What's the latest gear you've acquired?

Are those "mediums," at .052 - .110?

If so, then those are pretty thick, but will sound real good.

The FS flats I got are standard gauge but because flats are higher tension than round wounds of same gauge, I had to adjust the truss. You have to take off the neck and use a phillips head. Be careful lifting it out of the pocket. I had to tighten the truss about 1/5 turn to the right, and surprisingly did not have to re-intonate. I did adjust the pickup heights to get optimal string balance. 

You will probably have to turn the truss screw a little more given the higher tension and then adjust the saddles, 2nd link below. You might also find you want to adjust the saddle height as well, for comfort.


support.fender.com/hc/en-us/articles/214343843-How-do-I-set-up-my-bass-guitar-properly-
www.wikihow.com/Adjust-Intonation-on-Bass


If it seems like you have to adjust truss a lot, then you're supposed to do it in increments, let it settle overnight the first time.

If anything seems wonky and uneven with the neck curvature, then you should take of the strings and go lighter gauge. 

Just in to say this is a good page, I'm back out again.. Maybe I'll be in later, who knows?

Follow up on the Sonic Farm Beamer I ordered last week. Came yesterday. Very well packed, top notch and beautiful build and some cool options that really affect the sound, for instance the option to switch the output transformer in/out, which you can really hear. When ordering you can even choose Ni or Fe in the o/p transformers. I chose Fe for more colour when wanted. Though at first test today I preferred the output switched to the solid state setting.
Zoran and Boris have been nice and easy to deal with. Solid and serious. If you're shopping for a tube pre it's worth checking out:
www.sonicfarm.com

The tube Rack.
4 channels of Preamp, E.Q., Compression.
Getting one more E.Q. to fill the bottom empty space.
All wired to the top patchbay with Mogami digital cable.
Yea, that's a 4 channel Boulder Jensen Twin Servo Microphone Preamp on top.

Damn I'm just going to cuddle up in the back of that rack and stay toasty warm this winter!

Love your rack winetree! While talking ADL, for the few members from EU, there's an ADL1500 (b-stock) for a really nice price at KMR right now. I really like Anthony's optos. They hug in a very musical way, me thinks.

What did you do to the MDX1200? 

The plan is to replace the op amps, capacitors, do some power supply bypassing, and then see if it's worth any use.  If the Composer is any indication, the Autocom should clean up nicely.

Found this Fender Venus guitar on Craigslist. Never played and flawless.
Owner said it hung on the wall of an antique store for a while and then he put it away.
It was the last guitar he sold because the color matched his 1957 Chevy.
Came with the original Fender metal badged gig bag and paper work. I paid $200.00

Unfortunately I was cash poor when MCM Electronics put their pro audio stock on clearance before merging with Newark. I picked up three of their Club Series 12" monitors before they were gone, $50 each, and sixteen of the 25' XLR to TRS cables, $2.75 each.



Wanted a passive monitor rig to use where it'll likely get hit with beers/rain. These came double-boxed with wrap-around foam-backed grills, fly points and a nice finish. Sensitivity is on the low side, RMS rating is double the comparable Yamaha Clubs, we'll see how that holds up in use. The two cardboard boxes behind the center wedge are actually some spare PSD2002 drivers should the answer turn out to be not well... The Neutrik knock-offs on the cables are well done, pretty happy with the lot for $200 shipped!

I have built 8 Fuzz Faces by now... but it's the one in the middle, the big red one, that I just built. I spent the last few nights and afternoons on it and played it today. Very very good. Sun Face circuit from analogman with BC183 transistors as the special sauce. The Volume knob is actually more of a high pass filter than a volume in the last 25% of the turn. Very useful for sculpting the hairy heinous fuzz tone. A little low end here, a little zip here and there, a lot going on for two knobs. Four resistors, 2 transistors, 2 potentiometers, 3 capacitors and a good time, I'd say.