LukeFRC

I count 6 tuners…?

Ie more than a secondhand bb425x?

I must say it confuses me - CPC seem more aimed at b2c and the Farnell are more b2b?

Tried another power supply?

it's some kind of proprietary active circuit, with the controls linking back to it, sealed in Epoxy. I searched the web for hours when I had the chance to buy one of these and there a lots of people with dead pickups, and no ones managed to get in and trace/measure to make a replica

the weird thing is... the bands that teenage and early 20s had posters all over my walls and was super into possibly have bass players on here, that I've spoken too and I just know you as "oh that bloke, alright guy, sold that nice jazz bass last year, complains about barefaced handles every 6 months... but there you go"

20.5 each? For an enclosure that would cost you £5 or so anyway - sounds cracking to me!

(We did zoom and YouTube simultaneously for a bit)

Actually while I think back - I think YouTube has quite sophisticated compression - but it could be that the band are at a higher signal level than the speaker and kicking in some in built compression? I know on our desk we had two levels, one in room and one for broadcast (which was confusing) and then compression on the desk on the output of the broadcast feed… and we had to watch the output into zoom/YouTube like a hawk to stop all sorts of bad things happening this is all stuff you have probably played with

I think that Cos it’s not cheap?

The ideal would be not modifying the bass - you’ve got good pickups currently… but it doesn’t work as a system - so I guess my suggestion would be work out the receipy you want to follow and mimic the whole system - rather than just get different good pickups… in my head pickup wise I would be thinking active flat response EMG pickups, or low impedance Barts or something and then a twaekable standard preamp or alembic style filter preamp or go the whole hog with multi coil pickups and filters á la Wal… ild not go for anything Fender style response

We use YouTube every duff note broadcast to all the world for perpetuity (when I’m on in the mix)

like a little Robbie Pilot or whatever it's called

I saw one of these a couple of years back, that would have been a 8 hours drive to get but was considering .... it was in great knick but the rear pickup had gone... researching these I quickly realised that you couldn't replace them and didn't make the silly drive. Oh well, my loss? With the active pickups in the original gone I was trying to work out what you would replace them with ... I came up with something active like EMG and an active filter based preamp would probably be the closest to an AAlembic sound - a multi coil setup like a Wal was also something I considered. The pickups that far back is going to be a thinner sound, Alembic/Wal are going to normally cut the top end to sound darker, the Warwick preamp boosts bass at around 120Hz or so - so maybe try some heavy EQing. While I am not jealous of you having to solve this problem... I kinda am!

is it more vintage sounding?

Purely my opinion, but the Hipshop A sounds like a good choice. I think we would agree on the importance of the neck to the sound, but in my limited experience bolting things together the bridge, and how the neck is attached to the body do make a difference. You've spoken about the "Wal recipe", for me the "fender recipe" includes screwed on neck (not bolts) and a vintage style bridge - change these and you start to move away from it. IMO, YMMV etc

and design. - if the mass is used to make different bits stiffer. I think if you go for a similar ballpark style as Wal use you will be close enough.

If you installed an MN3207 upside down … would it kill it?

I imagine another way of thinking about it is rather than walking off cos of a big list of issues, you had more important things going on than putting up with badly run childish nonsense of a band. Sometimes more important things are more important

I can - if I want a wal bass 4 years is very long time to wait. Longer than that for the possibility that I might be able to get on an order list to wait 4 years at an increasing price…. If I had the money I’m just buying a secondhand one at whatever price…. In 5 years I might be dead, have no money or who knows… either you are musically be in need of a Wal or financially it’s not an issue and then you will get one. that says I’m not in the bracket of being able to afford!

it's crazy isn't it? I've got a mate who's got a bit of inheritance money and would like to buy his first proper jazz bass... he's got £800 to spend. A few years ago that would get you a nice American Fender, or start to find lots of boutique things on Basschat that have devalued a bit.... Now some secondhand Mexican fenders are out of his price range.

He looks good at the weekend though in a Skandi style... till they opens his mouth and sounds like a fishwife

2021 onwards MacBook Pro will do at low level and then I looked at different headphone amps but none of them seemed to have had enough power so I bought a mini behringer mixing desk that does!

So fixed the pedal with 20 components… onto the one with 131 components 🤯😬