Woodinblack

Does the configurator not work, or just the configurator when you click on Jake TB in the jake selector? Hmm.. seems I can never configure anything less than €2k Also odd you can't pick multiscale on the configurators

The synths on the line 6 pedals are nothing special, or the octaves. The reverbs and choruses are better though. and I like having the parallel distortion on just the high frequencies. having said that, the reason I prefer the Helix HXFX is just the layout and control, rather than anything else.

I think the wood on the ying/yang one is nice, and the bottom one of the list looks like an ibanez apart from the knob position and lack of rounding of the edges. I am sure it feels nicer on the leg as it is less pointy. The top one is way too 70s decor for me, but that probably isn't a problem if you didn't live through the 70s! I am sure they are very nice, they certainly look well made and I am sure they play nice, but they don't appeal to me much and the control position of every one of them just really puts me off - like they were just put where they landed without thought (and I am sure that is not true). But the fact is, they are a lot of money and people are buying them who have a choice of what to buy so that tells me that they are probably worth having when money isn't your main restriction

Its just the Jake with thunderbird pickups isn't it - doesn't the normal Jake configurator not work for you?

Without getting on phone war thing, which I am not interested in, current sales are 50/50. Current iPhone vs Android distribution is set to be 75/25 to android, however the majority of android phones are really basic cheap phones people bought just for making phone calls that were never updated (and never will be) who will never want to adjust their zoom with anyway. So if you are writing software for a smartphone you will be targeting an OS that a lot of android phones won't have, so you will actually be much closer to parity. TBH, if i was zoom, I wouldn't be targeting smartphones, I would be targeting tablets, and people interested in music things will have a tendancy to be on iOS. However, if I was zoom, once I was happy with the iOS app working, I would then certainly be looking to do an android version - I mean it isn't actually an audio application, it is a 'moving objects around and sending data' application that you can do on most things. So maybe they will when they get round to it - do they not do versions of their software for older hardware on android?

Middle age? He is closer to pensioner than middle age!

I suspect it would look a little odd because of the size, but not as odd as a P pickup. It wouldn't sound the same as a jazz pickup on a jazz as it would be in a different position, probably more like an original P.

Would a jazz pickup not fit there with a lot less work?

Hardly, you said that it works on a functional mobile phone, so that is ideal!

Never noticed an issue, but then as previously, I pretty well never adjust a strap once i have it how I like. Plus as it needs a screwdriver to adjust, that is probably just as well!

The after looks good, and yes a bit weird that they only did one pickup, both or neither would have been expected. interested to hear how it sounds when it's done

Yes, I would buy the 1005sms if it had nordy pickups on it, I love my 1505ms, a shorter scale one would be ideal

That would have been factory spec

Agreed, I know there is the sense that if it gets you a nice bass, and I can see that, but for me, the P pickup is actually pretty good, the J just adds a bit of bite to it (which it doesn't really need) and if I was going to spend a load I would probably go for lighter machineheads, just to help with the balance, or maybe even a pickguard as the one it has isn't that appealing!

What kind of crazy talk is that!

Would think the aguilars probably cost more than the TMB35!

Oh get you, how posh is that

Most of my basses are on the wall. Some upstairs, some downstairs. The ones downstairs have a veto on whether they were 'ugly' or not - my blonde telecaster was never allowed downstairs (as it was 'unfinished'), and some others were not asthetic enough to be there, so they are upstairs.

And maybe a 3rd and 4th - I have had a cough for 3 years now. Still waiting for some opinion on what I can do about it, I would have thought for tinnitus you would have to go somewhere a bit more specialist before they listened.

Yeh, I met a guy at a gig that was telling me all the guitars he had, when I asked him what he played he said he never played them, although sometimes just lent them to people to play (he was at the time talking about an EDS-1275 custom shop). He just loved them and put them on the wall.

the 1M is really just because you have a preamp. With the output of a preamp going through a capacitor, when you switch the preamp out of the circuit, the voltage can increase on the output of the capacitor. When you put it inline again that charge goes out through the socket. The 1M resistor keeps it down when it is out of circuit.

Ah ok, sorry - I was being dumb! Well, yes its a compromise, sometimes you will have two coils, sometimes you have one. So I guess its whatever sounds better!

Without being too negative, there really isn't much they can do

So we are probably never going to agree. No, they were pretty busy in the first place. Ie, when you said that led zep was on and JPJ is what people would describe as busy. Maybe he lacked confidence? Well, I think zep and rush worked out just fine.

ok, that works. If the bottom pickups hot gets switched from the blend to the top pickups 'ground', the ground is removed from the top pickup and the top pickup hot goes to the output of the blend. Yes, you are wrong. The higher the capacitance the lower the resistance at a given frequency Xc = 1 / 2πfc where Xc is the equivilent impedance, f is the frequency in hertz, and C is the capacitance in farads. so for a 250nF capacitor, at 5khz @5kHz - 1 / 2π 5000 * 0.00000025 = 127Ω @2kHz - 1 / 2π 2000 * 0.00000025 = 318Ω for a 500nF capacitor @5kHz - 1 / 2π 5000 * 0.00000050 = 63Ω @2kHz - 1 / 2π 2000 * 0.00000050 = 159Ω So dumbing it down a bit you can say equivilent impedance is like resistance, and in this context it is used shorting to ground, so for any given frequency, the lower the resistance the more you are shorting to ground. And because these values are very low compared to your pickups / vpolume / pan / amp input impedance etc, you are going to hear very little when you turn your tone down. I think you are an order of magnitude out in your values - I would personally be using a 22nF, not a 220nF etc, although I think the TMB35 has 47nf. The Fender American Vintage 62 uses a 100nF which is quite high. Handy calculator here if you dont want to do the above - https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/tools/capacitor-impedance-calculator/ You take two signals and litterally add them together, unlike parallel where you take 2 signals and average them. I found O level physics was particulalry useless at this sort of stuff, it was all springs and inclines. I can't remember if we touched anythign like that until I did 1st year electronic principles at college.