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Didn't Fender tell Gibson to change the original Thunderbird cos it looked too much like their basses? Fast forward 40 odd years, will we see an actual "Gibson Lawsuit" as opposed to that fake one everyone goes on about in Matsumoku land (otherwise known as Egay) for Fender copying the design that they created to get around the original thunderbird looking like one of their basses? (albeit in the distance, on a foggy night with grit in your eye)

[quote name='Johngh' timestamp='1335545442' post='1633020'] I swap and change basses all the time, so they are used to me turning up with a different one every week, so I think they've given up. [/quote] Yeah I'm with you on that one. I've had about 80 odd basses over the past few years so the guys in the bands I play in don't even say anything when I turn up with something new

Played quite a bit of jazz tonight. In other words quite a few mistakes were made by all of us during the night First gig with the Ibanez Doug Wimbish with EMG 35HZs and Roto flats. What a beast. Caught me out a few times cos I've not played a 24 fret bass in a lot of years so sometimes what I thought was fret 12 was in fact fret 10. We did Its My Life by Bon Jovi tonight as a request for the Bride and Groom (amongst about 20 other songs they asked for) so I had the first chance to try out the Yamaha RBX 775. Would've been really good had the battery not decided to die during the song so it was quite distorted. Again, first time with an active bass in a couple of years and my favourite 5 string strings - Warwick Yellow Label 45s. Bit of a funny one tonight. I've had some of my best gigs with hangovers but I just couldn't get into it tonight.The first gig in years where I haven't got that huge adrenalin buzz by the end of the night.

A couple of the Ricks I have owned. A Jetglo 4003, 4000 fireglo and the mintiest green Blue Boy I've ever seen [IMG]http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/Delberthot/Rickenbackers/JPEGImage4089909Large.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/Delberthot/Rickenbackers/DSC00512Large.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/Delberthot/Rickenbackers/DSC01673Large.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/Delberthot/Rickenbackers/DSC01672Large.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/Delberthot/Rickenbackers/DSC01670Large.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/Delberthot/Rickenbackers/DSC01668Large.jpg[/IMG]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofcWP6eG-ac"]Dancing Fool [/url]

Well silly me didn't test it before I disconnected it so I assumed it was working

I might just wire this up with passive volume and tone controls until I can afford a decent preamp. Just going to order some 25k pots now.

I'm right at the end of my Ibanez Doug Wimbish rebuild and I've hit a snag. None of the controls seem to do anything. The volume is on full but is very quiet and very fuzzy sounding. I've had the battery sitting for maybe a year but the best before date is 2015. When wiring it back up, all had to do was firstly reconnect the red battery lead from the preamp to the battery clip. I'd clipped it to remove it and marked each end so I know I've got that right. I then had three wires to connect to the jack. The first one was the black lead from the battery to the ring of the jack. I was then left with two more, a black and a white. According to EMG the white is the signal and goes to the tip and the black is the ground and goes to the sleeve but this is an Ibanez preamp and when wired that way there is no sound. When I swap the two wires I get the fuzzy, does nothing output. Even if it was a duff battery, surely the volume control would do something and cut the signal when completely off? Any ideas what could be wrong?

And that's just a small selection. I remember watching a documentary shortly before Les passed away and he had dozens of guitars in cases. So much so that he couldn't remember what half of them were.

MIght give it a try. Is there somewhere online that sells a bag of the bits you need or do you have to source each bit separately?

I'll happily wire passive basses up all day long but I don't feel confident enough to tackle one of these. Is anyone selling these yet on the forum? Cheers

I'm looking to do something a bit different with my Epi Blackbird so have decided to have a single pickup at the bridge, blank off the neck pickup route and use the space to route through the back for a battery box and to contain the pre amp bit as well. I'm looking for something that has active bass/treble controls but most of the preamps I've seen have small PCBs attached to at least one of the pots. Space is limited in the control cavity of the bass so I need something that uses standard or mini sized pots but still with a long enough shaft to allow them to be rear mounted. I'm not planning on spending a lot on this so the cheaper the better Any suggestions?

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1332846985' post='1593803'] The only time I've used anything else is some extra long D'addario XLs for my RD Artist for the through body stringing. Had a play with flats a while back - hated Rotos and Fenders, loved Thomastiks. Tried D'addario half rounds and didn't like them - felt sticky to me. [/quote] I've tried everywhere for these cos I love them too but they seem to have vanished. Currently I only use Roto flats £26 a set and they've lasted 18 months so far so that's working out at around £1.45 per month currently

For me it has to have: 1) Rotosound Flats 2) EMGs 3) and be Thunderbird shaped I'll be posting pics during the week of my rebuilt Ibanez Doug Wimbish which will at least have the first two pre-requisites