Woodinblack

Do both of your pickups work?

why is it so important to not use an on-on-on pickup selector?

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Can anyone see any mistakes in that? Desperate for help on this!!!
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Yes. It is nothing like the wiring diagram as per that diagram!
I have honestly no idea what you are trying to do with those series of connections. Where did that wiring list come from?

How what you have sounds like it would work is that the neck volume would act as a balance between the neck and the bridge, the bridge volume will work the other way round as a volume of the whole guitar (dependant on the exact position of the neck volume) and the switch may or may not work based on the volume.


How about this:

1-2: connect the hot of the pickup to the left leg of the relevant pot
3-4: connect the cold of the pickup to the right leg of the relevant pot
5: connect the cold of the bridge pickup to guitar earth
6: connect the earth of the jack socket to the guitar earth
7: connect the left of the switch to the guitar earth
8-9: connect the metal of the volumes to the guitar earth
10: connect the right of the switch to the jack socket out
11: connect the center of the neck volume to the jack socket out (or switch, which ever is more convenient)
12: connect the center of the bridge volume to the right of the neck volume
13: connect the center of the bridge volume to the center of the switch

14: PROFIT! (or better still, just play).

Seriously though, would it not be easier to get the right kind of switch?

It is there on that diagram:
http://dennysguitars.homestead.com/DanoGuitarSchematics1.html#anchor_1032

note that both sets of volume tone are wired almost exactly the same except the right hand tag of the volume on the rear pickup is connected to earth, and the output (middle tag) of that same volume is connected to the right hand tag of the other pickups volume. The output of that volume (middle tag) goes to the jack socket output.

The switch then connects with the center (common connection) connected to the right hand tag of the volume (where the two volumes meet), one side of the switch connects to the output of the jack socket (so when it is switched in it shorts out the front pickup) and the other side of the switch connects to earth (so it shorts out the back pickup).

The Rickenbacker.

Only kidding, for me I just compare all the other things to the Ibanez sr1000 I have, and it is really slim, even more so than the sr505 that I also have.
I tried a Geddy Jazz, and it didn't seem as slim, but maybe I need to try one again to see if I missed it. Problmen I have when trying them is they all seem a bit like baseball bats compared to the sr1000

No, I hadn't heard of them, but now I look they don't sell to the public so I would have to go through a shop. I also assume if they are $22 in the US for a pot, they are probably £22 here!
Thanks for the info though.

My ibanez SB1000EWN is still my favourite bass, but at the moment it is next to unusable when plugged in as touching the tone controls is an explosion of noise, and once you do it takes a while to get anything out of it again. I cleaned them a few times but it only lasts a week or so until the problem comes back, so I need to replace the tone pots (the volume and balance are fine).

Looking at the parts list, I can get the genuine ibanez ones for $22 each, but really cant justify paying that much just for a pot!

Looking at the parts list I need small 50k and a 100k concentric center indented pots with a solid shaft. Actually one of the pots has only a center indent on the top part, not the outside part, but I can live with it having a notch.

Looking around I find this:

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ALPHA-SVD-A50K-Concentric-Stacked-Potentiometer-Guitar-Bass-Active-Electronics-/181202208269?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item2a307e460d"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ALPHA-SVD-A50K-Concentric-Stacked-Potentiometer-Guitar-Bass-Active-Electronics-/181202208269?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item2a307e460d[/url]

which is fine, but twice as much in postage as the pot. If I can't find them anywhere else I will get them there but was wondering if there was anywhere else in the UK that sold these?

I watch it occasionally if I happen to notice it is on when channel hopping, but it is not something I would deliberately put on, and if I do put it on I know my OH will take that opportunity to go to go to bed and watch something else.

It is very samey and although there are some good acts there, it is a very low ratio of people I haven't heard of who are good to people I have who are rubbish. Like others have said, I tend to watch it until some motown singer of the 70s comes on to do some duet with jools then I channel hop back to see if there is a CSI on or something

4 beats per bar? What kind of crazy music is this?

