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Apparently this is the BH2 wiring colour scheme according to TB:

Neck side coil: green - gnd, white - hot
Bridge side coil: black - gnd, red - hot.
Bare wire is ground.

Source: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/bartolini-bh2-and-ibanez-bass.1401884/page-4

Might save some money for people who aren't happy with the BH2 pickups.

13 hours ago, PaulThePlug said:

^ Remember the Mk1 Barts are a Reverse P in a Soap Bar, not a Full Width Twin Wind 'Bucker... Junk the Pre-EQ and go Passive VBT...

The BH2 in the EHB 100x series are regular humbuckers aren't they?

I didn't mind the MKI wired passive as they were attached to the MKI preamp which was pretty bad, the 3EMP3LD in the EHB series is generally well regarded though.

I think a few people over on TB wired the licensed Barts in parallel to counter the baked in dark sound a little, lowers the output so might be beneficial to switch to the +6db connector as well.

The Platinum Stage and Pro are two different units, the Stage is more compact and lightweight (with a belt/strap clip) whereas the Pro is a floor unit with a nice screen for the inbuilt tuner and footswitches for mute and signal boost. The Stage has all the features you mention so the only difference for you would be the 3 position HPF on the Stage (40hz, 80hz & 160hz) vs the potentiometer on the Pro.

They both sound great, I have both and use the Pro live at every gig. The Stage is used at home but I'd have no qualms about using it live if it had a mute and tuner function.

Get the piezo sorted then put tapewounds on it, what buffer preamp do you have in the bass at the moment?

Adding a mag pickup is going to make it sound less like an upright IMO.

Also pluck the string with the side of your finger, if you want to go the whole hog then have the bass defretted.

Bargain that

It's a shame they abandoned this concept, it was a good idea that had some legs. I used mine as a rehearsal head for years.

Warwick copies are all over AliExpress and now eBay, tbh there's some tempting cheap Corvettes for under £200.

I have the full fat Pro Go Ultimate and also the Pro Go X (which is pretty much the same as their Transit bag), out of the two the Pro Go Ultimate is definitely the superior bag in terms of rigidity, protection and well thought out storage. I liked it so much I bought the guitar version for my headless!

I got the Pro Go X for £50 in a clearance sale years ago back when they were only £100 new, tbh I wouldn't pay that new price let alone what they go for now. If I needed a cheaper semi rigid gigbag now I'd probably go for a TGI Extreme which are around £50.

This is why the job of designer and fabricator are two seperate roles.

The person who made that has some real skill, unfortunately they have no idea what a guitar is.

As said ditch the typical bronze wound strings, I like nylon tapewound or filament core/bronze wound. Some manufacturers are starting to use carbon coated strings on acoustic basses from the factory.

52 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't the cost of getting this playable again be more than the final value?

Dunno, just thought it may be of interest to people here and has a pretty low BIN.

Looking at it it's actually an EDB605 I think.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285486670876

I like it.

Thick board with what looks like a sub 9.5 radius makes me want to play it, just not for £800.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/612378401058195/?

Dinged up but comes with hard case

5 minutes ago, Maude said:

Great find for a tenner! 

Well worth doing up a bit, they're actually very nice basses, especially the necks. 

 

I've got an STB J and P, paid £40 each. The P I gigged solidly for the best part of a year I liked it that much. I did put a Quarter Pound pickup in it but the original was fine really. 

The J has a pair of the Entwistle PBXNs wired with a series switch. Proper J tones with either pickup and a lovely full fat tone when in series, almost P sounding. In fact I used it for rehearsal last week, it holds it's own against some expensive 'real' basses. 

Both have had black pickguards and bridge covers added. 

 

Arty farty (bad grainy) shot 🙈

 

 

Forgot to say that the Jazz was sent to me by courier in a single black bin liner taped shut around the neck with the headstock sticking out. Amazingly No damage, crazy!.

