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[quote name='Adrenochrome' timestamp='1342478517' post='1736030'] No, it's a right little beast - it's been an emergency bass amp, guitar amp and monitor amp so far [/quote] Mine's been a monitor amp too - when they were being sold off at £50 it seemed too much of a bargain to pass up, it's so small that it can be tucked away in a corner of the car for emergency use.

[quote name='PauBass' timestamp='1342811347' post='1741466'] So the sum of both cabs wattage then? That's the same as my current 412 cab, will they feel as loud by being two cabs? [/quote] No, not the sum of the two cabs wattage. The two cabs will have a total impedance of 4 ohms, the DB750 will output 750W into 4 ohms, 375W into each cab. However, unless you make a habit of running the amp flat out constantly, the fact that it can nominally output 25W more than the rated power into one of the cabs should be irrelevant.

[quote name='BigAlonBass' timestamp='1342736930' post='1740384'] Here's a (probably) silly question:- I have a Peavey Max 700 Amp with 2 speaker outputs. I have 2 x 8 ohm cabs and 1 x 4 ohm cab. If I 'daisy chain' the two 8 ohm cabs to one output, and the 4 ohm cab to the other output, is it delivering 4 ohms through each output? [/quote] The two outputs are probably connected in parallel, so you'll actually finish up with a load of 2 ohms.

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1342212775' post='1731977'] Here you go, some badly played bass through the 2 different pitch shifter 'pedals' [url="http://soundcloud.com/warm_leatherette/pitchshift"]http://soundcloud.co...ette/pitchshift[/url] from 0:18 - 2:00 is the monopitch pedal, this is the monophonic shift. from 2:005 onwards is the PitchShift [/quote] Ta, that's just what I needed to hear. My Korg AX3000B and an elderly Zoom RFX2000 both sound similar to the second one - it seems to be faintly out of tune and no matter what you do with fine tuning, it never seems to be properly in tune. The first one sounds like just what I want.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1342250796' post='1732252'] I don't know to me an "active pickup" implies that there is something in the string sensing part that is active and not simply that the pre-amp circuitry is in the same housing as the magnets and coils of a conventional pickup - hence my question a couple of posts back. A very short as opposed to a short cable run between the coil(s) and the pre-amp does not make a pickup active in my book. ATM the only true active pickup system I know of is the Lightwave one. [/quote] I don't see that the Lightwave pickup is any more or less active than a magnetic pickup (whether it has a built-in preamp or not). The Lightwave pickup shines a light on the string and picks up the vibrations through reflection. Magnetic pickups create a magnetic field and pick up the vibrations through current induction. The only "active" pickup is an Ebow. An "active" bass is one with a preamp on board, a "passive" bass is one without. By logical extension, an "active" pickup has an internal preamp, a "passive" pickup doesn't. Seems logical to me.

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1341762909' post='1723714'] There is no such thing as an active pickup. There are pickups which are designed to be used with an active preamp, and have less wire on the coil so as not to be too hot. There are pickups which are active but they just have the preamp built in to the pickup. [/quote] Surely a pickup with a built-in preamp [b]is[/b] an active pickup? They require a power supply to produce a signal. I think the idea is that they reduce extraneous noise because there isn't even the short cable run from pickup to preamp which is at a high impedance level, it being high input impedance blocks in the amplification chain which are most prone to noise pickup.

[quote name='Doctor J' timestamp='1341760611' post='1723658'] However, if you connect in serial - ie the second cab plugged into the first cab which is plugged into the head - then you double the resistance, meaning two 8 ohm cabs will combine to make a 16 ohm load. [/quote] I do hope no-one is misled by this completely inaccurate statement into daisy-chaining two 4 ohm cabs thinking they'll get 8 ohms... Where cabs have two connectors, they will be connected in parallel. So two 8 ohm cabs will combine to make a 4 ohm load.

Yes please, I'm looking for a sound which is actually something like a plucked stringed instrument rather than a gargling robot.

