Grassie

Had this on my P bass a couple of years ago, took it off again, been stashed away ever since, so selling as nearly new. £12 delivered.

3 hours ago, NickA said:

...and a very tidy P to PJ conversion.

Just don't look under the pickguard... 

Mark King once walked past me in our local hardware shop.

Here's mine - formerly a Squier Vintage Modified 70's Precision bass, I have added Tonerider pickups (split coil plus jazz bridge pickup), a KiOgon wiring loom with US spec pots, mint green pickguard, painted headstock and a cheeky Fender decal. Sounds so good, I'm thinking of getting rid of the Sire MM V7 and doing another P-bass mod...

Maybe black with tort guard and matching headstock....

She LIVES!!! 

Thank you guys for the advice, tips etc. I did indeed have the J pot wired up wrong. I've also grounded the tone pot to the shielding. Result? Practically zero hum, no buzzing and a great set of tones thanks to the KiOgon wiring loom. 

I've strung her with a fresh set of Dunlop Super Brights (40-100) and will give her a good seeing to on Friday night....;)

Thanks again everyone. Basschat RULES!

Fanx guys, I'm on it. Results later... 😊

22 hours ago, NickA said:

That J pickup.  Is it a single or a stacked coil one? 

Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious:

The way the P pickups work is that they are actually humbuckers with the magnets in different directions and the coils in different directions.  The signal from the strings adds but the pickup from nearby electric fields cancels out.

A standard J pickup is not humbucking as it only has one coil.  With a full Jazz Bass the two pickups are wound and magnetised in oppposite directions so they individually pickup noise from the surroundings but when added together do not.

So, if you add a non cancelling J to a cancelling P the noise no longer cancels and you get some hum.  The solution is to use a stacked coil J pickup which incorporates its own cancelling.

My J bass now has two stacked J pickups and is totally silent whatever balance I use, but previous incarnations were quite buzzy and did stuff lke pick up police radio and local taxis (pre mobile phones!!)

If its REALLY noisy you might have some other electrical fault - eg it's accidently wired up back to front so that the earth (strings etc) are accidently connected to the amps input and vice versa.

It's a standard jazz pickup as far as I'm aware. I used to have this wired as a stack-knob - ie two stacked pots for each pick up, and this didn't give me any problems. Here's a photo...

I have a P bass that I converted to P/J a couple of years ago, and I recently bought a new wiring kit (solderless V/V/T) off of our very own Ki0gon. I've had to route out the cavity some more to accommodate the larger pots so I repainted the cavity using shielding paint. I connected the pickups as per the usual wiring diagrams and grounded to the bridge as usual. 

The issue I now have is that with the bridge pup turned up I have a horrible buzzing noise made even worse when I touch the bridge or strings or knobs. I don't know what I've done wrong. The split coil soloed is quiet with a very slight click when I touch it but it's unusable when I turn the bridge pup up.

I'm ready to start smashing stuff up...

4 Non Blondes "What's Going On" with that woman bellowing like she's trying to $h1t a pumpkin. Hideous.

The cavity was painted with shielding paint. I've had to route it out some more to accommodate a Ki0gon wiring kit. New shielding paint ordered. I will connect the shielding to the bridge earth.

I joined a band a few weeks ago, was given 7 songs to learn and then had a get together (a bit like a rehearsal but not..) to meet the others, run through the songs etc. All good, got the gig, learned the remaining 30 odd songs before my first gig, without another rehearsal. 

The songs in our set are played a little differently to how I've learned them - the tempo is a little higher in most cases, and some songs segue into others and back again.

I learned Hotel California this week, played it last night at a gig (without rehearsing) and it was not good. Barely an intro, no quiet middle section, half the guitar solo. These guys are great players and lovely people, but this lack of rehearsal is seriously affecting my confidence because I don't know how their arrangements go. The other members often gig as a duo or trio in the week leaving no time for rehearsals. 

So that's what currently annoys me about my band... 😁

I'm useless at these things so forgive my ignorance...

Converting a P bass to P/J wiring: ground wire from bridge is obvious but I have a wire that was originally screwed into a spot just below the split coil pup. Is this still needed? No P/J wiring diagram I can find has another ground wire on it...

