basstone

I've now taken the pots out to confirm the age as 1964. With the pots and scratch plate removed the original sunburst paint finish can be seen, which was much more extensive than the present faded effect. I much prefer how it looks now!

I'll probably let this go to a dealer if I don't get any interest soon, so go on - make me an offer

1 hour ago, Chienmortbb said:

Horrified to see I am not on the list. So I WILL be there, and as to what I am bringing?

 

From,

 

Basses Fender Aerodyne/Sire Marcus Miller M2

Amps Bugera Veyron M1001/Ashdown Retroglide 800 and possibly home build 500 watt bass head based on one of @passinwind's pre-amp designs.

Cabs TBC but one of the LFSys designs.

Effects Zoom B2-Four, Zoom B1-Four

 

Are you documenting your home build on here? I'd be interested in the design and build 🙂

1 hour ago, skidder652003 said:

sorry just seen this!

Im afraid it went to the great gig in the sky (via the recycling centre)

 

Shame. They're really solid great sounding cabs - very heavy though!

On 26/03/2023 at 10:58, 3below said:

IIRC there was also a similar 1970s Carlsbro mixer amp - no backlighting or nifty handles though.  Can't find any images, however Carlsbro have certainly made a vast range of kit over the years.  I had a job offer with HH circa 1979 but in the end chose to work for British Gas as a research engineer.

 

Interesting video on their website https://www.hhelectronics.com/history

Thanks for the link to the video, it is interesting to see the history and pedigree of the brand and still going today!

Original  Epiphone Rivoli bass , made in Kalamazoo. The serial number dates it from 1964 or 1965. I'm putting it out there for sale to see if there is any interest in this highly collectable and playable bass. It's in great condition considering its age with some belt rash marks on the back as shown in the photo below and the occasional ding elsewhere. The neck is very straight and playable and all electrics work as they should.  It comes with a period Baldwin hard case, also in very good condition.

On 24/03/2023 at 11:32, Matt P said:

i've looked at the photo's and i think it is actually copper foil, the join is visible in the first photo, and the next photo shows the foil soldered to another piece of foil that wraps round onto the base (if this was just the windings it would short the pickup out surely?) 

 

i've not seen this before, it looks like there is a ground sleeve in the wiring as well as the 2 usual wires for a jazz pickup.

 

Matt

I agree, that solder would short out the pickup coil. It's a foil screen and I'd guess there would be some tape over the coil winding behind it to protect the fine coil wire. That screen is probably very effective in reducing noise when using only one pickup (no humbucking effect from using both pickups). I have screened jazz pickups by using copper foil, but I use the self adhesive tape and put it on the inside of the covers including the top.

Back to the main topic and my vote would be for DiMarzio. I have a DiMarzio P pickup from the 1980s with the same colour cover. It's a great fat sounding pickup with allen key adjustment on each of the pole pieces. I'm assuming your P bass has been modded to be a PJ bass with this pickup in the usual bridge position?

We now have a regular drummer but could really do with a couple more trombone players, so on the small chance that somebody knows a trombone player looking to join a big band in the Mendip, Somerset area please get in touch 🙂

Just now, basstone said:

Yes, rotary witches are readily available such as this one:

 

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You can set the number of ways using a collar under the fixing nut

Yes, rotary witches are readily available such as this one: see next post for eBay link 🙂

1970's vintage HH electronics MA100, 5 channel 100W into 4ohm head. Each of the 5 channels has a high / low impedance input, treble, bass and reverb send switch. Master reverb level, master volume and presence. All working and in good condition for its age and the front panel illumination is iconic on these old HH amps!

The usual balance circuit uses a dual gang pot just for the "blend" and I've never seen a stacked pot with dual gangs? Using a single balance control won't give a very smooth blend unless both pickups are actively buffered before the blend control.  Just out of interest why do you need a balance / blend for a stingray?

Vintage YSC-60E Archtop acoustic guitar in tobacco burst with flame top and mahogany body and neck with nice bindings and inlays. These  are quite rare and date from late 1990's or early 2000's, made in Korea I think. There is a piezo pickup under the bridge saddle and a built-in preamp with tone and volume controls and balanced XLR and TS jack outputs. The neck to body joint has been repaired at some point but is stable and the guitar is very playable as well as being good looking. Comes with a fitted hard case.

I don't suppose that you ever venture up to Somerset?

3 hours ago, paul_5 said:

Glad you've got a result you're happy with. I prefer 500K logarithmic for volumes and Linear for tone.

What difference did you notice with 500K? I usually associate 500K pots with humbuckers and 250K with single coils?

