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[quote name='bubinga5' post='808371' date='Apr 16 2010, 01:30 PM']Hi people...im maybe looking to wire my pickups on my jazz bass into series, as im looking for a bit more lowend...has anyone done this..if so could they give explain what i need to do...for a dummy.. what will i lose in tonal options by doing this? thanks[/quote] It will give you +6dB more grunt, but low end? It does not generate any more that what is already there; chances you not have more low end but less. You'd perceive more low end technically in a parallel setting with some mids cut due to the phase cancellations in a typical jazz bass pick up spacing. Phase interactions depend on the spacing of the pickups and the electric level of output from each pickup.

[quote name='Steve Amadeo' post='766090' date='Mar 6 2010, 02:34 PM']Thanks chaps. Moving to be with my girlfriend Colin! Family live up in Skipton too so will be nice to be closer to them again. Hope all's well. Steve[/quote] +1 on Ketih Bennion.

[quote name='sshorepunk' post='759404' date='Feb 27 2010, 08:34 PM']Missed out on a brand new samson bassline today (ggrrrr) liked the idea of this for swapping basses! So what else is there that is easy to change over basses without swapping straps during a set! and sounds good and is reliable! Searched through several threads, but ain't too familiar with a lot of the wireless gear that is available! Cheers Tony[/quote] Fix your standard wireless transmitter pack to your clothes if possible. Swap basses with ease. When I gig with the wireless, the pack goes into a phone/PDA wallet which clips to the side, on my waist belt. I leave the straps on the basses and change them with the straps on as each strap is adjusted for balance, each bass is different. Clipped to my belt I can switch on/off or take the pack off with ease. Clipping it on the strap is difficult and cumbersome to me. If you don't have a belt, you can find someway to deal with it. Chick Singers without instrument straps find a way to clip a wireless pack whilst wearing figure hugging dresses so....

[quote name='Bassmanc' post='754036' date='Feb 22 2010, 04:51 PM']mmmm this looks very similar to the Ground Control unit I have - that's an 8 x 8 matrix that is completely programmable - and now I just use it as a midi controller as I am pationate about keeping the signal path as pure as I can and, good as it is, the more 1ft jack to jack patch leads in the loop the noisier it all seems to get (doh! go figure!) I'm curious about the programmable amp head suggestion - but I do love my power amp - so a pregrammable pre-amp replacement for the TC 1128 might be the best option.[/quote] Not the same, the sound sculpture and Akai MB 76s are midi controlled line matrix mixers, the DMC matrix thing you refer to is just a midi controlled switcher, more of a midi controlled patch bay. If you are using cheap or poorly designed gear, you'll have noise, but frankly the better you match the impedances in rig, you should be fine. My guitar rig was 12U full and way quieter than your standard professional level combo, and that's without a noise gate at all.

Musicking rolling racks are made by Stagg. For every description, always minus 1U. viz. for a 4U you will only fit in something 3U; 6U =5U etc. because of the rolling rack handle. Gator and SKB don't have this problem.

[quote name='Smash' post='737133' date='Feb 6 2010, 12:56 PM']Hi does anyone know what the deepest sounding 4x10 bass cab is on the market around the 25Kg weight. Something that would make the low B on a 4 string give a deep warm punch. Thanks.[/quote] ACME. None of the other 4X10s come close with regard to low end extension; but it is nowhere near the efficiency of a typical 4X10 so there's your trade-off.

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[quote name='Bassmanc' post='731508' date='Feb 1 2010, 11:51 AM']Thanks for reading![/quote] You want to get a Sound Sculpture Switchblade. [url="http://www.soundsculpture.com/products/switchblade_about.htm"]http://www.soundsculpture.com/products/switchblade_about.htm[/url] If you can find an old AKAI MB76, you can do what you want to do but it is only a matrix line mixer, programmable , but only has 32 midi slots. doubt you need more. If you can find the PEQ6 , it will also do progammable EQ.

