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[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1464010567' post='3055708'] Well, the only thing I found inside was a couple of little stickers attached to the pcb with, what I assume is, the assembler or tester's name on them. Hi Nate if you're reading this...! [/quote] Stranger things have happened on here mate...

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1464020821' post='3055818'] Less viagra, fewer popups. BTW, is it VIE-agra, or VEE-agra? (Asking for a friend.) [/quote] Looking at the spelling I'd say VIEagra, but the world has never been the same since 'txt spk' happened, so who knows...

To be honest, I've never really thought about how Chrome handles popups. Whilst Google make a big thing about privacy, I can't help but wonder if trusting a company, who's main income comes from paid adverts, configure a pop up blocker is such a great idea. These popup purveyors rely on browser vulnerabilities to deliver their rubbish. If you use a 'known' browser, it'll be accounted for and the junk* will be delivered. If you use the mickey mouse browser that ships with the device, half the time nobody can be bothered to deliver junk to it because its generally so feature limited. One thing is for certain though, the only content we have on the Basschat servers is Basschat stuff - we don't have a part time job selling viagra, holiday shares or sexual services (sorry Discreet ). * With apologies to the DMA for describing their crap as junk. It's crap.

A lot of amp manufacturers back then used to put stickers on some of the subassemblies - you might get an idea of the date by having a peek inside... ...you know you want to...

Popups are a real nuisance, I do wonder how many people actually buy any of the rubbish that they inevitably contain... I'm using the bog standard default browser that ships with Android and I'm not getting any popups (or notifications that a popup has been blocked) at all on BC. That immediately makes me suspect the browser you are using...

I posted this at 21:19 according to my computer... EDIT: A little bit out, but close enough to be able to say that its something at your end causing it.

You got dimmer switches in the house? If so, turn them off.

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1462824631' post='3046096'] But without voltage there would be no current? So no or under ten volt safe to handle? That is the way I've seen them tested after drainage. [/quote] As little as 10mA is enough current to give you a nasty jolt. A taser uses high voltage and low current. An emergency light uses low voltage and high current. Both can give you a shock. Think of voltage as pressure and amps as movement and it'll become clearer.

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1462821181' post='3046040'] I use the resistor to ground method. It works although got a bit of a spark off the small cap even though I check them with a multimeter. [/quote] Your resistors are perhaps too low a value. You can't check it with a multimeter though - you're looking for current, not voltage.

If you want to discharge the cap, best way is to get a couple of high voltage ceramic resistors -connect a crocodile clip to either end and clip it to both ends of the electrolytic. Leave it alone for a minute or so. Any residual charge within the cap will be shorted, through the resistors which turn the charge into heat.

Going on tour and waking up one morning in another Holiday Inn/Travelodge type room and having absolutely no idea what town I was in. As much as I love music, it needs to be part of my life, not the sole reason for it.

A small public service announcement guys. I've just removed one post that was about to turn this into a sales thread. I'm obviously happy for you to discuss the relative pro's and cons of amplification here, even heft (), but if this wanders off into being an unofficial marketplace, I shall be forced to introduce this topic, 'heft' and the recycle bin to each other.

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1462032323' post='3039822'] My favorite description of heft is Discreet 's from a previous thread: "It's like having a very large, heavy, sinister rubber ball bouncing on the stage behind you in time to the music. That's heft." [/quote] No, that's his predeliction for anything rubber...

1) Slacken off the strings. 2) Get a piece of rope. 3) Tie one end to the neck of the bass. 4) Tie the other end to the bumper of your car. 5) Head for motorway.

Just soldering a capacitor in there isn't going to make it into a passive bass. Even if the pickups are capable of working purely passive, for starters you'll need to come up with a way of cutting the power. Then you're going to have to find a way of disconnecting the pots from the active circuit and switching in your capacitor. Got to say, I'd be more inclined to just leave all the tone controls in their centre detent position (i.e. neither cutting or boosting anything) and have done with it. EDIT: Just spotted the Bartolini reference - I may be unremembering this, but I seem to recall Barts were only usable as active pups?

Does the tune go... de dum de dum de dum dum? ...and were they dressed up in fur and carrying bags with a big W on them?

NOTE: I have merged the OT thread on the same subject to this one.

If you've got SEND and RETURN sockets on the back of your amp, connect them together using a spare guitar lead.

The scammers resurrect their scams every few years to catch out those who have either forgotten about the previous one or haven't been around long enough to have heard of it. The other one doing the rounds at the moment (for about the third time by my reckoning) is the one that starts off with a message asking 'is your musical item still for sale?' whilst not mentioning the 'item' by name. That then leads to a tale of woe about sick relatives and difficulties collecting the bass in person. The scammers will capitalise on the new pool of people for 6 months and then drop the scam and do something else for a year or two before resurrecting it again.

Keep it simple. Firstly, you're there to provide the rhythm for people to dance to - get the timing wrong and you'll be needing paramedics. Secondly, play something too complex and I can pretty much guarantee that there'll be an unexpected change and you'll end up somewhere you really don't want to be. Lastly, if you get too clever early on in a set, where are you gonna go when it changes and you need to up things? Having said all that, these things are enormous fun even if you feel you have to keep it a guilty secret.

If you've seen something 'too good to be true' advertised from Arran then tread very carefully - there were so many high end basses advertised for sale from there a while back that the entire population had to be bassists.

Within music, I've always considered age to be nothing more than a number and generally have to use my year of birth and mental arithmetic (along with the associated finger wiggling) to work out how old I am. The result is pretty much always the same - a frown, a recalculation and then 'am I really?!?'.

Possibly something to do with the fact that the 'New Content' feature is flakier than pastry on a cooks sock. Easiest way I've found of kicking it back into life is to uncheck the 'follow thread' box and save the page. Then recheck it and save it again.

If the voice coil has burned then you need to get it replaced - wedging bits of stuff in there to get round it isn't a reliable fix and there's a possibility of damaging your amp if the coil shorts out against the magnet.

Hot glue is fine - just be thoughtful where you put it or you'll struggle like hell in the future if you need to remove the component(s).