Beanzy
Mar-08-2017, 5:29am
I'm never one to do things the easy way, not if I can fiddle and poke interesting stuff along the way. So after years of dismantling, fettling, breaking and fixing kit, I ended up as a broadcast engineer making TV stations and studios for a living.
In my (ever more scarce) leisure time I often make and mash-up stuff like old amps, stage looms and he like. However Part from a few bass amps, a keyboard mash-up and a distortion pedal I've not done much instrument electronics.
I'm mulling over doing a preamp for my mandolin, even tough it's not needed for the amp I use the KM150/JJB220 with. In fact I hardly ever use it anyway as I use a body worn lavallier to make swapping mando to fiddle or cello simple mid tune or in theatre productions.
I just can't not try or my inner fidget would never forgive me, so think it might be good to mess up something in case I ever need to go to a PA direct.
Are there any recommendations for places to start geeking up on making studio qualiy kit? (Professionally I always have to hand custom kit out to specialists nowadays as it's too time consuming to justify by comparison with my £)
What gubbins have you had a go at, preamps? Pedals? Combined kit in one unit.
Kind of hoping this thread could get some nice gizmo ideas going too.
In my (ever more scarce) leisure time I often make and mash-up stuff like old amps, stage looms and he like. However Part from a few bass amps, a keyboard mash-up and a distortion pedal I've not done much instrument electronics.
I'm mulling over doing a preamp for my mandolin, even tough it's not needed for the amp I use the KM150/JJB220 with. In fact I hardly ever use it anyway as I use a body worn lavallier to make swapping mando to fiddle or cello simple mid tune or in theatre productions.
I just can't not try or my inner fidget would never forgive me, so think it might be good to mess up something in case I ever need to go to a PA direct.
Are there any recommendations for places to start geeking up on making studio qualiy kit? (Professionally I always have to hand custom kit out to specialists nowadays as it's too time consuming to justify by comparison with my £)
What gubbins have you had a go at, preamps? Pedals? Combined kit in one unit.
Kind of hoping this thread could get some nice gizmo ideas going too.