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Hey folks My BB414 has developed a problem with the J pickup. For those of you not familiar with the BB414, its a passive PJ with master volume, master tone, 3 way switch. It has recently developed (overnight, in fact) a massive hum/buzz from the J pickup. Here are the symptoms; 1. Buzzes very, very loudly when the J pickup is soloed. The buzz goes away when I turn the volume all the way down. Turning the tone knob just changes the tone of the buzz. 2. Buzzes less loudly in the middle position 3. Doesn't buzz at all when the P is soloed. 4. Buzzing is unaffected by me touching the strings, bridge, etc. 5. Buzzing goes away if I rotate the bass 90 degrees. 6. I haven't changed anything else in my setup, same cable, same gear, same seat, same equipment nearby. This is a new issue. 7. No wires or connections are visibly broken inside the control cavity. Any ideas on debugging the source of the problem? I've got a voltmeter and a physics degree so I should be able to fix it myself... The fact the buzzing goes away when I move the bass makes me worry my neighbours have a new router or something through the wall. Wouldn't this affect the P pickup though? Also, does anyone have a wiring diagram for a BB414?

If the only reason to get e-drums is because he's too loud then he'd be better off sticking with "real" drums and learning to play quieter. It seems very common for drummers to only have two volumes---"off" and "bloody hell do you have to hit it that hard?".

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1400489499' post='2454215'] That's probably to cover hard drives/floppy disks/magnetic tape which could be adversely affected if placed close to other items containing big magnets (loudspeakers) or close to large power cables (in a depot?). [/quote] Probably, but as with all insurers if they find a loophole in their ts & cs then you can guarantee they'll use it to screw you.

Lots of good ideas that I wanted to like but it was badly written twaddle and became tedious after the first 30 seconds. The review, that is. The album will be a bunch of w*** just like the others.

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1400571463' post='2454954'] One more option would be to try looking around for a MIJ SR Premium, not the 700 or 800, but 900 or above from the 90's or 2000's. They seem to go for around £500 and it's the beloved SR shape (and neck) but with staggeringly good build quality, woods and tone. Definitely a league or two above the current 500 series. Mine (SR1300PM) ... [url="http://www.ephotobay.com/share/sr1300-b-main-a.html"][/url] [/quote] Umm.... wow.

Hey I'm thinking of ordering a bass from thomann because I can't find it locally. If I order one and don't like it, thomann have a no quibble return policy which is great. However, according to their faq if there's nothing wrong with the instrument i would need to pay the return shipping. Any idea how much it would cost to return a bass to Thomann?

Sadly the one in the for sale forum is very far away from me, and even worse its in the finish I don't like... ;-)

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1367995778' post='2071949'] I'd really like one of these. Big positive is the narrower neck over the L-2000 for me. Seems a bit pricey just at the moment though. I suspect prices will drop to much the same as the L-2000 in a while. [/quote] I also really want one (hence my bumping this old thread). Sadly the number of places to try them seems fairly small

Hey folks Tried one of these out today (the newer ones, without the star on the body). Absolutely loved the neck on it. Does anyone know if the older Dirnts have the same neck? Or if other basses use the same profile?

You might not need to buy an amp. If you're just noodling around at home then you can use a guitar amp, just don't crank it up too loud (the bass frequencies can damage the speakers if you drive them too hard). For gigging or playing loudly you'd need a "proper" bass amp though.

You might want to try some pressurewounds. I love the GHS ones, and also the Ken Smith Compressors (which I'm led to believe are made by GHS anyway!)

Apropos of absolutely nothing I've utterly convinced myself that I "need" a 33" (or 32" bass). Oh dear. This is how GAS strikes, isn't it?

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1400015706' post='2449990'] Sssssh! [/quote] If we manage to arrange going for a beer sometime I should bring my wife, you make me look great

Nice work. How many jazzes is that now??

Bass is an instrument that is easy to learn but incredibly difficult to master. Some instruments are just fundamentally easier to get started with than others (ever tried to get a note out of an Oboe or Bassoon? ). Doesn't mean that they're lesser instruments. Just that the learning curve is different.

I don't think it's ugly at all. Looks great to me.

[quote name='EMG456' timestamp='1399368917' post='2443414'] I never understand this argument at all. Too many for what? If you are playing for the public then to my mind at least you should have a backup instrument so that if something goes wrong, you don't let anyone down. What if some tunes require fretless? Do you also need a backup fretless? Extended range needed? Mmm... 5 string, 6 string... should I have fretless versions of those as well? And so far this ignores the fact that a Jazz sounds/ feels different to a Precision or Ibanez or Alembic or Wal or Musicman etc. etc. In my opinion, owning and using lots of different basses makes you more rounded as a player. You are more able to cope with all of the different idiosyncrasies of tone, feel, action etc. and that can only be good for you as a player. Your only restrictions should be the practical ones - can you afford it, do you have room to store it? The others like can I justify it, do I really need it? etc. are purely imaginary constructs of your own making. Who here would claim that John Entwhistle was more of a "collector" than a player? Not that I'm opinionated or anything... Cheers Ed [/quote] I disagree! For well over 90% of us anything more than five or six basses is into collector territory. Yes, the odd person here or there has a genuine need for more but even most pro bassists don't "need" a lot of instruments. There's nothing wrong with being a collector (I do it myself!), but I think it's good to be honest with ourselves about these things. Kidding yourself on that you "need" something instead of just being honest with yourself that you "want" it isn't very healthy in my opinion.

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1399392626' post='2443784'] I've recently had a few Virgin cable engineers trying to sort out problems I'd been seeing with data errors causing bad picture interference and what flummoxed me was some channels experienced high pre and post RS errors yet others were completely error free (more info about RS errors here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_correction if you're so inclined). In the end it turned out it was a problem with the cable between the internal wall plate/splitter and the decoder - they put a new cable in and the error rate dropped dramatically - it would seem that the old cable wasn't passing certain frequencies particularly well (for the channels affected). So yes, in this case, the cable really did matter. [/quote] Well of course it mattered. The one you had was broken!

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1399327908' post='2443246'] Physics can only do so much, then the real world takes over. [/quote] LOL! [quote] According to the laws of physics a bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly [/quote] Completely untrue. Better luck next time.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1399327173' post='2443235'] What about Physical Graffiti? [/quote] Overrated, meandering rubbish for the most part Next question? :-D

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1399326679' post='2443228'] No one ever listened to Led Zeppelin on a radar or particle detector. That is why everything you have to say is a complete irrelevance. [/quote] Good lord! An audiophile admitting that physical reality is irrelevant to them!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1399324248' post='2443192'] Yeah, but that's [i]science[/i], innit..? We're talkin' [i]audio[/i]... [/quote] Good point. I'd forgotten about how electronic representations of audio signals flow differently in wires to electronic representations of scientific signals

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1399308029' post='2442971'] Significantly though, you don't listen to music on any of that kind of equipment. [/quote] No, but signal to noise is an important factor just like it is in audio. If magic cables had any kind of real effect oscilloscopes, microscopes, radars, particle detectors, lasers, etc would come with them. They don't.

There's a reason that high end scientific equipment - top of the range oscilloscopes, money no object microscopes, supercomputers, etc - doesn't come with these fancy conditioned power cables or thermally treated cables or whatever the latest audiophile craze is. It's all BS. The only people naiive enough to fall for it are audiophiles and gullible musicians. Still, if people are rich enough that they can afford to spend thousands on enjoying the placebo effect then that's their problem, not mine.