[sdiy] EH Bass Microsynth mod

[Harry Bissell Jr]

Its DIY...

just pull the frets out with a set of end-nippers...
and fill the slots with epoxy.  Use nice colored epoxy
and you'll still see the fret locations.

Better still do what a Kramer bass did... Half
fretless bass... every fret above the 12th is
missing. Best of both worlds.

H^) harry

--- Toby Paddock <tpaddock at seanet.com> wrote:
> Thanks Nils. Just what I needed. Now that I know 
> what I'm listening for, I'll give it another try  
> and then decide.
> 
> Toby "I really want a fretless bass even though I 
> can't even really play a normal bass" Paddock
> (if you can call a bass with a pickguard made 
> from a 78 record "normal")
> 
> Nils Pipenbrinck wrote:
> > Toby Paddock wrote:
> > 
> > >The only difference I see is doubling the values
> of C8,9,10 in the 
> smoothing 
> > >filter (center of page 1). Does this sound
> reasonable? Has anyone done it? 
> > >Need recalibration? Is it that much of an
> improvement? Just tack on some 
> caps 
> > >and see what happens? Don't open it, you'll let
> the magic out? 
> > >  
> > >
> > Toby,
> > 
> > That are infact the only differences between the
> two models. Modding 
> > the effect for a bass-model just improves the
> tracking towards the 
> > lower notes. If you use the effect mostly for the
> lower notes, then 
> > go for it. If you however play more in the higher
> registers don't 
> > change it. It's easy as that.
> > 
> > For the bass-mod you can just replace the caps. No
> recalibration nessesary.
> > 
> > When you open it, be carefull when you re-mount
> the jacks. I had the 
> > problem that the effect worked as long as the
> backplate was open,
> >  but when I closed the housing I heared nothing.
> Problem was, that 
> > the signal terminal of the jack shorted to ground
> over the chasis as 
> > soon as I plugged a cable in.
> > 
> >   Nils
> 
>