A good Bass Guitar Pre?

[Gus]

I dislike that type of 1/4 jack. I am not a fan of united chemcon caps. I dislike soldered in tube sockets. Otherwise the pictures look OK.

 

[moosapotamus]

Here's some pics and audio clips of my Acoustic 360 preamp clone (jc maillet's design)...

http://www.moosapotamus.com/360+/360+.htm

I use this quite a bit for recording bass. Sounds great, imo.

I'll also second the Hamptone JFET two-stage preamp for bass.

~ Charlie

 

[Vikki]

Charlie, where can we find circuit info for the acoustic bass preamp and the J Fet hamptone pre amp.
Vikki(uk) :grin:

 

[Bear]

I just checked out the Hamptone site for the first time in a while. Besides the cute pics of dogs sleeping off the NO Tape Op conference hangover, they've got a kit for a two gain stage Jfet booster/overdrive pedal, with wall wart power for $99. Beautiful! All you need is ouput iron, xlr output jack, and a bigger case than the supplied Hammond pedal box to get up to a studio worthy DIY, and hell, I've got most of that stuff on hand already. I believe they even have regulation on the board for the wall-wart, and an experimenter section for tweaking out the design. Hell, even to work it as a mic pre, too, it isn't much more to add. And I have things I can stuff into the leftover Hammond box.

Bear

 

[paranoidandroid]

Hey, theres a thread i started about the hamptone preamp a few pages back, just do a search or something. Anyways, i scanned in the article from tapeop and it is residing here:
http://members.cox.net/soma/hamptone.jpg

I'm just finishing up the PCB design for JFP + PSU if anyone wants to look/critique just pm me.

 

[moosapotamus]

The Acoustic 360 clone is the work of jc maillet...
http://www.lynx.bc.ca/~jc/vivaAnalog360.html

If you want more info than the schematics he has posted, just write to him. He's totally cool. He was offering kits for a while and he may even be interested in just selling some PCBs. His email is at the bottom of that page.

~ Charlie