LeftyJ

Just get an EBS amp with phantom power 😛 Both the input jack and the FX return are 9V powered, and will power your bass or the last pedal in your chain through a stereo jack cable.

I played a lefty Thumb doubleneck once, and I've never laid hands on any instrument heavier than that. Just crazy! Really cool though. It had a fretted 6-string neck and a fretless 5-string neck, both strung reverse. http://www.leftybass.com/h_h_thumb.jpg

Great price! And an old one (1996 according to the serial) with a wenge neck. Nice!

I have an Ampeg SVP-PRO, SVP-CL, SWR Grand Prix and an EBS Microbass II. The SVP-PRO is my favourite, with a host of classic Ampeg tube tones, a versatile EQ and plenty of drive at the turn of a knob if I want it. It's basically the preamp section of the SVT2PRO in a single rack space. The SVP-CL is the preamp section of the SVT Classic and maybe even better than the PRO, with less bells and whistles and the ability to produce a fairly flat and uncoloured tone too, but I just really enjoy the drive of the SVP-PRO.

The lighting was poor, but here's a try. There's a LOT going on in there, so I hope this helps. Mine's a lefty, so everything is backwards but the soldering shouldn't be. If you need to see anything in more detail, drop me a PM. Most of the wiring from the active/passive switch is heading to the narrowest of the two connectors and to the output jack, but it's difficult to see.

OK, I'll take a look at mine!

Supercool! That fingerboard hasn't seen oil for quite some time it seems. Could probably use some TLC 🙂

Edited after I got home and checked my other MIJ Strat. Strangely, one does have the shim and the other doesn't. Not very helpful then 😅

Could the battery be dead, so you're actually killing the sound when switching to active? If not, what model 940 do you have? The 79-82 model with the brown soapbar pickups, or the 83-up model with beveled edges and PJ pickups? I could take a picture of the guts of one of my 924's to verify. They have the same electronics as the 940.

My E-serial (1984-1987) Strat does, my K-serial (1990-1991) Silver Series Strat does not.

I've owned an ABM300 Evo II 2x10 combo with an ABM115 Compact cabinet, and I liked it as long as I kept the bass knob at 9 o clock. Otherwise it would just drown in any mix. It was just all subs, taking up all of those 300 watts. I never really liked it, and sold it around 10 years ago. I once damaged a knob during transport, and Ashdown sent me a new knob free of charge.

I started out on guitar, on a then made in China Squier Affinity Strat through a small 15 watt amp I can't remember. After two more guitars and a huge amplifier upgrade I got my first bass. That bass was a 1970s Japanese-made plywood Condor Jazz Bass that was surprisingly good! It was heavy, but it played fine and sounded like a proper Jazz Bass. The neck was all-maple with white bindings and pearloid block inlays, and the body was 3-tone sunburst with a tort pickguard. The amplifier I got with it when I bought it somewhere in the early 00's was a The Animal practice amp that I quickly blew up when I got my first active 5-string (Yamaha TRB5II). I then got my first proper bass amp, a used EBS Gorm 300 2x10, that I absolutely loved. My love for EBS gear has never faded since, and I still have a lot of EBS gear including a NeoDrome 12, HD350 and ProLine 410, MicroBass II and several pedals.

There's not much out there in terms of semi hollowbody bass guitars available left-handed. Ibanez comes to mind, and I once owned an Italia Torino that was shortscale but big-bodied and with a solid maple center block that was much heavier than it looked.

No, then it would have a serial number starting with JV.

EBS are top notch! I love their stuff.

Great find! If it plays and sounds anywhere near as good as it looks, you are one lucky guy. Very nice.

Hohner has a rather excellent online shop for spare parts: http://www.hohner-cshop.de/en/Guitar/Headless-Bass-Series/Basses-Bass-Headless-BB/Hohner-B2ADB-Headless/ Looks like there are no D-tuner bridges in stock though. Only for the headed models.

Don't forget about Laurus 😎

I have owned three Carvin basses, and still own a 7-string Carvin guitar. The basses were a B4 (that I believe I bought on this site) which was rather excellent, with a natural gloss ash body, and a lovely birdseye maple fingerboard, a J and MM pickup and passive electronics. The other two were LB75's, with that same pickup configuration but an active 3-band EQ. One was all black, and the other was natural walnut with a flamed walnut top. The black one was all stock, played nice, very versatile but a little dull (as in boring). The walnut one sounded a bit weak, and the previous owner had the neck sanded down to remove the gloss finish and a couple of mm of wood and I hated it. I like Carvin as a brand, but I would never buy one new. Resale value is terrible. On the plus side, you can get a really nice used one for great prices. All three Carvin basses I owned cost me less than 500 euros (I believe the B4 was just 250 pounds even).

Gretsch Billy Bo bass? Based on the (fairly recent) Billy Gibbons / Bo Diddley signature guitar version.

Same goes for Clapton and the Les Paul. It was more or less replaced by the SG, when all of a sudden someone cool started playing one. Something similar happened more recently with the Ibanez ATK series from the 1990s. Some masked, lefthanded fellow by the name of Paul Gray played an amber ATK300 on stage a lot, so Ibanez brought it back for a couple of years by popular demand. Prices have remained normal, although the old Korean and Japanese models are generally favoured over the later Indonesian versions.

So you can leave one cab at home for smaller gigs, and still be able to use the amplifier's full capacity, I recon.

Obviously no longer in use, but I think my parents still keep this: Me and my sister played a LOT with this back when we were (very) young, and I still think it's brilliant. The red mouthpiece top left is a kazoo, and the orange one is a whistle, and you could make the craziest musical instruments with them. And it stuck, because way before I started playing guitar and bass I played the recorder in school, and my sister played the recorder too and later switched to the flute, which she occasionally still plays today.