3 minutes ago, dood said:

Definitely check out my video as it could offer an alternative.  If I think of anything else I'll drop you a line, but let's face it, when the P2 eventually appears (are they available yet? pre-order on G4M) 40 quid is nothing to test out a theory really.  Good luck and keep me posted.

Will do mate, thanks again. 😊

Cheers dood, I'll have a look at that video. I played again last night and we were at a slightly lower volume so it wasn' so much of an issue, but I am now looking at a gig per week at least, so I think something like the Behringer is going to be an essential pice of kit as far as I'm concerned. 😊

1 minute ago, Dad3353 said:

It looks like a reasonable solution to your issue, and won't cost a fortune to try out, at least. As long as you can live with an umbilical cord, it looks to be sound. Not yet available, I see, so some patience, unless there are other, similar product already in use..? Please update with your decision and experience, either with this or any other product..? 

I certainly will. 😀

Through the ages...

Hey all,

I played my first full band gig in a couple of years last night and experienced the same issues that partially made me stop playing with the last band, namely loud on-stage volume. Now don't get me wrong - this new band are not ear-splittingly loud for a pub/function band, but we play venues that are small and this means that I am stood right next to the drummer for 2+ hours. I'm waiting to see the ENT specialist about my hearing loss, but I wanted to pick your collective brains about this.

Has anyone used something similar to this to monitor their own playing with the intention of filtering out on-stage volume at the same time?

https://www.gear4music.com/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/Behringer-P2-Ultra-Compact-Personal-In-Ear-Monitor-Amplifier/26FN

The only things that go through our PA is the vocals and keyboards, so I'm not intending to use something like the Behringer to monitor the whole band - more to cut the amount of volume from the overall stage sound while retaining my amp signal by taking a line out of my amp and into this neat looking box.

Any thoughts?

1987 (I think...) DOD FX62 Bass Stereo Chorus pedal, I've had this a long time but because the power input doesn't work, and will only run off a 9v battery, I bought a Digitech one to replace it. As I've said, it works fine with a battery, is in decent condition considering how old it is (all knobs present and correct), and comes in it's original box with instructions and can be yours for £25 delivered. Paypal is my preferred payment method. 

Cheers.

***NOW SOLD***

***NOW SOLD*** Digitech X Series Bass Multi Voice Chorus pedal, in excellent condition, barely used and has been sitting on my pedal board gathering dust. Great bit of kit with loads of usable settings, comes in its box with instructions, ***FINAL PRICE DROP NOW £35*** delivered. Paypal is my preferred method of payment.

Cheers.

Blancmange's "Living On The Ceiling", with the line "I'm up and down, I'm up the wall, I'm up the bloody tree" still gets changed by some radio stations to "up the cuckoo tree". 

Zero chance of them playing anything by Anal C**t....

***TUNER PEDAL SOLD***

2 hours ago, Rumple said:

When I saw him play a few weeks ago he was using this red Status jazz bass.

 

That's the T-Bass he used for the Italian gig. Interesting that in a recent BGM interview he said that they wouldn't be going out and playing Police songs or Level 42 songs because that wasn't the point of the Gizmodrome project, and yet here we are....

MK used one with Gizmodrome on their recent Italy show. With a pick. And he's said recently that he's also started using a heavier gauge string. 

It's true that in recent years his tone has become thinner since using the KingBass model, but to me it is only apparent on recorded stuff (the Metropolis gig video is a prime example of this). Live, (as in actually being in the same room with him) his sound has always been powerful, but very different to his Jaydee / Alembic days. From what I've heard of him playing the T-Bass his sound has fattened up somewhat, which is a good thing I think. 

It's easy to be cynical when it comes to Mark's association with Status, the countless tweaks on his KingBass being the main reason for this, but remember this: Status did pretty well without Mark's high profile use while he was using his Alembics pretty much exclusively at the end of the 80s/early 90s, players like Jaz Lochrie, Michael McKeegan, and Mike Porcaro were swinging their Statii about while everyone else was going back to vintage Fenders, and Status have always sold instruments regardless of artist endorsement. If I was a luthier and someone as high profile as Mr King wanted to use my basses exclusively, I'd be a fool to turn him down. It's business after all innit? 😊

On 12/03/2018 at 20:59, MGBrown said:

Here you go!

 

Wow, they look really good framed don't they? 😉 Thanks for posting! 😊