TimR

The keys and bass need to meet separately to work on an arrangement that works for both of them. With experienced musicians this can be done on the fly as they both will adjust using their ears.

The problem with active/passive is that the control knobs will be different values and part of the active circuitry, so not just a case of switching off the amplifier bit and keeping the volume. Would need a bit of thought. What about balance and tone controls?

I haven't. I think by the time I have purchased pots and wiring, had them delivered, soldered them all together, it would just be quicker and just as expensive to fit the pre-amp, which would only require soldering the existing barrel jack in.

Have lost the will to live with my Ibanez SR400 volume pot. Its a non standard pot that's soldered to the board. There's no equivalent pot that I can find, or a pot that will fit, and have the same diameter shaft that will fit the existing knobs. So I have two options, ditch the electronics, make it passive, blank off two holes and go that route. or Replace the pre-amp. A shadowski pre-amp is probably more than I want to spend. So thinking of taking a punt on the Artec. Anyone used one of these? I figure it must be better than a 25 year old Ibanez stock. I have the DXP and DXJ passive pickups. https://www.thomann.co.uk/artec_se3_basselektronik.htm?gad_source=4&gad_campaignid=1581403900&gclid=CjwKCAjwy7HEBhBJEiwA5hQNotlg5qVmdkmIFXkIzrbymxNpJCwbkNKlg38RMUSnd83RC-nDuTX3CRoCxZYQAvD_BwE

I thought the first post was a complete over-reaction and someone blowing up over a delay in getting into a studio, and losing their temper on the support line. 1st world problem. I thought Meta referred to a 'Karen' style rant on Facebook.

Karen from Sheffield...

We were taught as kids in the 70s how to search for a fire. Is this no longer taught? 😕

Under "breakages" I have ordered a new volume pot. The old one crackles like mad amd no amount of Servicol switch cleaner will resolve. It's going to be a bit of a mission to replace as the new pot isn't a straight swap. The old one is soldered to the preamp board and is much longer. This one will have to be fitted to the bass body and have extension wires to the preamp.

Same problem, with my SR400. The volume pot is a non standard Alpha Tiwan RV16AF-41 ?? 25R B500K The problem is the ??. I've measured the bushing and it looks to be M8 17mm. I've messaged Rapid Electronics to see what they can find. I've bought the standard RV16AF-41 off their website but its too short. I'm going to dismantle it and see if the top is swappable. Edit - it's not.

Yes. Contact the key holder. The fire service will only advise the owner, its down to the owner to implement the policy.

https://www.syfire.gov.uk/business-advice/fire-alarms/ South Yorkshire fire service will only attend if there is a confirmed fire.

Have a read of the latter part of the Pirate Studios thread. It may be those of us on BassChat are more selective with the gigs we go to and the bands we play in.

A breach of the peace is something else.

Somewhat of an overreaction. Resetting the fire alarm won't result in any liability. It shouldn't allow you to reset it if a break glass or smoke head has been activated.

That falls into unreasonable expectations in my book. I back onto a pub car-park. We get doors slammed, occasionally people fighting, lots of noise as people arrive and leave during the Sunday lunch rush, a bit of noise carry from the garden on the other side of the carpark. Most of it can be easily ignored. One day some of the locals decided to move one of the benches down the carpark outside my fence (because it was jn the sun), started swearing and throwing cigarettes over the fence. That is not reasonable. That resulted in a robust face to face confrontation where I was told "You moved next to a pub, what do you expect?", and I told them (the above), explaining that I moved next to a pub carpark, not a pub, and that my small children were listening to the swearing, and having cigarettes thrown at them and their trampoline. Some red-faces, sweary people apologised and moved the bench back into the pub garden. But some people are really over-sensitive and a precident has been set where pubs have been refused licences. Bad reporting in the press has resulted in people thinking they have the right to complain about reasonable noise.

If the owners of The Venue were honest with themselves, it wasn't a suitable place for loud concerts, and spending 10s of thousands of pounds on soundproofing was short-sighted. Ultimately, the financial crash of 2008 was what bought them down.

I went to see Iron Maiden at the London Stadium last month. It was loud, but not overbearing. They had a 10pm curfew. They just started a bit earlier. Contrast that with their Hammersmith Odeon gigs in the 80s, my ears were still ringing 3 days later. I always take my earbuds to gigs now (even pub gigs) and I had to wear them at a recent gig at the Underworld in Camden. They shouldn't really be necessary if we are honest with each other.

Those things are 'reasonably expected'. You expect a music venue to make a reasonable amount of noise. As I said upthead, a lot of these venues make unreasonable amounts of noise well into the early hours of the morning, during the week and on Sundays.

And allowing pubs to spill put into the street in city centres is one thing, but in an area where there is housing, without the landlord being expected to control rowdy behaviour is another. Having people eating, drinking and talking all week outside your front door is one thing. Having people shouting and swearing is another. Again, it's about what is reasonably expected.

It's a case of the level of noise that is reasonably expected. If I moved next to a pub that played music, I'd expect music at certain times of the week and at a certain level. Bands are getting louder and venues are staying open later. There are developers that do stupid things like build retirement flats next to music venues, that kind of thing should be thrown back to the developers to fix. But we know developers vanish with regularity for a new company to spring up in their places. It's far more complex and nuanced than; buy a place near a pub and you should expect trouble and noise, just put up with it.

Plastic. That's the only information I have on mine. It's been OK for 25 years, so probably not nylon.

Some people can suck the fun and cause drama wherever you turn. And there are people who want to control everything without taking anyone's feelings into consideration. If it's not a job, that shouldn't be happening. I'm having the same issues in another thing I do for fun. Politics. Good luck.

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Year started playing: 1986 Number of basses: 1 (3 if you count the spare bass and the one in the loft, neither of which I ever play) Music theory: 8 (What's all that mode stuff about?) Technique: 5 (No slap, no pick) Groove: 7 (I spent too much time fighting against a bad drummer.)