[quote name='bigjohn' post='730593' date='Jan 31 2010, 02:01 PM']Hi Karl, I'm not sure those noiseless pups are stacked humbuckers. Not sure at all. I'm pretty sure it's the enamelled wires and "special" magnets which rid em of pesky 60 cycle hum. That's why they're vintage noiseless, rather than just noiseless.[/quote] They are stacked humbuckers, but they are not the variety which are of equal coils.

[quote name='cd_david' post='729210' date='Jan 29 2010, 09:01 PM']Anyone have any experience of this and where in the north i could buy it? I need to refinish my ampeg PR 810h which has a satin-ish large flaked finish and not sure if this is a suitable match. Cheers Dave[/quote] Blue Aran's tuff cab supplier is: Aldcroft Adhesives Limited Unit 13A Horwich Loco Industrial Estate Chorley New Road Bolton BL6 5UE UK Tel: +44 (0) 1204 668282 Fax: +44 (0) 1204 668780 Email: [email protected]

[quote name='sarin1' post='696369' date='Dec 30 2009, 02:53 PM']Experimented teacher in two universities in Colombia now is teaching in London!! salsa, latin jazz, cumbia (real no [b]fake[/b]!!), merengue, son tradicional, son jalao, joeson. y more .. !![/quote] Did you use google translator?

[quote name='Finbar' post='573708' date='Aug 18 2009, 11:38 PM']4 way mounted into my rack. I can now power my power amp and preamp, as well as my pedalboard all from one plug socket. No more scrabbling around the venue for a 4 way because I forgot mine and the venue only anticipates the bass player needing one plug socket! Bit more expensive than using cable ties to fix a 4 way in, but I'm really happy with it [/quote] Whilst you're at it, you might as well get a 1U plate with speakon connections or your choice of speaker connector that takes any stress/difficulty out of the banana/ring post connector in your QSC, such as: [url="http://www.audiospares.com/product.php?productid=166&cat=261&page=1"]http://www.audiospares.com/product.php?pro...=261&page=1[/url] I use only 2 speakons and remove the rest. I hard wire the speakon connectors to the ring posts and can reach in to patch for bridging or stereo; most of my power amps are pre-speakon.

[quote name='Netballman' post='689845' date='Dec 20 2009, 03:56 PM']Anyone had any experience with these? [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRACE-DWG-1000-DIGITAL-WIRELESS-GUITAR-BASS-SYSTEM_W0QQitemZ320452900535QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Guitar_Accessories?hash=item4a9c7b36b7"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRACE-DWG-1000-DIGIT...=item4a9c7b36b7[/url][/quote] In terms of digital electronics, it was only a matter of time these cheaper units would turn up. I haven't tried one but it would seem to me that the 1/8" jack is the weak link. Most pro grade wireless units will use a locking jack. If you have ever had a moulded 1/8" jack fail inexplicably on a pair of headphones you will know what I mean.

I had one for ages. I got tired of it and traded it for something entirely different. But mine served me well for countless rehearsals and gigs. The EQ is awful, having said that I always carried a stompbox EQ but would seldom use it at rehearsals or gigs. I would use a variety of basses, but I usually bypassed the preamp and fed into the efx return, which sounded much nicer to me. YMMV.

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There is first of all, Electric UB modelled on the physicality of a DB and then there's EUB for the sake of having something upright with the scale of a DB but which really is not much more than a Longer scale EB, with some random radius to the fingerboard and an action and sound more like an electric bass. The EUB, DB and EB all share some commonality, but they are different instruments, just as a balalaika, mandolin, violin, er hu, sitar etc are not the same as an electric guitar.

