bremen

One benefit of a pedal is for recording- the engineer can fiddle and faff while you're busy with both hands. Or you can use it after tracking, now you have both hands free.

49 minutes ago, richardd said:

 

Hi. 9 and a half pounds on my luggage scales. 

Cheers, that's about normal.

Thanks! I'd never noticed.

11 hours ago, Hellzero said:

@bremen I guess it's to make it look like an original stacked knobs. 😉

Is that a normal feature then? I havent noticed it anywhere else. Why not a wire to the control cavity?

I don't doubt that it works. Just curious.

I'm curious; why is the bridge grounded via the pickup rout and not the control cavity as is usual?

And, sorry to ask the boring question that everyone does, what does it weigh?

I have a Japanese P of that era, lovely. Maybe it deserves a brother :-)

Many of them mythical

2 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

Looks fine to me, would rather be seen with that then a fender. But I wouldn't pay that money for it!

I'd rather be seen with a giant p... oh, sorry, wrong thread 😅

...apart from the price, the appearance, the pure embarrassment of having to be seen in public with it...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175896467993?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=VLVxzDI0Swq&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=hNc7PDPYRJi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Obvious questions coming up, sorry:

-does it happen when you plug into guitarist's amp, or plug her guitar into yours?

-do you have another bass to compare?

Assuming you have a guitarist of course!

What is this "not repairable" bullshit?

Are we now accepting that amps are disposables, like strings or bogroll? And that it's OK for manufacturers not to give technical data to repairers?

For shame. Leo would be turning in his grave.

Same issue as me then, my bass and amp are fine except this particular venue.

Humbuckers work equally well series or parallel, precision or stingray, for noise cancelation.

Are the pole pieces grounded? They weren't on the Alan Entwistle P pickups I just fitted.

Op doesn't say whether the problem got better or worse after shielding. Yes I agree if it wasn't grounded it'd make it worse.

Yes but it was picking up the interference before the shielding was installed, as well as after.

Is it well behaved elsewhere? How about if you move it close to an amp?

There's a rehearsal room I use that sometimes but not always puts weird noises into my amp. Apparently others have also suffered, but noones got to the bottom of it. Best guess is it's something in the mains, it's on an industrial estate shared with some heavy industry.

For every health tip online there's an associated health scare

https://www.jeffersonhealth.org/your-health/living-well/the-trouble-with-turmeric-associated-liver-injuries

I think there are as many Daily Fail articles condemning coffee as a carcinogen as there are touting it as a cure for cancer.

To make your hat look huge and your feet reet petite!

That's a weird optical illusion brought on by the parallel lines. Looks as big as the body till you count the segments of garage door, then it looks about half the length of the body.

Very pretty.

Old farts behaving badly!

https://thejesuslizard.bandcamp.com/track/westside?from=fanpub_fb_trk&utm_source=track_release&utm_medium=email&utm_content=fanpub_fb_trk&utm_campaign=thejesuslizard+track+westside

6 hours ago, Beedster said:

 

Absolutely mate, absolutely, but if one didn't try out new stuff life - and let's face it this forum - would be very boring 👍

I decided that I'm a P player, end of story.

Then I saw

...does this make me bi-curious?

Well it's a start 😁

26 minutes ago, Beedster said:

 

The thing that I really like about Precisions.........?

 

No need for decisions . One PUP, leave both controls wide open, plug it straight into the amp's input. And play 👍

I know! I got a Jazz because...er...because I thought I should...um...out of curiosity...?

Anyway. Those three knobs! So confusing! Almost as bad as having five strings! How folk deal with active preamps, I'll never know...

Edit: this is not intended as sarcasm, to be clear:-)

For sure!

59 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Update on this monster!

 

Looks like the circuit's an easier fix than I'd feared. There's two relatively cheap components - a pot and a battery clip - which are misbehaving, and when they do so at the same time it gets messy. I'm hoping to get the work done by Status and to get the all clear on the circuit from them, but if they're not able to it's apparently a pretty straight forward job. 

 

I've rehearsed it a few times, initially with the original strings, then with some flats, and most recently with Lo Riders, and it's a phenomenal, extremely sensitive, versatile, and if needs be, huge sounding instrument. It's everything you'd expect a top-end instrument for Status to be.

 

But..........   

 

........after rehearing last night I picked up my Precision, and then my SUB, and knew that my growing realisation over the last few weeks that ultimately the Buzzard is not the bass for me was accurate. OK, this thing makes it extremely easy to play some of Entwistle's more demanding parts, and to sound ballpark doing so, but oddly I suspect that owning it has made me more determined to do the early 70's Who material on a Precision. So for Who stuff I'm going to head back to my hybrid Precision - late 70's body, Warmoth (maple cap) neck, Fender '63 PUPs and some nice rattly strings - while keeping a keen eye open for a used Status graphite Precision neck 

 

It ain't the destination, it's the journey 👍

 

 

Ha!Ha! Didn't I say! 🥰😄

I might be wrong and bad, but I prefer to carry on with leaded solder at home. The lead free we're obliged to use at work isn't as horrid as it used to be, but the bad old toxic old shit just flows nicer.

https://cpc.farnell.com/c/tools-maintenance/soldering/solder/solder-wire?st=Solder

I'd never heard of him so I consulted Wikipedia and learned that he was to AOR what Brian Pern was to prog 😆

2 hours ago, Marc S said:

Perhaps place an advert in the wanted section here on BC?

 

Someone might have a decent quality neck they're no longer using... Worth a shot, I'd say.

Yes, certainly safer than ebay. I got a beautiful Japanese precision neck here.