Archive for October, 2009

melted lead

13Oct09

Spent another afternoon inhaling more toxic fumes and figuring out an electrical puzzle in the form of an active preamp in my Sadowsky UV70 5 string. Had to install a retrofit vintage tone control kit into the existing preamp. Passive instruments are cake, but this Sadowsky has like 50 wires, push/pull pots, blend pots, and [...]


I’m gonna spend the next couple hours with wire cutters, Canare GS-6 cable, right angle and straight G&H nickel connectors,  some rosin core solder, and a soldering iron, so I can wire up my bass amp.
Two separate channels from the Genz Benz Shuttlemax 12.0 going into separate channels in the DBX 166xl compressor and Aphex [...]