pete.young

Sorry, can't help with that.

Supporting members can. What is it you're looking for? PM me if you like.

Is that a JJ configuration? My 465 has JJ and @Doctor J is right about the pickup heights. It's easy to have the neck much louder than the bridge, for balance you need to set the bridge as close to the strings as possible and then adjust the neck down .

You could also measure the resistance of both pickups, they should be the same. This assumes that the pre-amp is working properly which isn't always the case.

For a budget semi-hollow, I'd suggest Ibanez. They have a variety of semi-hollow and completely hollow basses. AG200 rings a vague bell but I'm not sure of the actual model numbers.

I have Duesenberg Star bass, which is in theory semi hollow but has a big block the width of the neck all the way through it. If you're looking for something that will be audible when not plugged in, this isn't it!

8 hours ago, msb said:

There are tons of Longhorns around , sometimes they can be found for a song. These are tiny , and weigh nothing. They have lipstick pickups that can be a bit noisy. You learn to live with that. New prices are getting more expensive , but these really are fun little things to play. So if you see one for a good price I would suggest getting it. Despite playing one for over 25 years now I still can’t decide if they’re butt ugly or cool as heck. This completely changed my concept of just what it is that made a bass good.

Well that's all very well, but in what sense are these 'semi-hollow' ?

I've just acquired one through @GILLY , an all-round splendid chap. I'm mainly going to use it with double bass (Krivo through an EA Doubler), but I just gave it a quick burst of fretless through my Walkabout Scout and it sounds fantastic, really sings on the upper registers. Looking forward to giving it a first gig on Saturday.

22 hours ago, V2factoryman said:

I particularly liked the bass boost on the Tecamp as you could get solid bottom end without being mega loud.

Turns out this is a 12 dB boost centred at 30Hz. Which to me is weird, because I'm using a hi-pass filter to get rid of anything at 30Hz and below!

I think the retailer is right, this head should have been capable of operating at 2 Ohm . The early models only allowed 4 or 8 Ohm operation and they were labelled 4 - 8  where yours says 2 - 8 .

You can get absolute confirmation by emailing EBS with the amp serial number.

So whatever fault caused this to blow up, I don't think it was because  you connected 2 4Ohm cabs to it.

My Blues band The Ministry of Mojo are playing 3 sets at Dereham Blues Festival, various venues, this coming Saturday, 13th July. Come along and say hi if you're there.

https://www.derehambluesfestival.org.uk/

Glad you were able to resolve it.

If I were about to join a band and they said "by the way you owe £x for a share of a well-used PA", I'd walk away and find another band. Does anyone else feel like that?

1 hour ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

As I already replied to you once he got a MS-70CDR, which is also stated in the OP, which allows for using up to 6 effect slots per patch.

 

Also I would claim that pretty much no digital multi effects really excels at anything but being versatile.

 

But I still stand by my claim that the EQ models are as good as anything, and that most of the compressor, modulation, reverb and delay models are genuinely great in these Zoom multi effects, and for a lot of them it is really down to a matter of making the right adjustments and personal taste whether they are any worse than any more recent, more expensive digital multi effects, or standalone pedals for that matter. 

 

As I also stated earlier in this thread some of the very sought after digital reverb effects has lesser CPU power, resolution and bit depth than these units.

 

For some effects it is simply more important getting the algorithms right (amp and drive emulations does seems to be more picky about the capabilities of the hardware though).

 

Also you should never used the premade factory patches of any multi effect, they are usually horribly exaggerated. 

 

So have you just come here to argue with me, or do you have any genuine insight which will actually help the OP to achieve his objective?

On 02/07/2024 at 23:10, stewblack said:

I've had a B3, but a while ago now. In my experience the Zoom Bass effects excel at useable synth sounds. There's enough flexibility built in to the various options to enable the user to come up with something decent.

In my experience, the Zoom bass effects don't excel at anything, except maybe some of the compressor patches. Everything else is more aimed at allowing you to experiment with a lot of different effects for not very much money, and then buy something more expensive that actually does excel.