Those look great, much better with the replacement pickguard.

I've been casually looking for a reasonably priced STB DX 5er but you don't see many now

2 hours ago, Steve1250 said:

Did it get much use?

Yeah definitely, I originally bought it so I had a backup bass that I could carry in a cheap gigbag and leave leaning against a wall, ended up doing entire sets with it at functons. Was just a sweet bass that nailed the Jazz sound, I picked up a tort plate for mine (it was the sunburst finish) but apart from that it was stock. I later had a few Integras and currently have a SInsonido, something about the necks I really like.

Bargain that, I used an STB J as my backup bass for years. Loved the neck profile and bridge pickup on it.

While on the lookout for a cheap headless backup bass I spotted this, seeing as there's been a few chancers pricing these at £500+ recently it's refreshing to see one on sale for a more realistic sum. Has black nylon strings on it as well.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/7296772117004230/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3Ac5d3f3bf-1a31-4daa-bce4-a3b27a8b5270

The best Warwick shape IMO, I miss mine.

Not had an EUB in years but I use both the Platinum Pro and Stage preamps with a few piezo equipped acoustics and electric basses. If you don't need all the extra features of the full pedal then the Stage version might be useful and it also has a belt clip if you don't need a floor unit, it has the same sound but with just a 3 band eq (sweepable mids, guitar/bass switch), adjustable boost, phase and a 3 way low cut switch rather than a knob.

On the Platinum Pro the brilliance (5kHz) is very useful for cutting string noise while still being to add a bit of treble (3kHz), I miss that on the Stage.

A guitarist I used to play with used to remove the backplate from his pedals, drill corresponding holes in his pedalboard and screw them directly onto it.

Personally I want an onboard 3 band preamp where the bass, mid and treble controls are all dual concentric with the bottom knobs being a HPF, mid sweep and LPF respectively. 

I'd also wanf a compact tuner with mute switch and DI out but after checking it looks like Sonic Nuance and Peterson do make them.

From previous conversations on here there's been different tuners on Sire basses, mine (a pretty early Gen1 V7) had very cheap ones which were ok but a noticeable step down from what I was used to. Other posters had some very nice Grover clones with a grub screw at the bottom.

Basically if they look like this with the grub screw at the bottom then there's no need to upgrade other that weight saving (pic courtesy of Bassassain):

If they look like this then it's worth rectifying (unfortunately my pic)

I had a Gotoh 404 on my Sire which was much better than the stock bridge and retains through body stringing as an option, you do need to drill extra holes but it's easy enough. For tuners I had Schallers which again need new holes drilling (not visible if you put the stock tuners back on), great tuners but no weight saving. I'd probably get licensed Ultralites if I had another.

I also put Nordstrand NJ pickups in mine although the Sire Gen2 pickups (with the Marcus logo) are superb anyway, tbh the oroginal Gen1 ones were great as well but I like Nords and some came up cheap!

8 hours ago, Chienmortbb said:

As I have  said before, I can use the external router with my Soundcraft Ui16 but I also have an adapter that allows wired Ethernet connection from m6 iPad. So I can wander and set up using WiFi but use a wired connection on the stage. 
 

The UI’s control is via a web browser so it is app and operating system Independant. On your basic issue, I would never do a gig with the internal router and I would not use a Behringer/Midas wireless for the same reason. I have lost control of both Soundcraft and Behringer at rehearsal and his respectively.

 

I do have 2021 models of iPad and Android tables plus an Android Tablet at least 7 years old and a Gen 3 iPad, 10 years old. I could do a report on all these and how well they perform if there is any interest. 

 

 

 

 

Our main mix tablet is a 12.5" WIndows 10 convertible so we can run the full X-Air PC app, for my monitor mix I use an original Surface Go mainly so I can be lazy and have the same interface.

Previously I ran it on Atom Bay Trail devices with just 2gb ram and it was fast enough, the PC software will run on just about anything.