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How much are they new? I got mine for £100 used at a music shop in stoke EDIT: I use mine blended though so there may be some low end loss

Has anyone else ever used a Zvex Wah Probe on bass? I do and it's amazing.

[quote name='Al Heeley' post='547266' date='Jul 22 2009, 07:57 AM']I guess we all have the right to adopt our own moral stance on this, I'm a bit disappointed some may view me as morally corrupt for offering to help out a fellow musician to cover the cost of the parts while I explore my electronics hobby. Is it ok to clone a vintage classic Tubescreamer type pedal? What about an A/B box or a simple treble boost circuit? I'm unclear why there is seen to be some sort of mystic preciousness about the ZVex pedals, which for me are absurdly overpriced for what they are.[/quote] I totally agree with you Al, there's no problem with building a copy of a circuit with a view to improving it or just generally practicing electronics as a hobby. That's exactly how Zvex started out. Having said that he does get really pissy if you talk about building fuzz factory clones, which is stupid, because it's just another fuzz face with feedback.

Heh, I read the OP and did not follow the link so wasn't aware that this was about ACG. I didn't even know they did guitars, I thought it was just pre-amps.

It's a bit crap that the story hasn't featured on here at all. I have no idea who this guy is or what his products are. You'd think he would have made a thread on the english bass message board.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='546539' date='Jul 21 2009, 02:51 PM']Nasty biting treble happens lower down than bright shiny treble which itself is lower than airey treble. Alex[/quote] Heh, it depends who says "nasty biting" doesn't it! I get what you mean though, I EQ out everything above 5K which probably catches quite a bit lower too, so perhaps I would never hear the difference you're on about.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='546492' date='Jul 21 2009, 02:25 PM']Because you buffer the signal more directly rather than suffering the high frequency loses due to the capacitative nature of a guitar lead. The issue isn't where the pots and batteries are but where the input stage of the onboard preamp is. The instrument cable acts like a passive tone pot, and the longer the cable is then the more the capacitance is so the lower the frequency at which it starts acting as a first order lowpass filter (just like bigger caps on tone pots cut more treble). Alex[/quote] That makes sense, thanks! Having said that, I can get really nasty biting trebly tones out of my passive bass, at least as "toppy" as my active with EMGs.

[quote name='mrcrow' post='546193' date='Jul 21 2009, 11:24 AM']your pup signal will be more enhanced imho by signal enhancement via an onboard active eq[/quote] Why would it make any difference whether the batteries and pots are in the bass rather than in a pedal?

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='546183' date='Jul 21 2009, 11:19 AM']Censorship. Got to love it. It's like taking a R rated movie and dumbing it down to a 12. Kinda makes it all pointless.[/quote] Still, better than a group of 12 year olds watching a rated R film, no?

[quote name='yituool' post='546176' date='Jul 21 2009, 11:14 AM']I take it noone is going to notice the irony in my post, no?[/quote] Can you spell it out?

[quote name='alexclaber' post='546164' date='Jul 21 2009, 11:07 AM']I read some stuff on talkbass about some new Villex models which I think could be more transparent but couldn't see anything on their site. But certainly more open than most P-pickups. Active EMGs are true active pickups with very low inductance coils, extended range and built-in preamp to buffer and add gain. IMO they run much better on 18V. Very hard to get that sound with a passive pickup because if the passive pickup isn't detecting much 5kHz+ then all the treble boost in the world won't do anything because you can't make something out of nothing. They are unforgiving but with a good bass and good technique they are not in the least bit sterile or untoneful. Alex[/quote] So I don't have "true" active EMGs, I just have EMGs and a 18V pre-amp Oh well, it sounds very good. I can make my passive bass sound quite a lot like my bass with EMGs by using pedals.

[quote name='yituool' post='546165' date='Jul 21 2009, 11:08 AM']People like you who use your 'wit' to act upon petty, meaningless issues like this are the ones putting internet debates in a bad light.[/quote] What the hell are you talking about? This kind of post is what the internet is about. The guy cares about the issue, so he makes a great big clever post about it, what's the problem? Fair enough if you disagree with his opinion, but to insult his personality is a bit harsh!