Have you got the wiring diagram for the Sonar? It shows you what to solder on the blend pot - the wire marked 'hot' is the inner, the outer sleeves go to the two solder pads that are joined together. All the grounds need to join up somehow or other. I soldered bridge and blend grounds to the output socket sleeve, then connected volume ground and preamp ground to the blend ground. I think, anyway. To find out which jack socket terminal is which, you need a stereo (unmoulded) plug or stereo lead and a multimeter. Tip is signal, ring is battery negative, sleeve is ground.

Could be done with a bit of active circuitry - just put a unity-gain buffer in between each pickup and its tone/volume stack.

Will it do a decent sounding octave up?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1342010576' post='1727943'] This was posted somewhere recently and yes, I was able to tell the difference. *boasty* [/quote] Checking back, I see the results are up - and I did get them in the right order. If any of them had been played in isolation, I wouldn't have had a clue which they were, and I wasn't that certain about having them right.

[quote name='muttley' timestamp='1341744048' post='1723373'] Fretless basses full stop, if the current output of the major manufacturers is anything to go by. [/quote] Possibly because the glut of fretlesses bought during the Paul Young/Pino Palladino years will keep the secondhand market fully stocked for decades to come.

Can anyone really tell the difference? [url="http://dubsaint.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/p-j-or-ray-whats-the-difference-anyway-part-2-take-the-sound-test"]http://dubsaint.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/p-j-or-ray-whats-the-difference-anyway-part-2-take-the-sound-test[/url] That should kick it all back off...

Early Bowie with Trevor Bolder on bass (Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust) Early Alice Cooper with Dennis Dunaway on bass (Killer, Love it to death, School's Out, Billion Dollar Babies) Slade - around the "Cum on feel the noiz" era Early Bad Company (Bad Company, Straight Shooter)

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1341968943' post='1727306'] Good to know there is a PMT store with good customer srervice Been to the Birmingham one for a look around, some great stuff! But didn't speak to any staff, anyone know what they're like? [/quote] I've been in quite a few times, bought reasonable amounts of stuff from them. Helpful staff - I've known Garry from when Musical Exchanges was in Broad Street before the fire (when I was still at school) and he's always been helpful.

Congratulations. Looking forward to seeing you at your first gig...

No, it's not the order they're in. I think there may be two things here which are potentially getting conflated. As Sarah says, numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 will be the numbers of the note in a scale. C major, for example, has C = 1, D = 2, E = 3, F = 4, G = 5, A 6, B = 7 The major chord is made up of notes 1, 3, and 5 - hence C, E and G. Things are a little different with chords. They are expressed as I, II, III etc, but now C maj = I, D min = II (I'm sure I've seen a convention to write minors as lowercase, hence ii), E min = III, F maj = IV, G maj = V, A min = VI, Baugdim5 with fried rice = VII. The reason that some chords are major and some are minor is that all three notes of 1, 3, and 5 must be in the C major scale. It's 3 that tells you whether it's major or minor, and if it's three semitones up from the 1 note it's a minor, if it's 4 semitones up it's a major. Hence A minor - from A the notes go A=1, B=2, C=3 (following the C major scale), D=4, E=5 and so the chord is A C E which is Am. Doing that type of notation (I, II, III etc) is handy as it means that if yer typical 12-bar goes I IV I V IV I V, it doesn't matter what key it's in, If it's in A, it goes A D A E D A E, if it's in C, it goes C F C G F C G, if it's in Eb, it's jazz and you can forget about it.

Must be honest, I'm surprised that of the 40,000 bassists on here, 39,999 aren't aware of tuners that are neither pedals, rackmounts, nor clip-ons.

Thank god, they're hideous.

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1341834737' post='1724715'] Just called Mrs. Jazzneck "my little Uxor" and she punched me and told me to do my own lunch. What went wrong? [/quote] Try "uxor mea parva pulchra est".

Sadly, one of my covers bands does "Move like Jagger". Finally, a track I hate more than "Dance the night away".

For an added bonus, it hasn't been reliced.

One covers band - left hand side as I'm another one with a left-handed guitarist and Mrs Zero is the singer, so I'd really get it in the neck if we smacked her round the back of the head. Other covers band - right hand side because the guitarist fancied going on the left. Other other covers band - left hand side, for no apparent reason. Ceilidh band - left hand side, also for no apparent reason. Jams, open mics, etc - right hand side if I can so I can see the guitarist's fingers.