I made a switcher box this weekend for my new bass rig. one switch to mute the korg rack tuner, one switch to trigger the boost of the 1978 preamp on/off. then I also built in my little Lehle II as a loop switcher, in case I want to use any other pedals. I m using 6 pin XLR connectors. on the amp side I m using a 19 œ front panel which I will mount in the back of my rack. the trickiest part was to get that žmechanical œ switch of the Lehle pedal in the right position. also the 6 core cable is a bit too thick.

My wife bought me a hollowbody bass kit off of the interwebs for the holidays this year. This was my first build from the ground up and my first time painting, so needless to say the finish is a bit rough... though I'm fairly hard on my basses so no matter how nice it looks now it'll be thrashed fairly soon. The stock pickups were pretty dull so I threw in a set of Lace Alumitone Deathbuckers with coil taps. Now it sounds seriously mean and way more tonally varied than I ever thought it would. I'm going to replace the bridge at some point, I can't get into the old Gibson 3-point bridges.

WOULD DO PETER HOOK IMPRESSION WITH

That bass is beautiful. Looks like a Mosrites Celebrity that got caught smoking cigarettes behind church, joined a rock band and never looked backPlus I like that bridge pickup is pulled away from the bridge a little!

That bass is beautiful. Looks like a Mosrites Celebrity that got caught smoking cigarettes behind church, joined a rock band and never looked backPlus I like that bridge pickup is pulled away from the bridge a little!

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:That bass is beautiful. Looks like a Mosrites Celebrity that got caught smoking cigarettes behind church, joined a rock band and never looked backPlus I like that bridge pickup is pulled away from the bridge a little!Thanks! The pickup locations work quite well, with the bridge p/u in humbucker mode it can do a fairly passable impression of a P-bass. Dr Tony Balls wrote:WOULD DO PETER HOOK IMPRESSION WITHThe only truly comfortable way to play this with a pick is to sling it as low as he does... well maybe slightly higher, but the body is so huge and gets in the way of things.

I had a Crate GXT 210 for several years and the head died. I bought this Shure reverb/mixer at Rock N' Roll Vintage for $10 so thought it'd be fun to toss the dead amp and make a cab with a built in reverb tank. I have never worked with wood or saws or anything before so it ended up taking me all weekend. I couldn't even manage to center the damn thing! Now I go out of my pedal board, into the reverb, max out the input and master channel, then go into my Bassman. The reverb is dull and barely there even at 10, but I like it.Next is a new grill cloth and some jacks mounted in the front so I don't have to use a flashlight to plug everything into the back correctly.

prototyping a 2 channel Studer 169 rack.

Damn, that faceplate and handles are tight.

^ well done, speaking as a 169 owner.