pete.young

I had a red one of these for a litte while but I'm pretty sure it was passive only. The neck was fantastic, the sound was like a good P should be and it was relatively light weight. I didn't bond with it, partly because of the body shape: it's squared-off in comparison with a normal contoured P and I preferred my CIJ not-for-export and my old Yamaha BB so it didn't get much of a look-in. Might be worth rubbing the lamp and summoning @Happy Jack, since he owned it at least twice and had fond things to say about it.

Get rid of both of them and buy a double bass.

That bridge looks suspiciously like the one on my Hondo Alien, except for the double saddles.

12Kg. That was a banjo, not a bass.

Spotters badge to hooky_lowdown, well done.

Used Bass Collection SB325 / 330 /400 series would be light and cheap.

I don't think it's a Yamaha. Those dot markers in the neck are very distinctive, I've not seen them on a Yamaha. Also, there is no dot marker in the first fret, the truss rod adjuster doesn't look right and the bridge and knobs don't look right for a Yamaha either, though they could be changed.

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 🙂