Woodinblack

Sorry, I didn't see the original post, I was just diving in at that post. While still not having read it thoroughly, I seriously doubt it is possible to any commercial audio device by accidently having phantom power on. Especially not a device where that is a reasonable possibility. Not only is phantom power generally fairly low current, it goes straight into a set of capacitors before it does anything which takes the DC out (which is in fact the whole way phantom power can work). Its not something I would ever worry about and I know I have fed phantom power accidently to all sorts of inputs (I need phantom for the sax players mic, and I have had that switched on when many other things were plugged in).

Impedance is also another whole minefield but not really important there. Generally speaking, balanced lines have lower impedances than unbalanced. There is no technical reason for this, just convention based on where they are used. A lower impedance will also have less noise injected (or will be less affected by that noise).

Great description but would just clarify something just to be super picky and make sure things are accurate! There is no reason for a difference in distortion between balanced and unbalanced, they are the same signal. The reason you use balanced is for noise. Electrical noise exists all the way around you and whatever precautions you take, a certain amount of noise will be radiated into your cable. If your cable is unbalanced that noise will be added to the signal that is being sent to your output, and if it is big, will be noticable. If your connection is balanced, the same noise will be added to both your positive connection and your negatvie connection in equal amounts, so when the signal is put back into an input (where the input will be differenced), the noise on the negative will (within bounds) cancel out the noise on the positive. All other things being equal (length of cable, quality of cable, impedance), a balanced line will give you a less noisy signal than an unbalanced.

Was always big with my wife. She was fascinated by them when she was a kid, so when she was a young teen she used to write to them and they wrote back, so in the end she hitchhiked down the usa (from montreal) to LA to see them. So she has a pretty long term friendship with them and their original band

Its like waltzing up to something, but its a different time signature of steps!

Yeh, a cab with an amp built in. If only there was a name for that. Or a PA speaker.

Forget it and move on. If there is something you can't do now that you want to do, and a midi cable solves that, get one. If not, don't!

It certainly didn't help the people who were beaten up by the police because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, or looked like someone else, or who were black. Luckily we have got a bit better than that.

Maybe if you wanted to make a headless one it would be a start!

Ah - gotcha, sorry, not thinking of the small stuff like tonewoods

Then we are both not bothered. I thank you for measuring it as now it is pretty tempting, even if it is a 6 which I know I struggle with and I am not supposed to be adding before I remove.!

You are, I'm not bothered if it is 16.5 or 17, just as long as it's under 18 as that is when it falls apart. more accurately for the people who pile in at times like this and say "I don't know what your problem is, I don't mind a foot between strings", obviously I can play whatever but what is very clear on my basses is that when something has a spacing of 18 or over, it will end up not being overlooked for others when I go to pick something up, and thus eventually sold. but obviously, maple or wenge, all sounds the same to me!

You said it is the one that you originally called the 'bridge tone', which is the one nearest the socket in your image? I would see that as the bass pot, the treble pot appears to be doing what it should isn't it?

Sorry, I meant R6 (in the diagram - above the pot that says 'bass'). But it may not be that, just that if there was a break at some point around that resistor, it could lose all bass when turned down. So the bass control is the bottom one on the outside, so on your circuit board picture it is the one on the top left. So around here: Check nothing is obviously broken or badly soldered or something.

I would say that it sounds like the top connection of the bass pot has broken off or has a bad connection. If this is the circuit, which google says it is, if there is something missing around R8, top of Vr1, you would probably get something like that

I was going to say, are they not bass and treble? It wold be odd having a tone for each pickup

I don't care about the tonewoods or the pickups, but I really do care if the strings are the right distance from each other!

Oh yes, I am sure it is fine, I was just a big disliker of shergold headstocks. I had one many years ago, and my friend had a guitar by them. They were actually ok, but never got on with the headstock

I took mine to a gig the first day I got it. I messed up quite a lot of songs. Turns out my abilty to switch between a 4 and 5 without issue is that I subconciously measure strings from the smallest up, and someone had added another smaller one! Loved the colour of that thing though, wish they would use it more.

I advertised it on here for a while, noone was interested Ooh - a sherwood headstock, not so keen on those!

What with the terminals built into the plastic? That seems even riskier, pull them out of that and you have to replace the entire case.

Because that is all that they sell. Frankly the 9v clip mechanism is rubbish. But the choices are a bit limited, I had a messinger that just had metal contacts that I put the battery in the wrong way round and next thing I knew smoke was coming out of the back! Now don't get me started on people who use a diode shunt for power protection...

Yes, I would say that is 17. thats pretty good . I normally measure from the two outermost strings and divide by (n-1)

Thats why I got rid of the GVB, I loved the 14mm at the bridge but it was way too wide at the nut

Yes, so that is what I would call the spacing too. Which is a shame as 18 is just a bit too much, especially on a 6