Wolverinebass

17 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

I'm checking the 9 pins jack with its 2 switches that will work with the Ric-O-Sound.

Does it? Will it need a switch to the 9 pin stereo? Yeah?

1 hour ago, three said:

Have a look at the Alembic Club site - Alembic Anniversary electronics do what you're looking for (found on the Alembic Brown Bass).  Alembic uses a single jack and a small switch for S/M operation - it's possible to use a mono or stereo jack cable.  I really like the sound of what you're aiming for - good luck with it, the electronics shouldn't be too difficult to assemble  

Thanks. I actually own an Alembic Stanley Clarke Signature Standard as well as a Wal. I remember playing a brown bass many years ago and really liking it, but went for the Standard because it just felt right. Probably a mistake in hindsight. However, it's just a change in shape I'm after.

Hi Peeps! Hope someone is quite good with electronics and on board preamps can help me with this.

I'm at the moment in conflabs with a luthier about a new bass. I decided on a filter type setup. One for each pickup. However, I want the ability to treat both pickups differently. Kind of like Alembic Series 1 or the Ric-o-Sound features on the 4003.

So, the person who sells the filters has agreed to sell me the filters without the blend and master volume. No problem.

What I'd like is to have filter and volume for each pickup (pickup selector switch as well) with a stereo out as well as a mono out so I'm not tied to a Y cable a la Billy Sheehan.

Can anyone help me with this? The luthier wants to have dual output (one jack output for each pickup) and I'd like the ability to use the bass in mono as well if I have to. Whether that's having a stereo jack or one that can be switched between stereo and mono I am open to ideas.

I'd appreciate any advice and suggestions anyone may have.

3 minutes ago, warwickhunt said:

The 'Sadowsky' adjustable nut... I bet Warwick wish they'd thought of that one!    

Pity Alembic did it before Warwick though. Another one of HPW's "inventions."

Sadowsky now being reduced to a joke brand under the helpful "management" of Hans Peter Wilfer. That guy must have a massive trophy cabinet filled with brands he's destroyed, screwed over, claimed  credit for inventing their products and generally being a tool.

He now goes over tonight to the cabinet, looking at the Spector, Alembic and Status Graphite trophies he has collected and now adds the Sadowsky trophy knowing that nobody will buy them as the pricing structure is now more ludicrous than Musicman's recent announcements which has no doubt been sponsored by "Mickey Rooney's crazy Pills."

29 minutes ago, Jus Lukin said:

Going?!!!

Well, there is that. I hasten to say, I have a 4003, but I was really lucky in that the bridge didn't stop me setting the thing up to my liking.

44 minutes ago, 4000 said:

They have permanently changed the bridge on the 4003 to the new V2, FWIW. 

Really? Are the Rick purists not going mental?

10 minutes ago, Eldon Tyrell said:

I still think that EBMM, faced with a huge Covid related reduction in production capacity, is probably trying to protect its main market - the US. They want to make sure that they can make enough basses for them at an only slightly increased price. If people outside the US still want MM bass this year, well then they will have to cough up the big money. As @40hz rightly said, only the die-hards, the fanboys and fangirls, the hard-core loyals (buying only one brand) will do so. Looks like EBMM does not really need the regular EBMM buyers from Europe this year but they probably did not want to say: "we are not selling to markets outside the US this year". So, they came up with these ridiculous prices to achieve pretty much the same. I've seen something similar on reverb where some US retailers offer shipment to the UK but ask for ridiculous shipping fees. Again, they are probably not keen on shipping to the UK but instead of banning UK customers, they just charge stupid fees to put them off. Well, that's at least my suspicion.     

A very reasonable theory. However, it does have one tiny flaw. After Covid is over and Brexit calms down, do you think the prices will come down?!! They won't. 

To be fair, I wonder if the price increases have something to do with this...

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2 hours ago, Eldon Tyrell said:

Bongo 4HH Stealth Black £3249

Bongo 4HH Harvest Orange £3249

Bongo 5HH Stealth Black £3349

Bongo 5HH Harvest Orange £3349

Bongo 6HH Stealth Black £3549

Bongo 6HH Harvest Orange £3549

They can go and do one. It's made of basswood!! 

I'd love to know why we're getting such a hike as it's really grim.

At £3000 I want to decide whether the bass is made of platinum or if the bridge is encrusted with diamonds. 

EBMM have been on the gear with this pricing. There is no way I'd pay that for one.

13 hours ago, Kev said:

I’m never any good at filming myself, but I’ll try to stick up videos on my IG channel at some point, if I can stand it! 😅 I prefer just to take pretty pictures 😉

Well, you have some very nice basses squire. I think if Darkglass make it full midi, I might get one actually.

2 minutes ago, Kev said:

I have to say, I've never looked at the PSA before, but checking it out on the website, it seems to bear very little resemblance?  No recording interface, no compressor or multiband compressor circuit, no IR loader? Does it even have a headphone out, or any kind of aux in, bluetooth or otherwise?  It just seems to be an updated programmable drive pedal with additional midi control (a feature I forgot to mention about the ADAM, albeit by TRS)?  And its only £100 or so less?

Sorry if I'm missing something!!  I'm really unfamiliar with the current Tech 21 range.

