished it in white, so the text is going to be black

Absolutely. Pet peeve of mine with any Crybaby style wah! Good work.

So I'm just refinishing a Boss pedal at the moment. Almost done repainting it and I want to put the lettering on again in the original font. I couldn't find a "Boss font" [i]anywhere[/i] on the net, so I was wondering if anyone here could help. The manual from the Roland website has the lettering quite clearly on the first page of the PDF - would anyone be able to create a vector of just the lettering for the top plate? It's an OC-2. I just need the "output", "input" and "Octave OC-2" doing, as well as the arrows. That would allow me to create a transfer for it at the correct size. I am a noob and have no suitable software or skills for this, so I'd really appreciate any help

For guitar, yes. For bass... not so much. Still, that's all from my limited time spent with it. YMMV, of course

GT1 is loud enough, but not that versatile. At all.

If you're not combining any of the effects, it shouldn't really matter! But just incase you ever want to use fuzz and delay or something, the muff would sound horrible after the delay IMO.

It was mostly finished when I picked a bass up about a week and a half ago. I seem to remember the control plate not being finished, so I'm guessing it isn't/wasn't wired up fully yet. Nearly there!

The M9's looper works with MIDI controls too I think.

Okay, slightly different line of questions. What do people use for their lettering if they want it to look professional? I don't really like the look of the shiny bit you get around waterslide transfers, and I only want to put some words onto a finish, not print off a whole top with graphics and everything. Silk screening would be ace, but I think a bit expensive for a one off.

[quote name='Arrakis' post='856355' date='Jun 3 2010, 05:58 PM']That GT1 looks tall against the GT200 which is normally a bigger amp, whats the power of that 80, 120 or did Jeff knock you up something even bigger for bass? because as i understand it the GT1 isn't cut out for bass. might be a perspective thing though i guess.[/quote] My friend plays bass and guitar through the GT1 and it sounds fine It's just a pretty standard GT1, think it's 100W? But I'm not certain. It's in that ballpark. It wasn't bought for bass though, just to clear that up. My GT200 just has a slightly smaller enclosure than a normal one. A standard one is about an inch wider and taller I think.