pete.young

I bought a pedal from Aidan. He despatched it very promptly and it arrived on time and immaculately packaged, with the original box wrapped in bubble wrap, fitted into a custom-made cardboard box and the whole lot sealed in a jiffy bag.

For bass I agree, but it's very useful to beef up an acoustic guitar in conjunction with the range control set to about 11 oclock, so you can thumb-pick bass lines on the bottom two strings. Thanks for a great review, very informative.

Check out Ben's work with the Full English, which was led by Fay Hield, also on the Duets album, and featured various folk music superstars. I saw them play at a festival once, they were superb.

By "amp", I meant that I don't have any information for the EA Doubler. I did find the data sheet for the 250ASX2 module, but the block diagram on there doesn't appear to show a mute switch. Which block diagram are you looking at? I think the SMPS part of the module is working, since there is DC power going to the pre-amp boards and I get a signal from the Effects Send output. Thanks for the help you've given me. I think this will be going to an amp tech, assuming that I can find one with the skills, experience and inclination to work on it. Most of the guys I know round here are old-school valve amp types. I'd just like to gather as much information as possible to pass on.

I don't have a schematic for the amp, but the data sheet for the power module does identify the inputs. Is it reasonable to assume that, provided I have a voltage on the connector that carries the input to the board, that everything upstream of the power amp is working as it should?

My Euphonic Audio iAmp Doubler died silently at rehearsal a couple of days ago. Lights carried on working but there was no sound. The amp wasn't particularly stressed at the time, running at about 10 o'Clock on the Master. I'm pretty sure that it's the power module that has failed. If I take a line from the effects send into the effects return of another amp, it works fine and I can hear a difference in sound with the mute switch engaged (total silence or a slight hissing when not muted). The power module is an ICEpower 250ASX2. I'm assuming that there are no serviceable/replaceable parts in this module, and that replacement is the best option. It appears that it's a straightforward case of disconnecting the old module, removing the screws and swapping the new one in. Does anyone know if any additional configuration is required? There don't appear to be any jumpers on the board. There is a slight complication: there is what looks like a thermal sensor attached to the power amp heat sink, which connects to the fan control circuit. I'm assuming I can either re-use this sensor or replace it. Can anyone suggest a suitable adhesive for this application? It's also an option to just wire the fan so it runs all the time, but I don't think I've ever heard it running in normal operation.

I have a couple of K&K sound systems pickups on bobuzouki and mandolin, which were supplied with K&K's own tape. That works really well.

Or just buy a Gnome/Elf and use that with the Monza.

I hope it's a great evening @bass_dinger . I well remember the time that Steve Lawson graced a SE bass bass with his presence, he's a phenomenal talent and a very nice chap. It's good to see that he's out and about again.

It's not that Phillips guy from ebay is it?

With a parallel loop, you're only applying it to part of the signal (probably 50%) and the un-EQd signal will still be getting through. My guess is that the signal sounds fatter and fuller with the EQ off when in the loop, because your EQ is filtering out the things that make it sound fat and full in the first place. Some Markbass amps (for sure, the LM2 and LM3) had an internal jumper that allows you to change the loop from parallel to serial. That means you get the whole signal modified, at the expense of getting complete silence if the effects chain fails. The other thing to be aware of is that most effects loops are designed to work with line-level voltage equipment (think rack effects) whereas most stomp boxes work at instrument level voltage. So they may not work properly, may require gain changes, or they might be absolutely fine. And with house amps, not only do you have to worry about whether they have loops, you also have to find out whether they're serial or parallel. My experience is effects loops on bass amps are best avoided altogether, unless you have something like a rack-mounted DBX 166 studio compressor and want to apply it to the whole signal, all of the time.

It's income, not profit.

To be fair to Ebay, they have no choice in that. Once you sell more than £1740 Ebay is obliged to notify HMRC under UK digital sales legislation. You're required to pay tax on anything you earn over £1000 p/a. Might be an idea to fill in a self-assessment form if you're in this position, to stave off any unwanted interest from HMRC.

Carrying a DI/pre-amp is all very well, but unless you actually test it at a gig all you have is a theory.

Played there earlier this year. I think they provided 3 monitors: right, left and centre on the stage apron. There is a sound guy there who sets everything up and operates it.

I'm ooking forward to hearing how this works with your Monza.

You could try running the search in google with site:www.basschat.co.uk/<the for sale area you want to search> and -sold

I don't know whether they did or not. I think they made various copies in the early 70s for Rose Morris, but not which ones. I'm not an expert.

I think the Japanese made ones were neck through. Not sure about the ones made by Eko. I was looking at the tuners and hardware. Anyhoo, I'm well out of my depth here. @Bassassin and @prowla , can you help the nice man please?

I'm not an expert, but it looks like a Shaftesbury to me.

I had an Aria Pro II RSB for a while and it was definitely 34" scale. @kristo has a nice looking medium scale Jazz for sale.

I think you'll find it's paid by the buyer.

I've used a SmoothHound system with both a Shadow piezo pickup and a Krivo magnetic and it seems to work fine with both, so I'd infer that it's working at a higher impedance level, although I don' t have a way to measure it.