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  1. Woodinblack
    I was sure someone did so did a search the other day, couldn't find it!
  2. Woodinblack
    Yes, Ibanez AGB205 artcore. I have been after one for ages but they are hard to find in 5 strings and when they do turn up they have a tendency to be pricy. Would have prefered the vintage one they do, pre-dinked, but this is good, and certainly looks nice. Picked it up this afternoon, haven't spent much time with it yet!
  3. Woodinblack
    Ultimately you can make a simple approximation of an 8 (and a not particularly good approximation of a 12) with effects, but it will never be quite the same.
  4. Woodinblack
    New short scale bass to the fold, been looking for one of these for a while!
  5. Woodinblack
    Oh yes, and happy birthday for yesterday!
  6. Woodinblack
    Well, if it goes well for yours, I will follow your instructions on it
  7. Woodinblack
    Well, unless you fan the frets which might be a lot of work, it isn't going to look like an ehb1005sms! But they are great basses for the price, they aren't heavy (but headstock heavy). Look forward to see what you do with it.
  8. Woodinblack
    Not even vehicles, proper orchestral instruments start at the prices we stop at!
  9. Woodinblack
    Are you talking about me? I am not a mod so I assume not, but I don't see any mods telling you anything, so a bit puzzled. Are you flouncing off because i don't agree with your views on battery voltage? really? wow...
  10. Woodinblack
    Generally a few hundred pounds, but I did buy one once for £1600, so I guess that. I did buy one for £2000, but that wasn't new. I can't imagine buying anything new at that sort of price - it would presumably have to be something custom as anything off the shelf could probably be got second hand.
  11. Woodinblack
    Well, yes, if a preamp was designed to run at 18v then it won't be working properly at 9. in the same way as if it was designed to run at 9 it wouldn't be working well at 18, so not sure what the point there is. If it was designed to run at everything from 9 to 18 then unless it sounded exactly the same at 9 as it did at 18 it would be non functional or faulty. And sorry - but why would distortion increase if you are running a preamp at 9v? and why would a linear amplifier be compressing in the first place? what kind of a crazy preamp are we talking here, or am I missing something? There wouldn't be any compression (if it was a fet based circuit) or distotortion (if it was a transistor based circuit) unless you are getting close to its headroom. If most preamps are using something akin to an tl081/2/4 they can work up to within .6v of their supply rails, so on a 9v battery that is 3.9Vp/p, or on a 18V circuit 8.4Vp/p. what kind of pickups are you putting into this? ok, I had missed the point where you said it was an 18V only circuit, so fair enough if that is the case, yes it will need 9V. Its just something I hear very often about people having a 18V circuit for 'headroom' Are they? Which pickups are these? Passive pickups straight into an active circuit with almost no loading I guess could get higher. Maybe a big humbucker with big magnets and a lot of turns (like the old super distortion plus pickups). I guess the G&L MFD pickups go higher, and maybe the warman pickups if you really hit them.
  12. Woodinblack
    I would also say that Lee Sklar has 18V on his as he has a separate battery for each pickup. I do like the 2 P pickup format, especially this way (the right way) round.
  13. Woodinblack
    Is that true? I know people say it but 9v is a hell of a headroom for a signal that rarely goes past 1v peak to peak, hard to imagine such a poor design for a preamp if that is taking it anywhere near its limits. The original SR5005 preamp I had was 3V and it didn't have a problem with bass (replaced it as the treble control had failed).
  14. Woodinblack
    never had a problem with my ibanezes (which is a surprise as I have had other electrical problems with them), although the EHBs have barrel jacks they are a very different type, and much bigger than normal - I would expect them to survive longer.
  15. Woodinblack
    Hidden a load of posts - remember people this is a sale post, if you don't like it or you think its value isn't right, you can PM the OP or even comment on the other post on this, but sales posts are just for sales.
  16. Woodinblack
    Still like my DX - don't have room for bigger and find it pretty flexible. Always wanted the organ one too, but after I got mine they started getting more expensive and I got an argon (mistake as it is too big outside, too small inside)
  17. Woodinblack
    Not sure that is true of the switchcraft jack I got for the RST, it had big enough tags and holes in for the wire to go through.
  18. Woodinblack
    Hell of a drive otherwise!
  19. Woodinblack
    GLWS - I would have bought it if it was a 5 stroke
  20. Woodinblack
    They seem, for whatever reason, a bit of a week spot. Some go on for ever, some fail really quickly. I have had to replace the one in a Spector RST (intermittent contact), which is a 2k bass that came out a year or two ago, but at the same token, my other spector is from 1990s and its barrel jack is going fine. Use a quality make, it makes no sense to use a budget barrel, Really don't get what it is about the construction that makes them so poor as the cheapest of flat jack sockets will go on for ever.
  21. Woodinblack
    Very well done, but.. ooh, a bass solo, I guess that means the bar is open!
  22. Woodinblack
    Mine just floats around. Often does the floating anchor thing, but sometimes just wanders across all on its own!
  23. Woodinblack
    I had a musicman sub that was also < 17mm
  24. Woodinblack
    I still have a TMB35. Haven't done much with it apart from fixing the electronics (which came prebuggered) which for a sub £200 bass was good. I did get some foil to shield the internals, but tbh it is only the jazz pickup that is noisy and it doesn't really bring much to the party. It is great fun to play, the string spacing is a bit wide for my preference, and the neck chunkier than I am used to, although getting used to it with the spectors. I have played it live quite a few times, it sounds good - or at least the P pickup does. I wouldn't call it particularly heavy, but it is head heavy, and could do with losing its ugly headstock (I think someone on here modded it to be headless). But it is a great bass to have around, there aren't that many short production 5 strings (I am picking up a ibanez AGB205 next week that I picked up in an auction) around, especially not at that price, which also puts it in the 'not worth selling' category which is ideal!
  25. Woodinblack
    The ehb series (as people have mentioned) defaults to 18mm, but you can change it to make it wide, but the BTB is ibanezes wide string range, anything from the BTB range will work for you (although note that they are also 35" scale)
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