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Great news, Ibanez make good basses. I'd say go with the tab too but try to work with those dots occasionally as well. They give more rhythm info. No photo no bass tho

Yes the wiring looks like it took some patience to get done I'm loving the Kiwi in MoP too. A very sweet piece of work. Ped do you have the new V Bass yet? If not is it worth the move? Oh and I hope the photo wasn't taken while it was falling off its stand Peter

Immense, nice one. What next? Peter

Thanks Chris, I've rehosted the lot in another post.

I'd say go for it

This probably isn't your problem if you have a standard Fender bridge but... I've twice had odd things with my E and both times it's been because the vibrating string has been just touching the edge of the bridge. Peter

Yep Hohner have pretty much done it already Peter

Interesting that quite a few folk are dissing this bass before seeing/hearing or playing one. If they are made in the East the 'bang for the buck' could be good. The general ergonomics has real potential too. Making a short scale to encourage kids to get playing bass makes a lot of sense. I prefer bright colours to sparkle myself. I'm reserving judgement until I know a bit more. Peter

I've hosted the samples on a faster site and split the bridge pickup sample into 3. It was painfully slow downloading and the samples were the lowest quality I can record The low pass samples are from the neck and bridge pickups with the filter being incrementally opened with 3 settings on the resonant peak boost, min, mid and max. [url="http://www.plunder.com/-download-7e45661f.htm"]Neck low pass min[/url] [url="http://www.plunder.com/-download-6bd5ec60.htm"]Neck low pass mid[/url] [url="http://www.plunder.com/-download-1a6ffbb2.htm"]Neck low pass max[/url] [url="http://www.plunder.com/-download-ca166d0c.htm"]Bridge low pass min[/url] [url="http://www.plunder.com/-download-4db791c8.htm"]Bridge low pass mid[/url] [url="http://www.plunder.com/-download-9eac5039.htm"]Bridge low pass max[/url] and finally the high pass with boost set to maximum, both pickups set very 'dubby' incrementally wound from high plus all mids to just high. [url="http://www.plunder.com/-download-16931b9d.htm"]High pass demo[/url] That's it Peter

I'm going to try with a different host - watch this space Peter

They are working okay, just checked. They may take a while. Has anyone else had problems. Any recommendations for a better sound file host? Peter

You Sir have taste, and all of it good Peter

[quote]So is yours more Killer Whale or Narwhal then Peter?[/quote] To me it's more like a porpoise

Thanks Steve Now the: 2. High Pass Filter It's not so easy to demonstrate what it does because it's not possible to listen to it's output in isolation like it is with the low pass 'jobbies'. It works in the same way but the other way around. When this (hot) bath tap is shut it just leaks the very highest frequencies (sizzling) and as it's opened progressively lower frequencies are added in right down to about 1kHz. So you can see that it overlaps the low pass filter when wide open with it's lowest mids lower that the low pass filters highest mids. The top knob on this filter isn't a resonant peak boost (this is important) but a straight boost with minimum boost being zero. So it can effectively be turned off. In order to illustrate it's operation I've started with the High Pass filter wide open (all frequencies from sizzle to mids) and it's boost set to max. I've then incrementally shut it off. The bridge and neck pups are balanced and set to a fairly 'dubby' tone that's overlaid at all times by the 'gravy' of the high pass filter. [url="http://www.zshare.net/audio/55928716d3690819/"]High pass filter operation[/url] Finally a couple of points. How do I set my bass up and why bother with all this filter malarkey? Here's how I go about creating my available range of tones: 1. Isolate high pass filter by shutting down it's boost and removing it from the tonal equation. 2. Blend to the neck pup and using low pass filter get the tone I want from it (I think more 'P' tone here). 3. Use the resonant peak boost to shape the tone further. 4. Blend to the bridge pup and repeat 2. and 3. above to get tone required (I like some jazzy honk). 5. With the 'meat' sorted middle the blend and introduce higher frequencies (gravy) where you want them and at the level (amount of boost) you want them. 6. The above is all done as preparation. For tone when playing just use your blend to go from neck to bridge pups and access a whole seamless range of tone. So why bother? A normal 2 or 3 EQ pre allows you to tweak the colour that that individual pre-amp creates. The ACG filter based pre-amp allows you to create the colour itself. That's how I see it. Just to add, setting up the ACG02 with just the 1 low pass filter I do this way: 1. Zero the boost on the high pass filter to remove it from the tonal equation. 2. Middle the pup blend, if you have one, and zero the resonant peak boost on the low pass filter. 3. Adjust the 'meat', the bottom ring of the low pass filter to get the broad tone you want, shape it with the resonant peak boost. 4. Add the 'gravy' where and how much you want it with the high pass filter and boost. 5. Use the blend to achieve subtle tonal change and the 'meat' to get a more radical shift in tone. 6. Tweak any knob a little as you go. Peter

