BruceBass3901

I just pulled the trigger on one of these little beasts! Now the horrible wait for it to arrive

Love my CTM-300 to pieces! Such a wonderfully round and warm sound which can really get filthy when pushed right.

Really must try it through my ABM810 and ABM610 at the same time, but lacking a Jack-to-Speakon cable at the moment!

Would love to try the CTM-100 to see how the power tubes break up at a lower volume. If only I could pull some of the tubes in the CTM-300 to drop it down like some Marshall users used to do...

PM'd you aaronjenks

BUMP - £80 posted for the little sparkly pink grit box?

Just avoid confusion, I am asking for the distance between the straight edges of the two pickups, if that makes sense? Not the measurement to the centre of outside of the screw 'nub'

Thank you very much KiOgon!

Hi guys,

Bit of background here...

I am in my final year of University studying Product Design and Innovation and have to complete a final year project. For mine, I have decided to combine it with my bass building. I have been studying pickups from various manufacturers and comparing their dimensions as I need to produce components that integrate with various different pickups.

Most of this information has been reasonably easy to source, but I am now onto P bass pickups. I cannot find a crucial measurement (or enough of the other measurements to be able to calculate it), which is how much the two sections of a P pickup overlaps.

The only documentation I can find of this is on the Bartolini website which says 19mm or 3/4". As I do not own a bass (gasp!) which has a P bass pickup installed (build to rectify this starting soon!), I have no way of verifying this.

Could any of you be kind enough to measure the overlap of the sections of your P bass pickups and post here with the make and model?

Thank you kindly wonderful BC community!

BUMP

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Postage to the UK brings the whole package (exlcuding customs charge if you get stuck with it) to just under £100... One of the reasons I am so tempted to order one
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Might be slightly more now as the USD has rasied against the GBP since I last checked.

Postage to the UK brings the whole package (exlcuding customs charge if you get stuck with it) to just under £100... One of the reasons I am so tempted to order one

Maybe the classic ''blending with clean tone'' would be a fix?

Are you feeding the Octave into the Overdrive? Or the other way around?

I hear that... feel guilty keeping my CTM in its flightcase in my room, but I won't part with it as it was a 21st birthday present and is custom (chrome face instead of black) and has a message from the guys at Ashdown on the back)

I think the tone stack on these are fairly similar to my CTM, which is based on a Fender style tonestack, so if you knock all the controls to zero, you get nothing.

These are great sounding amps; if I didn't have a CTM-300, this would be oh so very tempting.

Good luck with the sale

Price Drop BUMP! £80 posted within the UK

They are busy as they are at Bass Player Live in LA. Mark normally replies to all emails but is over the pond. Try calling them in Monday. Somebody should be able to help

BUMP for anybody interested? Had a couple of nibbles but still here!

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1415039982' post='2596013']
Yes, in fact at low gain would say this pedal suits that style more than all those others you listed!
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My wallet hates you right now!!

Does anybody know what the deal is with orduring these at the moment? Still only the limited edition one available?

I am really tempted to get one of these but all my current dirt boxes (Fuzzrocious GS+, Way Huge Pork Loin, Ashdown Drive Plus, Ashdown Hyperdrive and MXR Bass Fuzz Deluxe) aren't getting enough love as it is... None of those cover the ground that this little beasty does though. Does pop-punk warrant really grindy distortion?

BUMP for the Wren and Cuff PPB still being here! Make me an offer; the worst I can do is say no.

All trades considered other than distortion/fuzz/overdrive as I have far too many...unless is it something particularly weird and wonderful!

Which amp are you using? The ABM NEO 400 in your 'Interests' section? And what bass are you playing? How have you got the EQ set?

Well I did the deed and wired the rotary to be 2 position (I sourced rotary switches where you can insert a small pin to limit the number of positions from 12 down to 2) with series / parallel and it works a treat!

Finding a DPDT switch would have been preferred, but I could not find one which was large enough to take up the hole in the plate, let alone one in black to match the rest of the hardware!

Okay, I've decided to do away with the neck only and bridge only options, so now the rotary will only go between series and parallel with the pots wired to be VVT...

Can anybody see why this would be complicated to wire?

And can anybody hook me up with a diagram?

The main 'problem' (if indeed you can really consider it as such) is that I have a 4 hole control plate but the jack is already mounted to bottom edge of the body, so a conventional VVT setup would leave me with an empty hole. So I thought a pickup selector switch would be a good way of filling it with something that actually had a purpose.

I am now considering having Volume-Blend-Tone setup with a toggle or series/parallel instead...

Still not sure which way to go though

Thanks for the input guys! I think I have this figured out now but won't really know until I get it all wired up

Hi guys,

I did a search and saw that what I am asking was possible but could not find the details I am in need of so....

I am currently building a bass with twin J pickups and originally intended to wire it like a standard Jazz...

But, after a bit of thinking, I decided to try and go a bit mad wiring wise and could do with a little help from the BC gurus!

What I am looking to do is have the standard VVT controls AND a four position rotary switch with Neck only, both parallel, both series, Bridge only.

Has anybody on here wired a bass this way? And/or does anybody have a wiring diagram for this setup?

Thank you guys!