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Quite a drive to a barn in Somerset last night, rather nippy as you can imagine, and challenging acoustically too, but all in all a decent enough night, glad we decided not to play tonight tbh. 5B83290C-8D92-4C92-A451-870616F3DF9B.MOV

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And the project bass is finished

And it’s done! The electronics worked first time! Which has blown my mind! My first ever attempt at wiring active electronics (other than idiot proof emg and East!) The set up is spot on, and it’s even lighter than my other SR500. The sound isn’t as good right now as the strings I put on are an old set, and the artec preamp isn’t as good as the stock one - but it’s not that far off!! I’ll keep an eye out for a better one to go in now it’s all together ill need to make a better back plate too. At the minute it’s a rough one cut out of an ice cream tub lid and wrapped in vinyl!!

I think the best song (and Flea’s finest moment) is soul to squeeze, but my fave is stone cold bush.

Same, shakey, slade and fairytale

Yeah, it says sr500 1p-07 on the back of the headstock, they’ve had a few variants over the years.

Oh I’ve studied yours lots was most helpful

Sadly I was too late - you can imagine how gutted I was!

update time, finishing is done, battery box is currently being wedged in, Jack's in too, but pickups are late coming, so everything is on hold till they show up. I was going to put some BH2s in, but now they are going in my sr300 and I've a set of mk1s to go in this, when they show up! Ive made a template for a backplate, my sound guy says he can make me a proper one, which is nice

Decent little public/local gig last night, I just really felt like playing bass all day after playing a super boring solo acoustic gig the night before, so an up for it crowd and a great sound in my IEMs just made the whole night a pleasure. B0B7A6B2-0312-4F48-B12E-5BC67EFA4A19.MOV

thanks, I think this job is somewhat beyond me, I've no meter and don't really understand what all that means, I've only ever changed pickups etc in passive basses before, I'll see if my sound engineer can help with this one, he works as a tech for a vintage guitar shop. I reckon trying to save the £ could end up costing more if I mess it up!

cheers, its all a bit beyond me this active stuff, I might just snip the wires leaving the plug in place and then solder to the wires, I guess figuring out the colours will be trial an error.

I know this should technically be in technical, but as it’s very specific and many of you seem to have fiddled with your Ibanezes…. I want to replace the power spans in my sr300e, but they are on a connector (3 wires) onto a board under the power tap switch (which I hate) Is there a way to replace the pickups alone (I have some Bart’s that will fit) or do I need a whole new preamp too?

We did a private do in a place we’ve played loads, only to arrive and find that they had refurbished the function room into - yep - A giant bathroom. No soft furnishings, high angled ceiling. But everything’ was still eq,d to last nights giant bathroom, so it wasn’t too big a deal. First outing for my new SR300e. A tad heavier and less sophisticated than my sr500/1200s, but much nicer to look at 😂 IMG_0608.MOV

Thankfully I’ve discovered that an old bass I no longer use had close enough screws, so that’s handy for now. just added some tea staining and a single coat of danish oil.

Did a test fit using neck screws borrowed off my sr1200! Went together perfectly. Only issue then is finding the right bloomin’ screws!! Every single set I’ve bought so far has been wrong. But at least now I know it’ll work if I find the right ones! anyone have a set of Ibanez neck screw kicking around ???!

Played in a massive converted warehouse venue last night on Gloucester docks. Basically a giant bathroom acoustically speaking. It was fine, with the only thing of note being me watching with my usual amusement as a drunken ‘expert’ regaled our sound engineer with lots of pointing and hand gestures. When I spoke to him afterwards, it turns out the guy was brilliant and actually really helped with some advice that transformed the sound and resolved a bass bloom issue. I suppose mathematically speaking it had to happen eventually 😂😂😂

I had a blue one modded with a maple neck and a mm humbucker. I sold it on here simply because the neck was too fat for me. Shame. It looked ace.

It is indeed a laser stomp. Expensive but absolutely brilliant and so much less painful than a traditional stomp box

Private solo acoustic do in my local, easy enough night, voice held up after a few days off work with the lurgy, otherwise nothing of note. Back to bass duties next weekend, then only one more solo gig for the foreseeable due to my pgce course eating my life.

My collection is growing

I recently picked up a stripped sr500 body and neck that had seen better days and decided to see if I could save it on the cheap. Both parts were around £40, and I’m hoping to keep the total spend as small as possible. (Student teacher with no income beside gigs) The black paint came off easily with a heat gun, but the psychedelic paint job underneath was tougher. An hour or so later with various grits of sand paper, I’m looking at a body that's never going to be perfect, but I think I can get it looking ok. I’m not sure yet what finish to do. I wanted a silver blue burst, but I’m not sure I can pull it off with rattle cans especially with all the dings in the body. So I’m veering towards a rustic finish using stain akin to the current sr600e antique stain. Hit the first snafu already. After sanding, the neck no longer fits. Must be the heat, I’ll have to sand the pocket a bit.

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