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Do they do Gibson 335-type guitars? Asking for a friend...

Shipping Steel - Cold Chisel

The Joy of Molybdenum - Trey Gunn

One thing to note about EMG active pickups, the ones with the buffer in the pickup housing, is that the pickup itself can use lower strength rail magnets which means less “pull” on the strings and better sustain. The buffer preamp compensates for the lower signals from the coils. I don’t think they all do that, but I have an active P model in one bass and it’s really good. The system as a whole is not equivalent to the standard passive pickup(s) volume & balance followed by an active EQ - you don’t have the pots affecting the tone.

Iron Man - Black Sabbath

It looks like a guitar that would be played by the Jetsons.

Also Pub bands in their 60's playing 50 year old songs to punters pushing 70 🤣

It may or may not be a better way. I mean, it doesn't necessarily sound better if there is no interaction. It's perfect, but is that what makes one like the sound? Usually, it's one or the other sort of distortion that makes things sound nice. Like valves, tolerances of parts, etc.

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The Haynes Manual for Fender Bass is also good.

As long as the blend and vol are hi-Z, they act as tones, because of their nature. That's why I love Noll Mixpot which has buffers and level adjustments for both channels. Pickup sound doesn't change.

I just voted Vintera. I love it when there's a loophole and you can vote for the outcome that's already been decided. Makes me feel like a winner. Enjoy the Vintera. I've always fancied a Bass VI but have no idea what I'd use it for other than noodling at home.

I just found the circuit diagram for the 6 pin DIN input to its host keyboard. I am none the wiser, and £21 poorer. I am guessing that this is not a midi foot pedal. However, I am still positive: I may be able to fit some magnetic reed switches and a midi signal generator device into the pedalboard.

I might. Though I'm hardly a musician I do like both those genres.

I recently won an eBay auction for what was labelled as an Elka organ pedal board. Those of you more observant than I was, will have spotted that it has a 6-pin male midi plug, rather than the traditional 5-pin male midi plug. A little research suggests that there is no such thing as a 6-pin-DIN female to a 5-pin-DIN plug, so I need to create a 6-to-5 converter. And a little more research suggests that it is not an Elka pedal board that the seller advertised, but a General Music model, perhaps a GEM WS2 Keyboard Workstation add-on, made in Italy ( see here I was considering taking the 6-pin output of the footpedal and connecting it to a 5-pin, using two sockets (6-pin, and 5-pin) and a box to mount them into, and 3 lengths of wire to solder to the tags. However, without knowing what signals the 6-pin outputs, I can't do that. Can anyone advise?

Peavey's B-Quad was most technically advanced bass they ever built. They went OTT with electronic, designed new pickups for it, bought the necks from Modulus. Had a $2k price tag and that was 30 years ago. B-Quads, both 4 and 5 string models, were fitted with the Wilkinson bridge. £20 !!! You won a watch 😎

Fretless passive Jazz through a mild valve overdrive and spank it like it owes me money.

Don't forget knobs! If I won the lottery and could go on a pedal building bender - these are what I would be thinking about for bass... PCPB Frequency interchange - awesome sounding high pass/low pass -made one Drebbel Bass Preamp/EQ - clone of Southampton Pedals Ictineo Preamp/EQ Capsize Preamp - Broughton Fliptop Mofeta Preamp is EAE modelFet - I think you have the real thing? Scabbard Overdrive - EAE dagger Byzantium Flanger - BF2 Chop shop -Barbershop, made one, you have to use the right spec J201 for the circuit so not sure about Musikding kits for this. SS/BS mini is similar and IMO better. Curds and Whey Distortion - prunes and custard ... made a load of these on my own PCB, love it! Fornicus Overdrive - SS/BS f- overdrive Obsidius Preamp - DG B3k Simulcast or duocast- hudsonbroadcast Parentheses Mini Fuzz - EQD life Desolate Fuzz - Fairfield unpleasant surprise CheeseMonger Fuzz - love tone big cheese - I built the Aion version... Kewpie Fuzz - Japanese muff varient - probably build one this year Nein Fuzz - Fairfield 900 Phase II/ Duo-Phase - mutron phasers Deflector Reverb - EQD afterneath AION Quartz Optical Compressor - Diamond compressor Spectron - Meatball TS-50 bass preamp Acoustic 360 bass preamp Binary - DG duiality Lab series L4 bass preamp - Pearce sounding thing, it's good, but cheaper to buy mine I'm selling! Neurotron - Lovetone ring stinger Quadratron - Lovetone doppleganger Xenotron - flange with no name Conspiracy to Commit Electronics (sushi box's diy stuff) Bassdude - fender bassman Nobelium - Nobel preamp Particle Accelerator - F2B preamp. Delyk - Up down daddy - Pearl OC7 octave Electric druid - Flangelicious Parasit for drunken guitar synth stuff No PCB that can be bothered to find... but schematics ... Phat Phuk B JPTR Jive/SHO Brassmaster

Agreed there is nothing, but what it does mean is that you can make very low impedance pickups (with a very low output), which means that you aren't choking your own frequencies with the pickup, which is what EMGs do. They are active because not only would the noise be an issue, even with 6" of shielded cable, but there would be no point using them without a preamp as the signal would be too small, so might as well put one there. Agreed - active has nothing to do with tone circuits, its just that if you have gone to the trouble of making it active, might as well make a tone circuit. Most of my basses are active, I rarely touch the EQ on the bass. In fact, nowadays that I play on a wireless all the time, there is little point me using an active, as I am already buffered by the wireless, hence most of the time I am using my Ric.

Thanks Lurks. My best wishes to all here - fine work, peoples!

I want to say how embarrassing it is for you to admit purchase of a 6 string guitar on a bass site, but I have Gibson SG GAS 😂

Well if there’s precedent…..

Oddly enough i found it last night by accident. Using Godin Shifter PJ bass for a change into my Handbox WB-100 and BF212 cab. Had the amp Gain 1 o'clock, Bass 1, Mid 3 and treble 12. Master at 11 o'clock. Bass tone midway with selector switch on PJ parallel position. I had the depth of the P but with a really nice mid cutting thru the mix from amp EQ and J pick up on the bass. It really was glorious. It was weird because when i moved the bass tone either way i lost it so i just kept it in same place most of the night. Dave

Agreed but there's nothing magical about active pickups that you can't do with 6" of shielded cable and the right preamp. But any instrument with an onboard buffer, even without tone boost is active. FWIW I have three actve basses but I don't consider it to offer any huge advantages as much of the tone shaping offered is too extreme to be useful.