BiteTheBoxer

I've been using my Katana Bass 210 for a while now (I think I got it within a couple weeks of them being released). I can really only echo the same thing that's been said many times already... it is great to have everything in one package/combo, even if it is a rather heavy package. The effects work, and serve a purpose, but I wasn't convinced enough by them to ditch my stompboxes. I can get a great tone from it (I tend to favour a bright sound like Tim Commerford) and it is more than comfortable playing any style that I throw at it. My only gripe with the Katana bass is that the outputs all seem to clip and sound terrible. I've tried going out of the DI out, headphones and even the USB and just can't get it to sound good. Which is a shame because it sounds beautiful coming out of the speakers. As a test, I played through an ampeg preamp pedal plugged into the 'power amp in' socket (which disables the on-board preamp and processing) and all the outputs work fine and sound as they should. Has anyone else experienced this?

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I got the control plate off for the first time and it there was a bucket load of sawdust floating around in there (probably why the pots were a little scratchy). We have a trio of 500k pots, the volume is b500k and the tones are a500k. I still can't figure out why it's done like this. Can anyone make head and tail of it?

Living in Shaftesbury but work in Bournemouth.

Hey @Jackopie1 - how did it turn out in the end? Nice to see a fellow West-Country chap in here. I just picked up a cheap Vintage (JHS) MM/Stingray, it was in terrible condition and needed a good clean but once I scraped all the crud off of it, it actually sounds fairly decent. It's a passive, three knob model. I don't know much about the MM wiring but this one seems a little odd...first of all I should say its a single Humbucker (nothing unusual there). But, it's got one volume pot and what seems to be two tone pots. from what I can tell usually it would be one volume, one bass and one treble. Is it possible that it is using a standard tone pot for each coil?? any help appreciated.

Hi everyone, my name is Matt and I make atmospheric, post-rock, dark moody music as Bite The Boxer (on all the usual streaming platforms) but also jump into covers bands now and then just to make a little bit of pocket money. I have a Jaguar bass and an EUB, my main amp is a Boss Katana Bass 210 (which I love). I also have a baritone guitar and some other 6 string things. Always happy to have a chat.