I thought that a lot of EMG set ups were passive pups with an active pre-amp? That's what it says about my schecter. In which case, you could install them with the pre-amp in a pedal or something.

people ARE strange!

You can kind of emulate it with the enhancer function on a boss LMB-3 but I wouldn't recommend it if you have any respect for your ears. Perhaps the aphex exciter would have a similar effect.

I don't think reaper is much like reason at all. I don't know how you feel about software piracy OG. You may want to send me a PM.

[quote name='silddx' post='543378' date='Jul 17 2009, 04:47 PM']Wot, with my knee?[/quote] I've no idea what that means

silddx - you were standing up right? [quote name='Doddy' post='543370' date='Jul 17 2009, 04:38 PM']The moral of the story being......learn to re-string your own instrument.[/quote] I was 15 and scared!! Anyway, yes, that's what this particular incident taught me.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='543363' date='Jul 17 2009, 04:34 PM']Ooh that's bad. Defo wasn't me...I couldn't sleep for the guilt. I once heard of a guy charging someone eight quid for changing the top E string on a guitar.[/quote] It bloody was bad at the time! They basically ruined my musicmaster. It's not a massive shame as I swapped it for a drumkit soon after. EDIT: Since then I have continued to use the shop as they have good stock, are nice and friendly, and generally knowledgable if you get the right guy for the right field (which you do 9 times out of 10).

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='543349' date='Jul 17 2009, 04:21 PM']I couldn't agree more, Mr Blob. Bad service = no sale. That goes for you at PC World who told me the modem I wanted to connect the missus's laptop to the internet was probably too difficult for me to use, so he recommended I pay ninety quid for them to come and do it. A mate did it for nothing. That's you at the Orange phone shop who told me she couldn't help with anything because my contract doesn't run out until September. That's me going with Vodafone, then. That's you at the Halifax who was trying to upgrade my current account and could have given me the facts in 5 minutes, but blabbed on with small talk so the appointment lasted the full half hour she was allocated. I could go on.[/quote] That's you who I asked to re-string my bass but when I came back you tried to charge me for a full set up and fret re-dress and wouldn't let me have my bass back until I went to the cash point to draw out the extra £30!! Only kidding, that was 10 years ago, so probably a different bass guy at AOS Stoke then.

I don't know, i'd feel rude without an invite to do so in his sig'.

[quote name='Rich' post='543047' date='Jul 17 2009, 11:13 AM']Perhaps the answer is to wire the gtrs and basses up so they can't actually be played or even picked up without being unlocked. And keep the kettle leads for the synths etc. behind the counter.[/quote] yeh like in technology shops

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='543010' date='Jul 17 2009, 10:40 AM']Regarding the acoustic guitars, it was getting so bad that we went from a few signs around the area to a sign on each guitar. And some of them still ignored the signs. Whereas there used to be 3 or 4 kids at a time coming in, now it's not unusual to see 10 or 15. On the day I turned the power off there were about 2 pianos with 3 kids on each one at the same time, playing different 'tunes'; 3 electronic kits were being played, with not one kid asking for a pair of headphones, and if they didn't have sticks they would bash them with their hands; most of the synths were being played; someone was bashing on the handsonic-type kit. I tried to tell them but the noise was so bad they couldn't hear me, and those that could completely ignored me.[/quote] It's a difficult one. You can't really afford to alienate all the kids, but you can't afford to let them scratch the instruments. Bigger signs, or maybe a rediculously loud tannoy system - that could both amuse the kids, and get them to stop when they've gone too far.

[quote name='jensenmann' post='543003' date='Jul 17 2009, 10:34 AM']Thanks for your understanding that I´m not a native speaker. Your comment shines a very glorious light on your interhuman abilities.[/quote] I'm not sure if you're being bitterly sarcastic, in which case your grasp of our beautiful language is excellent indeed, but your sarcasm is misplaced. I wasn't insulting you!!

I've never heard an "everything delay" before