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Nope, I shot my bow for the first time in a year!

Now that it's 2016, and I've actually had a play with it, this thing really shines running into a tube amp.

I took it, along with a stack of other builds, to a friends house on new years eve, and we plugged it into his fender deluxe (?) 30, and it just gave that nice bright edge of breakup thing to the amp.

As a result I have an order for a 2in1 treble booster/sho, a compressor, and a 3in1 that was called 'the dirty box' until his wife saw the artwork we had decided on...

But yeah, brian may treble booster into a tube amp... Very tasty.

I like 1790NS a lot for dual effects, but for 3 footswitches I prefer the DD sized boxes just for the ergonomics of it.

I dunno.  Force Awakened just feels so 2015.

In my Bass multi I used the following:

Mictesters Really Cheap Compressor, tuned for bass, vero. Pretty good.
A Sprout one knob fuzz, Haberdasher etch.  Havent tried it in the band context.  I suspect it'll get swallowed up.
NE-1 bass preamp.  Vero.  Someone does this as a Canned Yam pcb.  This is essential imo. Great preamp.
THC balanced driver.  You need to get this too, my multi has 1/4 inch and xlr outs.

Saw it Sunday night. 

It a polarizing film..

I loved it, my mate was going "wtf did I just watch - mind blown", and the people behind us coming out of the cinema were "that was the worst film I've ever seen".

That Bag of Dicks sounds great on the video demo.  Anyone got a vero layout or a schematic for that lying around?

Well, they're not too expensive in the scheme of things over here but ebay still has them over the $100 mark.  Which is reasonable but not "cheap".

I'm the last to say my guts are neat, but I'm not selling them either.

Wow.  I just had a google for "devi ever pedal gutshots" and I have to admit I'm a little disappointed in the apparent build quality for what I consider to be a boutique "brand name"... Apparently things have changed but we see better built stuff here every day.

I'd seen the pedals around in a few second hand shops and the like.  I've never tried them (not a huge fuzz fan) but I couldn't equate the apparent look of it with the reputation.

Not so much burnt out, but certainly pretty much done.  I've built pretty much everything I wanted to build and I still have a couple that need boxing but aren't overly important in the scheme of things.

I'm on a quest to put together a couple of pedalboards now..  One 9v grab and go, and one hardcore 240v mains powered board with the "elite" pedals...

Beast of Gévaudan

Although this might help:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolves




Actually.. Just had a very disturbing thought.  You could call it "Team Jacob".

Last Ninja

That is one neat board.

I agree with you wholeheartedly.  While there are people (Goverments?  Countries?) that will do it for less with less, others will take advantage of that.  I'm just passing on the stories as I've heard them from people who are there.

Work ethic?  Probably more "No choice in the matter.  Work or dont come in tomorrow".

Either way, cheap gear.

Just in regards to the Chinese slave labour issue - I obviously can't vouch for every business using the Chinese factories, I can pass on a few stories from my uncles, one who worked for one of Australia's 2 big supermarket chains (he's worked for both at one time or another), and the other works for a major shoe label importing around 2mill shoes per yeah.

Basically, the workers live on site, or close enough, and are paid an above average wage for China. Many send the wages home to family as the food and accomodation is covered by the company. We might think its peanuts, but to them it's a substantial amount... To the point where a worker could buy a house in a year. In 5 years they could have 5 houses and retire, but in the words of one uncle, they're pissing the money up against a wall.

Having said that, you are expected to work. A shoe order was due to be shipped the next day but it couldn't be completed due to a breakdown - my uncle was there and all the labour had gone to bed while it was getting fixed. This was around 10pm. He came in the next day and there was still no one around. He asked why the order that was due to leave at 10am wasn't getting completed and he was told that it had already been shipped - the machine had been repaired at 1am, and all the workers were called I. To get the order out.

So while I can't comment on work conditions or oh&s, the pay is apparently pretty good. Either way, you wouldn't get that work ethic here!