Woodinblack

I think you will find the commute a bit excessive for a free gig

Shouldn't be too bad, in my search for the 205 I have come across many 200s.

Not sure where the joke is. I never heard the guns and roses version.

Hardly if it is referring a track on an album that is 34 years old.

Waterloo music, but it looks like they sold it https://waterloomusic.shop/products/afbv200a?_pos=3&_psq=ibanez&_ss=e&_v=1.0

You can still turn it off but it is hidden

Yep, I am always careful I make sure the global shipping thing is off. My wife made the mistake of not switching it off on one of her items, then the guy (in the states) decided he had changed his mind and he didn't want it, so ebay wanted to write it off, but in the end she got it sorted. Still a hassle though.

nearer £500 AFAIR

Funny - I see it the other way round, I like the headstock but the body isnt anything special.

I am the same, that is the last Maiden album I bought. But maiden had keyboards from way back (well, technically they had keyboards long before Cliver Burr and Paul Di'anno joined), weren't they played off stage by the bass tech?

If you think that is hard to find, you should try finding the AFBV205A - had a hankering for oneof those for ages, they don't come up often! There is a AFBV200 round in my local guitar shop, although it is a bit overpriced.

The SY-1 is specifically marketed as a Guitar and Bass synth. The SYB-5 is a much older pedal and I haven't used it, so I am sure it is fine for what it does, but it isn't the same sort of thing as the SY-1. I guess the difference is 10 sounds vs 121 sounds

That would pass a bit of time wiring that up for your ELP cover band!

Well, if you really want a big moog system, look what behringer have done now... https://www.behringer.com/series.html?category=R-BEHRINGER-SYSTEM-15-35-55SERIES

Our next gig is two days after the next unlockdown happens, if the next unlockdown happens which is a reschedule of one we missed when the last unlockdown didn't happen! Thats an indoor one. We also have an outdoor one a couple of weeks after that which is a short one, and on a truck, so that should be good.

Dont we already have a another thread for this?

No danger at all if you are happy with it. The only difference is that it would have a different circuit so the pins might be different, but it should be apparent what goes to where.

Yes, they are passive. Try the patch, if you like it then do something more permenant, if not it is fully reversable.

Which is even easier, you don't even have to solder to test it out. Get 3 short lengths of solid copper core wire, take the circuit board plugs out and shove the 3 wires in the sockets like this. Obviously you can take the battery out, not that it will make a difference.

The pickups go to the balance control, the output of which goes to the preamp input. The output of the preamp goes to the volume. So if you connect the middle pin of the balance control to the volume control where it connected to the preamp, job should be a goodun. Yes, the tone adjustment is part of the preamp, there would be none left if you removed it. Obviously you could add something else as you would have some pots going spare, but there wouldn't be anything by default. Who knows, I don't have your cable or your amp. Once you remove the preamp you add your lead and your amp into the tone shaping circuit of the bass. If you have a good cable and a good amp you shouldn't be able to tell the difference between when it had the preamp and when it hadn't, apart from having no tone controls. Certainly with my leads and amp on my premiers, I can't tell the difference between the preamp being on or off, unless I change the tone controls.

Done

Yes, just take the preamp out and connect the output of the balance through the volume and to the jack socket, jobs done. obviously what it sounds like then depends on your leads and your amp

Way past my time - I would be there tutting and wondering what all that new stuff was. I was at a gig at a place with a metal floor (metal walls, metal ceiling - yes, it was basically a metal box) in the middle of winter. There were two teenage girls running round and round screaming that were pretty well pissing everyone off, then they came round and right in front one of them went down really hard, you could really hear it on the metal. I think everyone flinched at the same time it was that loud. After the howling subsided and they went out, the gig was a lot better!

The answer being written on the back - Min Load 4 ohm!