paul_5

Last night was one of our usual haunts; rushed setup due to the football being on telly, but was a hood gig. Usual 2 1/2 hours of shenanigans betwixt band members meant that we had a good giggle as well as the crowd. This afternoon was a quick 40 minute spot at the Head for the Hills festival in Ramsbottom. Just took a bass and a lead and found an SVT Classic head and 6x10 ready to plug into. Equally enjoyable performance from all involved. Off to work now for a rest! 😉

Bought a DHA VT2 from Paul and it arrived the next day. Packaging was brilliant (air bags, foam peanuts, bubble-wrap) but the Royal Mail still managed to break both valves. Paul has gone above and beyond to help me to claim from the RM for their Neanderthal handlers. Wouldn't hesitate to deal with him again.

Yup. I love jazz. Jazz, jazz, jazz.

Good chorus layout too, but you’ll need the proper ICs.

I’m usually in there with Slander, but only when we can’t get somewhere a bit more local to everyone as we’re spread out all over the country. What about yourself young fella?

Yeah!!! Got this on vinyl the year it came out and always thought that my turntable was broken as there was no low end at all. It’s a real missed opportunity to make good on what this album should have been, but apparently there were so many drum edits on the tape that it’s too fragile to remix from the originals. F#@king Lars. Again.

Know it well, rehearsed there a few times and yes, it's a gem of a rehearsal space. 8x10 GAS is easily cured by hiring one for a run of gigs and then schlepping it around and up/down stairs etc...

I’ve built a couple of blueberries, and the LED clipping diodes are what make it fizzy, try replacing them with 1N4148s and doubling the value of the input cap from 47nf to 100nf or greater.

Ampeg SVP’s preamp our into a Behringer deHummer box and then into my Laney SP300. I used to bridge the power amp to 300w at 8 ohms, but as my new cab is 4 ohms then I’m having to use it set to stereo and just use one channel. Still plenty loud enough at 150w at 4ohms though.

Yes. I’m miffed off with myself if I need more than 2 or 3 takes. On the other hand I’ve had studio gigs where I’ve just jammed over tunes (at the producer’s request) so that they had enough to comp together for a samples and looped bass line. Depends on the project really.

I’ve got a set of Dunlop flats in the same gauge on my ‘covers band’ bass and they’re great. Had them for a couple of years now and I’m still loving them. I’ve had super brights before though, and they were great too.

Get a good P/J bass with a P profile neck, if that’s what you like.

Right you are, Small Stone is a lovely phaser. Small Clone is a lovely chorus.

Small clone does it for me. Cheap and cheerful, but does its job (2 bars of music per gig) admirably!

There’s the potential for phase inversion when combining the same signal going through different effects chains too, does the LS2 have a phase invert button to correct this?

Hotrox.co.uk have them for about a fiver each, or you could give ki0gon on here a bell, he makes solderless wiring looms that’ll just drop straight in.

CTS pots are more expensive to buy, but will probably outlast your playing career. There’s a lot of cork-sniffing about ‘orange drop’ caps or ‘tropical fish’ caps etc... but any capacitor if 0.047uf will do. Small tantalum ones will have a code of 473 printed on it somewhere, a polyester box cap will have .047 printed on it. The bead ones have the advantage of being smaller (so they fit into the cavity much easier) and have longer legs, so they’re easier to bend into whatever shape you want.

Unconnected. Try it without the red wire, just put some insulation tape over the end. have you got a multimeter to check the DC resistance of the pickups with the red connected to ground or hot?

I’d put money on the unshielded wire being ground.

I ran a VT1 eq for years, and have lost count of the number of gigs and studio sessions where it proved invaluable. ☹️

Which make of pickup are they? Usually single coils (most Jazz bass pups) only have 2 wires, you might have an extra wire for noise cancelling or something similar?

I run a small PA amp for power with a valve pre and I love it. I’ve had the amp for about 20 years and it’s never missed a beat.

I run a valve pre (SVP PRO) into a Laney Solid State (weighty old toroidal transformer) and love it. It weighs less and costs less to maintain than an all-valve affair.

Try this: Ignore the yellow wire disappearing off the top of the diagram, that’s for the second pickup (that you haven’t got).