Darkstrike

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1344813171' post='1769659'] Yeah right, I'm sure I would have heard of one of those. [/quote] Ridiculous name too, imagine limiting an instrument to one genre...

Looks like something that one guy off the telly played that one time, but a bit different. Mindboggling....

It really is!

Well, with the sweep it can do a lot of things. Work as an auxillary high knob, if you don't fancy the freq. of the regular high for a certan track, add deep punch, grindy attack, even out pick attack if you cut high mids. I use mine like a wah often. Crank the mid boost, and roll the freq. sweep back and forth. Haven't found serious use for that, but it's fun!

Remember though, on most of his preamps, bass is boost only, regardless of having a centre detent.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1344682487' post='1767897'] I have not checked, but I'm pretty sure it will fit, there is tons of space in the control cavity. I can fit a MMSR in a G&L L2000, and that's a lot tighter! [/quote] Lots of space, but the way the controls are laid out made it a bit tricky, with the circut boards connected to the pots. It fit though, I just managed to squeeze it. What was trickier was rewiring it for the Cort battery compartment and neutrik jack. Got the 3 knob - 3 band East MMSR pre, the 3 way series/single/parallel switch, and now an empty hole I'll have to get a plug for later, but totally worth it, sounds a million times better, enough that I'm skipping getting a new pickup for it.

If I can fit it without any carving, I have a East MMSR spare that'd I'd love to stick in mine.

I'd imagine it is, looks to me like you can see the grain of it in the empty A slot, that could be something else though.

Made of perspex too? Total WTF machine.

Awesome, congrats dude!

It'll be awesome, that's for sure.

[quote name='only4' timestamp='1344280423' post='1762259'] Manchester Bass Lounge In errr? Ah yes Manchester! [url="http://manchesterbasslounge.com/"]http://manchesterbasslounge.com/[/url] [/quote] Dead handy that one, I'll be in Manchester in just about 3 weeks, might be able to swing a visit, usually just get a quick nose about Dawsons.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1344275521' post='1762137'] the question is... which single coil? I'm sure once I pick one, I will not miss the other, but they do sound different. However, having the midsweep onboard, I doubt it'll matter. [/quote] Can't remember which mine was now, tbqh, and it's still uninstalled from testing the Delano. They do sound different, but honestly not enough that I'd be worried about picking one over the other. I suppose if you plan on using it solo, closer to the neck would have a tad more meat, but if you only plan on using it mixed with neck, the bridge side would cover a slightly wider freq. range. Like you say, though, the mid sweep will cover it anyway.

I found swapping the 3 way switch to single/series/parallel to be much better, but the pickup still ain't great. I've no pickup at all in the neck position anymore, thinking of picking up a Delano quad coil for it(I tried a 5er one I had spare in it, and it sounded immense but were the coils were split was right over the D, making it near dead) along with a new preamp(with no neck pickup I have enough room for a 3 band). Beware swapping battries with the stock pre, it's been known for people to put them in backwards and wreck the pre.

Cheers guys!

Sounds a wee bit like Oceansize's bassist.

Besides Bass Direct and The Gallery, are there other class gear shops in the UK?

[quote name='billyapple' timestamp='1343773171' post='1755177'] Don't soil any bass up this idiots ronson. You'd probably find it will only give him pleasure. But your bass in the case, and twat the prick over the head with a hammer. [/quote] Definitely this. The scum isn't worth your bass.

They're plastic, IIRC, wouldn't it be pretty easy to ream them out a touch for the East pots?

Dang, that is clever.

I'd imagine it would change the response of the strings too. A better option might be wiring a resistor up to the neck pickups hot lead, just to cut the volume a touch, I don't know exactly which one you'd want though. The Roscoe Beck basses have a push/pull for just this, drops a resistor on the neck pickups path, to keep the bridge pickup louder, as it has a switch instead of separate volumes. EDIT: I assume you want the bridge pickup to have a volume, but the neck to go straight to the output jack, always on, but at a lower volume?

[quote name='pantherairsoft' timestamp='1330782777' post='1562940'] Awesome! They refused to do pink and green for me! Thanks for talking them around.... [/quote] Lazy bastids, all they'd have to do is dye the yellow bits.....

As far as I can remember, he did sometimes use a MXR Flanger/Doubler.

This is more "commissioned for me to my exact requirements"(per the OP) than wild like some of the stuff in the thread, haven't seen another single MM Gadow before though, as he usually uses J's or soapbars, I have seen a J-MM once. [IMG]http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z279/darkstrikeofbass/Gadow/3352-HI-RES.jpg[/IMG]

I have a Nordstrand pickup combined with the East MMSR 3 band/3 knob, together they seem a bit dark(but I suppose that's what the EQ is for), it's not much of a problem for me outside of the B string, really, gets quite boomy. I did try a Glockenklang 2 band pre with the Nordstrand, and they are a great match, but that East mid sweep stack is a beast of a tool, and I missed it sometimes. I have a Delano Ferrite pickup on order to try with the East Pre, see how they match up.