dannybuoy

Can't make any clips right now, but I read the manual last night and it does blink faster as you move each knob back to where it belongs in the last selected preset. You can also switch it between buffered and true bypass! The muff model, whilst sounding good, has a very different sound the Bass Big Muff - the manual says it's modelled after a blend of Big Muff and Swollen Pickle. Most the difference is down to EQ, as you have a 3-band instead of the usual tonestack. You have to scoop the mids and boost the bass and treble to get the traditional sound. I'm currently enjoying the low gain sounds of the tube drive and crunch tube models, and got a good sound out of the octave fuzz by setting the blend on the low-pass clean side with just a little layer of raspiness sitting on top of the original signal.

With the right pedal though, you will not drop out of the mix, especially as we're only taking low gain here. Many have a slight mid boost, making you stand out of the mix even more when engaged! I don't agree with some of the suggestions here - Phat Phuk is more of a boost pedal, and the Ashdown Lomenzo sounds thin and unnatural to me. For low gain OD, the DHA VT1, Xotic Bass BB, and Catalinbread SFT are my usual recommendations, but lately I have been favouring the tube drive model on the Soundblox OFD set to minimum gain, so much so I am thinking of unloading both of my SFTs!

Wow, Boss ODB-3 not aggressive enough? It's the most aggressive pedal going! Sounds great into the Orange Terror Bass and a tweeterless cab though, I love mine. If you want some of that aggression back that the Orange Terror seems to smooth out, the VT Bass, Catalinbread SFT (newer brighter sounding version), Xotic BB pre or the Rat Tail are all good options.

And you were correct! They are '84s - in which case I think I will hang onto them, if I was going to build a bitsa I it was the heavier overwound sort I would be after!

My BB1025X is here to stay. The only reason I would sell it would be if a 2025X came up at an irresistible price!

Tried that, the foam is pretty well stuck on so the foam just splits when trying to remove it!

These Harley Bentons are 21" scale same as the Kala U-Bass (I found conflicting info that the Kala has 20", but their site says 21"), so those Pyramids should fit no problems. They sound good! I wouldn't want them on the fretless if they are roundwound though. The reviews were saying the Harley Benton is much bigger than the Kala, but I guess that is overall size and body length rather than the string length. I believe the new LaBella white nylons and the new Aquila Reds (which are better sounding and less sticky than their white Thunderguts) are coming out in both Kala 21" scale and also the longer 23" scale used by a lot of the new basses coming out from other makers.

Just sold the last of my maple necked basses now have 5 sporting rosewood. I like rosewood!

This should help! [url="http://web.archive.org/web/20101228180331/http://www.wizardpickups.co.uk/shop.asp?category=Bass"]http://web.archive.o...p?category=Bass[/url] [b]Sixty-Fours[/b] Simple effective - old is best, dc for Bridge 8.6 k ohms with the neck coming in around 8.2 k ohms these pickups are a great replacements for vintage pickups or for those who want that vintage sound without 'vintage costs'. Supplied with cloth covered cables and black covers. [b]Eighty-Fours[/b] Darker, bassier and generally dirtier than the Sixty-Fours, these pickups are overwound to lower the overall tone. Loud and proud these pickups will drive any group. The bridge has a dc of 11.5kohms and the neck 11.0 k ohms. Complete with black covers and black and white hook-up wires. [b]Hammers[/b] Struggling to get that dark crunchy tone you've always wanted? Lacking that oomph to get you over the line? Look no further, Hammers are loud dark and dirty, yet retain conventional construction - handwound, Alnico 5 magnets and attention to detail.

Ah cool - I forgot about the way back machine! I posted recently asking for advice as I have a pair of unidentified Wizard Jazz pickups. Now I can see what the resistances of the various models are I have half a chance of figuring it out with my multimeter!

Crunch Tube is great, works well even at max gain. I've been trying various models with high gain / blend / mid-scoop to approximate my ODB-3, I think the TS9000 comes closest but it's not quite there. Tube Drive is the only one that approaches anywhere near clean with the gain at minimum - I wish the other models had a wider range on the gain control to clean them up a bit more. I can get a very nice low gain overdrive from this, and fatten it up nicely with a touch of bass boost. There are a few models I really don't like though where I haven't been able to get a good sound from yet - Smooth Tube, Fuzz Facade, Metal and Octave.