Welcome to the club!

Oh yes, I saw those before, a friend of mine bought one after we were talking about them. They are really tiny necked things with plastic strings? I seem to remember he didn't get on with it that well, can't remember what he did with it.

Glad you are enjoying it though, who needs frets anyway

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There's a no-guitar version of The Analog Kid that the same bloke has put up which is quite good for comparing the Rick tone with the jazz tone on Digital Man. To my (cloth) ears some of the difference is down to the extra gain/distortion he seems to be using with the Rick.
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I thought the distortion on the rick was the bad pickups and the string rattling on the neck?

That would be a good one to learn. I can play the guitar bit but never tried it on the bass.

Theres mine.

That fretless looks quite good. Are the 300s much different from the 500s?

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There's an isolated bass and drums (with a little bonus vocal and bass synth bleed) here for those that want a really good listen to Geddy's tone on Digital Man:

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28gcZQiQvds"]https://www.youtube....h?v=28gcZQiQvds[/url]
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Ooh that is pretty handy, although it doesn't make it sound easier to do

But clearly the tone is different to spirit of radio, which I was playing earlier (as I am supposed to be playing it next week) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx8jLE3qVqA

I love the dull metal on those!
I think I need to add some pictures..

I have a friend who is a left handed guitarist that always regretted learning left handed, as now he is very good, his choice of guitars is always limited.

I also never understood why we used our non dominant hand to do the easy bit

I went to the gallery a few weeks ago, but it was closed. Which is probably just as well!

I went into the Wunjo there, was very impressed, they were very patient with my faffyness and chatty. Got a fretless VM, love it

Been there, done that. You wait for 3 or 7 days (it does say which) then you report him as a non selling seller. Its easier if you had already paid him.
You can also give him bad feedback (I would). I got something that was a bit of a bargain and the person selling decided they didn't want to sell it for that which I guess is what has happened here.

Which I think eBay should crack down on more, I have sold things less than I wanted, as I consider it a contract.

Love the album (bought it the day it came out). Also power windows, which I also like.
For me I lost track from hold your fire onwards, just never really liked the album or the stuff I heard afterwards (although it was a good tour).

And I like countdown, yes, it is like the account of a child, and I think that is what makes it very good. I went to nasa - I turned into a kid when I got there

I accidentally bid on a SR505 on tuesday on ebay, you know, just another tenner over what it was on already, that won't make much difference.. err.. ok, so it turned up today

A thing of beauty, goes with my SR1000EWM.

So does anyone know if there is a fretless 5 string in the series, apart from those ones with a single pickup and whatever that large panel above it is.

Sorry, I didn't think it would go for that low. That worked on tuesday!

Any new progress in a bass will just be widely derided for not being used on the original P-Bass, therefore not worth having!

I am not a huge fan of fender guitars as items (although i have fretless jazz) but as a part of the history and development of guitars and basses, he and his company had a huge impact.
I assume if he hadn't done what he had done others would have done but that is fairly immaterial, he did and his designs are still going.

My Ibanez SR1000 prestige, but only if I work out where to get replacement pots for it to stop it crackling!

Very little. Looked on the map now it looks quite a bit different than the last time I saw it, but I left in 96 and had no reason to ever go back there. Some bits though, woolmer way, saw that built and it looks the same. Seems a lifetime away.

Anyway, lots of pubs round there do music (or at least used to), so grab yourself a bass and get playing.

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Ad says that Ged used the Jazz for 'Limelight' - but he's on record as saying that he played the Ric on that, but used the Jazz in the video ('Tom Sawyer being the reverse - Jazz on record, Ric in the video).
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Yes, that is what I thought as I saw that interview the day before yesterday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wma2NtQ1CIE

at around 4:50.

I didn't know he had used Wals for a bit though. Which is odd as I saw them on the hold your fire tour, and didn't notice.