synaesthesia

Make me an offer via PM. Not looking for a lot of money but looking to lighten load in move away from UK. I have way too much gear.

relisted due to timewasting 'purchaser'

sold

[quote name='synaesthesia' post='1364444' date='Sep 6 2011, 07:10 PM']on hold for a BC'er.[/quote]

buyer pulled out, any interest please PM me.

Sorry this is no longer FS at BC.

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

Bump plus price drop

on hold for a BC'er.

gone

Korg DTR-2 rack tuner

£50 + postage

good condition, am no longer using it,

PM me if interested, collection in East Mids area possible.

[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.

relisted FS: previous buyer was a time waster, no names mentioned. Price dropped for quick sale.

Mint condition, asking £450 ono. Factory UK voltage version. Very, very rare now. Jack Read is now working for a big name audio corp. that rhymes with nose and has not been manufacturing for a few years now.

All tube preamp. FAT sounding without the shame of a 'ph'.

See review here:
[url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f15/another-read-purity-preamp-review-124891/"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f15/another-...-review-124891/[/url]
and hear it here:
[url="http://basstasters.com/preamps/Read_Purity.html"]http://basstasters.c...ead_Purity.html[/url]

Shipping to UK, £15 insured. Collection from East Mids Area possible, busy life this time of year, so prefer shipping.

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.

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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.

The tele shape will not balance with a strap if you have a 34" scale neck and you can place you neck buttons anywhere, I've tested it quite extensively. I have a lefty tele bass I made, it is one of my main studio basses and most of the time I play with it seated. For normal balance, you need some wood hovering around the 12 or 13th fret to mount one strap pin and the other can be at the back or slightly higher. For a tele shape, as far strap pins go, as the yanks will say 'ferget about it.'

However, for stage strapped use, I added about 250g - 400g ( I can't remember - weighed it but did it mostly by feel ) of lead shot to my strap at the body end. You get these from scuba diving shops and its about 5 quid for 1kg soft bag. You can open it up and take out what you do not need. You can seal the bag once you have determined how much lead shot you need. The dive weight is sealed and encased in a soft Hard drive case or phone case, you can get these for £1. and this is stitched or attached to the back end of the strap. My strap is a Slapstrap and has enough velcro to firmly fix this weight bag.

It adds a bit of weight to the proceedings but sometimes only this bass will do what I want to, from amongst the stable of better balanced basses. The weighted strap works for me. See low res iPhone pics.

Not to rain on your parade but look into it a bit more and you may save yourself a lot of grief, money and trouble finding strings long enough. There is no appreciable gain in sonic terms though some claim they can hear a difference. All power to those who can hear a difference, I own commercially made string through basses and guitars and have even built at least 3 basses with string through body tailpiece arrangements and I say there is no sonic difference. The backs look cool though.

[quote name='ritch' post='935732' date='Aug 25 2010, 10:45 AM']You couldn't link to it could you? I have searched and searched on that site and can't find them.

Rich[/quote]


Closer to heart of England and often and great bargain prices:

[url="http://www.audiospares.com/home.php"]http://www.audiospares.com/home.php[/url]

studiospares also a great resource, use your noodle and google

[quote name='risingson' post='935798' date='Aug 25 2010, 11:37 AM']I'm a big Beatles fan as well although I must admit when it comes to the relatives and offspring of famous musicians I've rarely seen the same level of ability, apart from maybe Zak Starky. But fingers crossed, they might emerge soon, as far as I'm concerned they're making better music than what they're playing on Radio One right now![/quote]


You take advantage of your associations...for sure.... Jakob Dylan didn't call himself Jakob Zimmermann,,,,,Charlie Sheen follwed his father's stage name, but Emilio Estevez kept his latino name. Some people have their parents talents but this is far from the rule..... the logic that familial relations leads to similar level of talent is pure bullcr*p. J S Bach fathered 20 kids.....we are clearly not celebrating their music. Melanie Slade is famous because of her association with a famous footballer, she was suddenly in the limelight on the back of someone else's achievements - it is not dis-similar to the WAG phenomenon.

[quote name='Clarky' post='926852' date='Aug 16 2010, 08:11 PM']Thanks again. As an opener I have put up a message in the 'Troubleshooting' section in the Alembic Club ...which will almost certainly be read by the Alembic factory-based mods. Fingers crossed[/quote]


Just give Mica or Mary a call, they don't respond to email much, but you'd get a quicker response by calling and getting a replacement ordered via phone.

[quote name='michael-faces' post='929985' date='Aug 19 2010, 04:25 PM']I started a thread asking about running a bass into a guitar preamp, and I got loads of helpful answers, but its led me onto another question.

Is it possible to run two preamps in a single chain? I don't have two preamps at the moment (second one should be arriving soon), but I'm just curious as to how it would sound, and if its even possible. Would this be a dangerous thing to attempt, and would it result into a catastrophically awful sound? In this case, I'd be running a guitar preamp, into a bass preamp, then into a power amp and a cab.

Please let your thoughts known on this![/quote]


You would add to your signal to noise ratio in your chain, other than that this is done all the time : each time anyone plugs an active bass into a head, there are two preamps in that chain, each time anyone uses an efx pedal there's another one in the chain.

In terms of sound, what you suggest doing would alter your tone - whether you 'll like it or get what you want ---- you'd have to measure that to your goals.