Woodinblack

a jazz bass in distressed white?

I had one and it was great. i don't find it an issue it has a single coil, but he is right, if it says it has a humbucker it should have one. It certainly makes no difference from a price point.

That has always been the way with pop music, the majority is bland copies, but there is a lot of decent stuff out there. Same as now, except I think there is even more good stuff than there used to be.

Your not dissing agadoo are you?

They say: Gretsch mini dual-coil bass humbucking pickups That is clearly incorrect. they don't have dual coil and humbucking pickups describe pickups (ie, multiple) that are humbucking, which is a clear enough term. I like him too, apart from the cringy claw thing (which I guess is just his signature), the fast cuts of the audio making things run together. Over a long period of time, the downward inflection at the end of every sentence bugs a bit. But I guess he can't help his voice and his enthusiasm and in depth reviews win out.

Great gig last night. New owners at a pub that hadn't done music for a while, who wanted to see how it went. They had the ex landlady of one of our regular pubs working there, so he asked her who was the best to get in, so she said us, which was nice. Didn't really know what to expect, probably not so much as the pub is a bit tucked away. By the time we were set up it was really busy, and by half time it was heaving and they had reached their limit of people they could have in the pub. People were responsive and obviously up for a good time. Not sure how much of the 'not much music around for the last few years' there was, although there were other gigs that night in town, and certainly most of the people there we had seen at other gigs. Took the spector for the first time gigging and it was fantastic, balanced, comfortable and so clear on the top end compared to a lot of basses. Very comfortable to play. I think it might make its way to be one of my preffered gigging basses!

not seeing any pictures here?

Is it technically a tribute if it has the members of pink floyd in it? I mean, it is less of a tribute act then Yes have been! I thought it was funny the other day, my facebook feed had 2 posts by 2 friends in different pink floyd tribute bands (in different areas), both of whom do stuff from the wall onwards, and a post from Nick Masons band, the only actual member of pink floyd whos group does before the wall! To be honest, although the stuff I would listen to is the wall onwards, if i was in a tribute I would prefer to do the pre-wall stuff. The only problem I had with the track that this thread is about is that I don't find that it is a good pink floyd track, it seems too much like 2 things stitched together. However, glad they had done it so it is hard to critisize when it is for a very good cause. Incidently Portishead have reformed for the same reason

Although you solved your problem, whether it is plugged in or not makes no difference to the effect the pickup has on the strings.

I didn't, although I like to think I have some humanity and not convinced we can establish others humanity based on a music video. I do however fully support the idea behind it and hope it does well.

And yamaha actually make proper instruments as well, not just things like guitars and basses

Embarassment is fine as long as the joy is good enough. And on the plus side, if it had worked first time, the joy would have been not nearly as good!

Odd, I would think anything coloured looks like a 70s kitchen.

Yay!

Yep, all of that is right, it odesn't sound like they should be dead. Active pickups (which I should point out are not common and normally always EMG), would have a 3rd wire on them for power. Note that all an active pickup is that the preamp (buffer) has been potted into the actual pickup, the advantage being you can use a lot less wire and have less colouration if you buffer it straight away. So it is unlikely you have active pickups. However, if you connect the two wires from the pickup to the output socket (or the jack itself), and those wires are going to the sleve and tip (and also note that the jack socket will be stereo, so will have a ring which will be shorted by plugging a mono jack plug in). Just for clarity, if you wire the pickup to the jack and plug a jack cable in, the end wires of the jack plug that you would plug into the amp must have exactly the same resistance as measuring across the pickup, as there is nothing else connected. Its because it wouldn't make any difference. The output of an active pickup is the same as the output of a passive pickup (from the POV of the preamp), the only difference is the active pickups would also need power. None of this is dumb, and everything is making sense so far, other than why your pickups are in the state that they are. Until we establish if the pickups are working, there is no point looking at the pre-amp, as it needs something to amplify!

Yes, some pedals react differently - I don't have any high output active basses since I got rid of the G&L (which was actually just a high outpiut, whether it was in active or passive), alll of mine are pretty standard. The SY-1 didn't seem to care much what went in it, responded well to everything.

It is remarkably uncommon for a pickup to break, so for both to break, very very uncommon unless something bad happened to them, but as they are just coils of wire, there is not much bad that can happen to them. In the circuit for this bass it says they are just 2 wire pickups, is that true, or are there more than that?. Really, the only thing that is essential is that they fit. beyond that, it is whatever you want in a pickup.

You can get some pretty cheap pickups.

In the first instance, I would connect each pickup directly to the jack terminals to check they work, or if you want to do both together, connect to just the balance board. if that doesn't work, there is no point trying the preamp and it could be dead

String count, and weight are probably the only fixed ones. Oh and string spacing, has to be less than 17.5 or so. But beyond that, it depends very heavily on the bass. Lots of things I like or don't, but nothing I would say never on.

at the moment I use different patches at different times, but I am currently using a couple of organ presets in some specific songs (in fact, old songs), they work really well. I have got a great patch for perfect strangers, but we dont' play that Not sure what that means, there is no triggering as it is not a volume based on off thing (although it uses volume). Don't think I have ever played it with a passive bass, but I have no idea why it would be any different.

There is only one 'power section' on the ABM600 (I think the misprint / confusion here is that the 1200 has 2 x 600) , the sockets are both parallel. If you plug a 4 ohm cab into one, you have a 4 ohm load. If you plug 2 8 ohm cabs into the sockets, you have a 4 ohm load (which is what I do). if 2 x 4 ohm is used, you will be running at 2 ohm, which it is not rated for

I think to people saying about having a sub, I have one (a cheap one) and it is great at adding the lows, but it certainly takes it out of the first word of the OP. I think one of the key things of the topic peopel are missing is compact. You have gone from 2 speakers to 2 + at least one additional heavy awkward sub. I dont' even take mine most of the time due to the weight and additional things to carry.

but presumably you are putting guitars and vocals etc through it too? I can't really comment, my PA isn't up to your budget levels!

I am not sure that anyone really has issues with the inlays, there are a lot of people customising theirs, mine are standard as they are fine. Its a matter of preference. Pickups also, it depends on what you want. I am not a fan of the barts particularly, but it is a choice. My only non standard bits (although mine is a 1505) are the knobs and the jack socket mods, because I fancied metal knobs and I don't like locking mods.