tauzero

Well, somebody's had it.

It would appear from his feedback that he's sold 4 instruments in the last year, and one of them may or may not have turned up. I wonder why he bothers.

It's gone already so it quite possibly was.

As you intend to use it mainly for chordal and upper register work, you wouldn't have any disadvantage from a 6 - if the lower strings were more important then a 6 would mean an additional stretch to them but this doesn't seem to be the case from what you say.

Also worth looking at second-hand is the Peavey Grind BXP - https://assets.peavey.com/literature/specs/116715_35545.pdf

On 06/04/2024 at 17:19, MrFingers said:

I need to re-learn that the neck does not start at E anymore and that A is now in the middle

It's very liberating.

Just remembered, there was a benefit to me playing sitting down with a previous band - the rest of the band were so short that despite only being 175cm (0.0086992 furlongs) tall, it was like being Gandalf with a bunch of hobbits.

On 05/04/2024 at 18:31, ped said:

What about the WS70? Has lower latency <3ms and looks pretty cool

Operates on UHF, hence the low latency as there's no ADC and DAC conversions happening, but also hence the sound changing as there will be a compressor in the transmitter. The WS-50 and WS-90 are 5.8GHz, and there's the WS-80 at 2.4GHz.

4 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

I regularly look for another Zephyr but they rarely come up for sale 

There's a 5 on Ebay at the moment in need of a bit of repair work: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326058163819 and another in That London for a bit more but in good nick https://reverb.com/item/80819258-peavey-c-5-zephyr-5-string-bass-guitar

Played at the Half Moon in Littleover, Derby on Saturday. We were a bit worried about the load-in and out as it's double yellows on the street outside and the car park is over the road (and I think is actually the Co-op's). However, the landlady said everybody unloaded on the double yellows so that's what we did. Not an ideal playing space as there's a column 2/3 of the way across which was a bit in the way, but we overcame that. The landlady also gave us free drinks (which we took advantage of without taking the piss), and included Mrs Zero and the drummer's wife in the freebies, which was very nice.

On the musical side, I'd been experimenting with the XR12 and put some reverb on, but I couldn't get it dialled in right so abandoned it after a couple of numbers. At least I now know the basics of how to do it. One or two minor fumbles but nothing disastrous. Almost everything went down well - the one exception being Get Lucky which we brought in recently, but both times we've done it it's gone down like a plate of cold sick. I suspect that it's a song that's of its time.

Both the guitarists had a long way to travel (2 hours for one of them) but they were really happy with it. Landlady was happy with us so hopefully we'll be back there.

4 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

@SteveXFR

 

Zephyr 5 and the Patriot were my favourite Peaveys 🙂

 

Pity I sold both but they went to good homes so no regrets. 

I'm not entirely sure whether what I had was a Zephyr 5 or a C5, or whether they're one and the same. A lovely bass, good looking and excellent build quality, got used on one recording session because the active bass I wanted to use was picking up a fair amount of interference (I was in the control room with an awful lot of electronic equipment around me) whereas this was interference-free. However, the neck was just a bit chunkier than I like so I eventually sold it.

7 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

Happy to enlighten you.

 

I own/owned a lot of Peavey basses, for a time there was 68 of them. With that many it's hard to maintain any aura of mystique for a particular model; it either works for you, can be made to work or left ignored as you move on the next one.

 

First T-40 came mostly due to 'internet hype', that doesn't last long.  It was through the T-60 Mafia that I discovered the designer of the T-Series, Chip Todd, held similar views as myself regards the tone circuit. Chip would snip the red wire and leave his pickups in humbucker mode, that worked for me 🙂 Another one turned up local for £300, it went humbuckers/tapes; one after that got active EQ 🙂 

 

Forth got a semi permanent mod, I blame my pal Ronnie 😁 He had a varied collection of Peavey basses, due to his position as chief mech engineer for Peavey's US factories. Ronnie had a 5 string T-40 so when a beat to hell T-40, going for peanuts, went up for sale in Glenrothes; I had the makings for mine.

 

Only T-40 I left intact was the one Dave Swift sold through The Gallery. My T-40 interest had waned by then but I got it for a song so why not 👍

Right, so not an irredeemable bass, just one with certain congenital but operable defects.

