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Projects => General Questions => Mods => Topic started by: jonrhee on November 30, 2012, 09:07:41 PM

Title: Engineer's Thumb Bass Mod
Post by: jonrhee on November 30, 2012, 09:07:41 PM
If I were modding the Engineers thumb compressor to be suitable for bass, would I just change the input cap to 1uF? What generally goes into modding pedals for bass?
Title: Re: Engineer's Thumb Bass Mod
Post by: midwayfair on November 30, 2012, 09:42:35 PM
It wouldn't hurt, but I don't think it's necessary for a 4-string to go above 100nF. You might need to raise the threshold a little, maybe 2.2M, so socket that and the input cap maybe.
Title: Re: Engineer's Thumb Bass Mod
Post by: jonrhee on December 01, 2012, 03:51:17 AM
Awesome, thanks! I'll give it a go.
Title: Re: Engineer's Thumb Bass Mod
Post by: midwayfair on December 04, 2012, 01:40:46 PM
Actually this is what Merlin Blencowe had to say on the subject:

QuoteIt will work fine with bass right off the bat. You could increase the 100pF cap to 220pF if you like, which will reduce noise, since you don't need as much bandwidth.
Title: Re: Engineer's Thumb Bass Mod
Post by: jonrhee on December 04, 2012, 09:29:15 PM
Oh very nice. Easy enough.