Most singlecuts remind me of a Sperm Whale, the MM included. My avatar on the other hand is the way to do it methinks. Peter

I've been meaning to get around to producing a short post that illustrates how a filter based pre-amplifier works. It really isn't rocket science, it's just a different approach to the usual 2/3 EQ and you can't really relate to one via the other imo. In addition to a volume/blend knob basically you have: 1. A Low Pass Filter The ACG01 fitted to Alan's basses has one per pickup. The ACG02 retrofitted to a (cough) few of my basses has just the one. Imagine it's a bath tap. When the tap is shut it's leaking just low frequency sound, about 20Hz if I remember correctly. As you open the tap it allows progressively higher frequencies to be added to the flow. When the tap is wide open it's allowing everything through from the 20Hz right up to 3kHz. There's another 'little tap' on top that let's through a little extra just at the cut off frequency i.e. when the big one is shut that'd be 20Hz and when it's wide open 3kHz and wherever it's set in between. This allows you alter the shape of the frequency spectrum. This knob I will call the resonant peak boost, cause that's what it does. So here's some sound samples, they're just chromatic scales to illustrate the operation of the filters. First up just the neck pickup, with no boost, the filter is being incrementally opened from 20Hz to 3kHz. [url="http://www.zshare.net/audio/559253145e7fc64e/"]Neck pup no resonant peak boost[/url] Now with half boost [url="http://www.zshare.net/audio/55925786add6ed8f/"]Neck pup half resonant peak boost[/url] Finally with max boost [url="http://www.zshare.net/audio/5592607118b32063/"]Neck pup max boost[/url] Next is just the one sound sample going through the whole above process with the bridge pickup low pass filter: [url="http://www.zshare.net/audio/5592702673b51f1f/"]Bridge pup opened with a range of boost positions[/url] The low pass filters are always letting sound through. This tone is what I'd call the 'meat'. It's always there. The High Pass Filter can be shut right down like a 'non leaky' tap. I'd describe this as the 'gravy' in that you can add some if you need to but it's not essential. If the tone through the low pass filters up to 3kHz is good for you you can ignore the high pass filter. I'll continue the thread in a min looking at the High Pass Filter.

I can understand you being chuffed to bits over this, blow away! Peter

I've got 12. I'm single

1. Volume/blend 2. Low pass filter/cut off frequency resonant peak for neck pup 3. Low pass filter/cut off frequency resonant peak for bridge pup 4. High pass filter/cut and boost for both pups. There's a few threads on operation here, on Talkbass and on Alan's site. The aftermarket ACG02 only has one low pass filter for both pups. I've just fitted one to my Spector that also has a passive tone control. feel free to pm me if you need to know more. Peter

Yes Shaun that's mine (I forget it's in my avatar - doh). It's my dream bass made real to be honest. Very similar in spec to yours but 1 string less. Peter

If you read this very thread and others on the subject of using the ACG02 you will see your questions answered several times. Once you get 'your head around them' I'd say its easier to create your tone with a filter based pre than it is to tweak your tone with 2/3 EQ. Peter