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[quote name='Happy Jack' post='213651' date='Jun 6 2008, 09:18 AM']Found one of them there PM52 units for just $24 on a Yankee website. I've got a member of my team in New York office next week anyway, so I've bought it. I'll let you know what I think when I get it in a couple of weeks.[/quote] I would think that's a good start Jack although you will need to plug into the speaker feed of the amp. That could be a problem with a combo. I was going to suggest that you try using the Bass Buddy. It has all that you need and you already have one. You just need a Y-cord so you can feed the Buddy and the amp from the bass. No different than going into two amp heads simultaneously and it's all your side of the amp input jack.

Thanks for your contributions. I was asked by someone how they could monitor his bass on headphones regardless of what amp was being used. In essence he needs a headphone amp with a high impedance input to sit across the cable from the bass to the amp, just like a DI box. That got me thinking as to what was out there. Obviously he could use a DI box and a stand-alone headphone amp but that gets a bit too messy. What's needed is a one-box solution. Ideally a battery powered belt-pack headphone amp with a bass loop-through that doesn't degrade the signal in any way. Certainly the EBS fits the criteria but is really too complex, too expensive and too large for this specific application. Keep the ideas coming. (Oh and I need a box because the Orange doesn't have a DI out.)

[quote name='Merton' post='212310' date='Jun 4 2008, 09:27 AM']I love the way your rack looks like it's almost the size of the cab![/quote] ... but weighs twice as much!!

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='212282' date='Jun 4 2008, 08:36 AM']For "pure" DI work I use my Phil Jones Bass Buddy. Very light/portable, very simple, has everything you need and nothing you don't need; the on-board EQ avoids the [i]let's see how many knobs and sliders we can fit in here, then write a 240-page manual[/i] syndrome, and is very effective. My main stage amp (as you know) is an Eden WTX-260. Again, it's very light/portable, very simple ... erm ... can you see a pattern developing here? Both the above have headphone out. On the Eden the headphone socket does NOT kill the speaker out, making it ideal for in-ear monitoring. Actually (and picking up on another conversation we're having) I need to check whether the same is true of the Bass Buddy. Do you ever get up to London, Dave?[/quote] Jack, I think you've just solved your own problem. If the Bass Buddy has an instrument loop-through and a headphone out then you should use it when using other amps. Yes I do come up to London occasionally for meetings. I'll let you know next time.

I'm going to need to get one. What do you use? Which is best? Do any have a headphone out?

Do you mean this one?

[quote name='Jobiebass' post='211699' date='Jun 3 2008, 12:14 PM']Just bought some Zoom (prob not same co and the bass co) bluetooth ones.[/quote] You'll have fun with those. There's about a half second delay through Bluetooth. Makes things very interesting.

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='211631' date='Jun 3 2008, 10:54 AM']Bloody hell Dave - what a rig. I feel so inadequate.[/quote] I had to sell a lot of old friends to fund it and invest in a truss so I can move it.

[quote name='BassBalls' post='211641' date='Jun 3 2008, 11:15 AM']How on earth can you take a better picture than that? It looks amazing![/quote] It's out of focus. I think I still had the macro on.

I've finally got all the bits. Sounds very lush. I can't wait to gig it. Orange AD200B Bergantino NV610 (I'll take a better picture sometime.)

Have a good look at the Nordstrand MM replacement pick-ups. Wood & Tronics sell them in Italy.

I sold my first real bass, a Framus Star Bass, in 1967 to fund a new soft-top for the Frogeye Sprite. As a result I stopped playing for 23-years and spent a fortune on cars. Eventually I saw the light. I wonder whatever happened to that Framus?

Initially formed with four friends for a Farnham Grammar School dance, "Rusty and the Druids" did a few gigs sometime in 1962. It was pre-Beatles and we played Eddie Cochran, Johnny Kidd, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Cliff and the Shadows, etc. I still see Rusty occasionally and he can still be relied on to get up and sing.

Interesting Precision but a tad pricey to have shipped. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=290233224858"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=290233224858[/url]

I think ebay have done something to the search facilities again. If I use one of my saved searhes e.g. Lakland in worldwide search it only brings up UK items and not all the US ones and doesn't show the Ebay stores. It happens on all the searches. If I go to ebay.com and search they are all there. Has anyone else noticed this and is there a fix. I've deleted all cookies and relogged-on but it's the same.

Dusty, how much tonal difference is there between the BG and the DD? Do you think the DD would benefit from having a bridge pick-up added?

My neice keeps saying she wants to play bass everytime she visits and sees my collection. I felt that the right thing to do was to buy a cheap bass and amp for her 13th birthday and see what happens. In particular she wanted a pink bass. Careful scrutiny of eBay for pink basses lead me to Swift basses who do a 32-inch scale P-bass for £59 new. Eventually I found a used one for £41. It needed a good set-up, the fret ends filing and a better set of strings (a discarded set of DRs) and now it plays really well - see pic of Dood with it at the Northampton Bash. Ebay also delivered a Stagg practice amp with line in and headphone out for £10. Total outlay £51 plus a bit of my time. If she really gets into it then we'll see about something better. If it's a 5-minute fad then no real loss.

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='202463' date='May 19 2008, 10:06 PM']Am I right in saying that they're built in the same Cort factory as the Squier VMJs?[/quote] The Skylines are machined and painted in Korea. Electrics and final set-up are done in Chicago. BTW. I once had an MM Sterling and that didn't feel like an £1150 bass.

The OLP copy of the SR5 is narrower at the nut and the bridge than the SR5. In a rash moment I once bought a Westfield fiver that was also very narrow.

Not sure where to start. I've had mine for about a year during which I have had an on/off relationship with it. The build quality is flawless and the neck is starting to mellow nicely and at around 10lbs it's hardly light. The bit that makes it different to a Fender P is undoubtedly the neck. Same profile as the Joe Osborn Jazz. I never got on with a standard Precision neck and string spacing but the DD is great for small hands/short fingers. I have a '78 P which was factory made with a Jazz neck. Unfortunately it's like playing a broom handle, but the tone is to die for. I must confess to have struggled to get a similar tone from the DD. Mine was born with a Dark Star, not the stock Lindy Fralin, in fact I've never tried a Lindy fitted one. I tried a Thumper and now have a Wizard '64 installed. It came from the previous owner with TI Flats, which I dislike, and is now strung with DR 45-105 Sunbeams. I'm finally getting there. Jazz profile neck, very low action and classic P tone - it ticks all the boxes for me now. Set-up is a very personal thing and I would never judge a bass by what I find in a shop. In fact I haven't bought a bass from a shop in over 10 years. BBC you are welcome to try mine.