Chiliwailer

Now £55 posted, but I won't be dropping any further.

I’m a big fan of these pickups, but now that I’m keeping my Fender Active Flea I’ve added a neck pickup to my trusty Stingray and gone back to alnico pickups, so this is not needed anymore. 
 

The Classic series is brighter than the Original series, but retains the lush smooth Bartolini tone. I personally feel like the Classic is the best all rounder. 

These are ceramic, and therefore deeper than an alnico MM pickup. 

The back has some sign of wear, my mistake, as when I first I put it in my Ray I forgot to put in the foam, so it got marked due to my DIY drill-routing.  One of the wires detached,  so the wires needed soldering to fix it, but it's working great - so just don't forget the foam to protect the exposed wires! I may even have some foam I can throw in if you need it. 
 

Postage included. 
 

Cheers 

7 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

Here's my entry. Just in time for the deadline.

 

This is about Quantum mechanics, specifically that quarks are never found alone — they are always stuck together in particles like mesons, which are made of a quark and an antiquark, or baryons — like protons and neutrons.

 

When you try to pull a quark and antiquark apart, the force between them gets stronger, like stretching a really tight rubber band. If you keep pulling, you give it so much energy that instead of breaking apart, new quarks appear from that energy thanks to E= mc2. So instead of ending up with a single quark and antiquark, you now get two new pairs each comprised of a single quark and antiquark stuck together.

 

The song is divided into four verses, with each one focusing on a specific topic:

1. Quark Confinement Basics
2. The Rise of Confinement Energy
3. Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)
4. The Hadronization process

 

All instruments apart from the bass were programmed in Logic using logic's built-in instruments and all processing was performed by logic's built-in FX.

 

Alchemy was used for the 303ish Acid loop that repeats throughout. There's also an analog sounding pad plus transistor organ and electric piano.

 

I used a text to speech app to make the lead vocal and fed this into the EVOC 20 vocoder on the repeated chorus.

 

The bass part was recorded using my Rickenbacker 4003, with each pickup recorded on a separate track via the Rick-O-Sound output. This allowed me to use the bass pickup consistently throughout the song, blending in the fuzzed treble pickup for eight bars after eight bars without.

 

 

 

Genius 👌 

I'd have actually paid attention to science in school if they taught it that way.

Domnington 1994 - Biohazard, then Pantera, then Sepultura - was nuts…

…and then bizarrely followed by Extreme 😂

Enjoyed the YT vid, cheers for posting. 

1 minute ago, Chiliwailer said:

That’s really good to read, it is a great Jazz, I remember how the balance and feel are amazing, and the stacked Fralins sounded great in it 👌

 

I ended up with another Jazz, finally found a CS relic with a neck and balance that actually feels just like my old original 64, and it sounds lovely - and same as you, after all these years I’m not using a P anymore, which I never would have believed if someone told me it’d happen. Strange days… 😊

.. and to add, I finally realised I was keeping the P (and therefore nearly sold my J) just out of habit and thinking I ‘should’, like it’s an expectation, so I’m glad that changed looking back now 😂

16 minutes ago, probonopublico said:

I've still got the Jazz Dan and sadly it's taken over the P bass as my goto.  This is despite much effort to keep the P.  Just had it set up.

That’s really good to read, it is a great Jazz, I remember how the balance and feel are amazing, and the stacked Fralins sounded great in it 👌

I ended up with another Jazz, finally found a CS relic with a neck and balance that actually feels just like my old original 64, and it sounds lovely - and same as you, after all these years I’m not using a P anymore, which I never would have believed if someone told me it’d happen. Strange days… 😊

Oh, just saw the Neutrik link above, good brand too 👍

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One of these will do it Gus, needs to be a stereo one for the active power to be on. 
 

Barrel jacks often fail, so worth getting a name brand over a cheapie I think - you may find a cheaper Switchcraft elsewhere if you look?

https://allparts.uk.com/collections/barrel-jack/products/1-4-inch-long-threaded-barrel-input-jack-switchcraft-152b-stereo

Always a pleasure to interact with Pete, thanks for an easy transaction pal 👍😊

MXR M233 Micro Amp +

These are made in the MXR Custom Shop. 

