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I would have used PVA instead of Silicon. Lens cleaning tissue paper, soaked in PVC follows the shape of the tear better.

[quote name='StevieD_FenderP2009' post='1362187' date='Sep 4 2011, 08:45 PM']Well mine worked fine. I was running a passive Precision bass copy with seymour duncan spb-3's in to it then it went from the EQ to the power amp and out to a cabinet. I used that set up for 6 months while I didn't have an actual amp head. It was quite a good tone I got from it too. Just plugged the instrument in to the "input" of the equaliser then took a cable from the "output" of the equaliser into the input of the power amp.[/quote] It would work as a fix but it is not at optimum setting. You can us a cheap mixer, and that would work better to drive the power amp. A passive bass should be better matched with a DI if you want to preserve its original tonal spectrum, but if you don't , it would still work as a fix, but it is not ideal.

[quote name='electric nate' post='1362139' date='Sep 4 2011, 08:11 PM']will an eq take an instrument level signal ok? and will it output a big enough signal for the power amp?[/quote] EQs are normally designed to be operating at Line level. There are a few exceptions, like the TC 1140 which are designed to take an instrument input AS WELL as a Line level, and has a preamp stage to drive power amps. Some EQ's offer unto 12dB of gain, and will drive a power amp, but most proper preamps designed to feed a power amp will offer upto 40dB of gain to drive a power amp.

The Fane is not going to work in this sealed cabinet.

When I was actively gigging, I made up an in ear system, wired, and wireless. It was a jazz quartet - drums, bass, keys and chick singer. The trio were not moving as the drummer and pianist were sat, and I might as well have. Only the chick vox moved about. I used spare studio kit. Basically, you can get any rack mount headphone amp, like a Behringer or Rane or whatever. Mine has headphone feeds and either main live line feed or individual line feed. You take a tap off the live show mixer, and assuming you mic everything, including drums, you send it to the Headphone amp and run long extensions (you can get them from Audiospares.com) to each muso. Each muso uses their own ear buds. Don't let anyone tell you that you need to use Shure, westone or ultimate ears, you can use any ear buds as long as you can hear yourself. The drummer used some cheap imitation Sennheiser ear buds that were £10 off EBay. I use Shure ones because I have them. I have used Denon ones as well. The pianist used whatever he used with his iPod. We fed a line feed of the mixer to a wireless Shure unit for the chick vox. This was the basic setup. Later I ran a more complicated one, with a matrix mixer, so i could feed more keys to the keyboardist, more bass to me, less vox for everyone, more drums etc. The trio concluded that we played tighter, as evidenced by recordings taped at the live performances. Oh, v useful to have an open channel for a mic that pics up environmental noise, like audience noise, footsteps etc as everyone is close miked or lined in. Didn't cost me, it was all done with spare gear. When I depped with a loud disco band, I brought a small behringer mixer, took a tap of the main PA, and fed myself a wired headphone feed. I could move a bit to move with the groove and it worked very well. Could hear everything, every cue, every lyric, and wouldn't have without as the PA and monitor speakers were crap, and worse than the in ear system.

[quote name='nottswarwick' post='1353445' date='Aug 27 2011, 11:24 AM']To get the best match of a preamp with a power amp, what do you have to look at? Is is the voltage of the output of the pre/input of the power amp, or the impedance of the respective inputs and outputs. For example PJB Bass Buddy states output voltage of 1.2V, and preamp output impedance of 20kohms QSC PLX 3102 - input sensitivty 1.23Vrms, input impedance 20kohm bal, 10kohm unbal. So which do we match up? Cheers Chris[/quote] Hey Chris See: [url="http://www.ovnilab.com/articles/preamp.shtml"]http://www.ovnilab.com/articles/preamp.shtml[/url] Most Solid State power amps have standard input sensitivities, to work to a variety of balanced/unbalanced line level sources: mixers, and whatever. Tube/Valve power amps are known to have a bit of variance. In your case, the variable is the preamp unit's capability to drive a power amp adequately. Not many floor units are designed to this, though some have the capacity to do so.

[quote name='PerfectionBG' post='1350114' date='Aug 24 2011, 12:01 PM']I have the CD-BT1, it was a gift from a friend of mine and I didn't really see much use of it. Until recently, I had a play with the features and they just went on forever.. and ever.. and now I never play at home without it! I burned a disk of the tracks I want to be practicing, it took a matter of minutes - no skin off my back. I just have a CD marked 'Bass Trainer' and I change the line-up when ever I need to, the CD thing really isn't restrictive. Mine too has met the floor many times, and although the BT1 is much flimsier than the BT2 it's still not got a mark on it. I love mine to bits [/quote] Had one but sold it. It is easier to use software such as Amazingslowerdowner or some such and a laptop. You can loop or detune Mp3s, AIFF or whatever.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1352699' date='Aug 26 2011, 04:34 PM']Our percussionist uses one. We have a demo 'in the can' that I am hoping to post some time soon. [/quote] In Spanish it means box or crate.

Beware that the early MIM J basses used two same sized pickups as opposed to the long and short Js. The later batch of MIMs have aligned with the standard long and short pickup lengths.