Woodinblack

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No, I am wrong, the current 3EMV5-S part appears to have solder connections, so maybe it was just the first few that had plugs? Yep, just checked mine, soldered there too.

Interesting. When you buy that assembly from Ibanez it has two sockets in those positions, maybe they ran out in production, or changed it. Well, that kind of makes it easier to change the pickups on there then if you just have to solder to the balance board. I see they use the same cheap pots they always use!

Yep, 14V on the charger (came with an adapter, using that). Light doesn't go green and I left it charging all day. Light only seems to do blue, although once I am convinced it did flash green at me. Doesn't sound promising.

OK, took mine to a practice, from fully charged (I think, the charging light doesn't work) it lasted an hour, most of which was just feedbacking. It doesn't work with an aux in. So far not impressed!

<Checks calendar> hmm

Thats right, but Neil Peart was busy at the time.

Well, you can crimp some connectors on to put them in the old plug if you want to be neat, but if as you say they are soldered, I assume they would be soldered to the balance pot, so shouldn't be an issue. ok, so I was curious and looked. The Ibanez EHBs (all of them) use the 3EMP3LD preamp module (and a few other related parts). The pickups go to two plugs on the back of the balance board (3EMV5S), one 2 pin plug for each pickup. The balance board connects to the volume board and it in turn goes to the preamp. There is no soldering to be done on any of those boards. If you don't want to make a plug you can cut the old pickups off and connect the new pickup outputs to the old plugs and plug them back in, but obviously that can be done out of the bass, so it would be pretty risk free.

Really? That is very unusual for ibanez, they are normally plugged into a circuit board with molex plugs. I wonder why they have done these differently? I haven't had a cause to open it up yet.

Does ringo actually play the drums any more? I haven't heard of him doing anything drum like for a while.

Coincidently I have had people tell me that I sing much better when *they* have had a few

Thin end? until a few decades ago, we forced women into marriage as the only way they could own property which was their detremement. We forced them to dress a certain way that was to their detriment, and they were half the population. Now a couple of people have got to get a vacine and that is the thin end of the wedge making them do something??

Our singer says that. He is completely wrong, he is much better when he is totally sober, but I guess he isn't as stressed when he has had a few drinks

There is no way of telling who has the minority view. I have never heard anything that CW is doing that in anyway seems better than even some of the drummers I have played with. He seems competant and ok, and obviously a lot more experienced than when he started where he was basically just in time. I don't see how many drummers (let alone NP) couldn't do what he does at least as well. I just don't care enough to argue about it in a 'my dads bigger than your dad' sort of debate like this one

I would disagree with this one. I don't like locking jack sockets, so I removed the spring on mine. So I suppose you are right, it got much easier to use! Mine aren't that stiff, or hard to do fine adjustments. They are stiffer than normal machineheads thought, and I think that helps with the stability. They really are rock solid tuning. I would say that is pretty convenient. Most active basses don't have a passive tone control, so you are getting on thrown in free. I don't ever switch to passive so I have no idea what the impact is like but it still seems like a bonus there.

Indeed - heavy lobying by a few powerful people and you get something which is a pale shadow of what you had 8 months ago back, result!

Well, hope he is ok, but I would mention that in 50 years ZZ Top only had a Dep for Dusty Hill once. Last week.

One thing is clear, neither of them like not being at the back!

But that is a hell of a start! On the other hand, I have heard many cover bands do stones songs well, and when they haven't it has always been the guitars or the vocals.

Looks like a Wal to me - mk II or something. -- edit Yep - a wal active - he mentions it and that video on his website (Leo Lyons)

The BB - the others seem a bit flat.

That is always my second search. You think I would know by now!

Because it is an old track it is quite muffled in the mix:everlasting-bass.mp3

Yep. I get it every single time if I do a search and then click the 'all of the terms' button, or if I refine the search at all. But I do type quite quickly

Yes, I always get that, it wasn't an update thing, its just the way the site works.