The other way to go about this may be to eschew the synth patches in favour of some combination of fuzz (if there is a gated option, good), envelope filter, autowah and octave. You might get close to the kind of bass sound on 'I wanna dance with somebody' with this combination.

Bearing in mind that if all you have is a B3, you can only have 3 of these so pick the least worst solution.

Ultimately, it's probably quicker, easier and cheaper to polish your keyboard skills until you are a live keyboard player, at least for basslines. It's not as hard as you'd think, especially if you use both hands!

Go fretless. Problem solved.

I've played about with the various synth settings inn the MS-60B but didn't get any real satisfaction until I bought an SY1.

Your playing needs to be very clean to help the tracking.

I'd use the Z-Syn effect if that's available on the B3- this is supposed to be a clone of a Korg G5 and I think it is about the best sounding of the synth patches though not close to a real G5.

I'd put a compressor patch upstream of the Z-Syn, probably 160 Comp. This will help with the tracking.

The track details also mention an OC5. If you have to use a slot for an octaver I find that PitchSHFT is a bit more predictable than Ba Octave.

If you don't need a slot for the octaver, I'd use the 3rd slot to add an EQ to take out some of the bass signal upstream of the synth, this will take out some of the tracking issues. Alternatively, adding a chorus is sometimes a useful dodge to fatten up a synth sound.

Now you see why you need 5 slots, not 3!

Was this a self-build or did you buy it from somewhere?

17 hours ago, Sparky Mark said:

Anyone know about the Bury St Edmunds music scene; like if it has one for instance?

There is an excellent medium-sized venue called the Apex, which books a lot of interesting bands. There are two pubs, the Hunter Club and the Grapes, and the Bury Folk Collective meets twice a month. And an annual 2-day folk festival, this weekend.

Elephant, from Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens.

42 minutes ago, Marky L said:

 

Thank you. 

It's a theoretical question that may lead to a purchase at some time, or maybe not. I was mulling over the idea of getting a 4ohm 4x10 to use instead of the 8ohm 4x10 I have. I was pondering if it would leave me a little more headroom and not be pushing the amp as hard.

If you have the vehicle to transport 2 cabs, it would make more sense to me to get another 8Ohm 4x10 and run them both together.

My blues band has a gig this coming Friday in The Duke, Woodbridge Road, Ipswich. Formerly known as the Duke of York, I can see why rebranding to move away from that association is a good move!

To be fair to Eich, they have replied again. I think to get any customer service at all on a 15 year old amp made by a previous version of the company is not bad, certainly not terrible in my book.

They have confirmed that the pictured driver is indeed a double magnet neodymium driver and not a chinese audio unit. They've offered to sell me a replacement driver for 39 Euro, with shipping, VAT and import duty it'll be around the same cost as the Basschat solution but not as good.

3 hours ago, neepheid said:

I get the feeling that the Wanted forum is a bit of an echo chamber, it seems very few people go there, there's no way to bump things, so once your thread goes off the first page it's pretty much gone.  I don't think I've had any success from putting a requirement up in there ever.  Feels a bit like peeing in the sea to be honest.

Its main function seems to be to keep all the for sale forums free of wanted ads, so I think it's doing something useful.

On 19/06/2024 at 21:36, Woodinblack said:

 

We are looking into various options to improve security, nothing is set yet.

The wanted forum may or may not end up being supporting members only, it is being explored, but it would enable it to have conversations and bumping and be more useful for people to sell. 

 

 

From your reply you seem to be in some doubt as to whether it is visible or not? Well at the moment I am not able to view it, presumably because I'm not currently a supporting member.

Is this why the Wanted forum is now visible to supporting members only?

I'm pleased to say that there is a happy ending to this tale. I replaced the driver with a Faital 4FE32. I was having difficulty sourcing capacitors for a reasonable price so I ended up going with an 800Hz crossover from Blue Aran. The difference is like night and day - not only has the annoying buzz gone, but the sound is much improved and there is much more clarity in the higher frequency. Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

I did recieve an email from Eich, asking me to send photos of the driver because "we are unsure what is in there." No response so far to the email I sent back.