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    Epiphone JC sig bass diagram

    in Repairs and Technical

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    I thought it was a varitone, and I've heard it been called it to but epiphone call it a impendance switch, and it's almost like it's selecting that value of the tone pot, the 500k selection let's through a lot more highs than the 50k and 250k, andit sounds just as my old P bass did with it's 500k tone pot. The 50k pot is great for pick playing cause it chokes of all the high clunky noises, and the 500k is great for finger style since the highs seep through, giving greater prescence.

    I thought about just copying it, but the only access is through the f holes and I don't want to start taking it to pieces to find I can't get back in, god knows how they do it in the factories.

    Cheers for that Bigredx I'll get to looking at the diagram and where I can get the parts.

    Epiphone JC sig bass diagram

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted

    I just finished my jazz bass project and more than pleased with the result, easily better than my fender jag.

    Anyway I'm in the process of drawing up ideas for a p bass project. (one of those 50s style telebass p styles)

    Not too interested in any active systems out there, so I want to keep it passive with a twist.

    Once I have everything to build it I want to set it up with the same elective as the bass in the title. It's a very nice passive system for a 1 pickup loaded bass.

    Anyway I was wondering if anyone could share infor on a diagram of some kind.
    I'll be wanting to use the usual CTS 250k pots, switchcraft jack and orang drop tone capacitor.

    I'm just stuck on the pickup I'll want to use and the impendance switch. 50k, 250k and 500k.

    I could rip out the JCs electronics but whatever I trade or sell
    it for the money or bass will be used for this project.

    Lending Gear at gigs

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I usually lend my gear out.

    It's scary, but I run through it with all the bassists and make sure they know not what to do, buy since I've got like a 2/1 ratio on my compressor even when a guy with a stingray used it it only neededthe gain turning down a nudge.

    Silently though, sometimes I enjoy the setups and breakdowns more than the actual gig....

    Nash basses - German site with some nice ones

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    [quote name='Clarky' post='859549' date='Jun 7 2010, 09:03 AM']They are definitely not "cheap". I was lucky enough to pick mine up s/h, so considerably cheaper than listed on the German website. That said, they are hand-made in a small workshop and are superb instruments. Lots of reviewers on the web seem to think they are better put together and playing than Fender Custom Shop basses (which generally cost more than this amount) and often better than the vintage Fenders they were originally designed to replace (as I understand it, the initial demand for these came from musicians with very valuable old Fenders who were nervous of taking their basses on the road).

    My Nash (and the one I sold to Stacker) is the nicest playing Jazz I have ever had in my greasy mitts and I doubt any Sandberg/Sadowsky etc would play any better. You pays your money, you takes your choice ....[/quote]

    in that case they are reasonably priced. I'm currently looking into parts a bassing a P with the same specs asthenosphere 57 P, even downtown the pickups. If I had the cash I'd go for it.

    Random bass lines.

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    IMO

    Tribute band should play it pretty close to the original.
    Covers band(songs from various artists) should sound pretty close to the original put no harm in making it your own.
    Originals band doing covers, either do it original or do it better than the original by making it your own.

    For me, if the song requires finger style over pick, and makes the difference I'll do it, but 95% of the time I'll play it my way and it'll sound like me.

    Giving Up Valves

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted

    [quote name='umph' post='854212' date='Jun 1 2010, 09:54 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Marshall-4150-Valve-Bass-Amp-/200478324818?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL&hash=item2ead707852"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Marshall-4150-Valve-...=item2ead707852[/url]

    is the the combo your shifting? ;o

    ever thought about going for something like a orange bass terror jobbie and one of the barefaced cabs?[/quote]


    I did exactly this.
    My full guitar rig, a SState 150w head into a 4x12 and the Orange rig in my sig was just too heavy for an amateur like me, and even when I cut down to just the Orange it was still a pain.

    When I made the move to bass I was in the Market for at least the AD200b and the 1x15.

    I think Ive got compromise for tone/volume/wiegh. IMO of course. The only thing the OTB lacks is a more natural less muddy dirty sound.

    This would be the way to go IMO if you want to go lighter and louder.

    Tube Overdrive Pedals?

    in Effects

    Posted

    All my mates have brought the bad monkey for some reason. Not my cuppa though.

    Just brought the tech 21 sansamp para driver di. Which I prefer over the bass driver as it's got it's own middle control.

    Squier VM Jaguar

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    [quote name='AndyTravis' post='856773' date='Jun 4 2010, 01:34 AM']now then...

    if F*****...Ahem, Squier Classic Vibe made a Bass VI, we'd surely all have one?

    I think they should do a Squier Bass Six, The last Jap one i watched went up to £1200 ish.

    I need one![/quote]

    indeed, I do want one as it's my only avenue to a 6 string bass with the wide ass neck, and without having a baritone guitar.

    Squier VM Jaguar

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    I leave the house for 4 hours and I miss this.

    I'll be happy for someone to send me to compare to the fender version.

    Although expect heavy criticism..

    It's supposed to look like fenders jaguar/jazzmaster guitars and jaguar bass, the bass VI is in my eyes a baritone stratocaster; although There is now jaguar baritone which is apparantly based off the bass VI.

    Bass lines writing help!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='Mog' post='853862' date='Jun 1 2010, 05:43 PM']Hi folks. Wasn't sure where to lob this one so apologies if its in the wrong section.
    I've noticed that when I use my Yamaha BB G5 into my TE the notes decay rapidly. Theres no comp/limiter in the chain and the volume pots on the bass are brand new.Strings are never more than 5 gigs old and still bright by most peoples standards when I change them. Totally stumped as to what the problem is. Eq settings maybe??
    Anyone got a solution?[/quote]

    my experience of metal guitar/bass playing is short lived.
    As for as I'm concerned it's just drop D tuned and fast power chord changes.
    For now (while you are learning) play the Root of whatever the guitars are doing, if they both go into a stupid harmonic riff, then just repeat the lines from the versus or churos (whatever fits to your ears and drums)

    +1 on lessons, practice, learn notes along the fretboard, learn some scales, learn the notes that make the chord .

    Basically a lot of learning

    careful when offering your "opinion"

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm very wary with what I say to beginners than I am those who are more advanced, I don't want to put them down or hurt their feelings. I can only offer my advice to them.

    I do know that I know more than an average person I meet at gigs but it's always nice to meet someone I can really talk about 'tone' to. I also realise that when it comes to the sciency stuff there are those who know alot more than me, so I tend to keep stum.

    If what this guy said is true, he was merely trying to enflate his own ego and picked on you to make himself feel better about his own insecurities.

    I know what I like and I recognise how I fit in with the rest of the band, if another bassist doesn't like it then so what? They don't play in my band I do.

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