Woodinblack

I do although there is a tinge of sadness with the lack of some familiar faces. Still, its going to be good to catch up again

Ooh - sounds like a plan. It would work fine on 90% of active basses, and burn out the preamp of the other 10%. Remember there is no standard on which way round the wiring needs to be, even between manufacturers. Still, a great way of saving £2* at only a slight risk of costing a few hundred! *or less - just got 10 duracell power batteries for £11.49 from battery station.

Yep, mine will be there. I will put a resistor to the neck circuit (obviously no idea what is going on in there, there are leds at 3, 5, 7, 9, 12x2, 15, 17, 19, 21, 24x2 so 12 leds in total. The ones in the body are series, but I will probably put some kind of circuit to make them do something more interesting (and maybe add a few) String spacing is a bit wide for my liking, a bridge is a bridge and the pickups, although they are low level sound ok. Yeh, strings not great but I played it live straight out of the packet so it will be better when I can actually adjust it!

Effectively - they are two unrelated circuits, so they are just connected to the battery via the switch

Get you with your fancy measuring - I always just lobbed something in and see how it went! I had a look at the LEDs in the body, it is just 6 LEDs wired with their leads in series, with a 9v battery across. I would prefer a less direct light, so thinking of putting some LEDs behind the pickups and bridge, where they can light up the back. and maybe turning the leds on the neck down a little bit!

My action was high and the relief was none, although I still gigged it and it sounded fine. I did the neck releif but there is no way the action is going down without a shim so I need to do that. then I think I will do something about the LEDs, I might replace the bottom LEDs with multicolour ones and have a bit more of a sound to light thing going on. i mean, if we are going for tacky here, might as well go the whole way! The drummer was impressed, but then he has a green acrylic drum kit, so the only dissapointment was that it wasn't green LEDs!

so what he says is that he is dissapointed that the Mike Kerr Sig jaguar he got doesn't sound like he wants it to sound unless he adds some compression or distortion, like, err.. Mike Kerr?

will be there, obvs!

Generally about £30

Yes, I need to shim the neck. I believe it was already shimmed, but it needs more shimming. I have some acrylic sheeting though so I will use that.

This is how the chapman railboard is powered - it is either passive if there is no power or becomes active if it is phantom powered.

The myvolt adapters are pretty good, I have one. The cheap ebay ones may possibly generate a lot of noise. Bear in mind that any built in pre-amp wouldn't have power conditioning or filtering on the input source like an effects pedal would (why would it, it just comes from a battery), so any noise you generate you will really hear.

It would be an easy thing to do, but puzzled as to why do you want to do it in the first place?

A contour?

Yes, clicked on the jazus fretless and it took me to a page saying they didn't have any warwick gnomes!

I have had a X18 for many many years now and done hundreds of gigs on it. I use the inbuilt wifi for practices and have no issue with it there. I used to use it for gigs, and had no issues for many gigs with it until one large outdoor gig when it just became completely unusable, like you couldn't adjust anything and the mixer was just frozen. every minute or so it would sort of work, but luckily have been setup it was fine for what we were doing - if I had had to adjust anything i wouldn't have been able to. Since that I never relied on it and always used an external router, but of recent years, that has become less of an issue as I also have a X-Control desk which I use for normal operations, which is ethernet, so that and the X18 are connected to a router by ethernet and the iPad is by wifi - 5GHz wifi and obviously no issues. So even if I got the most stable built in wifi from some device, I would still need ethernet from the router for the X-Control (unless I ran that off another wireless router) so it wouldn't help me. For me the built in wifi is handy so I don't have to take much to practices, but not something I want to use live.

I would say it provides contrast, there are quite a few songs like that.

Yes, the body lights up too - its an acrylic bass from aliexpress with blue LEDs - as per here:

Two gig weekend. Night one, first time in a local pub (only lived here 20 years and been playing with this band for 7!), so didn't know what to expect, very small pub. Setup in the corner, very hot then people started coming in, and kept coming in. Setup, the sound seemed ok at front but I really couldn't get much sound from the bass in my iems - no idea why, and the bass speaker was slightly in front of me. The sound where i was wasn't great. As a result I didn't really enjoy the first half and I played really hard. For some reason my EHB strings seem really tight. Second half I switched to my acrylic bass - if I couldn't hear it and it was hurting, I might as well dazzle the audience right? The output of the acrylic isn't high, unlike the action, but I boosted my iem levels in the break and it seemed better. But so hot, luckily the guitarist had brought a fan. Very up close and personal gig, by the end of it my fingers hurt a lot. After the gig we got a lot of good comments, although the only ones I got personally were they liked the bass! Realised I had done some damage, and sure enough got blisters, which wisely I popped. Bought some plectrums on saturday, and went out to do another local club - we had never played the general room there, just the event room at other peoples request, but I had played the front with other bands. A lot more room, still hot but with a fan and an open window. Started off quiet but was soon heaving. Did the first half with the #1 ibanez that I hadn't used for a while, remembered why I liked it. Second half I did with the acrylic as it seemd that sort of venue. Everyone up and dancing and quite lively. Had to play everything with a plectrum, and can't say it is the way I play. although ok for most of the songs, but some things I really can't do - Impression I get, Alright now, poker face, so made a few mistakes trying plectrums on that. Anyway after that gig, lots of nice comments - one woman who came out to see us having seen us in another pub said that we were the best live band she had ever seen - I pointed out that maybe she needs to get out more - A lot of 'you were great lads' and offers of other gigs. Always nice to hear when you finish anyway.

I must admit I don't understand it either, to me if a preamp with all the knobs flat doesn't sound exactly the same as the passive output into a high impedance preamp with a good cable, then it is defective, but on the other hand, if it's your bass, you can do what you want to it!

Indeed - even Rod Stewart has his fans who think he does good songs I would imagine! But no, it isn't even musical, it is a travesty, and I like some of there other stuff. I guess they needed the money!

Well, not good, but at least it isn't the abomination that they made as a single, so I guess that is an improvement. Sh*t with glitter on it.

I really don't get why you would want that mod - it just changes the level between active and passive, and is ultimately the same thing as turning up the volume on your amp isn't it - or do you just want to drive the pedals harder?

Would certainly be an issue if it happened on mine - the DI goes to the desk which goes to my in-ears, so I would be very aware of it. Took me a while fiddling around with effects pedal power supplies to get rid of noise from those because of this reason. That is what I liked about the ABM600 - I have no idea what sounds right about it, it just does.

And how often do you get a power supply failure? When gigging, external power supplies to me are such a pain in the aris, if there are two items, one is slightly better than the other one but has an external power supply, I am going to get the other one.