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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8nbHYOc8ns

When I see something like this I can't but wonder what the person was up to. It's damn impressive

I am thinking of converting a Tele I have laying around that has a crappy neck to either a Bass VI or Bariton, with a conversion neck.

I have the feeling that with a Bass VI I will be stuck with something in between a bass and a guitar, where playing chords will yield shoddy results. Might be very cool for some things but not an very flexible instrument.
It would be nice to have it as an extended shortscale bass though ...

Bariton, closer to a regular guitar, but you have to transpose what you are playing which can be annoying but at the same time open up new tonal possibilities ...

Not ever having played either one of those I was just wondering what you guy's experience with such instruments is.

P.S. I know that it all really depends on personal preferences and playing style. Just wondering what you guys play with these instruments.

[Creativity, Inc.]

 Daily I have about 3 hours of commuting by car (sometimes less when I'm lucky...)
A few months ago I started listening to audiobooks and found that it makes the time spent in the car a lot more enjoyable and prevents me from wanting to kill every second driver and curse them and their whole family for the next ten generations ... ;-)

Among others I have been through these:

Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull (the founder of Pixar, very entertaining, despite it being aimed at managers)
The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz
The Lord of the Rings (watch out for those long Elf songs if you are driving, had me dosing off more than once ...)
The Harry Potter series, narrated by Stephen Fry (really nice actually, Stephen Fry is great to listen to and has probably spoiled me to the point of no longer being able to enjoy lesser narrators ...)

Right now I am listening to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which sounds promising.

Any of you guys know some good audiobooks?

http://www.thomann.de/be/mooer_the_wahter_classic_wah_pedal.htm

now this is mini ...

So I was building myself a double overdrive combining something like an OD820 and somthing like a BSIAB. The OD820 is first in the chain. Both circuits can be bypassed individually.
I had been testing it and they sounded great either on their own or combined.

Then... I actually plugged my guitar directly into the pedal. Until then I had been playing through a looper that plugged into the peal, but when plugging the guitar directly into it I get a huge high pitched oscillation when both circuits are engaged. The pitch of the squeal varies with almost all the knobs of the 2 pedals. Also the guitar knobs affect the squeal pitch.

As soon as I insert some buffer between the guitar and the pedal all is fine.

This can happen, but what I find the weirdest is that the first thing in my OD820 circuit is a regular textbook opamp buffer (unlike the actual OD820 which is a fet buffer) ...

I just don't get this ... maybe someone has an idea of what could be causing this, and why the onboard buffer does not prevent the oscillation like an external one does

Surely you have owned and resold more pedals than you would care to remember but have you ever regretted parting with one to the point of buying another one?

I have recently bought a Memory Man with Hazarai again. I had owned one for a few months some years ago and sold it as I could not really get a good use out of it (and also partly because I was convinced I would never want to use a digital delay .. cork sniffing hmm hmm ...) I am having so much fun with it now :-)

The only other pedal I ever regretted is a DOD FX-17 Wah/Volume. I can't even remember why I sold it. Perhaps needed money. It's such a nifty pedal though, small and with a 5v CV output. The Wah circuit was nothing to write home about but definitely usable. I would love to get another one for it's size and to control CV pedals ...
They pop up on ebay regularly but for ridiculously high prices ... I'll keep watching ...

I had bought a breadboard years ago that was great and is just now starting to feel a bit loose on the connections.
Since then I have bought 2 others (Tayda or Banzai ... don't remember) and these are just crap. You never know if a connection is OK and lose more time debugging faulty connections than your actual circuit ...

I can't remember for the life of me where I got the old one from. It was a light brownish color. The new ones are the cheap chinese white stuff you get everywhere and it seems that all the places like Tayda, Banzai, Musikding etc only carry these same ones.

Does anyone know where to find good, sturdy breadboards?

I was wondering what D4, D5, and C24 in the Sunking do compared to the Kingslayer setup.
And does the Sunking run on +18V/-9V? Or is that a typo?

Lots of 2 in 1 topics lately it seems.

I am planning a double overdrive pedal. The first circuit is already done, it's a kind of OD820 with a mids pot. But I am still looking for a nice second overdrive to put after it. Initially I was going for a Plexi Drive, as I find that it is both a mild overdrive and when boosted with something in front of it becomes a huge marshall monster without adding too much noise. Not surprising to see Wampler use it in his Velvet Fuzz.

The thing is that I am always trying to stay away from circuits relying on parts that are hard to get/expensive and inconsistent, needing much sorting.

I have not found any op amp design yet that breaks up like the Plexi Drive. I tried rat/TS/Shredmaster and similar topologies and they all get very loose and flabby in the bass content when boosted with something. Reducing the bass response does not seem to help much.

Any ideas of an op amp overdrive/distortion that stays tight when boosted?

I tried to search for the info but could not find anything. What is the correct frequency (to be close to the original electric mistress) the clock should be biased to?

I dialed it in to work over a good range but I was wondering to what range the original would be set to.
Note that I am using a MN3027, not sure if the frequency is to be set differently with a MN3007.

I would need a magnifying glass, illuminated for fine solder work.
What do you guys use? Desklamps? Devices strapped to your head, to your viewing glasses?

Something more sophisticated?



I tend to think that something attached to my head or viewing glasses could be cool, but shopping around I seem to find only crap quality stuff ...

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, feel free to move it if needed

I just wanted to introduce myself to the people here :-)

My name is David. I am a portuguese expat living in Belgium. I have been doing DIY pedals since the late nineties after seeing a schematic for a BluesBreaker in a German guitar magazine. Having done some electronics during my studies, I realized that building that pedal would probably not be that hard, and it wasnt. And I have never stopped since :-)

I have been previously hanging out on other forums but lately took a liking to this one that I find very active and motivating. Lots of great projects from Brian and other members. Great community initiatives as far as I have seen. I recently finished a Current Lover that I loved (no pun intended, I guess ...). I keep opening it up once in a while just to stare with amazemenet at all the stuff that they were able to cram into this little PCB ....

So after having been a lurker for a while I will hang out around here more often and hope I can also contribute a little :-)