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9 hours ago, Russ said:

Might an Ibanez EHB fit the bill? Full scale, fits in a guitar gig bag, weighs next to nothing. Not as cheap an option as the others, but would be useful outside of the office too! 

Or a Cort Space 4 or 5 for less money.

11 hours ago, Terry M. said:

If you're after a 5 string P bass with the same spacing (16.5mm)

Ibanez SR655E; 16.5mm reverse P+J Nordy designed PUs. I have one and it's very good. I won't mention what I paid for mine, but lets say with an Ibanez OHSC, I got change from 250 pounds.

The SR755 is very similar.

Steinberger Spirit or Hohner B2. Add a strap pin extension and a single ball adapter and you're gold. I've had an XL2 for 38y and B2 and Spirits for nearly as long and they're great, especially the older Hohners. Nothing else will be as compact, cases are easy and cheap (rifle bag) and I've even played mine on a bus as you can play it vertically like an upright.

Good thing it wasn't a Warwick...

20 hours ago, neil___lien said:

on the hunt for an Ibanez ATK800 or ATK810 (+case). I have an Ibanez SR1206 with its case to trade for it, and i am deliberately choosing those ATKs because i want to stay in the Premium quality levels: My SR is awesome so i want to trade at same value/quality levels.

Apart from the extra J PU, I don't see any extra 'quality' from the 800 or 1300 series that my MIJ 305 doesn't have.

16 hours ago, Brim Taika said:

So the built-in preamp is probably fine and I should just get some shielding in the cavities to reduce 50/60hz hum?

This. Don't change the pre unless you want a tonal change from it, and unless it has a baked in EQ curve that you want/like, most aren't worth the money.

Shielding is worthwhile, but really only copper tape, well applied. There are plenty of tutorials on YT. However, it may not make all that much difference in many rooms/venues depending in the local EMF/EMI and earthing quality. Best bet would be to change to SC J PU to a stacked or series HB version.

It's a single coil J pickup - it will likely hum.

5 hours ago, SimonK said:

A quick google seems to show this is two channel and also not available anymore?

Yep, 2ch/1RU and only secondhand, but they made heaps of them and I've owned many and never had one fail. Great units, I still have a couple of the C models in my rack.

6 hours ago, pete.young said:

before you start slagging people off.

I asked a question and slagged no one. Feel free to keep you asinine comments to yourself in future, and to imagine how blunt my reply to you would actually be IRL.

On 01/09/2025 at 18:51, Beedster said:

which is more old style than modern transparent

WTH does that mean?

Transparent to me means clean with no particularly definable sonic signature of it's own with the EQ flat.

Harley Benton Block 800B. Very clean especially if used as just the (ICEpower 700AS) power section.

1 hour ago, SimonK said:

Has anyone found a good one or two unit single channel compressor for bass?

Yamaha GC2020. I've had and used mine for a long time.

My Steinberger only has 4 strings so is seldom used and is unlikely ever to be played out again, but why would I ever sell it? It has way too much sentimental value, even if I could get a good price for it.

Keep the Stingray.

Ibanez SR300, or a GSR200 if money is really tight.

I've used both my SR200 and 300 series and they're both great.

I'd move back to Texas in a heartbeat if I could.

US $700/780 for 4/5.

If there was a 6 in sparkly pink, I might be tempted.

43 minutes ago, bnt said:

According to a thread on TalkBass, the 5-string EHB models come with BH2s in the P4 size, which is 117x32mm. That corresponds with the E6W dimensions given above, just about: 119 vs 117mm length. so the magnet length would be correspondingly longer, maybe another 10mm to 76mm. That makes more sense, given that the pickups are slanted. Spacing is 18mm at the bridge, maybe 17mm at the bridge pickup position, meaning 68mm from B to G. Add a few mm above and below, and a few more mm to cater for the angle, and a 76mm magnet looks about right.

From the same email I mentioned above, as I was asking about a 6 string bass, which in typical Ibanez (and Cort) style uses the 5 string dimensioned PUs for the 6s. So mebbe the router will have to come out.

The 6-string size would be suitable probably, but that one will be 118mm long with an 87.6mm magnet length.

I wouldn't fuss about the 1mm differences mentioned until I was trying to fit the pickups into the cavity as the slight numerical differences I see all over the place re these PUs are likely conversion rounding errors and the EMGs are actually accurate to the Bart dimensions as it would make little sense for EMG to do anything else.

Strange that these ExW PUs still aren't on the EMG site.

6 hours ago, bnt said:

The new EMG E5Ws are what might finally convince me to get an Ibanez EHB

Alex from EMG told me this a while back when I asked, so you'll need to make sure the string width is compatible.

The version that is 108mm is the 5-string version which has a magnet length of 77.5 mm. 

Straight into S/C. DI's that aren't clean are just another FX unit and I already have those. 

I want a DI to just be able to drive any reasonable load, to any reasonable level with no signature.

Just got one of these this arvo in the mail. Really busy tonight and tomorrow, so I'm just going to charge it fully and wait until Sunday to spend some time with it.

I wasn't going to buy one, but it was discounted on ebay, I tried another code I thought was expired, but it took it, and my PP acct had a few $ in it from a minor partial refund for another item so it cost $A61 out of pocket, or 29.60UKP.

7 minutes ago, Mrbigstuff said:

I would still buy the Squier, but surely it renders the Fender nothing more than a decal!

How is that really any different from them being made in Mexico (or Japan) for decades? From my understanding* the Indo factories are much more modern in equipment than at least the Mex one. By the same logic, why is my superb PRS SE guitar just a decal too?

* Phil McKnight is doing a tour of the huge Cort factory in the next couple of weeks, so we'll see that one first hand.

Have EMG indicated to you whether they'll also be available in standard EMG shell sizes?

Definitely ordering a set of E5W at a minimum, post my Oct holiday and am wondering if the Cort A6 or BTB should get a mild rout for a set of the 6s too.

Sound pretty good, and the magnetic viewer film results are interesting to nerds like me too.

19 hours ago, lemmywinks said:

Which logo do you want on your Cort?
 

Cort.