Woodinblack

Although you solved your problem, whether it is plugged in or not makes no difference to the effect the pickup has on the strings.

I didn't, although I like to think I have some humanity and not convinced we can establish others humanity based on a music video. I do however fully support the idea behind it and hope it does well.

And yamaha actually make proper instruments as well, not just things like guitars and basses

Embarassment is fine as long as the joy is good enough. And on the plus side, if it had worked first time, the joy would have been not nearly as good!

Odd, I would think anything coloured looks like a 70s kitchen.

Yay!

Yep, all of that is right, it odesn't sound like they should be dead. Active pickups (which I should point out are not common and normally always EMG), would have a 3rd wire on them for power. Note that all an active pickup is that the preamp (buffer) has been potted into the actual pickup, the advantage being you can use a lot less wire and have less colouration if you buffer it straight away. So it is unlikely you have active pickups. However, if you connect the two wires from the pickup to the output socket (or the jack itself), and those wires are going to the sleve and tip (and also note that the jack socket will be stereo, so will have a ring which will be shorted by plugging a mono jack plug in). Just for clarity, if you wire the pickup to the jack and plug a jack cable in, the end wires of the jack plug that you would plug into the amp must have exactly the same resistance as measuring across the pickup, as there is nothing else connected. Its because it wouldn't make any difference. The output of an active pickup is the same as the output of a passive pickup (from the POV of the preamp), the only difference is the active pickups would also need power. None of this is dumb, and everything is making sense so far, other than why your pickups are in the state that they are. Until we establish if the pickups are working, there is no point looking at the pre-amp, as it needs something to amplify!

Yes, some pedals react differently - I don't have any high output active basses since I got rid of the G&L (which was actually just a high outpiut, whether it was in active or passive), alll of mine are pretty standard. The SY-1 didn't seem to care much what went in it, responded well to everything.

It is remarkably uncommon for a pickup to break, so for both to break, very very uncommon unless something bad happened to them, but as they are just coils of wire, there is not much bad that can happen to them. In the circuit for this bass it says they are just 2 wire pickups, is that true, or are there more than that?. Really, the only thing that is essential is that they fit. beyond that, it is whatever you want in a pickup.

You can get some pretty cheap pickups.

In the first instance, I would connect each pickup directly to the jack terminals to check they work, or if you want to do both together, connect to just the balance board. if that doesn't work, there is no point trying the preamp and it could be dead

String count, and weight are probably the only fixed ones. Oh and string spacing, has to be less than 17.5 or so. But beyond that, it depends very heavily on the bass. Lots of things I like or don't, but nothing I would say never on.

at the moment I use different patches at different times, but I am currently using a couple of organ presets in some specific songs (in fact, old songs), they work really well. I have got a great patch for perfect strangers, but we dont' play that Not sure what that means, there is no triggering as it is not a volume based on off thing (although it uses volume). Don't think I have ever played it with a passive bass, but I have no idea why it would be any different.

There is only one 'power section' on the ABM600 (I think the misprint / confusion here is that the 1200 has 2 x 600) , the sockets are both parallel. If you plug a 4 ohm cab into one, you have a 4 ohm load. If you plug 2 8 ohm cabs into the sockets, you have a 4 ohm load (which is what I do). if 2 x 4 ohm is used, you will be running at 2 ohm, which it is not rated for

I think to people saying about having a sub, I have one (a cheap one) and it is great at adding the lows, but it certainly takes it out of the first word of the OP. I think one of the key things of the topic peopel are missing is compact. You have gone from 2 speakers to 2 + at least one additional heavy awkward sub. I dont' even take mine most of the time due to the weight and additional things to carry.

but presumably you are putting guitars and vocals etc through it too? I can't really comment, my PA isn't up to your budget levels!

I am not sure that anyone really has issues with the inlays, there are a lot of people customising theirs, mine are standard as they are fine. Its a matter of preference. Pickups also, it depends on what you want. I am not a fan of the barts particularly, but it is a choice. My only non standard bits (although mine is a 1505) are the knobs and the jack socket mods, because I fancied metal knobs and I don't like locking mods.

Only 20%, I would have thought it should have been more than that!

I think of it also as contract. If you pay to go to see a group, if one of them dies, you contractually can't complete that tour, its not possible. If for instance it was a solo artist in the name, and one of them died, that would be different, as long as it wasn't the solo artist. So for instance, When Entwhistle died, they continued the tour. If I had been going to see it (which obviously I wouldn't) the only part I would have wanted to see would be him so I wouldn't get what I paid for, but to cancel would leave me out of pocket. I am sure whoever they got to replace him could do the job. But on their subsequent tour, I would have bought those tickets in full knowledge of who I would see, so at that point I would get what I paid for. I mean this is rock and roll, lets not try and con ourself that whatever group we like you couldn't get another entirely different group of musicians to form a group that would sound exactly like those people so that you wouldn't be able to tell at a gig it wasn't them. Its the personalities you are going to see.

Which is probably why we see a lot of 'band called off and can you play on saturday' posts in our local area Hope to be better by our next gig on saturday (although I feel fine - I will test closer to the time)

Couple of months is fine, and also they were a young group and I think it is very different at that stage. Scandalised? Why does everyone go from 0 to drama queen these days? Who the hell is scandalised? Noone is telling anyone anything, they are providing an opinion which is kind of what a forum for.

My daughter works for a company that imports a lot of japanese stuff, and they have the same problem, nothing being imported from japan at the moment.

I have one as a replacement in an ibanez 5005 as the preamp was half dead. Its been a pretty good replacement, it is quiet and versatile. I am pretty happy with it.

Probably mostly his own. In my book, someone dies in the band, tour is off, there isn't really much of an option beyond that. On the OP, its only later (in fact after this thread started) that I really got to hear some of entwhistles lines, as I had to do who covers. I still don't like the Who, but some of the bass lines are fun to do.

I thought the FI was great, and very powerful, but for a gigging situation, the only one on my board is the SY200