Woodinblack

2 hours ago, JPJ said:

Funny thing is that despite having never been an active smoker, I now find the smell of tobacco smoke to be “nostalgic”.  

I was and find it anything but!

3 hours ago, BubbasnEvilGenius said:

This is the first time that I have dealt with an active preamp. I bought a pre wired 2 band preamp for my jazz bass originally. But, decided to install it in my generic P bass instead. I couldn't find the right wiring diagram on Google or anywhere I looked online. I was wondering and hoping if anyone on here to help me out with my bass? You got a wiring diagram that would be amazing. This preamp has a master volume that is an 1 mega ohm audio taper pot. A bass & trouble cut there are B-50 killaohm  pots, and a MN250K blender pot. I would greatly appreciate it? If anybody can help me figure out this wiring!

 

P.S. instead of having this PB split called pickup connected.  I know him two single coil pickups. I'm going to upload pictures of my preamp and the wires a little cock eyed. Any help would be truly appreciated especially if there's a wiring diagram or some other type visual along with everything. The first picture is of my pickups and the blend pot. The second picture is the bass and treble cut. Along with the brand module. I would also like to add either spdt or D PDT switches., I have a dpdt slide switch, and spdt mini toggle on off on switch. Lastly the output Jack is a mono stereo Jack. I kind of have an idea on how to connect all the wires and make it work right. Cuz the other day I had her completely together. I was testing the preamp out. Two different amps

 

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?

3 hours ago, Geek99 said:

Possibly in the wrong place ? @Woodinblack

Is it? Its where I would put it. Probably more a mod issue, they tend to do these things and know better than me!

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!

3 minutes ago, ped said:

Surprised you still get four strings… I bet they thought about it!

I am sure they did - anything they could sell!

20 minutes ago, ped said:

I believe there are two caps in the circuit to enhance the low end response. 

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.

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.

Yeh, my first bass I got when I was 15 so 45 years too. Definitely going to learn it one day!

4 minutes ago, Kev said:

I still have this niggling thought that its all hype but hoping I'm wrong!

Just because something is all hype doesn't mean it won't actually be useful to you!

3 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

but with Blues / rock then a lot of people will be watching and admiring the musicianship

Pah, speak for your own band

3 hours ago, SimonK said:

1) I've taken my Linsoul KZ ZS10 ear pieces back from my son (who was using them for gaming), but he's buggered up the cable - can anyone recommend a replacement (probably looking at around £20 accepting it is probably a disposable item in the long run)? There seem to be plenty of options on Amazon?

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!

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!

4 hours ago, ead said:

 

What is this "justification" of which you speak?

Its the only thing that stops me from filling the house!

But I did ask Chris about it,. and I still think about it

4 hours ago, ead said:

I had this on an Alpher bass:

 

I was so tempted to custom make a 5 string version of that but could never pluck up the justification!

On 22/12/2025 at 18:01, deepbass5 said:

I've Been playing along to Deborah Bonhams version of Superstition, as it is best version I have played and its been years. so found it on Spotify then checking her out on the tube I came across this. How do ya get these three in the same place.

 

https://youtu.be/Q5gc9Yk6OPc?si=8ojqcIw2klDubyv5

Surprised the could hear the bass player on stage without only 2 CTM300s and 8x10 stacks!

well, that is pretty unpleasant. i nneed to do some updates to advertising, which I have not been on due to the house medical issues, but I will look into it

I wasn't aware you would be getting any adverts

Just now, Al Krow said:

 

Before folk start wondering, the XE sounds like an old Jag model to me? Time for a bit of Xmas XS? 😅

Oh yes, XS. Which sounds more like a Jag to me! What was wrong with PS - they have a PS-5 and 6, could this not be the 7?

36 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

 

Just had a quick play on with pitch shift set to -2 semis fully wet, and GX10 seems to comfortably handle taking down the low E by a couple of semis in terms of a usable-in-the-mix bass. What are you finding with the ME-90B?

Oh its more like a wammy effect, in fact it is only available on the footpedal, but it is too electronic to use as a clean bass sound.

There is a song I do that is downtuned which is just bass and vocals for the verse, this wouldn't work for that, its not an 'in the mix' song, it is effecgtively a solo bass sound, which the XE-1 can do.

7 hours ago, Al Krow said:

Being able to assign the expression pedal to dictate the amount of gain on drive patches to take it from mild to full-on drive is also very neat. 

Yeh, thats the same on the ME-90B as you would expect (same company), just that the pitch shift isn't in the same league as the XE-1, certainly not up to a couple of semitones below a drop D as a solo instrument live.

Well, this was a bit of a change. We had our last gig before christmas today, a short 2 hour one on a sunday afternoon at one of our local pubs, a pub owned by the guy who gives us our free practice space. We were going to get the other christmas song sorted but the guitarist was ill on thursday, so we didn't.

I was looking forward to it - short, in the evening and local. The last two gigs hadn't been great, the one before last I had covid (didn't realise at the time, but felt really bad), then the last one my wife had a heart attack while I was away and ended up in A&E until 2 and visiting every day of the next week, still dealing with the fallout from that. So a chance for a gig that didn't have that would be great.

2 hours before we were ready to go and setup for the gig, got a message from the guitarist, who had said yesterday he was good for both christmas songs that he was too ill to come.

Quick panic, not enough time to arrange anything. Asked the drummer who is in another group, but they couldn't cover - we really didn't want to let this landlord down at this short notice.

The singer contacted the keyboard player who left about a year ago and he agreed to cover, so we quickly packed and headed down there, huddled over an iPad working out what we could play without the guitar. Turns out as it is only a 2 hour gig, we had more than enough songs we thought we could do ok.

The pub was heaving, wasn't really expecting that. Set up, the first 2 songs went through fine so got a bit more confidence and after about 5 songs people came to the front dancing. Had a brief 10 minute break and back on. Some of the songs were a bit.. creative and we did moondance and I think he was a fifth out from where i was, but you know, jazz! Some of the songs however went really well, and the last run of 5 (ie, last song and 2 encores) songs was just solid dancing from everywhere and we did nail them.

Packing up and the landlord came over, really happy with how it went, and loads of people thanking us for a great evening, so came away happy. And honestly even when things were going wrong in some songs, I enjoyed it just fine. In fact, I haven't enjoyed a gig as much for a while, it was just fun. Although maybe if i am going to play guitar on a song I should run through it at least once beforehand!

Oh - I played the bongo 5, the light up acrylic bass, a indie tribal guitar, all through the dwarf and a bam200 to the PA.

Shoes provided by solivair, my old pair that are broken, as my feet are still sensitive for how ripped apart they got trying to walk in my new pair!

pm'd

7 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

And in answer to my own question, have managed to get some decently usable pitch shift patches on my GX10 ( and making me ponder whether to hold onto my dedicated Boss pitch shift pedals - OC5, XS-1 and XS-100?)

So is your GX10 pitch shift s good as the XS-1 (and 100)?

On 18/12/2025 at 21:55, Mudpup said:

The singer/guitarist was inacapable of learning any new songs on his own and coming to rehearsals with them semi prepared, that was driving me nuts. You know when you've all agreed to learn a song, everyone does their homework and then someone shows up at a rehearsal and asks what key its in or what version is it?

Sadly all too well, and I have been thinking about that a lot recently!

27 minutes ago, bassbora said:

I was looking at this pedal more like a functional tool rather than a box that makes sounds.  

You can rest assured it makes no sounds unless you do!