pete.young

Certainly it sounds as though it would benefit from a set-up and maybe some new strings.

Phil Jones Bass Double Four. For home practice and recording it would be superb.

I saw Gordie McKeemon and his Rhythm Boys last year - they do the standing on the bass thing and were using a standard Chadwick folding double bass, no reinforcement.

What a great story, thank you for sharing it. Best wishes to your Mum. Theres an interesting variant from the Clancy Brothers, with a different tune and mostly different words but a shared sentiment and style. The two versions are clearly connected, I wonder how.

With the switch in bypass, it's showing about 0.5 Ohm on the 200 Ohm range. With the switch engaged, it's gone up to about 1.2 MOhm on the 2M range, which is the highest this meter has.

Apologies for the delay, had to wrestle my multimeter back from Son #1, who is building some kind of weird Midi switcher for his Strymon delay, using a Teensie board. Here's the circuit diagram. My understanding is that R1 is the pulldown resistor for the input cap C1, and R6 is the pulldown resistor for the output cap C4. One side of C1 is connected to ground, the other side gives open circuit. The -ve side of C4 is connected to ground through R6, it's showing IM on the highest setting of my meter which is the value of R6. If that all checks out, what should I look at next? I think a check of C4 is in order, but I have to start unsoldering pots to get at the connections for C4.

You can probably find a used Roland V-Bass for about the same money, and a VB99 for not much more. You can attach the Roland pickup to your jazz with some tape so removing it is entirely reversable.

Some people don't respond to emails. Sometimes you're better to just pick up the phone.

Have you thought about sending it back to Rob Green?

Looks like I spoke too soon. The pedal circuit works perfectly, but I have a huge 'pop' through the amp when switching it on and off with the footswitch. The input and output capacitors appear to be connected to ground so I'm not sure what to check next. I might try re-soldering the output cap just in case, but the pot will have to come off to get at it. If anyone has any suggestions for what to look at next, I'd be very grateful.

Looks great, well done. I have a used SE 3A if you want to give that a go. I think it works but might have a crackly pot. I don't want anything for it but you might need to find some black stacked knobs for a couple of the pots. I think Axes'R'Us have them. SE 3A has volume, blend, bass/treble and para EQ, last two are stacked pots.

It's worrying for those of us who rely on small music venues and studios for the rehearsal space we need to keep on doing what we love. Our local small venue and rehearsal space, the excellent Smokehouse in Ipswich, has started a crowdfunding page to help them survive. Some people here might be in a position to help similar local venues be able to open when the time comes.

Yes, I think it's an optimistic price. I think you could get a genuine Gibson for not much more, although Greco build quality is likely to be better 🙂

A Domino Californian. Never seen one of these before. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-Vintage-Domino-Californian-Bass-1960-s/133404639133?hash=item1f0f893f9d:g:PIgAAOSwfWFes-d9 And a Greco Thunderbird, complete with mojo. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Greco-TB1100-Thunderbird-Bass-1980-w-hard-case/133402018396?hash=item1f0f61425c:g:fAcAAOSwAbxesAA5

Just finished my latest kit, an Echo Blue Delay from Fuzzdog. This is the first one I've done with the daughter board for the switch. It does make everything a bit easier to assemble, and with a bit of ribbon cable between the main board and the switch makes for a very neat job. Some things I did differently this time: identified all the components and taped them to the bill of materials for easy identification once the build got underway; bolted the pots into the encloser and put the board on top to solder in place; and left a few components until after the pots were installed, to give a bit more room to solder the pots in. Not sure if any of that made a huge difference, but the build seemed to go very smoothly. You have got to hand it to Fuzzdog, he does a great job. Not sure how many of these I'm going to do though. My eyesight seems to be getting worse, even with helping hands and the magnifying glass.

Vox Wyman? I had one in the early '70s. Didn't really get on with it, neck too skinny, way too heavy (chrome scratch plate) and the sound wasn't great. Sold it and bought a Futurama Coronado IV which was a huge improvement as far as I was concerned. Bill didn't really use his much either, I think he preferred the Framus.

I ordered a set late Friday which arrived this morning. Very fast service and the strings look like a premium product. Many thanks for a very generous offer. Now , which bass do I put them on??? Decisions, decisions 🙂

Engineers in pub gigs?

The bridge pickup looks very similar to the dual coil that Fender used to put into the Jazz deluxe (I think that's what it was called). I made something similar a couple of weeks ago to replace the one in my Hondo Alien, using a pair of jazz single coils, a dremel and some araldite.

Just for you:

Cheapest option and minimum surgery is to replace the jack socket with one with a built-in preamp. My Seagull has a Godin EMP Quantum IT system which works well, https://godinguitars.com/product/godin-epm-quantum-it-acoustic-system-with-tuner-battery-cables-and-jack . Agree with Frank about the Fishman stuff too, I have a Presys on another guitar which is also fine.

That's a relief. I thought you were going to say he'd died.