pete.young

Fuzzdog (PedalParts) and Banzai music have a good selection.

An alternative is to reset the 'input' on the compressor until it stays in the green zone with normal playing.

Piece of cake with a VB99, though the second hand price hasn't quite dropped that far.

And you should be able to pick up a nice used Yamaha BBNE2 .

The Celinder J Vintage 5 that's in the For Sale forum at the moment.

Probably Kiwi's Pentabuzz. Everything about it is perfect.

I think the pitch shifter is better than the octaver. Give that a try?

According to the manual, it has 2 speaker outputs: one Speakon/Jack combination, and one Jack socket, located directly underneath the Speakon ouput. You can run a second cab off the Jack but make sure that the total load is 4 Ohm or greater: ie use 2 x 8 Ohm cabs, not one 8 and one 4 .

Same answer from me. In general pickups are passive, pre-amps are active. The only exception I'm aware of is EMG.

Data sheet is here: http://www.delano.de/jmvc_5_fe_m2/jmvc_5_fe_m2_details.html It's the 'FE' you want, the 'AS' type is the longer Fender sizing. Probably worth an email to Delano to clarify. The data sheet shows 2 different lengths (93mm neck and 95mm bridge). Both mine are exactly the same length, 94.4 mm by digital vernier . I'd guess they're the longer 95 mm shell, but worth confiming. The 93mm ones would certainly fit. Data sheet says if you order a set you can have both pickups in either the longer or shorter shells. I don't recall any distinguishing marks on the ones I have, and nothing in the instructions to tell you whether one was intended for neck and one for bridge. I'm now wondering if I've got them the wrong way round!

94.2 mm long, 18.3 wide, 40mm between the fixing screw centres. No routing, cutting machining or anything was required.

Um, that's an extract from Ain't Nobody by Chaka Khan, the original version of which is a keyboard synth in Eb Minor. It may be ridiculous, but many singers would find it a challenge to move it up a semitone just because the bass player is struggling to adapt.

Opened the tailgate of my car when I arrived at a gig, and the mandolin case slid straight out and hit the ground. Opened up the case to find a classic headstock break and a load of slack strings :-(

If it's good enough for Colin Hodgkinson, it's good enough for me!

Pedals much reduced since my function band folded. Current project is a blues- classic rock power trio so I'm trying just to sound like a crappy old overdriven valve amp, without the back strain. So Tuner -> Micro Thumpinator -> MXR Bass Compressor -> Boss Bass Chorus -> DHA VT1 Pro -> Amp. I'd like to add a decent octaver but that's about it for now. The DHA is amazing and does all kinds of smart things. The idea is not to be dependent on any amp and just use something relatively clean - I have a Tecamp Puma, LMII/EBS Neo 2x12 for more volume and some old Euphonic Audio kit which gets used occasionally, or whatever junk is available in the rehearsal rooms we use.

The Delanos I have in my Bass Collection are JMVC5FE . They are completely silent and a massive improvement over the original SGC Nanyo pickups.

Sorry, I don't know what the centre frequencies are either or the mid cut-off range. All 3 EQs deliver a mighty boost at full chat. There is a circuit diagram in the Service Manual so some really clever person might be able to work it out https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1072092/Yamaha-Bb-Ne2.html in case you haven't found it yet. I do use a Thumpinator as the second item in my chain after the tuner and have done for a while. The Delanos in my SB465 also pack a lot of bass punch, and the Thumper cleans up the signal for everything downstream.

Excellent! I do so like a happy ending.

Eh? Where did that come from ? I dunno, away with work for a couple of days and all hell breaks loose!

Bass Direct have these in stock.

Hi Skezza, hope all is well. Still got that red PJ 5-string? For Bass Collection JJ configurations, you need a pair of pickups which are the same size, 94mm in length. Replacements intended for Fender are both longer than this, the neck is shorter than the bridge but neither will drop into a Bass Collection slot and extra routing will be required. If you have noise when favouring one pickup, it's probably because you have typical single-coil Jazz pickups which I think is what the standard SGC Nanyo pickups are. One option would be to use stacked humbuckers, which look very similar to single coils but are completely noiseless in operation. I have a set of Delano stacked humbuckers in my SB465 which were a drop in fit and sound amazing. I know that Bartolini also make this size and string spacing, I think Nordstrand do too and Sadowsky also fit this size to their basses so anything advertised as replacement for them should fit. I have a Nordstrand Pre-Amp . I don't think there's a lot to choose between them, Glock and other makers at that price. The main thing is finding the right number of pots and picking a pre-amp with stacked knobs if you need more than just blend, volume and 2-band EQ. My Nordy has a 2-band EQ on a stacked pot, and a passive tone control, blend and volume. In my case I went with Nordstrand because that was what came up second-hand on Basschat first. As BassBunny says, the Artecs are a good choice if you're on a tight budget, but I've had two now and both have eventually developed a crackly pot.

So how can Zoom get away with not publishing the Midi capability of the USB interface? I thought that it was a condition of the Midi licence that you had to publish all the Midi functions that it supported.

Try left-clicking on the tab.