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08-28-2008, 08:05 AM
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Hows it done? ive read somewhere that changing the pots for others with less impedance was one way. |
08-28-2008, 08:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia | | | Well most guitar FX will work on bass, but if you mean modding a guitar effect to suit bass frequencies better I'm pretty sure its a pedal by pedal thing. I'm not really into pedal modding but changing the values of certain resistors(or pots), capacitors and inductors will affect the tone.
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08-31-2008, 05:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canberra, Australia | | | There's no single solution for this, you have to understand what are the limiting factors in a pedal and then mod those aspects. Changing pots is definitely not the answer. Very often it's a matter of modifying the circuit so that low frequencies aren't filtered out - this usually involves changing a few capacitors.
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08-31-2008, 06:46 PM
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08-31-2008, 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by bongomania  +1 to nifty. However if I want to blindly mod a pedal for more lows without understanding the circuit first, I usually try replacing the input and/or output caps with ones that are 10x the value of the ones that are in there. But that's like saying "when I want to fix an appliance without finding out exactly what's wrong, I just hit it really hard on the side". Sometimes it works. | Sigged!
or not.. stupid 200 character max
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08-31-2008, 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by bongomania when I want to fix an appliance without finding out exactly what's wrong, I just hit it really hard on the side. | Ah, the old Fonzarelli technique. They don't teach that one in school any more!
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08-31-2008, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by bongomania But that's like saying "when I want to fix an appliance without finding out exactly what's wrong, I just hit it really hard on the side". | Wait, isn't this the first step everybody takes when fixing electronics?
...Well at least everybody that had a NES. 
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08-31-2008, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Captain_Arrrg Wait, isn't this the first step everybody takes when fixing electronics?
...Well at least everybody that had a NES. | No, first you blow the dust out of the cartridge, then you wiggle it back and forth in the NES.
Then you play Tecmo Bowl. |
08-31-2008, 07:52 PM
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08-31-2008, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by bongomania "when I want to fix an appliance without finding out exactly what's wrong, I just hit it really hard on the side". | We call that "percussive maintenance."  |
08-31-2008, 10:34 PM
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09-01-2008, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBigO No, first you blow the dust out of the cartridge, then you wiggle it back and forth in the NES.
Then you play Tecmo Bowl. | |
09-02-2008, 05:48 AM
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Originally Posted by SpankyPants | +1 Ahh the memories...
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