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Hi everyone, Thanks for the kind words and great to hear from some old friends on here! Hope you're all keeping well. Glad you enjoyed the video, it took a while to film all the separate sections and glue them all together afterwards, but I'm hoping it proved useful and vaguely interesting! It's difficult sometimes to show what you're up to on a particular gig without coming across like you're just bragging about the equipment you use, so I was mindful to try to make it educational where possible. I'm playing Queen songs with the Royal Philharmonic at the Albert Hall tomorrow so I should take my little action cam along and see if I can take some footage there, and later in the year I have my usual NYE gig but this time it's going to be filmed in a TV studio so that might be a good one to do some 'behind the scenes' filming at too. I'm going to try to make my YouTube channel a mix of videos from a pro's perspective (Gigs, gear, etc) and also lessons and tutorials. My channel is iankingbass if you fancy taking a look. Anyway back to looking at Basschat Marketplace! Cheers, Ian

Thanks @warwickhunt. I got given £37 in vouchers this morning as a thank you from a client so will have another look. I use the EXL170-BT set (45, 60, 80, 107) on the Eb-standard Spectors. I ordered 2 sets of 12s just before I got my 12 @£22 a set each. They were pictured as a twin pack but arrived as two separate packs. All legit, the players points went on no issue. The packaging was a bit crushed and I think they’ve probably been around a while but the bags were intact.

Try inserting a 0.1uF box cap (film) just before the top lug of the volume pot (see atached). You don't need much more than 0.1uF since it feeds into a high Z 500k pot.

The DC bias must be coming in earlier on then and there's no DC blocking capacitor afterwards. As the active/passive switch takes the EQ part of the preamp completely out of the circuit, that would leave the buffer as the suspect section (the bottom connector with leads to the pickups and the balance pot).

I 'think' I've just ordered x2 12 string set for £48.63... if that is for 2 sets (image shows box that states 2 sets), then it is virtually half price! @Sean @12stringbassist @Wolverinebass

From TDog: £380 to strip and refinish in nitro. Was contemplating between these 2. Sean Hurley inspired or me inspired.

Thanks for that - I had opted for one of these at lunchtime: https://www.gear4music.com/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/Palmer-Pan-01-Passive-DI-Box/2PT7?_gl=1*hj71pq*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTE2NjExNjMyMS4xNzU4NjM2OTM0*_ga_0WF1R5QW3K*czE3NTg2MzY5MzQkbzEkZzEkdDE3NTg2MzY5ODckajckbDAkaDE3MjY3Mzg1NjE.

Big thanks to everyone who offered advice. I've had time to follow the tips properly and it has completely transformed the foh bass sound. As a side note, the Darkglass Anagram has blown me away with its features. Fully parametric 6 band eq, proper high pass filters that allow you to choose the slope type and can be added wherever you need them and just a load of great core sounds.

Very nice @Eric_Wombat!!! Its very pretty I have to admit. Do you like it with your pedals? How does the gain stage sound?

Maybe the cheap Valton GP-5, used just for EQ might fit the bill.

Daltrey's autobiography's very funny; on the night he flushed Moono's entire stash after walking off at the end while they were trashing the gear (off their collective gourds on uppers), Moono went for him... "I only hit him once. And I apologised when he came round." They sacked Daltry, but took him back after negotiating a settlement: "The band wouldn't do loads of drugs until after a gig, and I wouldn't knock any of them out again." 🙂 I've had a fairly easygoing run of being in and out of bands, nothing more savage than the aforementioned ghosting sort of thing, but on one occasion (and I've mentioned this before) I did have a blazing row with the other three - the details are unimportant/forgotten (late 80s this was), but they did have their old bassist on call, and sure enough he joined immediately - but the whole sturm und drang of the episode was slightly undermined when, after arguing/shouting/gesticulating around the pool table at the rehearsal rooms, I stumped off to the car with my bass and amp (an SVT at the time, and it's tricky enough to stump off carrying an SVT...my back was clearly better those days), came back in, remembered my 810 didn't have wheels, and had to ask the band for a lift getting it up the stairs... I haven't stumped off anywhere since...

Hi ABM users: I've just had a similar problem to Dagrev occur: when there is nothing plugged in to the amp it is silent with the master volume up; plug anything in and it hisses, even when the input gain is right down (and master up). I've tried different cables, basses and the problem remains; and these same cables and basses are fine into another amp. The hiss is right at the 2.6kH frequency, so it can be pretty much eliminated by taking that eq fader down to the mid point, but I need to get it fixed. The amp was serviced three months ago when it had a new preamp tube and a thorough pot clean. Any insight into what this might be? I can easily take it back to the tech who serviced it, but would welcome any thoughts first.

I'm guessing that these will replace the Pulse II basses, which appear to have ceased production....

I would like to give a big shout out for Hellzero, Tony’s help with sorting out my issue with the jack has been above and beyond, a damn fine fellow 👏👏👏

By "preamp switched out" do you mean the active/passive switch set to passive? Because I do still get a pop in that case. But no pop when I remove the battery. I'm still a bit confused about what conclusions to draw from that.... So are you suggesting that replacing the capacitor in the preamp circuit board might not solve it? What about the suggestion to add a separate capacitor in front of the output jack?

Yep, just bought a pack. Got Prime too so will be here tomorrow

My life as a bass player would have turned out very differently if I could sing.