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[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1392549218' post='2369857'] The amp outputs an AC signal to the bass. This signal passes through the coils of the pickup and the circuit is completed with the signal going back to the amp. [/quote] Wrong. The bass pick-up is a signal generator. The signal flows from the bass to the amp. The amp sends nothing to bass. The jack socket on the bass is an output socket. End of.

Talk to Flightcase Warehouse. They'll make one to suit. (BTW I have no connection with this organisation. I am just a satisfied customer who has bought from them over many years)

Did the same back in September Lozz so I know how you feel, that nagging "have I done the right thing". I'm sure you won't regret it in the long term. Hopefully catch up with you at show. [quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1392028742' post='2363669'] One of mine is stagnating and another is going backwards, funnily enough both of them are losing their way due to keyboard players leaving. [/quote] Sounds sort of familiar Chris. Wouldn't be the same chap by any chance?

Snare side so I can see the kick-drum pedal.

Before you go chasing after another pre-amp you have to consider that the coil switching circuitry is an integral part of the MM SR5 pre-amp. It includes some compensation so that there is minimal level change as you switch. Most replacement pickups are wired to connect directly to the SR5 pre-amp and as far as I am aware other pre-amps do not have this facility. Also to use external (to the pre-amp) switching you have to slightly modify the pick-up. I tried various pick-ups and pre-amps in my SR5. It came with a Bartolini, an Aguilar OBP3 pre-amp and no coil switching. The Bart was changed for an SD, which I found too aggressive so it was changed for a Nordstrand MM5.3. Eventually I found a genuine SR5 pre-amp to replace the OBP-3 and that is how it has been for the past 8 years and how I intend to keep it. The Nordstrand has a certain purity of tone which I very much like. The early SR5s had 2-coil pick-ups and coil switching was fairly basic. I took this circuit as a guide and worked out how to rewire a 3-coil pick-up for simple switching. It worked out but there were significant level differences. Along the way I even built a small board with the coil-switching element of the MM pre-amp which was connected to the prototype John East MM pre-amp. That also worked but the control cavity was a touch untidy. Far too many wires. Eventually I concluded that I needed a real SR5 pre-amp which I eventually found on Ebay. I would thoroughly recommend having a look at the Nordstrand pick-up before you start swapping pre-amps.

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1391551856' post='2358605'] We've just switched to the Sunday after all that, so will see you there Dave [/quote] See you there Martin.

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1391517247' post='2357958'] Just bought a ticket for myself, and two lovely bassy friends, so will see some of you there on Sat 1st [/quote] I have my ticket for Sunday, so see the rest of you there. Just checked and I have my lanyard so stop me and say Hi.

Very nice indeed.

When the P-Bass was launched in 1951 you wouldn't have been able to buy one in the UK due to the import restrictions that were still in place following WW2. When I started to teach myself to play in the early 1960s the situation hadn't changed much as the only basses you could buy were instruments like Burns, Watkins, Futurama,etc or imported German basses like Framus and Hofner. Fenders were prohibitively expensive due to extremely high import duty. Fenders and Gibsons slowly became readily available during the Mersey Beat era from '63 onwards. There were virtually no tuition books of any kind for electric bass apart from the book "Easy Guide to Rhythm & Blues for Bass-Guitar"by Chas McDevitt and Joephine Douglas, which covered keys, scales and a few exercises. I still have a copy of it. Neither were there any tutors, It was just "Teach Yourself" Apart from printed sheet music which was usually written for the piano there was no way to obtain bass parts for songs apart from the tried and tested way of transcribing them form 45s of LPs. One got quite adept at lifting the arm off and going over and over a passage again and again. Very good for ear training. The same applied to lyrics which is probably why there are so many different versions of quite well known songs. There were virtually no amps made specifically for bass apart from Watkins, Vox and Selmer but these were also expensive. I started by using the family radiogram as an amp with a doctored tape deck as a pre-amp. Only later did I invest in a Linear 30 which was an affordable all-valve PA amp and had a chippy build me a replica of a Marshall 4 x12 which was fitted with Bakers Group 25 25-watt speakers. True that techniques have advanced over the years but to be quite honest todays wannbe bass players have never had it so good.

[quote name='dincz' timestamp='1390248793' post='2343193'] From Ashdown's web site: Speaker Outputs Speakon/Jack [/quote] ... but the manual just talks of Speakons.

The manual is very confusing on this point. Have you tried pushing a jack into the centre of the Speakon to see if it fits? - with the amp turned off of course.

Is this what you want? 2-pole Speakon to right-angle Speakon.

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[quote name='wavey' timestamp='1390162415' post='2342212'] Thanks again. So I hope I'm right to say that if I buy a cable with 4-pole connectors it will work on my amp/cab whether it's set up for 2-pole or 4-pole! I think this is what I've been trying to ask all along [/quote] ....but why buy a cable with 4-pole connectors that might or might not fit, or could be a bit tight, when you can get a 2-pole version?

If you wanted to bring it over to Farnham I'd happily have a look for you.

[quote name='wavey' timestamp='1390144758' post='2341870'] I'm a complete novice when it comes to this so please bare with me - I read a few forums about this and I saw some saying a 4-pole speakon connector won't fit into a 2-pole socket? I'm probably getting the wrong end of the stick but I thought any speakon connector would fit into any speakon socket? [/quote] Well I've just been to my workroom and plugged a 4-pole Speakon into a pcb mount combo socket and 1+ and 1- mate perfectly as checked by a multimeter. (Can supply photos for the non-believers) 2-pole and 4-pole Speakons are compatible however there are larger Speakons that aren't.

4-pole plugs will fit the combo sockets. but only connect to 1+/1-. I can now supply cables with right-angle 2-pole Speakon plugs.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1390059086' post='2341027'] I've seen that 1212, but it's a bit larger than what I was aiming for. Pity, for the price is good too! [/quote] 1210L and 1212L are the same size.

M2000 is not a valve amp. It has a valve pre-amp and MOSFET (solid state) power stage. It'll be fine with 8-ohms though you'll get a reduced maximum power output. It most situations I doubt that you'll notice the difference from a similar 4-ohm cab.