Ooh. Very nice. Very much pro studio gear.
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Been a while since I got a pedal. A while means a few weeks. This is going to be the core of a new bass rig. I like the dry blend on the Jam Lucy Dreamer Bass drive but I have plans. The Jam is participating in an upcoming trade. This having three parallel channels with dry blend will offer some very cool tonal possibilities. New board coming soon.
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Ordered some Ultex 1.14mm picks today. I tried ultex for guitar, and I like the feel…a lot. But .60 is too thin for bass
Also ordered some TI flats for my Toby bass. It sounds very bright with rounds.
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I started with a .60 dunlop nylon pick…it was super good for strumming fast but hopeless for articulation of notes (probably why I pick so hard) and it makes a horrible flappy sound on the strings which I could not get over (even though I only hear it when practicing with low or no music)…so I tried some Ultex and found I had gone from one of the softest materials to one of the hardest…I actually started with a .60, it was cool but because it is super hard even at .60, and hard=brittle when too thin, I managed to create some hairline cracks in it after one session of my hard picking (lol)…I settled on a .88 primetone ultex in the end which seems to work for me both fast strumming and articulation of single notes and makes a much more satisfying pick on metal string sound too
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Just got an announcement from DiMarzio on a new offering - pre-wired drop in wiring harnesses. The announcement only mentioned guitars, but if you go to the site there’s a number of bass options as well. For those who don’t solder but want to update their sound here’s an option
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/pre-wired
Should mention DiMarzio pots are custom tapered with brass shafts, so good quality
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Sweet! Wish it had Pj setups.
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I was thinking that, but if you were to call I bet they could do it. DiMarzio does custom requests
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I love Steven Slate’s products but I swear I get VSX spam at least a couple times a week now. It’s getting silly.
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Can’t you opt-out? Or give them feedback that marketing mails is way too recurring?
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Yeah it made me unsub.
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Hey @Wombat-metal, we didn’t get pictures but while we were in BigBoss, @John_E and I ran across an acoustic Miku Stream-G short. Extremely cute. It was GrassRoots too, so inexpensive. Just in case you want an acoustic 6-string. 24" scale, tiny thing.
Stock pic:
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That is actually tempting lol
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IKR?
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Ya this was indeed the cutest of all the teeny cute instruments. Lol. Short scale even for a guitar.
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Another recent GAS attack:
An Ampeg thing, but not a bass thing. V7 model 100W 2x12 combo amp. Most likely from 1985.
Saw this guy sitting at the local shop and it looked quite nice for the age. Turns out this was sitting in the back closet of a church for decades before it was sold to Sam Ash. Barely any info online about this particular model of guitar amp but it’s like if a Fender and a Marshall had a baby. Nice cleans and pretty excellent crunch. You can stack the clean and gain channels for even more chug action.
Surprisingly, tucked away in the cabinet was the original warranty card with a hand-written date of May 1985 from Atlanta Music Supply. Also found was the original literature explaining the settings and such. So cool!
It takes 6550 tubes so that’s not gonna be fun down the road but I thought it was such a nice piece that I could not pass it up. The sounds I’ve gotten from it thus far have not disappointed what-so-ever.
Once again, not a bass thing… I’m kinda floating back and forth with bass and guitar these days. 
However, I thought it would be fun to share.
Also I think @EddieJones will be pleased that I’ve finally integrated a rug. 
Now back to trying to even out my bass to guitar ratio… 
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If the object is not on a rug it doesn’t count, lol. I’m sure @EddieJones would confirm the protocol.
That looks nice, I’ve never seen a standby switch before. Love the pedal function too.
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Probably like a “mute” switch on a modern amp!?!?
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They’re common on tube amps. Explanation below.
“While the tubes are warming up, the standby switch removed the high voltage from the circuit until the tubes filaments were warmed up to operating temperature and the power supply voltage would be loaded down by the tubes to the nominal safe operating voltage for the capacitors.”
https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/great-standby-switch-myth/
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From what I could find it seems these FC-3 pedals are quite rare. Some were looking for schematics and inside the chassis photos so if I ever get in there I might be able to provide more info to that conversation.
The pedal is needed to activate each channel (and the reverb) so the folks who did not have one had to resort to shorting certain pins on the back panel connection.
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That’s a great read @Barney, Gotta admire the genius of Leo Fender.
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