Yes they are regular tuning. I played mine live on one track for a laugh once - the crowd were most confused to hear all this deep bass come out of what looked like a toy!

If anyone has any clue what the resistance should measure (or has a pickup sitting in a box and access to a multimeter ) that would be a great help!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zT7uGPdy_Eo#t=155

It's a Bazz Fuss so should sound like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQAemyXYSBM

I was thinking of selling them as I don't know when I'll ever really get round to building up a Jazz bass that I had in mind to do some day, so it would be nice to be able to say what they were! I'll measure them later.

Check out the Gold Tone and Aquila basses too: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/gold-tone-microbass-talk-1032038/ http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/new-acoustic-bass-guitar-shortbass-one-small-loud-968706/ The [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/sub-short-scale-talk-644956/"]sub-short-scale thread[/url] over at Talkbass shows quite a few pictures from NAMM and there are several manufacturers getting in on this game now!

Anybody tried one? For £100, about a quarter the price of a Kala, I sure am tempted. I translated the German reviews (which were pretty positive) and they say it's a lot bigger than the Kala, which is a plus point for me as I was looking into getting a [url="http://www.goldtone.com/products/details/w/instrument/494/MicroBass"]Gold Tone Microbass[/url] or [url="http://www.aquilacorde.com/corde-per-musica-moderna/strumento-corde-per-musica-moderna/2813/short-bass-one/?lang=en"]Aquila Short Bass One[/url]. I loved my old Kala, but fancied something a bit bigger and fretless. I had a Breedlove acoustic after that, but it was a big beast and I really want something in between sizes with the rubber strings, just for keeping nearby to pick up and mess around on occasionally. Therefore for the price, the Harley Benton looks like a winner. Surely not up to the build quality of the Kala, but I'm not sure I care! It would be interesting to string one up with either the new Aquila Thunder Reds or the La Bella white tapewounds designed for this scale. http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_kahuna_clu_bass.htm http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_kahuna_clu_bass_fl.htm

My mistake. It's a plain old 1 by the way, not the active 1A. Still good basses, but yes these 3's look superb!

[size=4][quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1391643915' post='2359809'][/size] I hope somebody off here gets it. I had a fretted. The best bass I ever had... Sold it [/quote] There's a fretted one for £100 in the classifieds here right now!

64's, 74's, 84's, Hammers? I have a pair of Wizard jazz pickups here but I've no idea what type. The only identifying marks on them is a N and B on the neck and bridge pups respectively. The Wizards site is no longer running which makes identification difficult, I don't know if Mr Wizard is replying to emails these days of if anyone on here knows him. Is there any way to tell what these are? I could measure their DC resistance which I suppose may help, I shall dig out my multimeter tomorrow! [size=4][/size] [size=4][/size]

You could always post a wanted ad for a set of Wizards, you never know!

Had another brief blast - most of the models are rather underwhelming, but the Crunch Tube, Big Pi, and Bender modes all sound great. The 3-band EQ helps massively, and the unique blend knob is a two-way control where dry is at noon, with regular blend on the left and a lowpassed clean on the right. The gate works very well too, and if you want a gated fuzz but thought they mostly sound thin and raspy, you can apply it to any model such as the Big Pi! It has proprietary sockets for the expression control, I need to see if there's any way to hook up my Moog EP-2 to this so I can morph between presets. One annoying thing is that if you put it in bypass and forget to save your preset, when you activate it again it loads the last preset and ignores the current knob positions. Haven't read the manual yet though so there might be some tricks to this. Proof of the pudding will be A/B tests with my favourite settings on my usual pedals though, but this will have to wait!

Apple sure jinxed themselves with that 'it just works' slogan, didn't they.

Turned up today and only had a 5 minute play so far, but initial impressions are good. I can get in the same ballpark as my SFT and ODB-3, and as it has 2 presets with a footswitch for each I can more easily switch between tones than I would with 2 separate pedals. It can't replace my Team Awesome Fuzz Machine though, that is a unique one! I still think analog boxes sound better at this stage, but I need to do some A/Bing later and more playing around with the EQ settings, I find I need to scoop the mids ever so slightly on the OFD for it to sound good, but then again that's typical of laying solo. Definitely better than the drive sounds on any Zoom/Korg units I've owned in the past!