Woodinblack

And of course "Play oasis!" "No sorry, the bass player won't do it"

"No, I have never heard it" - "Oh come on, its easy!" Almost always, apart from once. "Oh get her to sing with you, shes great" "oh god another one, go on then" <starts singing> Wow.. can we keep her?!

haha - exactly the opposite of what people have been saying here. So not a signature at all, just a artist tie in, like the fender signature model 'what colour would you like your signature P bass to be, you can have black white or sunburst'

Sorry, I didn't realise you only knew how to use presets!

Well, at least they want to discuss your equipment not some other totally random thing, that is sort of a bonus. He missed out the person who wants to have a discussion with you while you are singing, and the person who wants to shake your hand while you are playing

I don't think we could even tune at 86dB!

So you did! Well, he officially announced his new Ibanez signature today, so I am guessing his trusty Wilma gets to retire

Haven't played mine for a while, need to start applying some guitar stuff to it

Certainly if it was broken you would. Or not designed to run at 18v. I am talking about flat. If you turn the bass up to +18dB or something then yes, you would benifit from the headroom, although probably your amp would be probably be clipping it anyway.

No, well if you only have a short lead you are only using the lead from the bass to the floor in your tone circuit and probably not getting too much noise, especialy if you have a good cable. Having a preamp means you don't have to worry about the cable (well, obviously, doens't help if the lead is actually faulty!). It is uncontroversial that some gain circuits work with more voltage, if you are below a certain point. If you are 9v with a decent preamp that would give you +/- 4v swing and without maxing out a bass control, your bass never gets even close to that, so having a +/- 8.5v swing on an 18v preamp isn't going to help. For reference, the original preamp in my Ibanez SR5005 prestige was 2 AA batteries, and you couldn't tell the difference between active and passive with the controls flat. Now replaced, but not for that reason (the mid sweep and treble were non functional) But yeh, it is just one of my bugbears. Many people like the sound of the RC network created by a guitar lead and the input you have plugged your bass into fine, and yes, it will generally be a bit softer, and that is fine. A decent preamp (used as a buffer) will give you the actual tone of your pickups, and without the filtering they can be too harsh. That is why many wireless systems give you a 'lead simulator' as they will give the same output as an active bass as they don't have the loading.

If so, why would it have a preamp? Tone shaping, yes, agreed, I don't tend to use mine, preamp? never. I don't want to hear what the tone circuit created by my lead is, I want to hear what the pickups are doing. If I don't want that much treble I will take it down in the amplifier, not just accept whatever my lead wants to do. And genuinely, if you can tell the difference between an 18v and a 9v preamp, one of your preamps is broken.

Don't see it mentioned on here, although I am sure I wrote about it, I notice in previous posts on here I mentioned that my smoothhound jack plug was loose. Well, it fell apart leaving a gig when I was tearing down. The side of the plug came out. Talked to chris at smoothound and for £20 he replaced all the metalwork and sent it back to me. it is perfect now.

I think I mention mine somewhere around here, it was a Vitos 8 or something? has 6 9v, and a 12/18v switchable. It is pretty good, but what I woudl really like is a mains powered one, rather than a 'wall wart' power supply, I have already lost one of those by the singer jumping on it. I have a separate box where I took the power supply apart and embedded it under the case so now it is fed by an IEC cable, but now I also have to plug the helix in too, as after a couple of hours if I power it from any power supply i have, it dies. Is it too much ask to have a mains powered isolated 4-6 9v 300ma, 9v 1a, 1 12v 1a, one 12v 2a power supply for less than £100? Seems it is!

That isn't an isolated supply though, it doesn't even claim it is an isolated supply. That is just a multiway power supply, like many others. As I said in my 3 year old post you quoted, I got an isolated supply and it sorted the noise out.

Jon has just come out with a new single actually (in the last week or so). Also he has an ibanez signature guitar coming out.

Not sure, the broken one is later. Looking through the photos I took on the first day (in fact the first one on this thread) I realise the crack was always there but for some reason I hadn't noticed it. Whether it became bigger or not later, it wasn't something that started when I had it. Seems odd that the second neck would actually be different wood / construction, its the same model and everything.

Always a shame, it is easier to keep customers than get new ones. I have personally never had particularly good dealings with them, and they aren't a place I would use for anything that I couldn't get anywhere else.

They come with an adaptor in the box.

And now I look the replacement (older) neck I have has a different construction to the original (newer) neck, the original one had light woods on the side and narrow spacing on the laminations, this has wenge on the side and wider laminations.

Nope, they are genuinely isolated. Back (probably when I wrote that), I had the zoom B3 and the Smoothhound. They could not co-exist on a non isolated board. I still have the smoothound, but the zoom is gone, and have a helix. Can't get that powered off anything other than its own supply so now a bit irrelevant.

Yes, its not the most obvious thing, but here, pick the pink bit or the yellow bit!

There are certainly options for which side you want when I look, who are you getting them from?

And today, I have had it back fixed, with a new neck (an older neck, the serial number is on the neck on all modern ibanez). Or maybe I have a new bass with an old body. Anyway, as I mentioned the B string wasn't as good as the 2605, I can say the B string on this new neck is really bright and punchy and nothing like the other one. Initial unplugged impression is that it is better than the SRs. So I suspect that as that crack was on the B string anchor, that the problem that caused the crack was there before the crack appeared.

Oh, I wish I hadn't looked that up.

Wow. That has to be a winner of this competition!