neepheid

Sorry folks, I might well have come down, but I ended up buying a car down south and driving it back up the road in between this and attending the SW Bash and 3 times damn near the length of the country in a month was enough for me. I will plan better next year and hopefully make both. Looks like you had a cracking day out.

It would have been awesome if they had been at your gig! But I mean in general, is the place more alive/buzzing since they took over Wrexham AFC? Any cascade of enthusiasm coming down into the local economy in general?

You benefit much from the Wrexham AFC/Rob 'n' Ryan effect?

Fake news, it's not even in Glasgow...

I used to run 2x EMG-HB (a 35P4 in a guitar humbucker sized housing) and an EMG-BQC control off a single 9V battery in my Les Paul without issue, if that helps?

Mrs. Neepheid is from Cumbernauld, but usually just says she's from Glasgow before elaborating if/when the need arises. It's easier, and... well... Cumbernauld

We've used Emubands in the past.

Sorry, can't help you - I wear glasses almost all the time. Sleeping, bathing, "swimming" are about the only times I can think of that they're not on my face. I don't even think about it - I've been wearing glasses since I was 8

Speaking as someone who owns a bass which came wired that way, I can tell you that it's the most underwhelming tonal difference I've ever heard. It's almost a DFA switch. I rewired it to be Series/Single/Parallel, at least that does something to the sound.

A lesson to everyone - if your MFD(s) sound weak then there's something wrong, because if they're working as they should, they should sound beastly.

Starting as late as I did.

Behringer BDI21 preamp/DI - even if only used as an emergency get out of jail free card in case of amp failure.

I'm in the "whatever matches your shirt/phase of the moon/whim and fancy" camp. Take whichever one is saying "pick me" to you the loudest and enjoy!

Oh yeah, if I ever used both pickups together, I would find this most frustrating, but my bridge pickup is pretty much there for show. Hence why my "poker chip" is labelled DO (neck) and DO NOT (bridge). Note that, as Yoda says "there is no try" (because I don't use the middle setting at all - I've yet to find a bass where the middle setting isn't the worst one, to my ears the two pickups fight and suck the life out of each other, resulting in a rather characterless, plain tone which I do not enjoy).

Yup, standard Les Paul wiring, basically. That's what I have in my Les Paul bass, but with the addition of push/push on the tone pots for series/parallel.

You think that's shocking? I've owned 5 BBs and currently have none. I don't even deserve to live, let alone post in this thread...

Isn't that what a Hofner bass sounds like normally? (runs out the door followed by a barrage of Hofner basses being flung at him...)

What makes you think I play enough to justify the 8 basses I currently have? Also, justify? Does not compute...

I will be taking a listen to that, but I have listened to his mix of Revolver and Eleanor Rigby was the highlight for me - I felt like I was standing in the middle of the orchestra with instruments both sides of me. The hard panned stereo mixes of old are so draining to listen to - they make me want to actually angle my head towards whatever side is working hardest. It's not perfect, there were some detectably wonky moments, I seem to remember some guitars going a bit wrong in And Your Bird Can Sing. Speaking of too loud bits - the yawn in the middle of I'm Only Sleeping is comically loud - reckon this was done on purpose as it makes me laugh every time I hear it!

I was perfectly happy with my rig, until my amp died last week. I am working on getting happy with a new rig now - direct replacement not available.

Ever since I learned Psycho Killer, the bass line has kept popping into my head. Get out, dammit!

One amp/rig at a time here. I have flitted between many different basses in my time, but I've never been that fussed about amps. I don't count the first practice amp I bought (which still works and I still have as an "office" amp for lunchtime noodling) - that's a Laney 30W 10" combo FWIW. For practice these days I don't even use a dedicated bass amp - USB audio interface into the laptop and headphones or Yamaha Sessioncake practice/headphone amp thingy. Rig 1: Hartke HA3500 into an Ashdown ABM 4x10. That cab was a hefty beast so... Rig 2: Hartke HA3500 into a Zoot 4x10. Neodymium makes a hell of a difference. Then I started on a downsizing/modularising quest so I sold the Hartke and the Ashdown cab to a local rehearsal rooms and got... Rig 3: RedSub BT5110 with removable head. Used as 250W combo or as 500W rig with the (4 ohm) Zoot cab as appropriate. But 4x10s are bulky so... Rig 4: RedSub BT5110 plus a BFM Omni 10. Kept the RedSub as a combo and sat it on top of the BFM for an effective 500W 2x1x10 rig. Sold the Zoot. All was well for many years (nearly 12) until the RedSub amp died this month so it's new rig time, and it's partially done and super shiny (only done 2 gigs with it) Rig 5: Tecamp Puma 900 into a Markbass New York 121. I plan to get a second NY121, although the single cab was sounding bloody marvellous last weekend. I think I will be moving the BFM Omni on, it's a 250W cab and with the Tecamp potentially sending 450W into each cab in a 4 ohm scenario I don't feel comfortable using it. It has some other issues (the tweeters don't work - never figured out why) I haven't got the room to hoard cabs and amps!

The battery will likely drain whether or not you're actually using active mode, unless Yamaha have been super clever about it. To actually electrically switch on/off the preamp, you'd need to buffer against thumps and pops coming through the amp, I'm willing to bet that the passive/active switch simply jumps the output of the pickups past the preamp and straight to the passive tone/jack, but does not actually turn off the preamp. The only sure way to make sure you're not draining battery whilst in passive mode is to remove the battery.

Winning the day? I didn't even know there was a competition. I would argue that I'm all about quality over quantity, but that's just code for bone idleness...

Thanks Mike, glad you had some fun with it - almost as entertaining as me consistently missing the D string on the 5 string Overwater you gave me a shot of! I doubt Thomann will pay any attention to me but I will feed back what I've done and who knows, perhaps there's still time to change the electronics before they start producing them for launch.