mybud
Well-known member
- Build Rating
I thought of simplifying my bass guitar stage rig by consolidating two of my fave boards (as above) into one housing for ease of use and to minimise onstage clutter.
Together they are just too wide to fit into a 1590BB, so I chose a 1590J enclosure to leave some wiggle room in case. I took a day over each board and still managed to bork the first Lumin* build by carelessly fitting two temporary DPDTs (ordered from my local in good faith without due care in checking their configs). This error made the first Lumin unusable for my purposes because I find the switchable frequency its most useful feature for fine-tuning bass response in different live settings.
Thankfully I had a spare and built the replacement board quickly. Here's the finished article.
Does exactly what I want from a tone-finessing PoV.
For bass guitar, I'm using Kevin's Acoustic 360 bass preamp as a front end and finding some joy in its tweakability. The Tso adds phat as necessary, with the Lumin at the end enabling fine tuning to go from a Jaco-ish bridge pup toppy sound to a gutsy Billy Cox type neck pup sound (more vintage Fender bass-like).
For guitar, I'm going to swap the 360 for the IVP as front end. It's over-glassy for my taste and the IVP has more precise control over midrange, its tone controls being active AFAIK. Thanks for reading as ever and wishing you all rewarding and fruitful builds.
* 'Mr Zoot Horn Rollo, hit that long Lumin note, and let it float.'
