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  1. As it turns out, I was being a little thick. The in ear ones I tried first also have a mic. I've just plugged in a pair of over ears without a mic, and they're working perfectly. I don't know why I did'nt think of that before as they have completely different pin configuration!!! Feel a little bit silly now, sorry guys.
  2. Cheers guys, I will check both suggestions today. I ran out of time yesterday so apologies for the late reply. I shall report back with my findings when I get a minute or two.
  3. Sorry for the probably silly question. I intended to start learning bass a while ago, life and work got in the way and it sat in the corner gathering dust. Now that things have eased up I decided to dust it off and put some new strings on. But before I did it got a good clean. I removed everything I could so I could get into all the nooks and crannies, I was a little shocked when I opened the cover for the pots, looks like it was soldered by a monkey. So I got the soldering iron out, downloaded the wiring diagram and removed the lot. The only discrepency between original wiring and the diagram was that the pots for the front and rear pups were swapped. I reconnected as per wiring diagram, Ibanez GSR200. Everything back together, strings on and tuned. When I plug my VOX AC30 in and then connect my earphones I only get sound out of the right hand earpiece, is that normal? I can't remember what it was like before as it was so long ago. Headphones work ok on other devices, new batteries in bass and VOX. Is this just the way it is or am I missing something silly? TIA
  4. thanks for the welcome guys. She's already streets ahead of me Grangur!!!! Fortunately she's smart enough to be able to teach me a thing or two and just taught me the intro from 7 nation army. I have also just learned about intonation from the website you mentioned so that was pretty handy. I have spent the day taking all the bits and bobs off and splitting the bass down into it's individual parts. Put it all back together and it sounds much better. There was quite a large bend in the kneck and the strings were miles away from the frets, you could almost put your pinky under them. I am an engineer and like to know and understand how things work and what to do when things go wrong so it was quite a constructive day for me (I didn't touch the daughters new one!) I also took off the pots and cleaned them as they were scratchy and noisy, I served my apprenticeship in an electronics factory so electronics and a soldering iron aren't a problem for me. Neither is replacing the missing knob from the volume as I have a wee lathe and milling machine in the shed so a matching pair of aluminium or stainless steel knobs will be made shortly :-) I have also found out that the Spector is an NS2000B model, only made for one year and in quite low numbers, but it was one of their entry level models. Still, it gets some decent reviews and once I get some new strings it should be all I need to learn on and jam along with the daughter. The strings have a bit of rust on them and I know from the previous owner that he hadn't used it for ten years or so, probably the reason it took me so long to get it tuned. So off to the local music shop tomorrow for some new (and lighter) ones, my finger tips have gone numb!!!
  5. Never touched a bass before but my daughter has been learning at school and after only a few weeks has taken to it really quickly. A friend gave her an old Spector, there are no other serial numbers or model numbers on it and it needs a bit of work to get it looking and sounding better so we decided to get her an Ibanez GSR200 and a smaĺl Stagg practice amp for Christmas. She was stoked with getting it and is practising constantly. I have decided that once I get the Spector cleaned up I am going to give it a shot too, I've not had much luck with musical instruments in the past and always seem to give up after a few months, the exception to this is the didgeridu which I have been playing for over ten years. It doesn't require notes but you need to be able to circular breath and hold a rhythm which will help with bass I guess. Looking forward to poking about and learning as much as I can. Cheers Joe
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