pete.young

I own a Duesenberg Star bass. Playing it acoustically, like most of the basses in this thread, isn't enough to form an accurate opinion of what they're going to sound like plugged in. The pickups on my Duesenberg give a wide range of tones and a relatively high output: the neck pickup in particular is rich and deep, and the bridge adds a bit of definition. I have Status half-rounds on it, which are a great middle ground between flats and rounds. The new price has gone up a heck of lot since I bought mine though, and you don't tend to see a lot for sale second-hand. If I were Al.Krow I'd probably be looking at Chowny and Jack Casady, which are both great basses and excellent value for money.

This is wrong. The Mondial Classic has two pickups, one conventional and one piezo. This probably gives you a much bigger range of useable sounds than two conventional pickups. I've not tried one, but Al Gare was certainly getting a great sound out of it. Sorry but I don't have any clips of the Imelda gig. I prefer to experience the event, not view it through a smartphone screen.

When I saw Imelda last year, Al Gare was playing an Italia Mondial Classic. Has a piezo as well as a conventional pickup and is 34" scale.

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.