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It's not difficult to add a bass control to a Tube Screamer and man does it make a difference!

Well it was a while ago, but if I look at the schematic I believe you would delete C5 and C6 and replace C7 with a 1µF. Then replace R5 with a C1M pot. The spot where C2 meets R5 goes to Bass 3 (lug 3 of the Bass pot) and Bass 2 goes to the other end of R5, where it joins the gate of Q2. So you...

Actually I think it was HousTom who wanted the demos! I don't mind - I know what these things sound like. :-) And I bet yours sounds spectacular. How could it not?

I have built it with a bass pot rather than a bass switch.

Fair enough too! Dylan's Narrowcast isn't bad either but you gotta give the buyer what they want. :)

Beautiful build as always. And after all the troubleshooting you had to do I'm not sure if I should mention that the transformer doesn't really do anything - at least not in my experience! But you got it working so full credit to you. :cool:

A trick to help shooting chrome or very reflective surfaces is to use white card or paper as reflectors. And avoid hard light sources. You have to shoot at an angle or else you'll see yourself reflected in the thing you're photographing. One way around that is to either use a light tent or shoot...

Couldn't believe it last week when I went to the lake with my coffee and croissant and went to see if the turtle was around - and saw two! And not only that but when I got my phone out to get a pic they both swam into the light. Otherwise I would have struggled to get a decent pic.

FWIW I now use a magnifying glass to check solder pads after soldering all the parts to the board. I have always had excellent eyesight and now wear glasses but still have excellent eyesight. And yet some joints which look good to the naked eye reveal themselves as not so good when seen under a...

Fender jewel lamps have a bent sheet metal holder for the little lightbulb and the holder is attached to the chassis with a circular bezel which is threaded for a nut. The jewel screws into the bezel at the left in this pic (no jewel shown). It looks like this jewel is either threaded into the...

I used to have a rule of red LEDs for OD and Blue for fuzz. But since then I have been building dual OD pedals so that has gone out the window and I rarely use fuzz anyway! Maybe using skinnier wire may have left more space? But super impressive! I think I would have gone crazy trying to keep...

This is why I never use sockets for transistors. I AWAYS have problems with socketed transistors. Never have problems with socketed ICs. I have no idea if the OP socketed transistors but whenever I did it caused problems. Those circular sockets for Ge transistors are the exception. Never had a...

Phew - not cheap! Antique Electronics have a good range of knobs. Might be worth a look.

We squeeze limes (often grown on our lime tree) and make ice cubes from the juice. One margarita needs one lime cube. You don't need to add sugar because there's plenty in Cointreau already. I'll salt the rim of the glass a little ahead of time using the lime cube to moisten the rim, and then it...

Or around the stomp switch. I use those glowing white washers on everything now. Warms my minimalist heart.

There used to be a wonderful restaurant where I live called the Santa Fe, and the owner had actually travelled to Santa Fe from Australia to study New Mexican cooking. I really miss that place. The food was amazing. And he often gave me a little container of his home-pickled jalapenos to take...

And here's me thinking that tan loss angle meant the Scandinavians lost their tans because of the greater angle to the sun. Maybe it's because their capacity to tan is affected by that angle? I have so much to learn.

That's definitely it. Excess random lengths of wire are known to cause darkness. Everyone knows that. It's odd how in the wide shot the input wire looks perfectly well connected to the switch but in the CU it looks like it's making no contact at all. What sort of weirdness is that?? Witchcraft...

Lovely clean build. I've wondered about the Angry Troll so thanks for the description. If you are looking for an unusual looking bird google the Tawny Frogmouth. They live around my area, are nocturnal and look like a part of a tree during the day. They're often mistaken for an owl, but they're...

Not being familiar with Aenima I can't say as to which amp is being used, but the traditional Marshall Superbass was simply a Superlead without the Superlead's guitar-centric modification. The differences are minor and the Superbass is more like a 5F6-a Bassman. The same kind of cabs were...