[quote name='DanOwens' post='650917' date='Nov 10 2009, 06:41 PM']I used strips, but I'm really after a sheet. Anyone?[/quote] There are two ways to do this. The material is referred to as hook and loop, Velcro is a trade name. You can get it from sign and exhibition places in almost any colour; e.g. Jet exhitibions [url="http://www.jetexhibitions.com/index.php?cPath=23_208&osCsid=hh2hdqd8r38mqueldfnb20rak5"]http://www.jetexhibitions.com/index.php?cP...mqueldfnb20rak5[/url] Loop is the felt , furry side. Hook is the harder plastic side. You can get them in sheets , or you can use any furry carpet instead, the hook will hold depending on the type of carpet. So you can: a. spend some money or use some old carpet you may already have,

I had one for a long time, since they came out till about 2005. I used it in my guitar rack which also had a triaxis. Tried both on bass, passable sounds but low end roll off on JMP 1 and not to me, a useable sound unless for specific effect. The triaxis was better for clean bass but not as good as a dedicated bass preamp either. Eventually I sold both and started to use fender showman based bass preamps for guitar: they were cleaner, quieter, had tons of headroom, and did the fender thing. I now us a READ purity for guitar. I still use midi via midi controllable mixers, and I get my distortion sounds off a custom made 1U rack unit by OM labs. The JMP 1 was okay for clean guitar sounds but was good-ish for mostly distorted sounds. The Traixis was much better for clean tones, had a wider pallette of distortion tones but could not do the marshall distortion thing like the JMP 1. I am looking for a used JMP 1 for some distortion type sounds for recording and the prices have been 150 - 200, have been that way for a few years.

I use in ears when ever I can, I much prefer to do so whatever the size of the gig. When I worked with a particular drummer on a tour of live gigs, I brought my rack unit which allowed about 6 musos to use wired or wireless in ears. He concurs that we play much tighter with in ears. The problem I have found in reality is to convince guitarists to use them, keyboardists, drummers and singers - no problem, but guitarists struggle with this - their tone is largely out of their amp/cab and you need to mic it, unless you have a guitarist who uses some some modelling unit. Mic it one way and it sounds good and another way it doesn't - with guitarists and in ears it's a bit of a compromise.

[quote name='0175westwood29' post='617479' date='Oct 5 2009, 02:42 PM']hi guys im a bit cross about losing bottom end when i kick in an overdrive or distotion, i still want the savage nasty distorted tone but i want a nice rumbling deep bass tone underneath it. how do you go about setting up this, i know there gonna be a bit of work but im really intrigued and wanna try it out? i use a svt pro-6 going thru a 610hlf cab and was thinking of adding a loud 210 for the effects and that? ive googled and cant find any sort of drawing that show how to do it? andy[/quote] Pick up a rolls SX 21 or a Samson X-over or similar, and a small mixer. Run your bass into the crossover, and send the low pass to the mixer, and the hi pas to your efx. Mix and adjust crossover point to desired balance between bottom and fuzz, send mixed signal to your SVT. o need to buy another cab if the cab you use is loud enough and goes low enough for you.

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[quote name='budget bassist' post='611977' date='Sep 29 2009, 02:01 PM']Have you checked out the new shop called fuzz guitars on hockley?[/quote] That's the luxury/hgh-end goods outlet of Guitar Base, West Bridgford, near Abbey Road (West Bridgford, Notts that is)

[quote name='obbm' post='606251' date='Sep 22 2009, 11:09 PM']Sorry to differ but the Trace is the same as the Alembic F1X and BBE BMAX-T. F2B is different design.[/quote] Not really, they are based on the Showman circuit but they are not the same. The Trace has a different tone circuit to the F-1X. The F-2B channel is closer to the showman.

[quote name='mcc' post='483849' date='May 9 2009, 05:15 PM']Always wondered how they manage to make great instruments on a budget, but their amps are so bad. Absolutely noone uses them.[/quote] Very few "manufacturers" made both intsrument and amplification from the start or from the same plant with equity of effort, save for Leo Fender's companies and maybe one or two others. Ibanez, is primarily a marque, out of the Hoshino trading arm. Their instruments were firstly commissioned out of various factories and smaller manufacturers. Their pickups & electronics were sourced from Nishin, and Maxon and so forth. Their amps, most certainly were from a smaller OEM facility. There has never been one shed where all the Ibanez stuff came from, unlike, say Fender. So all they have in a common marketing initiative, but probably very little cross over in ideology as they don't own their factories. I had an Ibanez badged mesa boogie MK series copy from the late 70s, it was a great amp.