Great for setting levels when switching basses, or for a volume boost when you need it.

Tone controls are super handy too. 
 

Really excellent condition and works perfect. 
 

Price includes postage to standard UK post code. 

26 minutes ago, Brucegill said:

 

@Chiliwailer played this a few weeks ago so can hopefully chime in to confirm condition etc.

 

Big rich tone on this one, really resonant and defined, definitely one of the better Custom Shop basses, and yeah, excellent condition 👍

Sorry you have to sell it bro. 

...maybe 'passive preamp' is just a flash way of saying passive circuit?

7 hours ago, Misdee said:

I've got an EBMM Reflex bass with active/passive switching. It's an HH with a humbucker in exactly the Stingray position. When I switch it to passive I don't really hear much discernable difference to the tone in active mode with the E.Q set flat. It's still got that distinctive Stingray tone. 

 

 On the basis of that, I think a passive Stingray would sound just like an active 'Ray with the EQ flat.

Your post got me curious - in a good way - as that's not been my experience with various Stingrays modded for passive, I can always notice a difference in the fundamental of the note. So, I took a look at the specs for the Reflex, seems the passive side has a separate volume and tone pot value to the active side which makes sense, but more interestingly Ernie Ball call it a 'passive pre-amp' - never heard of that before! I wonder if that helps 'balance' the volumes (which I always needed a pedal for), or if the passive pre-amp adds some colour? I'm lost now

1 minute ago, Chiliwailer said:Only issue here is that the pickup is going straight to the jack, which will sound quite different as it has no load from the vol tone. 
 

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51 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

Like this

 

 

Only issue here is that the pickup is going straight to the jack, which will sound quite different as it has no load from the vol tone. 
 

An issue with using a regular Stingray volume pot is that the value is meant for the preamp going into it, so it’s not like a passive bass’s value. 
 

I have a Aguilar pre amp in mine, whereby the pup goes to the volume pot before the preamp, so it helps the passive mode as it’s a Fender type value pot. But I still use a volume boost via a pedal to help match the signals. With the volumes matched, the passive tone is surprisingly still big sounding. 

I added a passive switch in mine - to me it sounds less compressed, and with more ‘air’ in the notes like a passive Fender if you catch my drift. Not better or worse, just different - but a Stingray for sure.  

Been years since I entered this comp, but just had a week off work and tentatively felt like dipping my toe in the waters here again after a 6 month break in making any music - so hoping to keep it up monthly now all being well 🤞

The tune started as an acoustic thing I was playing last weekend, of which one part is heard in the middle eight type section, but it took a turn after seeing the competition thread and then recording it....I really liked the photo, it made me think of the intensity of chaos caused by GICs and how that'd be spot on for a new pedal I'd got recently - so in this tune the GIC attack starts at around 35 seconds!

Final price drop - £60 posted to a standard UK postcode 
 

With heavy heart, this dirty funk beast is up for sale. These pedals are nostalgic bliss for me, but its not getting enough use and I need funds for something else. 

They have a phat and funky filter tone, or with the sensitivity right down they give a huge and smooth sub bass.

The serial number dating site has this one as 'probably made within a couple of months March 1988'. 

Includes a PSU lead adapter. 
 

The power supply and battery work, and it has the battery cover and the little disks on the knobs are still attached! 

Cheers 

 withdrawn

MXR M233 Micro Amp +

These are made in the MXR Custom Shop. 

Great for setting levels when switching basses, or for a volume boost when you need it.

Tone controls are super handy too. 
 

Really excellent condition and works perfect. 
 

Price includes postage to standard UK post code. 

Going to withdraw this - seems too rare to be so easily giving up on, and is much fun to play on the days I can hold it comfortably, so she stays 😊

£80 posted to standard UK postcodes. 
 

Awesome pedal, with great variety of reverbs (and its cool that the Spring option has more drip, and shaping capability, than Holy Grail). Super useful when I had my little pedal board in action as it’s got chorus, tremolo, and echo/delay on top of a variety of very cool and useable reverb ambient effects.   

Comes with box and manual. No PSU, but I can chuck in a daisy chain if you want. (It just uses a standard 9v). 

