Recent content by MglMatador

Hi all, I still pop in here occasionally. I went down the rabbit hole with microphone designs over at GroupDIY so I've had precious little time to spend on bass and/or bass preamps. I can help out as time permits: remembering back a few years ago I had half a dozen preamp boards made...

Thanks! I've been through three sets of SS round-wounds: some scuffing can be seen but it doesn't bother me enough to fix it. I imagine some lemon oil and 0000 steel wool would polish it up pretty quickly.

Rondo parts page. ;)

Perhaps the nut slot is cut too low?

In case anyone is interested, here was the fixed layout I came up with some time ago. I haven't had any space on my last few panels but if someone is interested I can see if I can have a few made and send them out. Keep in mind: I think this should work properly but I haven't built/tested...

Nobody ever built these because I had the only two prototypes. :smug: I found three layout errors on the first boards: the last of which was not fixable as it was an incorrect connection of a pin to a ground plane. There no way to dremel it up to fix it. Hence the first boards only worked...

To finish things up: 1) Attached the bridge with #6 stainless steel screws: 2) Screwed in the Dimarzio Area J set: 3) Wired up the pots, output jack, and DPDT switch for series/parallel switching (the pickups are hard wired in series, and the neck volume pot pulls up and down...

Ugh, after a long delay of work and house projects I finally get to spend time on stuff that really matters...bass building. Here's the process I went through to get the epoxy finish on the neck (I don't have any in-process pics since I had to work fast): 1) I used Envirotex Lite, mixed in...

What about the sound did you feel lacking? I find it depends mainly on the style of music. I've done tons of Jazz recordings direct that blended well, as the sound was mostly clean with a clear fundamental (and was relatively low in the mix). However for aggressive rock sounds I've always...

This. The epoxy goes down in 10 minutes, but it's a week of work leveling it.

Envirotex seems to be HIGHLY temperature dependent. At 50F, it took over 24 hours to set to tacky, and over a week to cure to full hardness. At 70F it was supposed to be better but I had to do this in my garage. Of course all epoxies suffer from this problem, but Envirotex appears to be...

I just finished an epoxy job on a fretless J. I used Envirotex Lite. If I had to do it again I would use the West Systems 105/207 combination, as the Envirotex was hard to measure correctly (I like to measure by weight: West Systems publishes the weight ratio's) and takes a VERY long time to cure.

If you haven't sliced your thumb open on a shielding job, you didn't burnish your edges enough! ;)

This is the "SX effect" and is well documented here on TB. If you like the aggressive mid-forward tone of the SX pickups, Chunger has come up with a good Nordstrand recipe in his "basses for newbies (SX batch build thread)" in Hardware, Setup & Repair...there's sound samples you can hear in...

I think if you dig a hard-core vintage tone these work fine. My '86 maple and rosewood Foundation I find far two dark and lifeless with the Super Ferrites. I can't get the tone to cut through a mix no matter how I play it. The bass itself is superb however.