pete.young

Sorry, just spotted this. I've been using a V-Bass for a couple of years, live. I attached the pickup permanently to one of my basses after I got fed up with the double-sided tape falling off, but didn't really persevere with it. It makes no difference sound-wise whether the pickup is screwed on or stuck on. I use some of the different bass models rather than the pickups on my own bass, which are a bit puny by comparison. The only thing about the quality of the bass you use is whether it's playable: if you use the built-in sounds it doesn't matter what you use. dave.c had his on an old cheapo Cort and it sounded absolutely fine. I have a few synth patches set up for '80's stuff like Bilbo's favourite Aint Nobody, Venus, etc. I also use the double bass and arco sounds occasionally. It's great for synth sounds with no tracking issues, but you do spend quite a bit of time getting volume levels for all the various patches to be consistent. It's also very amusing to play the odd burst of heavy metal guitar, if used sparingly. Not made much use of the effects. The compression isn't a lot of use though due to not having any decent monitoring facilities and the threshold and ratio being combined into a single control. The only other effect I use with the V-Bass is a microthumpinator on the output, which I always use no matter what. We've recently acquired a bigger mixer and I've started to dispense with backlilne altogether and just run the V-Bass unit straight into the desk. I'm thinking about using my little Novation instead for synth sounds now we have some spare channels, but will probably continue to use the V-Bass at least in the short term for cab modelling. The other thing is the price of the cables - it's a 13-pin custom job specific to Roland and keeping a spare cable handy is quite expensive. Plan B might just be to plug a normal bass into the unit and just use the effects, as Matej does.

When you do , tell them that their web site is down!

Well, just in case anyone else ends up wondering, a report back: The guitar pre-amp outputs on -10dB were fine. The output off the Roland V-Bass was seriously hot even with the gain on zero, and so I used an unbalanced jack into the line level, which was fine. The drum mikes also surprised me by being really hot, but manageable with the gain control. So it's all good. Many thanks for the help and advice from everyone in this thread.

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' timestamp='1342518664' post='1736339'] I am sure if you contact Neutrik they would send you a free replacement one, I believe they are lifetime guaranteed [/quote] I wish I'd thought of that. I've thrown two of them away, both for the same reason , the sliding ring split into tiny pieces. Hopefully I'll remember when it happens again!

Here are my 2 5-strings. The one on the left is a Tanglewood ebay bargain, the one on the right is a Windsor Premier probably from the 1920's which I've had for a few years, it's set up for old-time and frailing. [IMG]http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f123/cr0ut0n/2012-07-22151719.jpg[/IMG]

Yes, I see what you mean - it does have a slightly un-polished appearance, like it needs an application to t-cut to take off the bloom, though it's hard to say whether that's just the way it was photographed. The paint on my one is pretty glossy by comparison. Original colour would have been either black or what was euphemistically described as chocolate brown.

Bass Collection SB315 with dead front pickup http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-Collection-SGC-5-string-active-bass-/290746793682?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item43b1dbfed2 This probably isn't the pickup - I think it's more likely to be the electronics. An Artec SE2A or 3A is eminently fittable, I put a 3A in my SB465.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-BB800-BASS-JAPAN-MADE-HARD-CASE-NEW-RARE-UNUSED-PEARL-PICK-GUARD-/140801118288?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item20c8669050 I've got one of these, had it since the early 1980s. No comparison with Fender Precision from the same period and a fraction of the price. Someone snap this up so I don't have to.

Cool. Don't forget to tick the 'Always do this from now on' button on the first dialog, and it'll work next time too. Sorry, I forgot to put that in the original response. Doh!

Please can someone with some tech smarts fix the bug which causes Adobe Postscript .pdf files to be uploaded with the filename extension .ipb .

