Mr. Foxen

One half of P style EMG active pickup hums when you touch it on casing or the screw that holds it in, only one half, and it lessends if you are touching strings also. Any clues? Bust ground/shielding somewhere? Should I just eart the screw? That would probably be an effective bodge.

That sounds interesting and likely, the switch and the di socket are basically the only things holding the pcb in, so flexing the jacks would be straining the switch connection. Might try hardwiring it on. The dude is cool about returns and refunded me already, but I might say don't worry, as a new one would break the same eventually.

Scored what I thought was a bargain priced Bass Xciter on the bay, but it suffers from crackles and loss of signal as the leads move. Its kinda ok stuck down on the board, but its still dodge to be hoping like that. Think its the classic board mount jacks problem. How hard is it to fix? Worth just openin and new jacks on it? I'm fairly experienced tinker and am liking what it does. Is it a case I'd have to do something like this eventually anyway if I wanted to use one? The dude is being cool about returning, but leaves me outta pocket one way post and with no pedal, vs. a bargain price pedal.

Should be able to score one for less than £70. I like mine, but haven't used it in anger, band decided to downtune to A so it was a bit redundant. Just have to not put too many winds around it and spend ages setting it right at the start.

Sitting in front of my board right now, having a rejig to compensate for one less guitarist. I have 3 overdrives and one is two channel. You can have my ODB3 for £30 if you want, its a good starting point, lots of adjustable on it. The Sansamp bass driver is something thats kinda expensive, but it will last you, can dirt up amps with it, or just use it as a DI, which is gonna be fairly familiar to any sound man, so they'll know to work with it.

Some Wishbasses are made of cherry from Steve's own garden.

Rapid payment, plenty of communication. Bought my ME50B, hope he finds a use for the Ring Mod setting.

Yo, local, check my band myspace on my sig, Sansampis the main thing in my sound I guess. Huge head and lots of cabs otherwise, a 1x15 that is very large and deep and a 4x10 on top.

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='282191' date='Sep 11 2008, 10:01 PM']I think its the Dragonfly? I just tried plugging my Roland headphones directly into my bass- I got nothing, even with my Conklin's 18V preamp maxed.[/quote] Put a mono adapter on it, the stereo jack means the active doesn't switch on.

I bought a Jazz copy a stuck a lefty P neck on it, turned out real nice except for the fiesta red fading to pink in the sun.

Stethescope, taped you your bass. The 'True Tone'. If you think that is silly, there is actually a procust that is effectively that called the butterfly or something.

The pickup springs can do it too, found that recently when using sponge under and springs, raised it up on the sponge till the spring was loose and it made noise. Also funny was Giant Clown's rhythmic click that only happened when he was using his practice amp around the house, and only sometimes. Turned out to be his watch which he takes off when playing seriously.

Even though Shockwave's suggestion is as hideous as usual, you should totally do that. Unless someone else wants the gold pickguard I have going.

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Suspected as much, thing is I have no 1x12 or 2x10. Do have a 4x12 though, and a 2x12 to borrow. Might use that. 1x12 would look silly, and thats important, all about the wall of cabs.

Right, since we shed a guitarist I suddenly have some space to fill in the higher end. Thus far I've been all about the low doom rumble, and I don't want to lose that. So: I have a Firebass head with a crossover, the current plan is to run the high out into a JCM600 guitar head into a 4x12 (or possibly 2x12) cab. For bass cabs I have a nice 4x10 and a couple of not so great (serviceable) 1x15s. Thus on the bottom I have a choice of 2 15s or a 15 and a 4x10, or one of any. This is a loud dense bassy band that tunes down to A mind.

Tried tuning it so that same note is in a different place on the fretboard, that might tell you if its the position or the note at least. however the note is positioned it should do the same if its the amp generating that sound.

Isn't F# 20hz and the bottom of human hearing range? Gotta be warwick darklord strings for that. I'm having trouble getting much clarity tuned down to A, possibly a longer scale would help. I had Newtone wind me a set from .070 to .145 to tune ADGC, getting a new set in steel, see if they give me some more bite.

Gonna be soon, totally impractical as I have trouble lugging mine around as it is, but my Firebass head has a built in crossover so I'd be a fool not to use it.

Not even nearly, a £17 ebay bass, not gonna carve up anything nice. Actually, I took it apart and its a really well made body, neat routing except where someone chiselled a battery compartment in (came with EMG p pickup, which is why I bought it). Got a Johnson neck which is tele bass thickness, but looking for something a little better.

I've been after one of these for a while, on spec its pretty much my ideal bass, although I'd like through strung. In fact, gonna go look for a dimarzio model 1 now to make my p bass into one...

Sounds a bit expensive for a Squire P-bass. (Aware of the relative positions of R and E).