My '78 fretless jazz bass was fitted with A250K pots for volume and tone and the response was far ideal, all happening in the last few degrees! I had a ferret around in my spares drawer and found a couple of C taper reverse log 250K pots and thought I'd give them a try and they give a really linear sounding fade making getting a good blend much easier. That's a good result and one mod I'll do again on any similar 2 pickup, 2 volume control setup. I'd previously screened the control cavity and the pickup cavities with self adhesive foil, so there's minimal noise even when using only one pickup!

My very first bass was a medium scale cream Columbus tele bass and I've had a soft spot for them ever since. Here are my current Tele basses. An original '69, which I love as it has the DNA of the very first P bas in it's design and has a great woody growl from the single coil pickup. The Japanese Paisley blue bass was my workhorse for many years tuned down a tone to D and used in a blues quartet, finished with the matching blue strings it attracted many comments!

@Skin Lewis aka Dave bought my Epiphone Jack Casady that was up for sale here on Basschat.  A pleasure to deal with and I hope he enjoys the bass:-)

16 minutes ago, Phil Starr said:

my feelings too

 

There's another problem I found this year, it's hard to be technician, compere and play bass at the same time. It would be good to be a bit slicker so people can get a bit more out of it and another person up on stage would be really helpful.

 

Any shootout would have to be set up really carefully to be really meaningful so this is mainly for fun and to stimulate the old brain cells. I did wonder about something different this year. Deliberately choosing different sized drivers/cabs or trying identical drivers in a range of cab sizes. Maybe forget cabs and try different amps with the same cab and make it an amp shootout.

Yeah Phil, your efforts are heroic and as well as being well appreciated are often affirming the sound and build quality from your projects and the BC and LFSys designs when pitched against the more established top end products. Any sneak preview of projects in the pipeline for this years' bash?

All being well, I'll be there 🙂 Date is in the diary

18 hours ago, 2pods said:

Been after one of these for ages, but every time one came up, I was either skint or needed something more urgently. But now, thanks to GuitarGuitar, I finally have one, and I must say, it has all the tones I had in my head.

 

It's very easy to dial in Messiers Giblin, Thompson, Pino type sounds, and just as easy to make it sound like a "normal" bass.

Obviously, the two magnetic pickup volumes and their active bass and treble eq,  the Piezo volume and tone, make it a very, versatile bass with Mwah to die for.

 

Construction is nice. All round and smooth, though because of the extended cutaway and finger
(arm length, more like) board, I was playing one position up at first 

The only thing is now I'll probably get rid of my Ibby SRH500F even though it sounds more double bass-like, as We are now operating a "One in, One out" policy. So I've been told 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very nice. I'm glad that you're liking it. I'm looking for an SRF700 myself, possibly with a swap for an Epiphone Jack Casady I'm trying to sell! Prices seem to have gone up a lot recently! GuitarGuitar price ATM nearly £1K! Did you get a deal or is that how much they are now? I'm also interested to hear that your SRH500F sounds more upright bass like. That's hard to find and very useful for jazz situations.

Just now, Woody1957 said:

Brought back some fond memories of this little combo when l was with a Meatloaf tribute band using a Trace stack and playing with a loud drummer......kept up no problem and sounded really good too!

Yes they sound surprisingly good for a solid state guitar amp and plenty loud enough for most situations. Very solid and well made too, from an era when gear was made to last and be repairable.

10 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

It doesn't make any sense regardless of the type of amp it is connected to, your resistor would have to match the wattage of any speaker it was connected to as half of your power would be going to heat up the resistor, which means it needs to be very big and bolted to some metal to get rid of the heat and you are wasting half of your power.

 

So if you have a valve amp, connect it to the correct impedance output, and if you have a solid state amp, you can put more power into the speaker, and use more power, just to throw away that power heating a resistor, giving you the same volume if you had connected it without the resistor.

 

The Harkte has a dual voice coil apparently, so I guess you are only using half of it in one of the modes.

Totally agree with you, but if the switch is there just thinking out loud really.  I didn't know about the Hartke speaker with the dual voice coil.  It would be good to hear what it is actually doing but opening up the cab 🙂

Brasso is a very mild abrasive that can helps take out small scratches. T cut also works well but beware cutting through any finish by spreading the polishing over a

larger area than the scratch

How odd. Multi speaker cabs often have the capability to switch between series and parallel connection to match to the amp. If there is only one driver speaker the switch possibly adds a series or parallel resistor which only makes any sense if connecting to a valve amp?  It might be worth opening up the cab to see what the switch does

3 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

Mono works well enough - but stereo is a different kettle of fish. Having said that, I'd still take a mono IEM feed over a wedge any day. If you are feeling flush, you could always go down the ME500, ME-1 route...

Thanks for the response. ME500 etc.. would be a great idea but totally outside our budget I'm afraid. Maybe If I find I have "spare" Aux channels I could give a stereo mix to the lead singer, as that's generally the most problematic area.