Not missing anything squire. That's why I said, a slightly different species of apples. The PSA does have cab simulation, but not uploadable. It does have a headphone out, but not an aux in. It's not just a stomp box pedal any more than the ADAM is as it's a multi band distortion unit with EQ. As I've said a Darkglass pedal with midi presets would be worth £500. This just happens to have quite a few other things too. Just a pity it has so few presets.

I should read the ADAM manual myself, but how flexible is the multi band? Can you choose the ratios and frequencies of the bands or is it just dials? I had thought that it was midi controllable but couldn't remember if it was just the IRs.

As I say, it's not an accurate comparison as they're different in many ways, but similar in others. Just one I wondered about. I'd certainly like to have a go of one.

Demo videos my dear boy as I'd like to hear it played by someone who isn't just going to "do a Nolly" or worse still "do a Patrick Hunter," which as you play Warwicks it'd be interesting. For me at least.

5 hours ago, Kev said:

...well, it covers the ground of at least three other pedals in the Darkglass range alone, and I can't name another single box solution like this that does so much.  It's an outstanding unit.

I'd have been surprised if it was rubbish. However, the Tech 21 PSA 2.0 is a a similar one box solution that's only £350. Full midi implementation as well. I appreciate that it's an apples and different species of apples comparison, but I think it's one to be made.

The upgradeable firmware is very clever. Pity it's only 3 settings. I'd certainly like to try one.

19 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

It's only underpowered for those who need crushing volume. The people that buy them seem by and large to be quite happy with them. 

At the last SE Bash we had one hooked up to a Vanderkley 2x10. By the time a decent volume was attained the red light was on constantly and there was some obvious compression artefacts.

It's a jazz gig amp. 

17 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:

Like a used Genz for example, that you can leave under your car seat.

I was thinking a reidmar funnily enough.

2 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

Not sure - isn't it something very useful to have in a gig bag in case your amp dies? OK, might never happen, but if it does you would be happy for it.

I'm not spending £350 on an underpowered matchbox on what might happen. Then you have the double frustration of you can't turn up to the same level because it has zero oomph. If I get a spare, it'd be a better amp than that.

After all this, can we all just agree that the Elf is awful?

Well, it appears that the bods at Ernie Ball have pushed the boat out too far after overindulgence in "Mickey Rooney's Crazy Pills."

£3k is laughable. 2 years ago you could get an HH ash/rosewood from thomann for £1900. They are mental if they think anyone will take that up in decent quantities. They can go and do one as far as I'm concerned. 

10 hours ago, DiMarco said:

The 1200-12, 600-12 etc. range. These are maybe not so vintage and not as widely loved as the earlier Made in U.K. series but still I thought I'd include these.

 

I loved the 12 band heads of these. When Peavey pulled out of the UK, the Bass Centre did a fire sale of the amps and cabs from this range. I remember it was £250 for thr 4x10 brand new. Was insane, but the weight put me off.

13 minutes ago, 40hz said:

Quite right. Trace Elliot to me (a 34 year old) is Stuart Zender and Kim Deal.

Exactly. I'm in my early 40s and associate Trace with John Entwistle due to him using the V8, MP11, poweramps and TVT9 preamp.

I think it's being suggested we should only associate Trace with Mike Kroeger of Nickelback or Mark King or whomever we shouldn't like.

I'm not a slap monster. Definitely not one of those 50 year old Mark King fans that have paid kept Status graphite in the black for the last 20 years. "New, marginally tweaked Kingbass!! Bendwell!! 16.5mm string spacing!!! Set up like Mark!!! Listen to me play Mr Pink on it!!!" 

Not me. Sorry.

1 hour ago, Rich said:

 I can't think of another bass amp manufacturer whose range is so pitifully limited. 

"Range?" Sorry, just to confirm that word again. "RANGE?!!" Trace Elliot have a sad window corner in crack converters where their new products (sorry - range) is covered in dust because nobody wants it.

The 12 band Peavey era was great. This new stuff is pish.

7 hours ago, BassBunny said:

The difference between 710 and 800 watts would not be detected by the human ear and the Retroglide is certainly not underpowered. As I have mentioned a number of times it needs a different approach to the vast majority of amps on the market and a chat with Dave Green, who designed it, enlightened me.

Also the Retroglide does not use the same Class D module as the Rootmaster.

That is very true that 90W at that level would be virtually impossible to hear. But, running out of headroom and redlining the amp the whole time kind of defeats the purpose. Now all I'm saying is that from what I read there were reports that it was underpowered. I've never tried one. Hence my post was more of a question rather than "Didn't everyone know retroglides are rubbish?" type post.

The simple reason was I was toying with getting one until I saw the multiple negative comments about it's output.

On 19/01/2021 at 11:20, stevie said:

I did a direct comparison between the Retroglide and the RM500 at the last SW Bass Bash. No idea why it should be, but the RM500 had noticeably more punch or kick to it.

Would that be because of the drive adding harmonics? Also when looking at the manual the retroglide says 710 watts, not 800. I would bet that the newer RMs have a different power module to the older ones as they are now lighter, but from what I've read, the retroglide appears to be underpowered which is a shame.

Just now, Maude said:

But then you're not getting your daily milk. 

Unless you're talking milk vodka. 😉

If you haven't had white Russian cornflakes you haven't lived.