LukeFRC

I measured the Tecamp cab I had and stuck all the measurements into whatever that cab modelling software is - let’s just say I liked my puma amp but would buy a different make cab next time

... https://www.talkbass.com/threads/marshall-sounding-boxes.1486191/ few options in this thread...

That said worst Christmas carol service ever been too... I'm in a unnamed church in an unnamed city that just happens to be the capital of Scotland. Sunday morning is a normal service, evening carol service. Sunday morning the preacher guy had comes up from England. He was from Lancashire or somewhere, so Imagine Paddy McGuiness - but kinda arrogant rather than likeable, and not as funny as he thought he was, but still trying these jokes... he wasn't great. Anyway the evening carol service - we did loads of non traditional songs, it wasn't very christmassy - and then the guy came up and started "the name of my talk is a Christmas surprise, and the surprise is I'm not going to talk about Christmas at all" we laughed He didn't He did however try and tell lots of jokes about Scottish people, and a very crude idea of Scottish culture. Which might have been funny in Lancashire... but on his first visit to Scotland didn't go down well... I've not heard another preacher being hissed at!

IMO/IME for non church people the 'tradition' of hymns is what they came for, and the act of singing as part of a group is novel enough outwith the church/football/rugby. What you can do is do some really musical ly interesting things. Then the readings/talk you can go away from tradition and say things that don't wash over... When I've been places where we've tried to make the structure of the songs music too non traditional people have tended to come out feeling short changed more than engaged.

Years ago we bought a £5 Uke for our toddler from Lidl - it’s a pile of crap but our daughter enjoyed having it. she’s now 5 and showing an interest in it having a) all its strings b) holding time for longer than on strum so any recommendations for a beginner uke that’s still likely to be not at the “cherished instrument “ stage ? oh and ideally it’s pink!! if we were talking bass ild be looking for a cheap but good harley Benton that’s still budget but actually good … what’s the uke equivalent?

I'm really frustrated and saddened that you've come to our country and had an experience like this. It's not clear in the thread but have you reported it to the police? If the bass ever appears again you will need the case number they give to you. If you know this already I apologise.

paging @Quatschmacher....

There’s a difference in feel between a 44.5mm P bass and a 38mm J bass, they way you play has to change slightly. my hands are not massive and when I had a vintage spec 44.5mm I found I wasn’t as comfortable as on something 41mm-ish - so when I got a Bravewood p bass I asked for a 41mm neck as it fits my hands better. oddly enough I don’t seem to have a problem with a 45-46mm 5 string nut I have a jazz with a 36mm I think which is super thin and I find easy to play - but it’s not too deep a neck - give me a narrow nut but deep front to back and I’ll struggle ergonomically again.

What he said 👆 a couple of years ago I was after a old p bass. My dream was to find a old played to death one with a few mods. My basis was you didn’t play something loads that didn’t sound good, and mods would probably be made in good faith, are often reversable and would lower the price a chunk. I found that bass - the guy changed his mind and kept it but there weren’t many about in player condition. I ended up getting a modern reproduction

Unlikely

I would imagine the pre and digimod are completely separate circuits.

@MrDinsdale - Sorry the sarcasm wasn't directed towards you... I was reacting to being told my off topic comments were moot points that held no ground Less sarcastically - Gnermo is completely wrong in how they are trying to explain how pickups work. All passive pickups need two connections going to them to make a circuit. A live and a ground. On the picture quoted the live is the tip of the white cable, and the shield on the white cable is the ground. Just like when you wire up a jack cable the shield is a connection too... For active pickups you need to power for the electronics built in. That is the red cable. (The ground for the electronics circuit is also the shield of the white cable.) Warwick use red for live positive power On the first picture of the control cavity you posted @MrDinsdale you can clearly see there are two red cables going into where the wires exit to go to the pickup cavities - and I think the bit at the bottom of that picture where there is three wires and some black heat shrink is where the the power cables have been joined. So they should be active pickups. The other way you can tell is that the blend on Warwicks will probably be 25k not 250k.

Fancy sketching us all a circuit diagram to explain how that would work? This might help... https://shop.warwick.de/media/pdf/99/49/24/MEC_Manual_ENlbJP1eMxGlHU7.pdf

You could even replace it with two separate ones if there's space and it's cheaper. 12v is heater, and then there's the preamp which could be running anywhere from 9v to 200v+ - wouldn't you need to know that to spec a transformer?

Very nice - is there a touch of Rickenbacker in the sound it makes?

Well done on realising that, I’ll make this obvious- one big difference is that active pickups are active, so need power. so you run a power cable into the pickup cavity. if the pickups are passive they don’t need power… so don’t need a power cable. see the difference? Next question- see the red power cables in the picture? Coming out the battery, split three ways, one to the preamp and two to the pickup cavities… now can you think of any logical deduction we could make about power cables going into a pickup cavity when we are asking the question “are these active or passive”?

That’s a powersoft digimod top right - what’s the model number? Some of them have their own power supply section….The power amp section of the amp might be powered separately than the preamp … which might make everything simpler

You can also clearly see the power cables going into the pickup cavities…

Red lead is positive from the battery - it splits into 3 and one goes to preamp and one each to each pickup. so active. the other way to tell is if the blend pot is 250k passive 25k active

In active mode, with a 2 band boost only preamp you don’t have a way to cut the top end at all… with VTC you do. think of a passive jazz with a blend pot- vol, blend and tone then and bass and treble boost. that’s why VTC was added - it’s utterly different experience to playing something with say a East Uni pre where you have super precise bass and treble boost and cut and a semi parametric mid…. and you might use a Sadowsky in a passive, mine sometimes sounds nicer for some things in passive.

I stand corrected - I had just presumed they were different due to the cheap cost of them aftermarket! TBH I can't imagine even if there were differences I can't imagine there's really that much of a difference as it's the same recipe and similar ingredients...

not quite correct... Sadowsky Japan had two original ranges - the higher end Japan only Sadowsky TYO and the Sadowsky Metro which were available over here. I think they were manufactured by ESP. At some point the line that were Sadowsky Metro with "Sadowsky Guitars" on the headstock became known and labelled as Sadowsky Metroline with I don't think any differences other than ones that affected all sadowskys- I can't remember anyone saying anything negative about them (other than the price went up, but it was the post Brexit pound devaluation that caused that). Roger then wanted to make a cheaper line again - which was the Japanese Sadowsky Metro Express which were built by a Japanese factory for him that wasn't the same dedicated workshop as was doing the construction of the original Japanese Sadowsky. I'm not entirely sure what happened, whether there were too many QC issues being caught or they just couldn't make enough of them fast enough but they didn't last long. Then our friend Mr Wilfer got involved and everything changes, all the hardware is different and presumably made to different price points for different ranges - so you no have the odd Sadowsky NYC from Roger's workshop and then the German made Sadowsky Custom Shop, Sadowsky Masterbuilt and Sadowsky Metroline, and the much cheaper Sadowsky Metro Express made in China.

Read it yourself (Btw don’t know how good this translation is, when I was at Uni I studied a different version) https://monoskop.org/images/e/e4/Debord_Guy_Society_of_the_Spectacle_1970.pdf