[quote name='obbm' timestamp='1341440873' post='1719286'] Then why isn't it a .pdf? Firefox doesn't know what to do with it. Acrobat Reader is not offered as an option. [/quote] If you left-click on it , select the Open With radio button and click Browse, then click Browse again in the next dialog box, then navigate your way to the location of Acrobat Reader (probably somewhere like Program Files -> Adobe -> Reader 10.0 -> Reader -> AcroRd32) Firefox will open it.

[quote name='mckendrick' timestamp='1342832819' post='1741792'] ご希望の方には、フジゲンカタログの送付もさせて頂いております。ご住所とお名前を書いたメモと円分の切手を同封し、下記までお送りください。折り返し担当より送付させて頂きます。 [/quote] Ha ha ha, brilliant stuff. There's some great information in this thread, many thanks to everyone. I have a CIJ Precision with a P + 5 digit number which I've assumed was a 99-02 . I didn't buy it new but it was in such incredible condition when I got it that it couldn't possibly have been a 93-94.

Thanks for the explanation Tauzero, hopefully someone else will find it useful!

My powerblock died a death quite quickly, and Foxen is now using it for spares. The only way I got it to sound half-decent as a bass amp was to use a pre-amp and go in through the effects return: the gain brings on distortion so quickly that it's essentiallly useless if you need a clean sound through the main input. I bought a markbass head to use as a backup for my unreliable valve head, and ended up using the markbass head as my main amp. Eventually I acquired a Puma 110 and now that goes everywhere as a backup/di/monitor just in case. I might actually now be in a position to run bass through the PA without using backline, but I'll still be carrying the Puma as a just-in-case measure for the forseeable future.

I had a Columbus Jazz bought second hand in the late 1970s, happily I don't have any pictures of it to jog unpleasant memories and I don't recall what happened to it once I got my hands on a Yamaha BB800 (which I still have) in about 1979.

Yes, there's an input gain. Perhaps I'm being too fussy, but it was quite an expensive bit of kit and I don't want to break it through not knowing what I should be doing!

Unfortunately I won't be able to make it this year, due to gigs + 'er indoors being away for the weekend. Have a good one!

This seems like the same guy. Something very strange going in his head! http://www.gumtree.com/p/community/bass-player-wanted-for-gigging-blues-funk-rock-band-female-bassplayer-welcome/106262943

No PAD switch unfortunately, but the guitarist's pre-amp does have a -10dB setting so we'll go with that.

Thanks Bert, much appreciated especially the bit about feedback from the compressors. Will use sparingly. I now understand how the guitar stuff works a bit better, and I think it'll be OK - there's some control over the signal strength so we can back it off at both ends if necessary.

I've just bought a new mixer (Yamaha MG206C) because the band has outgrown it's old one, and it's occurred to me that I'd better get my head around how it works, for self-preservation purposes. Guitarist uses a system which is baffling in it's complexity, but seemingly involves him giving me a stereo left and right signal via a pair of balanced cables with XLR connections. He's demanding to use 2 mono channels (based on wanting to plug XLRs into the desk). I think he actually needs a single stereo channel, which has two 6mm unbalanced jack inputs. It seems to me that if I obtain a couple of Jack - XLR adaptors I can plug these into the jack sockets for the stereo channel, and connect his left and right signal XLRs to the adaptoprs - job done . Is this right? If so, can I use a TRS-type stereo jack adaptor, which would put the 'hot' signal from pin 2 onto the tip of the adaptor? If i were to humour him and allow him to plug into the 'mic' inputs on two mono channels, would I be right in thinking that this would be bad for the mixer, since I'd be putting a line-level voltage into a mic pre-amp designed for a much lower signal? It seems to me it'd be better to plug him into the 'line' input, which is a TRS balanced Jack - so I'd need the adaptors as above, or a balanced cable with a TRS jack on it instead of an XLR. Is this correct? What about keyboards? Any reason why I can't just use two unbalanced jack-jack connecters to plug one into a stero channel? What about DI-boxes for bass, acoustic guitars etc - should these also go into the TRS line input or is it OK to connect these to a mic pre-amp input? My brain hurts, think I'll take an asprin and lie down in a darkened room!