Acebassmusic

Ah! "Miss Myrtle" as it's known. Used to be mine for a couple of years. I bought it from @Luc on here.......and then sold it ot @Luc on here! 🤣 It's one on my "wish I'd never sold it" list. 😢 Link

Just call me Sherlock from now on 🤣 (No....really....please DON'T! ) Heres a link to the Hohner Jack wiring diagram on some forum called Basschat See Post No 5 It looks like the white wire does indeed come off the bottom right hand terminal 👍 Low volume and distortion could be down to a low power battery? Fingers crossed for you.

What does the white wire lead to - pickups / controls / jack / battery / preamp? What preamp is it? Is the switch for active / passive or coil selection? These details might help us help you. 👍😁

If I don't get, have a great gig 👍 (Plus, thanks for the box 😁)

Andy, you are correct 👍 In my old SWR cabs they had bulbs as fuses to protect the tweeter / horn from over enthusiasm 😁

For years I chose basses that had 3 band EQ only to find I never really used the mids. I now have 3 basses with treble / bass only and if I want more mids (rarely) I use my amp. I guess it comes down to whether you use this facility much. If not I'd just go with the 4 knob option and adjust mids in the cavity. If you find a way of getting the 5th knob into the cavity I would go with the last photo layout as it is what potential Zon owners would be familiar with and most likely hold its value better(?)

I did a bit of checking on "start / finish" and what it means for pickups. Not having built any before I'd guestimated what they are meaning and "start" is the first piece of the wire wrapped onto the bobbin (and would be wired up as the negative). The "finish" is the last piece of the wire wrapped onto the bobbin which would be wired up as the positive. From what I can see in your post your last drawing (combining Warman wiring on the Bartolini switch) is correct. 👍

I often use the attached Bartolini wiring PDF as a guide to wiring switches. Hope it helps 😁 Bartolini 4cnd_sw1 Wiring.pdf

The dictionary says illiterate is "unable to read or write" so in a musical sense yes. But like many people who are illiterate in the traditional sense they can still successfully communicate to others audibly.

My bass journey list has a wider range of makers than I initially thought with 30 different manufacturers! Kay Hondo II Aria Squire Musicman JayDee Spector Pedulla Ken Smith Modulus Warrior Ritter Sei Yamaha Fender Conklin Bacchus Wood & Tronics Wal Warwick Skjold Status Tobias Shuker Mayones Mike Lull Sadowsky Ibanez Roscoe Dingwall

Did you ask them why they chose not to learn them? I know it can feel awkward asking questions like this when you're just putting a band together but I've found through experience it's worth it as the answers can give a bit of an insight as to how others "work". There can be good reasons for not doing a song but to decide to not even try AND to not let anyone else know so that they aren't working on them is just ignorant in my view 😠 One of my bands is newly formed and we'll be having the 3rd rehearsal tomorrow night. All members can play / sing and are basically nice people so theres a lot of positives already.......but.....from previous get togethers (including my audition) I have been the best prepared with others not knowing their parts / words etc. It grinds my gears when others decide to waste not just my time but that of everyone else in the band who has prepared. Lets see how tomorrow goes.......

Can't seem to see many photos of Calibas's on here so here's mine which I played for a number of years and sold in 2004. It was my first foray into boutique basses and was for me an "Ah, that's what a great bass is like" moment. It was a few years old when I bought it and had some wear and tear so I stripped it, had John refurb the electrics, body and neck resprayed and buffed by a local shop and I cleaned / lacquered all the brass bits to keep the bling alive 😁 Quality bass with lots of nice features but weighed about 11lbs+

Bernie Goodfellow? GB Guitars

Is there such a thing as a "band-tater-ocracy"? 🤣 The better / more functional bands I've been in have been a combination of "everyone has a say" and "final decision is down to the band leader". However the band leader HAS to consider the input of the others and not just give it lip service. I was recently in a covers band where the BL said everyone had a say in the set list etc. I put forward over 50 different tracks (all within the genres we were doing) and every one of them got knocked back due to "heard someone else cover it (several years ago)", "keys a bit high / low", "I don't like the personality of the original singer", "the original uses flutes and we don't have any (on a non key part of the song)", "nah......but why?......just nah!!" Guess what? We went back to playing his preferred song list that he kept saying he was tired of!!

Their website is rarely up to date. It has my old bass still marked as "for sale" when it actually sold last September! 😁

The only one I recognise is the bassist Kinga Glyk (in the hat)

The kick tends to only have to handle a relatively narrow range of frequencies and is eq'd / gated / compressed to handle its workload. A bass has a much wider range of frequencies and dynamics to cover. You can mic a cab but it brings its own issues and compromises. First thing I would do is spend time and see if the desk can mix the DI output to a similar sound that you're cabs are giving.......bearing in mind that once the drummer counts in, all bets are off for your carefully crafted bass sound 🤣🤣

"Old, grubby, possibly not working, badly modified, requires full resto...." ...with that title I was worried that my wife was advertising ME for sale!! 🤣

When on holiday to Houston to visit friends I used to frequent all my old music shop haunts. One in particular, Guitar Centre on Westheimer, had a second hand Warrior Signature for sale at nearly $4k! Stunning bass that over a period of about 5 years I asked to play whenever I was there. Loved the neck, balance & small body size but the strings and setup were awful. The last time I was there I tried it again and it was still less than stellar.....but they had dropped the price slightly to $3,600. I decided that I had to get rid of the hankering once and for all so I offered to pay them for a new set of strings, battery and a tweak of the setup. If I really didn't like the bass after that then they just got themselves a free set of strings and a better playing bass (= more chance of a future sale). They half heartedly agreed and put on the new strings (without cleaning the fretboard etc!! ) tweaked the truss and lowered the saddles a bit. I sat down, plugged in and played a few riffs........WOW....it was an absolutely different animal!! It played and sounded wonderful. I decided to make them a "cheeky" offer of $3k as it had been sat in their stock for at least 5 years that I knew of. I thought, start low and you can always increase your offer......didn't need to, the manager accepted straight away! That bass was mine for the next 11 years and never let me down or dissapointed.

Seems strange you can't get it. I've just been onto Amazon and checked an order I put in Sept 2021 (MCRU company) and tried to buy it. It went into my basket OK but I didn't try paying for it....just in case 🙂

If you have .JPG files they will show up on the thread as pictures making it easier to check them out and identify the bass.👍🎸

I know it's dated 2016 but there might be some info in this thread that might help.....Audere 😁