I play sitting down, using a Harley Benton stool - https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_guitar_stool.htm Have done for years and never had any comments on it. I do stand up and walk around occasionally but my back gives me serious problems with any significant amount of non-sedentary action. 

Keep it simple on your left hand - you haven't said what genre it is but root-5-octave covers a lot of sins, and for blues [1] use a simple walking bass line (root-3-5-3 will do it). Try to avoid being ploddy with your right hand. You just need to get through it and realise that you can manage it, and it'll be easier next time.

[1] For future reference, Folsom Prison Blues is country, not blues.

8 hours ago, EssexBuccaneer said:

I *may* have just submitted a tripadvisor review…

I found the two Tripadvisor reviews that mentioned the venue's treatment of bands useful. 😁

1) Nux Mighty Plug into bass, headphones, and music played from Android phone via Bluetooth into Mighty Plug

2) Tascam GB-10 with Lekato wireless for input into headphones

3) DI box into mixer into hi-fi amp and thence headphones or speakers (if Sub Zero isn't working upstairs) - the PC also runs into the mixer

17 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

My thoughts after owing 5 of them.

Just curious - are you a slow learner or did you get them in a job lot, or are you like I once was with Trace Elliotts, buy one, think it's rubbish and sell it, then some time later decide to buy another one because you'd forgotten they're rubbish?

My golden jubilee year next year too. The band I started out in was part-covers, part-originals with something of a prog feel about them. At that time I didn't have a bass player that influenced me, I just sort of adapted what I'd learnt from being a not very good lead guitarist.

On 06/04/2024 at 09:33, Ashborygirl said:

Unless my maths has gone the same way as most of my joints, I don't think it does.   As an example, we have 10 people of whom 9 have 10 GCSEs & 1 person has 1 GCSE. 

 

The average (mean) is 9.1 GCSEs so only 1 person is below average, not 5.  

 

The median is 5.5 so, again, 1 person is below the median, not 5.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median

In your example, the median would be 10, so admittedly there would be one below and none above. But in the example of education levels of a population, which would be a gaussian distribution, the numbers would be the same.

Couldn't you just leave the bridge pickup in place and not connect it?

4 hours ago, Richie_b said:

Hi all
New here, but jsut picked one of these up.  My current bass is insanely heavy, so this feels like a nice option!

TY for the feedback and comments so far; they've been really helpful in making a decision.

A couple of questions, though:

 

-what gauge strings does this come with?  I plan to replace sooner or later with DR Black Beauties and it'd be useful to know so I work out what gauge I will want...

-there's a lot of chat about the Bartolini Mk1 pick ups being rubbish.  If I were to choose to update them, would the Fishman Fluence pickups fit?  I come from a guitar background and bass pickups just seem a lot more variable than I am used to...

TY in advance & look forward to seeing Dood's review too 🙂

Specs available at https://www.cortguitars.com/product/item.php?ca_id=103020&it_id=1707895430&page=1#tab_Specifications

D'Addario EXL170-5SL which are 45-65-80-100-130

Don't make any decisions about pickups until you've tried the MK-1s. They seemed OK to me. If you feel determined to change them, check out what people have replaced the pickups in the Ibanez EHB1005 and EHB1265 with.

7 hours ago, Ashborygirl said:

Er....that's not how averages work.  

It's exactly how the median works, by definition.

6 hours ago, dave_bass5 said:

I just went to plug my WS90 in and was surprised its USB-C, not micro USB. So i guess then could and did do it. 

I do like the ideal of switchable channels. That was what put me off their IEM system. I guess being in the 5.8 band its not so much an issue at the moment. 

That's good news, I'd watched a Youtube review of it which showed it with a micro USB port so they must have changed it (saying that, Lekato's pictures of the WS-50 looks like it now has USB-C, so maybe they've updated both).

7 minutes ago, badger said:

half the people will always be below-averagely educated though.

Depends on whether you're using mean, median, or mode, or whether you say that anybody who understands mean, median, and mode is averagely educated.

Just buy a Cort Space and a TGI Extreme guitar gigbag, problem solved. If you don't want to play 5-string, take the B string off.

Soft synth perhaps - there's the Squishbox and with the Zynthian V5 coming out there may be a few second-hand V4s and earlier on the market from upgrades, or DIY with aid from https://sandsoftwaresound.net/qsynth-fluidsynth-raspberry-pi/ and a HiFiBerry DAC.