dannybuoy

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!

Horses for courses I suppose - I didn't like the EQ on the Streamliner! The knobs on the Terror do the job for me once you figure out how a passive EQ operates. Treble at 2 o'clock, Mid at 3 o'clock, Bass at 11 o'clock and they pretty much just stay like that! It is a very dark sounding amp though, as is the Aguilar by all accounts. You won't like the Terror if you like a lot of high mids and treble!

[quote name='TG Flatline' timestamp='1391422775' post='2356847']Matt Bellamy has Manson guitars put a Fuzz Factory (also Fuzz Face-based) directly in some of his guitars so he can still use his wireless but get the best out of his fuzz too. That's not exactly the cheapest solution though, granted![/quote] I never knew that was the reason but now it all makes sense!

Logitech mouse with the free rolling mousewheel? If so try clicking it into the other mode where it moves in steps.

There's not been much noise about this pedal lately... but my curiousity got the better of me so I just ordered one from Bass Direct. I'm quite picky about my drive pedals and never got on with any digital ones before so lets see how this fares! It gets great reviews over at TB, if it gets the thumbs up from johnk_10, who has cloned and built nearly every drive pedal under the sun, it must be alright! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaHPsHtvdL4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUJ30QGm-Nw

Don't cables only need to be PAT tested if they are a certain age? I worked at a company once where the IT guy claimed it was cheaper to bin our old cables and buy new ones than it was to get them PAT tested!