Recent content by PJsaure

I don’t know, doesn’t look too much like ash to me, especially in your flash less photos. I would expect much bigger, much more open pores in ash. In this, the pores look relatively small and closed. I have not seen a ton of unfinished alder in person, but the color makes me lean in the alder...

On case you are concerned bout losing too much high end in active mode, you can so use no-load pot (or modify a standard potentiometer, it’s fairly simple). When a no-load pot is fully clockwise, it has infinite resistance, effectively taking the tone circuit out of the equation.

Honest and harsh feedback ? Ok, let’s go The shapes look a bit too « rough cut » and may need some refining for my taste. The tuner holes, as said previously, look dangerously close to the edge. Have a look at a typical Fender headstock, the holes are a LOT farther from the edge. One could say...

Put a steel handle, now you have a magnetized handle to hold a metal pick box or whatever, call it a feature. :D

Yes sure, gain/master set 100/25 vs 25/100 won’t sound the same, I think we all agree on that. I’m not familiar with this particular amp myself (HRDX stands for Hot Rod Deluxe, right?), so I can’t say for sure. From what I understand in the schematic I found online, the master is actually...

Yes. But I don’t get the point of putting a pad between the pre and power amp when you can simply turn down the master and achieve the exact same output. It sounds to me like you are implying there is some benefit to having the master set higher at any given output volume. What would that...

Yes, but the master volume on typical Fender and Fender derived amps (and I would say even probably most tube amps) is controlling what is feeding into the power amp section, not what is coming out of it. When turning the master down, you do not reduce the volume of the (potentially overdriven)...

Just replace "send" by "preamp output" and "return" by "power amp input", and consider your preamp just as another pedal (knowing that the preamp output is probably much hotter than a typical pedal). The whole thing made much more sense to me when I started thinking about it this way. To be...

Nice bass! I am pretty sure that this is the maple grain as well. Flamed maple is still wood, and it has its own grain that is more or less visible « behind » the flames. The flames are just undulating grain.

I think the default IR is « Forrester’s Punch ». It is not blank though, it is an IR if a particular cab/mic, so it is not a neutral point of reference.

I have no idea what I am talking about, but what about iLoud Micro Monitors by IK Multimedia ? They are right in your price range, and they get a ton of very positive reviews. I am in the same situation as you, mixing with headphones (AKG K701), and am planning to get some (small) monitors, for...

I would miss it a lot too. In fact, when I was planning my new bass build, I originally wanted a four because I already own a five. The idea was that I would not need the low B for most of my rock band covers. But... there are a few songs which need a low D. So I thought a D-tuner would be OK...

You can certainly do that kind of thing with ZOIA :whistle: It can arpegiate for you, and add an octaver every other note. Or you can arpegiate yourself and it can simply turn on and off the octaver. However, as I said, the pitch shifting is not the best. It works well, but it has a sound, it is...

If you want to get into modular, maybe you should wait for the ZOIA Euroburo. It is a very versatile pedal, the main things that would need improvement in my opinion would be the pitch detection and the pitch shifting modules. I dreamt about sequenced synths that would be triggered/advanced by...

+1 for ZOIA. You even have nice pre-made patches on patchstorage.com, users often include sound samples with their patches so you can check out what is possible (hint: it is endless). You can use it as a multi-effects by simply chaining effects modules (phaser, delay, chorus, vibrato, tremolo...