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2 hours ago, TheGreek said:

God I want this!!!

 

No I don't.....well, I don't need it but....

 

I can't be the only person being torn over this surely.

This.....in a nutshell, is my life on Basschat and could be copied / pasted to sooooo many threads! 🤣 VK gear is great and this seems quite the bargain 👍

7 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

Is that all? I did a 400 mile round trip once to get a bass combo. Even worse, it was a Trace Elliot 4x10.

You were lucky....when I were a lad, we'd afta walk that distance in oor bare feets wit' Trace Elliot on oor backs to gigs! 🤣🤣🤣

23 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

Dinna start, min.  Most people have zero concept of how relatively isolated the NE Scotland is.

I tried to buy an Epifani cab off a guy who didnt want to ship but offered to bring it to Edinburgh on his tour so I could collect it from there. I thanked him kindly but declined as he didn't realise it was a 240 mile round trip for me. Good job we dont live up north ey @neepheid & @Yan_Huriey🤣🤣🤣

36 minutes ago, joe_geezer said:

Wow, such a great build. Did you commission and select the woods? What was the reason for selling the bass if you don't mind me asking?

I'm not sure who first commissioned the bass (maybe @Luc?) Why did I sell it? I claim it was temporary insanity 🤣 At the time I was lucky enough to have about 11 high end basses of which my Smith and Wal were getting most of the playtime and I felt I should be sensible and thin the herd a bit. I've had another S2 since and keep looking at adverts for others........you know how it goes. 😁

On 10/03/2023 at 10:49, joe_geezer said:

If Status ever opened up their shop again, this is what i would order -

 

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 😁

30 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

 Why not just leave it in the cavity, where you haven't missed it all this time?

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

1 hour ago, Pinball said:

I just listened to your Dropbox link, great sounding bass.

Thank you. It is a great bass for the cash........but I am currently having thoughts about stripping the pre / pups / bridge for another project! 🤔🤣 Is this the tweakers alternative to GAS.....Permanently Improving Stuff?🤣

31 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

 

If music is a language, does that mean than those who can not read music are illiterate?

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

14 minutes ago, Waddycall said:

Turns out the singer decided against doing two the guitarist chose and the guitarist chose not to do the singers choices so I learnt four songs note for note that  I didn’t need to and some were quite tricky.

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!!

2 hours ago, Boodang said:

Just had a look on the Bass Gallery site.... they have a huge stock of s/h basses, where do they keep them all?! And 15k for a 'Rhino' Status, prices are getting silly.

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)

2 hours ago, BaggyMan said:

just measured the string spacing for all strings 16mm

Modifying post.

 

Is that measuring the space between the strings or from the centre of each string?

2 hours ago, Bloc Riff Nut said:

What amazes me is that you can have upwards of 10 or 15 mics on stage; surely one more isn't "a lot of extra effort".

 

The kick has a mic which doesn't overwhelm the mic, PA or front of house with additional LF problems.

 

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!! 🤣

Calling @thebassist 😁