Woodinblack

Well, yes I worked it out just fine but what is the point providing a manual with a bass that contains no information about that bass? It would be better to have not provided anything as you are just wasting peoples time, it is effectively negative documentation.

I find it a very useful tool, and what I use for most things like that. It has a few little hangups, and it takes a bit of time to get round the keyboard (which is easier on a full keyboard than a laptop), but for what it does it is well worth it for me.

True, although that can be said for many things, how can I prove my ibanez headstock split on its own and I didn't just heat it up and put a chisel in it? Luckily I didn't. However, in this case there is glue on the threads. OK it is possible the user did that afterwards but unlikely. - some times you just have to go on likelyhood.

Those are. I had commented before about their user manuals. The user manual for the EHB contains information on a lot of bridge and control adjustment, none of which exists on the EHB. It doesn't tell you how to adjust its bridge. With humbuckers, the change is different in that you already have two coils connected already, so any other effect is going to be lesser. Its not an issue but it isn't something that can be corrected by an EQ in that although it is a bit of a mid scoop, it isn't reqlly an eq issue. And also only exists at full volume, any change of the volume control will affect it.

I changed my knobs to metal ones, and it only sounded 15% better, and they were east knobs. Mind you I have the nordstrand pickups which are better. I have never been much of a fan of the BH type pickups on ibanezes, regardless of the preamp. In fact none of the licensed barts have worked for me (the actual original barts though are a different matter).

It is indeed. I have had other jazzes that didn't have that issue though. Not fender ones. Most ibanez preamps that I have dealt with have a passive blend. A bit poor of them really, although most of them are pretty obvious. Unless you got it with no wires! I am sure most are on the internet somewhere even if they don't come from ibanez. And to be honest, ibanezes documentation is pretty poor at the best of times.

If the truss rods don't work without carbon rods (which would be odd as most people don't have them on basses), they shouldn't come without them. I wouldn't pay a manufacturer to get another neck if the neck failed due to their issues in the first place, however much I loved the bass! No, clearly not, just a lot less value than it had.

There have been a few more in this thread, but generally fairly good if you don't have to try and get something fixed.

I don't think it will split now. From mine and the ones I have seen, they have split just after purchase / manufacture, so maybe part of the drying out process, or manufacturing defect. So if it is going to break, it breaks pretty early, otherwise it is fine. I do notice that the construction of my replacement neck is different to the original, or at least the woods are (and the new neck is older). Never had that but it would still be a good plan for me to see if I got bored with them! Will have a read when I get the chance - I don't go there often.

It is not a fixed value here, like two perfect waves or a phase difference in a mathematical model. The 2 coils at full volume are in parallel and thus interacting with each other (as well as the strings), and are being presented with different amplitudes and phases of the same frequencies. If you buffer the individual coils, you remove this interaction - all you have is the two waveforms mixed together. This is what I assumed caused the mid scoop - and I know it well, it was quite strong on the geddy jazz I had, but none of my ibanezes and not on my aerodyne. It should be apparent on any active preamp that has individual pickup buffering as well as a standard passive mode (I am not sure if that is how it is done on those pickups).

seems not quite the same, seems to have split on the laminations. but the replacement is fine, so I don't think it is something that is going to happen to it again, I do check from time to time, and there are quite a lot out there. I am not that worried. It has to be said I do have a few other basses, although I am down to my lowest Ibanez count in a long time! It must admit to not knowing much about them, just have one in the Shuker.

The r/c circuit doesn't have much added by the R given there is also an L and a R already in the circuit and quite a complex filter network presented by the lead. but as I said I don't believe the east preamp has much of a passive filter network that would brighten the signal (if any). I presume they didn't want to drill holes in the ehbs. A little puzzled though as to why you would buy a preamp like that for an ehb that already has something very similar. Also why you would spend that much on a preamp and comment on how much better it sounded when it was off!

A resistor wouldn't dull them. It wouldn't brighten them either. Maybe it is what they had so why they installed it I wouldn't replace the ehb pre with the east pre either, it's pretty good on its own - I have an east in my Shuker, only problem going between them is the knobs are the other way round. maybe I could get an east for my SR5005 - not many companies do a 6 knob one though

I don't think all east pickups do that, and obviously they cant in passive. However, maybe they do have some additional resistors between the output and the mixing, which might prevent the scoop.

Mine wasn't a roasted neck though, it is an EHB1505, and it had the same. I think it is a risk with the design, although 3 isn't a huge amount. Still, my replacement has been great and I wouldn't want to be without it! - I posted on that thread, possibly being my 3rd post on that forum!

I must admit to not understanding the average large scale wedding. I guess I am not from that sort of family. Mine was just small, we didn't know that many people and didn't want a big fuss. Went to 3 big weddings in the same year as ours, none of them still married - I don't know if there is a correlation with that, just an observation. I would rather spend a lot less on the wedding and a lot more on the stuff afterwards.

Most active electronics are done after the pickups are mixed together, so they are buffering the sound you would have anyway from the pickups in passive. However, with some preamps you can independently buffer each pickup and then mix them, which would change the loading and interaction between the pickups and change that scoop. The john east preamps do that, but most dont.

Honestly after being locked down for a year, people would even go to a jazz festival. Well, once!

For those who haven't already opened stuff up because they never had the problems we caused, yes. Still to be positive. Considering how monumentally badly we handed it at the start, I am impressed with the way things are going now. Maybe the government ran out of friends to organise it and had to use qualified people? Perish the thought

BD takes VAT off non UK prices for new stuff, but there is no vat on second hand things. Only the UK charges double VAT on second hand items, I don't think there is another country that does it, so he won't have to pay anything else (apart from shipping / handling / having to cross the uk border backhanders etc).

I have seen motorhead 7 or 8 times. They don't feature in the top 3 loudest gigs I have been to!

A 5 in that red colour would be a lovely thing. Luckily I don't think they are the basses for me, and the scale is too big