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No it's not a regular wiring set up, I have done a few of those in the past. I'll dig a camera out and post a pic.

I have picked up a secondhand Varitone Jazz control plate to try out on a project bass I'm putting together but it didn't come with any wiring instructions, could anyone tell me what wires go where, better still if someone has original instructions they could scan for me that would be great. Thanks R.

How terribly sad, a great loss.

[quote name='Metalmoore' post='928902' date='Aug 18 2010, 06:37 PM']have you ordered the ultralites yet? I have 5 black clover 1/2" for sale in my bass parts clearout thread (link in my sig) Cant wait to see this done, hope you get your bridge soon.[/quote] Thanks very much for the offer,but I'm going to go for chrome 3/8 tuners on this bass. Hopefully I'll have some more to report soon on the build. Good luck with your sale items. R.

Pick-ups have arrived and I have sent them on to Howard (Bass Doc) so he can route the body and make the scratchplate, I have also asked if he can route a hole for adjusting the truss rod at the body end of the neck. Still no sign of the bridge from the USA I ordered 2 weeks ago. I should be getting 4 Hipshot Ultrlite tuners soon, I will need to get an odd one to make a set of five but as long as I have one for now I can start thinking about the neck design.

Look forward to seeing these progress, I don't understand all the technical stuff but might just learn a thing or two R.

[quote name='Rayman' post='919054' date='Aug 8 2010, 08:53 PM'][url="https://secure.sadowsky.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=76_22&products_id=223&osCsid=559bf31190fe239b64c6bf023ecfd4f1"]https://secure.sadowsky.com/store/product_i...4c6bf023ecfd4f1[/url][/quote] Brill! they're just the ticket. I'll have a look at all the other companies tomorrow just in case I can get the same or similar on this side of the pond. otherwise Sadowsky it is R.

Anyone know where I can buy some knobs similar to the ones in the picture? can't see anything like them on the 'bay or the usual online guitar parts stores. [attachment=56080:knobs.jpg] Cheers R.

[quote name='BassMunkee' post='915706' date='Aug 5 2010, 10:42 AM']Actually I dug out some old cassettes from years back the other day which were recorded exactly as the OP describes - (from when I was deep in my Goth/Industrial/Grindcore phase) - and even though I'm all about the PC nowadays, there still a certain je ne sais quoi about the old stuff that I really rather like...[/quote] I'm glad it's not just me

[quote name='51m0n' post='915083' date='Aug 4 2010, 04:04 PM']There are a squillion differences in the recordings though Tape saturates gently, compressing the signal in a very pleasant way true, but you've also got a different ickle mic and mic-pre, that is also probably on its limits recording a band, often those little ghetto blaster and mono tape recorders had simple limiters on the inputs to help cope with loud input too, they will also be doing changing the mix. Tape tends to have less top end, (and often less bottom) and the inescapable hiss (even on metal with dolby) also changes things. Are you in the same room even? Are you using all the same gear? Nevertheless if you take your digital recordings and master them you will probably make a huge difference with some careful buss compression and a half decent tape saturation emulation, and maybe a bit of eq, even a touch of stereo widening (oo-errr). PM me and I'll do one for you if you like, best if you can send me an example of what you're after too (love a bit of audio mucking about me)....[/quote] Not the same room or equipment it would be a sad case if it was Got a new drummer so I'm going to try out recording the next session in September and will have a mess about with the results in Audacity or Cubase, I might give you a shout if I fail miserably.

Thanks for your input. You can hear the individual instrument on the tapes they just seem to mix together more like they do at the rehearsal. a bit hard to explain. I'll try the mono thing, and some compression, might even try a cheap mic.

In the okd days we would record rehearals on a ghetto blaster placed at the back of the room onto a C90 tape, I dug some out recently and they sound better then any of the digital recordings we have done be it with a laptop or digital recorder, the old tape recordings seem to have blended the sounds of each instrumens together where the digital stuff you can hear each intrumen distinctlyt, The question is is it old school tape saturation that makes cassrtte recording nice to listen to or is there more going on? can I improve (or the opposite maybe) any digital recording? Cheers R.

Nordstrand Big Splits are on their way from the US factory to Mark at Bass Direct so I should have them soon and today I have ordered a Hipshot A Style bridge.

A similar one sold recently on here I think, might be worth doing a search in the For Sale thread. R.