LukeFRC

it's 4 knobs aye? and currently a 2 band? do you have active or passive MEC pups? and at that age it probably looks like a little black lego brick with a white bottom? or does it look more like a circuit board? If it's the brick type then it possibly has a output micro pot on it in the white bit. try turning this up if it does. what do you mean by 'low output'? I'm going to guess you mean what it says, that the output is low and you are having to crank the gain on your amp to compensate. A few problem solving measures.... Is the battery reasonably new? first pull the volume- does the signal improve? do you have active/passive inputs on your amp? try it in the passive one- this might be enough- expect a louder signal and a slight difference in the mids. I tried the 2 band glock in my streamer... and thought the warwick 2 band suited the bass for better. IMO of course [quote name='Bassmachine' timestamp='1334419521' post='1616013'] Yes I have heard fir Glockenklang Preamps ....I ll check them ...the MEC I don't know but it have very low output and I believe it's the preamp but also I want To put and middle eq on Warwick without to make any more holes on the instrument [/quote]

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1334403726' post='1615704'] Fixed Not long ago it was all jazz this and super jazz that. [/quote] Maybe theres a trend here? Bout 2000 and warwicks and all these modern basses were in fashion, then they went out of fashion and for a while stingrays were 'it' and then it went all jazz and super jazz all over the place and now precisions seem to be in... now maybe thats just things being in fashion at different times, but there is a trend here, we are getting more and more retro! So next year you'll be swapping your allivia coppelo and wal and rioters for double basses... and the rest of us will swap our squiers for tea chest basses.

Here's some interesting things I've observed.... The recession hasn't affected everyone yet- some folk are still doing the same jobs and getting the same income. And some sectors are still growing so won't be affected. As it started to bite on Basschat you saw basses taking longer to sell. It became a buyers market and prices would creep down slightly. The strong euro at one point made it better to sell to europe as our secondhand prices were pretty cheap. (obviously this didn't last) Some brands didn't see prices secondhand drop. A rush of folk wanting precisions and jazzes meant fender, along with musicman and rickenbacker's prices rose or stayed about the same. At the same time and for probably good reason many large producers put their prices up. This resulted in the relative secondhand price going up too- observe how a MIM fender would cost £200-250 secondhand a few years back is now offered £300-450. However prices are still all over the place secondhand. For some reason folk stop buying stingrays so the secondhand 'market price' almost halfs. Fender puts their prices up again- for the first time in a while a UK built custom bass will be less than some of their USA models. so what happens now? if costs new keep going up then prices secondhand can't keep falling. i can imagine it's not a good time at all to be a music shop. I can just see less basses being bought and sold- more trades on here. I should also add that I've ignored the very bottom of the market (and yes you can get a perfectly good giggable chinese bass for 50 quid these days) and the very high end too. A good bass with some kind of special appeal will always command a good price.

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1334358546' post='1615303'] Pro luthier job to get the best possible repair to the outside, then I'd get a sheet of carbon fibre & resin a couple of layers over the inside before re-fitting the pots. [/quote] that's not a bad idea. I may do that as it's sat in bits at the mo.

having mine to hand with no knobs at all in it at the mo I would guess around 4.5mm of wood there

[quote name='gafbass02' timestamp='1334344069' post='1615029'] Mr Shiny in action [/quote] ahem, found you a bass player, convince that guy

[quote name='Jesso' timestamp='1334333790' post='1614813'] Yeah I've just arranged to take it to a pro next week. I've taped it up with a bit of cardboard over the damage, so I was thiniking of chancing gigging it this weekend.... Should be ok so long as I'm careful of it! The wood must be pretty thin alright for that to happen. [/quote] take a spare, or borrow a spare. any small knock and it could get worse

take it to a pro. I have the pots and preamp out of my streamer at the moment and was thinking how thin the front felt and that i needed to make sure i didn't hit it hard....

on the soldering front a P bass wiring loon is the equivalent to flatpack furniture! Shocked at the shop saying it's a big job! it's two pots, one jack, one cap and the wires between them!

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1334250184' post='1613287'] [b]True story[/b] - a good friend of mine is a very useful guitar player who plays in a band that gigs a lot (and I do mean a lot). However, he is a touch on the lazy side and he used to use a digital combo because he couldn’t be bothered lugging a 4x12 and heavy valve amp around. He used to swear that his set-up was as good if not better as those with boogie half stack or whatever other guitar players playing in similar bands were using despite this obviously not being the case and several people informing of this fact! So what does our hero do? He gets a more expensive modelling amp, which admittedly does sound pretty good in his front room but still pretty weak in a live situation. Eventually he bites the bullet and buys a boutique valve amp (only a 1x12 combo thru) and lo and behold he has a great sound that everyone complements him on and he could not be happier…. And the moral of this story….. a modelling type amp may sound fine in a small room on its own but in a live scenario at least, it will never come close to a decent ‘proper’ amp, even if it weighs an awful lot less! [/quote] I had a bass pod and used to run it into the effect return of an amp and take a signal for the PA out too. In my experience it sounded great out front but I found it just so hard to play with like there was one too many things compressing and Eq ing my sound, so I swapped it for another bass! Conversely I have a wee line 6 guitar combo- and I am quite liking that

nah 1st min knockdown by the tanglewood in my book. It's one of the first PJ's I played where the P didn't dominate the J

fancy building your own preamp?

[quote name='Wally' timestamp='1334174465' post='1612161'] I'm pretty much settled that for the new band I'm with I'd like to upgrade my Bass. My Ibanez ATK is decent for cutting through scooped rock guitars but the new lot are a leaner, mellower, funky blues thing and I'm thinking a smooth passive P/J would sound somewhat more fitting in the mix. [/quote] [quote name='Sean' timestamp='1334175711' post='1612205'] That's like asking someone about their hobby; why boxing over flower arranging [/quote] cos depending on the band a jazz might fit better?

I would go for the overwater hands down. a great bass- I didn't like the style of the neck on the one I tried but it sounded so so good. One question- why a PJ over a Jazz?

yes, but a lot you will hear about are the high end of the range- that's the lower end- still a good bass no doubt!

[quote name='pietruszka' timestamp='1334081360' post='1610700'] Im very biased to the Aguilar AG500 SC, awesome clean smooth sound. Big by todays standards I suppose but still a favourite of mine. Im in North Shields if you want to come over and try it out. Dan [/quote] +1