£65 posted to standard UK postcodes. 
 

Awesome delay - with tones designed by guys at Premier Guitar for this version 1 of the Alter Ego. 
 

Many types of delay available - Echorec (very Pink Floyd), tape, analogue, dlx memory man, digital, and more - also has a basic looper too, and tone print options. 
 

From TCE:

Built On The Shoulders of a Giant

Alter Ego Delay is the unique result of Andy and Aaron at ProGuitarShop getting to play around with the TonePrint software. A pure labor of love, PGS sculpted some of the most awesome delay sounds around.

    •    Now available worldwide *
    •    Two exclusive delay modes custom tuned by ProGuitarShop
    •    7 seconds of delay
 
*Available exclusively from ProGuitarshop in North and South America
 

Delayed World Domination

When Andy and Aaron at ProGuitarShop originally did these custom tunings, they were quite exclusive - but as the sounds are so highly regarded and sought after the world over, we want everyone to be able to get them!

Delay Daze

Andy and Aaron at ProGuitarShop went to town on our TonePrint software like you would not believe and came up with two exclusive Toneprints that can only be found on this pedal - let's have a look.

The Echorec / The DMM Setting / Seconds Nature

So Pink Floyd we should have painted it pink! The Echorec is characterized by a very unique modulation. Typically when you think of delay and modulation you think of a chorusing effect. But this is more of a vibrato than a chorus. On lower settings it just adds a very subtle 3D effect, but if you care to crank up the volume it gives a nice warble, resulting in a slight Leslie type effect. You will notice this warble at around 300ms repeat time. It then morphs into some great swirling upper harmonics at higher delay time settings.

A clear tribute to the Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man, the DMM is a classic delay that everyone with a guitar heart is very familiar with. This tuning is very focused on capturing the nuances of the echo and mimicking the unique decay heard in its repeats.

Seven seconds of delay should be more than enough for even your wildest sounds. And even at long settings, Alter Ego Delay always sounds smooth and natural.

True to Tone

You love tone, so do we, and our design philosophy testifies to that. So whatever route you wanna go, we got your back. With optimized headroom, True Bypass or Buffered Bypass switch and Kill-Dry on/off, this pedal guarantees optimal tonal integrity and zero loss of tone. And, no matter if the pedal is on or off your precious dry sound is always passed through the pedal unharmed in all it's pure analog glory due to an Analog-Dry-Through.

Backstage Pass - All Access

With Alter Ego Delay, getting tones is a cinch. Dialing in sounds is  quick and intuitive and it's one of those pedals where you just can't  seem to get anything else but awesome sounds.

Controls the delay time, which, apart from the Slapback, can go up to 7 seconds.

Determines how pronounced the effect is. From subtle ambience to total timewarp.

Allows you to select quarter notes, dotted eighths or a dual delay  combination of both (of which "the Edge" would very much approve).

Set the number of repetitions and how much effect is fed back to the  input - short and snappy or infinite soundscapes ... you decide!

Sets your delay type. Makes a mean panini. Only one of these is actually true.

TonePrint pedals offer both true- or buffered bypass. It simply means  that no matter what your setup or situation, TC pedals give you optimal  signal integrity so the 'you' in your playing shines through with  unparalleled clarity and definition.

Turns out only 250-275 were made in each colour (silver or pink). 

On 19/03/2025 at 13:44, ped said:

Only one left now, but couldn’t be happier. 
 

Where did you get mini me made? Brilliant 😊
 

Stang looks awesome btw. 

21 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

I’ve completed the survey and would love to see the results.

 

As someone who has designed surveys before (and who works a lot with academics) I’d suggest changing the title of the survey and consider adjusting some of the questions as they’re quite leading.

 

Best of luck with it all. 

5 hours ago, sch3892 said:

 

Thank you for the advice this is my first ever survey so it was all very new to me  I will take on board what you have said and I am not sure weather i am allowed to post the results but if i am I will make sure to post it on here

 

thank you for helping me out and participating

It’s best not to change half way through the survey as the results will be affected, but adding the advice from @Burns-bass (if you agree) into your Methodology section would score you extra points if you self-critique; getting in there before the person marking it does