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  1. Taken from a MIM Fender Cabronita bass as I have replaced it with a blade style pickup.  Nice beefy tone (once you swap out the terrible .22 cap in the Cabbies to a standard .47 jobbie) and would be great for someones wacky project.

    No stickers on this to say whether its bridge or neck but online talk is the Fenders shipped with bridge pups and the Squiers with neck ones – the bridge being a tad hotter.

     

    Fully working, adjustable polepeices and a great eye catching alternative to more ‘standard’ style pickups.

     

    Comes with mounting screws and even has the small ear clips if your bass/project requires them rather than the standard UV mount that the Cabronita takes and will be boxed and posted to your UK door within the asking price of £65

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  2. Please bare with me here, my ‘technical’ knowledge is lacking so I may well ramble here….

     

    I have a Fender Cabronita bass that I want to replace the pickup in.  Main reason being the well documented misaligned pole pieces.  I have corrected it slightly with a threaded saddle bridge but looking over on Talkbass the consensus seems to be that the TV Jones blade pickups are a good upgrade.

     

    This is where it becomes a bit foggy – TV Jones state their blade ‘bass’ pickup is a “Thunderblade” which specs out at DCR – 4.0k and Inductance 1.74H.  However, several TB’ers seem to suggest the TV Jones Superton (advertised by TV Jones as a guitar pickup) is exactly the same as the Thunderblade just in a different casing.  The specs do differ slightly though when I look further into it with the Superton speccing in at DCR 4.0K and inductance 1.81h.

     

    I do much prefer the look of the Supertron, its more readily available and it does seem to be the pup Fender used on their limited run of Cabronita Borrocha basses. 

    Would the seemingly (to my amateur mind) small variation in inductance affect the tone massively?  I don’t want a toppy guitar like pickup but the fact Fender seems to put the Supertons in the Borrocha basses plus the insistence by TB’ers that the pups are one and the same suggests there may be only a very slight difference between the two pups that are advertised as “bass” and “guitar”

  3. I love their flats but my one big bugbare with them is their over long E string. Been like that for years and causes the body of the string to wrap round the tuning post. Still sound great but it cant be good for the string?

     

    i was told a while back that the Elites are made by GHS which may explain the above as i had the same “issue” with the E on the GHS Precision flats

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  4. So I'm a big fan of tube tone and for home use i have an Ashdown LB30 going into a Ampeg 212AV - very moveable and great sound.  However, through sheer laziness I've recently been using the in house old Peavey 1x15 combo at our rehearsal space and whilst it sounds ok its not amazing.  I've also never been a pedal kinda guy, just plug my P's straight into the amp and away i go - generally looking for a slight breakup to the notes without full on distortion.

     

    On my daily browse of Richtones second hand site i saw the Dr Sparrow bass driver for not much £ and thought 'maybe i can make that old peavey sound a bit more....er....valvey'  So anyway, its now on its way to me.

     

    Anyone else here use these cheap seemingly VT Bass clones?  Anyone getting that "Ampeg SVT on the verge of breakup" type tone or am i expecting way too much?

  5. On 12/03/2023 at 20:36, binky_bass said:

    Picked these two bad boys up this weekend... Looking forward to giving them a proper run over the next few weeks. 

     

    They nicely complete my home rehearsal space/man cave!

     

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    Id love another BB750, always regretted selling mine

  6. 5 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

    Thanks Pow I saw that but just assumed they all had a fan, cheers, apart from that is there any difference 

     

    The non pro's dont have gain or drive knobs but are much more akin to 'vintage' svt's.  Some might see this as a con in that they are cleaner at lower volumes and you cant crank the gain to get grit.  But at full bore the non pro sounds miles better (not that the pro doesnt sound good too)

     

    completely my bad, just looked at some guts online and the II non pro does indeed have a fan.  Couldve sworn my old one didnt.  Sorry

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  7. Going to temporarily pull this whilst i have a think. It sounded too good tonight at rehearsal and i really think i need to concentrate on getting a gigging amp rather than start swapping basses etc

     

    back up for sale.  Seen a Cabronita bass that has tickled my pickle.  Would consider trades/part ex for a black cabronita bass or maybe an Ampeg SVT III Non Pro (or older 'coloured logo' 3pro)

  8. Warwick Streamer NT1 Rockbass to give its full title. A thru neck, gloss black, curved bodied active PJ bad boy similar in style to a spector.  As i say every time i sell a bass on here - i need to learn im a standard P bass man!  I swapped out the chrome hardware to a Warwick gold bridge and Wilkinson open back tuners (see numerous online reports of Warwick tuners failing). The tuners are drop in replacements with no extra holes/reeming. Come wearing thunderous Fender pure nickel strings and is immaculate!  Collection would be from Bolton or can meet up within reasonable distance.  Trade wise i would consider a black Fender cabronita P bass

     

    Better pics to follow once im back from the rehearsal space

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