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Wow that bridge and the wiring are shocking, the groove for the A string looks like its been gnawed by rats and taping the preamp to the cavity Wow

Wow, I feel bad for the OP, I have had my own nightmare (but nowhere near this bad) experience with trying to sort some issues with an Artec preamp with a dodgy mid control and mid sweep, the supplier of the preamp blamed it on the tech fitting it, the tech blamed it on the preamp, I forwarded a wiring diagram to the tech and asked him to have another look at it and he got the mid control working but not the mid sweep, in the end I had the bass wired passive because the original preamp sounded bad and the Artec one gave me no end of troubles, I was pis*ed about these issues with fitting a preamp on a sub £300 bass so I can only imagine how frustrating this must have been with the multiple issues that should not have been present on a bass costing nearly a grand. I would gather testimonials and proof of any costs incurred in fixing the bass and speak to the supplier of the bass about recouping these costs

Is the red one, I hate white pickguards as they look so cheap, also I felt that as it was such a lovely colour it seemed a shame to have such a cr*p colour pickguard, the black pickguard was a huge improvement

Anything is an improvement over white, can't stand white pickguards, they really make a bass look cheap. Just recently swapped the white pearloid pickguard on my Ibanez Mezzo for a black pickguard and it looks so much better

Oh yes, Electric Wizard are awesome, that huge , bassy wall of fuzz is awesome, that particular one is probably my favourite by them

Funny thing is the best bass tone I have achieved was through a tiny amp. Did a rehearsal a couple days after a gig and the drummer didnt feel like loading up his car with my bass amp (he transported it to the gig) so he brought along this little Ampeg bass amp that was rated at about 50 watts and I looked at it and I thought it was going to be dreadful and I thought my bass would be buried in the mix as we have a loud drummer and 2 guitar players, plugged my bass into the amp and no only was it loud but the tone was awesome, gritty, articulate and bright but with plenty of low end too, I was really impressed, I can only imagine how good their more powerful amps are.

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Not quite, they are Alloy 52 strings whereas Roto 66 are stainless steel, the Alloy 52 gives them a slightly less bright but more midrange heavy tone

Yeah, just seen that Amazon has dropped the price again, seriously tempted to get another set

Only had mine on since Monday but as they are coated im not expecting much change in tone any time soon, so far I really like them , they have a similar tone to Swing bass66 but with a little bit less highs and stronger midrange, people that like a lot of midrange will like these a lot, people who scoop their tone not so much

Received mine yesterday, super quick delivery from Amazon, just got to resist the temptation to buy a 2nd set of these

No worries, always been meaning to try them myself

Hi Thought this might be of interest £20.50 on Amazon at the moment https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002848BE8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I wouldn't worry too much, rarely hear anyone complain about the Model P pickup, my favourite is the Duncan SPB-2 which is much more divisive

Thanks for the replies Thanks, am after exaggerated bass as my Amplug broke recently and I replaced it with the Bass Blackstar Amplug and the bass seems a bit shy compared to what I was using previously, I am using I will look into Beats

Hi all Am currently without an amp due to many factors and currently finding that the headphones I am using (Sony ZX310 for anyone interested) are good for a cheap pair of headphones but I am finding myself wanting more bass than the headphones provide, what is a good set of headphones that provides good, deep and generous amounts of bass? Would like to keep the cost sub £100, does such a set even exist in that price bracket? thanks

That is a fantastic bargain, I know others would probably not do this but at that price I would get a Hipshot Supertone Gibson bridge and an Artec Mudbucker (they usually pop on Ebay all the time) which will be closer to the original Gibson Mudbuckers than the Epiphone pickup, even with those mods you would still have spend less than the cost of what the Epiphone goes for new

Yep I concur

Ahh ok, I was afraid you were going to say that, was thinking of swapping out the bridge pickup for a Duncan SJB-2 Anyhow swapped out my pickguard, crappy mobile phone pic doesnt do it justice but it looks awesome

Just wondering regarding the J pickup , did you order a bridge or a neck as I have read that the bridge pickups on the Mezzo basses are a different size to standard bridge J pickups , also did you have to do any routing/modding to get it to fit?

Quite possibly, I know there are people who think the earth will explode if you use long scale strings on a short scale but in decades of playing bass I have always used long scale strings on short scales with no issues

The EHX looks good but no line in on it

Anyone used this? https://www.joyoaudio.co.uk/i-plug

Yeah, same here, I was initially worried that I was stuck with a lousy sounding bass as the stock electronics sounded like crap and even with the treble completely rolled off they were too bright and when I had a passive/active switch it still had an excessive upper mid and treble to it that seemingly could not be dialed out but I have gone full passive with a switch that switches the P pickup between series and parallel and it sounds great , the extra resistance from having the tone pot in the circuit has got rid of that upper mid and treble gank

Thanks, can it be used without a Mac or PC?