Woodinblack

Sorry I wasn't too descriptive, I was out waiting outside a shop and my wife came back out! As dad says, this is per key. It is very handy. i don't really play individual keys, I use it for chords such as backing chords - it also has a hold, so you press a key, it plays a chord and holds it until you press another one or the cancel button. Very handy for backing pads / strings etc. Really fills everything out nicely but doesn't involve too much tap dancing. Very useful device. Although I have a Yamaha keyboard for piano playing for a couple of tracks now: PS - that was the first outing, the keyboard is on a holder now so needs less duck tape!

What is an NS pulse then? New on me. I went into PMT today and one was on my wall which my wife noticed. It was a bolt on for over a grand, was wondering if there was anything special about it?

The McMillan 12 step pedals on my pedalboard.

I do foot keys but I also do one track with piano, using a very small piano on my microphone stand! But I literally play the bass with one hand and the piano with the other.

I think (and I am not sure as it isn't clear) that ibanez UK replaced the neck of my EHB1505 when it broke. Hard to tell, noone admitted it or even mentioned it was fixed.

I think that is the covid issues. Mind you - i have got 3 basses since the start of it, ie, basses that haven't been played live. But have also got rid of 3 so we are in a holding pattern. And I might drop the B3n too, don't tend to use it, or change it to a B1-four, just for the battery power.

Heh - thats the only one you kept!

Or do the sensible thing, wait for Al to sell his

Clearly as you play 6, 7 .. 10 string basses, it is a miracle that you can even manage to get out of bed and dress yourself in the morning 😂

I am 5'8 and I never had a problem. i didn't really feel the neck was too far, not like the hofner cricket bat where you are always a few frets out. The only problem really was avoiding hitting the singer with the headstock, obviously how much of a problem that is depends on your singer

I would always make sure that my speakers were rated for the at least the maximum power of the amp. I have blown speakers, but not ones with a higher power rating than the amp.

Yep, they are not good enough to play a 4 so they have to make do. what is a "beginner shape" anyway, are there some patterns you are not allowed to use once you have been doing it a while?

That was often the outside EU case - when my wife used to sell to norway they would order in multiple small deliveries as it would end up cheaper (even though the shipping was initially more). Seems very unlikely that anything is going to change (for the better) any time soon. In fact the UK are due to put their customs in place sometime soon (when they have enough customs officers).

But isn't that 2 packs of strings?

And he didn't end up playing with a P either

I record all mine (and gigs) with my zoom H2n. Quality isn't always great and mixing depends on location, but I find it handy to go back and check things.

Disappointing. Mind you from here there site was always a mess, hard to find information on specific models etc (my no.1 bass is not on their site and it is definitely an ibanez!) The catalogues are useful though. Hope they stay there, although it would be better if you could order parts. Support in the UK has always been patchy, which considering their size is hard to fathom.

Maybe not official moog ones, but equivalent.

I would think it would be crazy to get that when you already have most of it. The stand for two things, the simple mixer and a two way power adapter are small numbers of pounds.

Yes, the batteries are in a container under the normal electronics. that is the model I have although I have replaced the preamp as it was faulty, so I put a glockenklang in there, but if it is working it is fine. They are great basses - rather heavy but that much wenge is never going to be featherlight!.

There has been a mod on the preamp. The original model (which I have), has a 3 band parametric EQ which gives you 6 controls - Bass / Treble / Q / Freq, volume, balance and a preamp bypass switch. Powered by 2 AA batteries it is a bit useless. Well worth a grand though. Later models have the same preamp which is the one from all the premium ones, which gives you Bass / mid / treble, volume, blend, frequency switch and bypass. Well worth a grand. Whatever version it is , its well worth a grand. Difference is - the new one is the 5005OL and the old one is the 5005E Ignore the colour variations - they are both the same

I think I had exactly the same experience with the same guy trying to get a control for the SR1000 (from 2006). Got one from ebay in the end, having said that, even that has gone bad now, these parts are a bit rubbish, but unfortunately where else are you going to get a concentric dual 100k log and 20k lin pot?

Yep, its the way it has always been for some reason.

There were no chip designs or algorithms back in the OC2 day - its standard of the shelf components in a design that is widely shared. https://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/s/oc2-octave.php you could make one yourself. As a result if someone makes a direct copy of that circuit, it *will* be closer to the original than whatever is in the OC5

Not unusual as the primary octave dies faster than the harmonics.