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  1. Woodinblack
    There is a lot more focus on the education when you are paying for it yourself thats for sure!
  2. Woodinblack
    My dad was against us going to university, not to the point of forbidding us to go, but just that we should be out working, so we both went out to work at 16.I went to the Open University later on
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    I had ordered one too (not entirely sure why, but thought it would be good as a drop D thing for a new group), but it was shown as out of stock, to be sent on the 2nd January, but now it has been delayed by 3 weeks. I am not actually that bothered, quite happy to wait if it does turn up!
  4. Woodinblack
    OK, I got the WX52- and I have been pretty impressed with it, tried it tonight in a practice, really good sound quality and a solid build.
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    I have a fender one and it has been good, which is a surprise as every other fender cable I have had has been junk. Maybe it was a lucky accident.
  6. Woodinblack
    Yes, but in a passive system, changing the volume does actually change the EQ, not just the perception of it.
  7. Woodinblack
    Not low-z like the EMGs are though. obviously the main issue with those isn't noise, the main issue is that they would just be completely useless without a preamp / buffer, so why bother having an external preamp.
  8. Woodinblack
    Agreed there is nothing, but what it does mean is that you can make very low impedance pickups (with a very low output), which means that you aren't choking your own frequencies with the pickup, which is what EMGs do. They are active because not only would the noise be an issue, even with 6" of shielded cable, but there would be no point using them without a preamp as the signal would be too small, so might as well put one there. Agreed - active has nothing to do with tone circuits, its just that if you have gone to the trouble of making it active, might as well make a tone circuit. Most of my basses are active, I rarely touch the EQ on the bass. In fact, nowadays that I play on a wireless all the time, there is little point me using an active, as I am already buffered by the wireless, hence most of the time I am using my Ric.
  9. Woodinblack
    Interestingly, one of those is wired permanently on, one is added by the tone control
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    Boss GX-1B

    Woodinblack replied to NoirBass's topic in Effects

    They only seem to sell roland items, and their vat number is real, so probably real, even if it is a private house. Maybe they just get demo stuff
  11. Woodinblack
    So why bother next year? Why don't you just slope off to the keyboard players NYE family!
  12. Woodinblack
    £69? He was done!
  13. Woodinblack
    I was and find it anything but!
  14. Woodinblack
    I am not sure if I am following your problem here - you had this preamp working on a jazz bass, and now you want it on a P bass? Do you have a picture of the label on the preamp or an indication of what make it is (like from when you bought it) - the blend doesn't work but obviously some preamps (most?) the blend is before the preamp - the rest of it would be exactly the same as how it was originally installed. You say you want switches - for what?
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    Is it? Its where I would put it. Probably more a mod issue, they tend to do these things and know better than me!
  16. Woodinblack
    I bought a piano years ago, smelled very smokey, cleaned it, still smelled, and for years you could hit some random key and get a whiff of smoke!
  17. Woodinblack
    I am sure they did - anything they could sell!
  18. Woodinblack
    Not in a standard musicmaster - one tone, one volume, one tone cap, one pickup, one socket, and thats the lot - built the cheapest it could be.
  19. Woodinblack
    If they are pure tube outputs with a 8Ω and 4Ω output, and it is ok on one but not the other, then the only thing that can be wrong is the transformer or the socket for the 4Ω connector as there is nothing else, unless there is a problem with the speaker, or the loading is wrong (ie, not a 4Ω speaker), but I assume you tried that with the other one.
  20. Woodinblack
    Yeh, my first bass I got when I was 15 so 45 years too. Definitely going to learn it one day!
  21. Woodinblack
    Just because something is all hype doesn't mean it won't actually be useful to you!
  22. Woodinblack
    Pah, speak for your own band
  23. Woodinblack
    I got a really nice tangle free cable from aliexpress which is all braided, unhelpfully I dont' remember the name but it has been excelent, and saved a good minute at each gig!
  24. Woodinblack
    Quite local pub last night for an early evening gig (or 7-10). Setup and found I forgot the iPad so dashed home to get it, seeing as I had already setup everything. Looked like it was going to be a quiet night, there were actually 2 people in the room when we started! Luckily after a song, another group of 6 people came in and then some more afterwards. By song 5 it was actually pretty busy, although it is a fairly small room. The drum kit lights had broken so I put my aliexpress bar light across the front and it worked really well. All in all a good gig and the last we need to do christmas songs for!
  25. Woodinblack
    Its the only thing that stops me from filling the house! But I did ask Chris about it,. and I still think about it
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