Woodinblack

I didn't hug anyone before the pandemic, sure as hell not starting now!

doesnt rumble but I hear it fine out of the headphone socket

And when packing it up for replacement, yes, moving the plug around caused the green light to come on. Still have the no 3.5mm jack issue though

Great, played on a truck a field at a football club. Very busy, loads of people. Only had a short 1hr set, but they paid us as much as when we did a 3 hour set last time so can't complain, even though you only really start warming up after 40 minutes or so. Weather was good after raining most of the morning and afternoon, it cleared out about an hour before we were on. Very enjoyable though, good crowd, stayed on to watch a bit of the band after us (the headliners). Would have been nice to do the dark bit, but then its more of a pain breaking down! Stage sound was terrible though couldn't hear much, I could hear me, bass and vocal but only just the singer and a bit of guitar. I could only hear the drums as I was standing next to them. Asked for things to be turned up and they were a bit but still not great. Still, all things, great to be out there

Did an outdoor venue, attached to a club yesterday. Mainly a young audience, obviously not too many issue for us as it was on a truck, but the bar was in the building, lots of people mingling and packed in without a mask in sight. I decided to skip on the bar! Don't think they were asking for tests!

It does, and I think it looks really good.

Wouldn't it be better if we all PMd and there was one post that was updated, rather than 40 individual posts?

It wouldn't. Although I wouldn't go to a pub!

Indeed - there were a few threads that promised to be interesting but then descended into politics and billy-waving which was a shame. I have the advantage that we don't have any deniers or anything in my group, so we have all had the jabs, although the younger ones only just had their second. We have been practicing in a close-ish space for a few times. The singer and drummer have to do a test every week for their work, and the drummer was ill recently so did some tests that were clear. We have now done one gig that was in an airy marque, and tomorrow we play outside on a truck. None of those have been worrying, but we do have some indoor gigs booked for the end of the month which is more worrying. I figure that in a few weeks the situation may be clearer anyway. We missed a gig because the singers son (11) got it, so he had to isolate, but he did his test and was clear, before and after. We certainly never really asked about testing etc, but it is obviously a very obvious topic so it gets discussed. I think it might become more of an issue as although cases are going down etc, in the last few days going into pubs and shops, there has been fewer masks. In a furniture shop today the guy said 'you can take your masks off if you want' (we didn't want).

Turns out i took a picture of the downstairs wall instruments the other day Oh - forgot to label them. So L-R Ibanez SR5005OL, Ibanez SR1605, Fender Aerdoyne Jazz, Maruszczyk Elwood L24, Ibanez SA36 (I think), Chapman Railboard (34"), Squier CV Mustang.

Indeed - could be any of those issues, but seeing as the unit also doesn't work with the input signal from the 3.5mm jack, it has to go back anyway. If that gets sorted out, and it is something I can use, I will replace the power supply with one with a UK plug, can't be doing with adapters.

I didn't expect you to be going for the low tech approach!

Unavailable?

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