Woodinblack

Geddy lee played a steinberger for a while. That never looked quite right

Yeh, not seeing the point entirely as it has a full length neck and a headstock, so it isn't very short! Keep thinking 'oh its only £100' and then 'what the hell would you want that for when you are trying to cut down!'

Yeh, there is a bit here, probably not for long!

I will wait for the callback, I am not in a tearing hurry, its the weekend and all, so they have monday, but if we get to tuesday and they haven't called me, I will ring again and be a bit more forceful

Not sure how it is a travel bass but anyone seen something like this? Headstock looks old Ibanez style doesn't even look like it is electrical - think I might ask for 100!

The balance is just there on the assumption that you have more than one pickup, if you don't it doesn't matter, it isn't really part of the circuit. As Paul_s says, just connect your pickup to where the balance goes. On the artec it is obvious which pin is grounded on the board (i have put it in a few basses), not that it really matters either way, it is jut a convention.

I know hermes are falling apart a bit, so maybe it is that., I would be happy if they just said they had it or something. Even if I knew something was happening it would be a bonus. At the moment they aren't winning me as a friend!

Don't have a set, I just got the one when they were on sale from bestbassgear.

Still waiting for any kind of response from bax, but at least I got a response from ibanez, which i was quite surprised about. They said: Wow. This looks really bad on the images. I will forward this on to our European network. Simply put – it shouldn’t happen. I’m not sure what has gone wrong here, possibly transit shock or something else entirely, hard to know without inspection – we have not seen any reports of anything like this in the UK. Keep me updated on how BAX are sorting you out – make sure everything goes smoothly for you whatever you decide to do. If you run into any difficulty at all please let me know.

Well, I rang them today about the return of my ibanez. I have emailed them twice, neither of which have produced a response. They said they would send an email to the return department and they would ring me back. I am not watching the phone it has to be said.

I have a big blade in a box upstairs which I have yet to use!

I use the rechargeables from lidl, never had any trouble.

I ordered my last nordy pickup through bestbassgear in the states, was cheaper and came in a week.

I think when he said stomp, he is reffering to the Line 6 HX Stomp.

I have my ibanez on here for cheaper than I have it on ebay.

I notice that the bass gallery put basses up on reverb but they are allways more expensive there, presumably to get their costs back.

To be honest the SRH500 probably has the same neck as the rest of them. The SRs are all basically built around those neck dimensions, I mean when you move to the more expensive ones you get multi laminate, titanium bars and better machineheads, but the dimensions are all the same and overall the feel is the same. Even the SRC6 has a familiar feel to it, closer to an SR bass than an SA or RG guitar neck. Having just bought the most expensive bass I have ever had, I know what you mean about the instrument rather than the music, but there is something when playing alone that inspires you with certain instruments. And yes, I wouldn't take it down the dog and duck, but I would take it to an open air event, or anywhere with a stage. When it comes down to it, my Ibanez 1605 is the one that always stays with me. Its good enough to have all the fancy stuff like the titanium, the nord pickups and the burl, cheap enough not to worry about and non shiney enough to not worry about scratching.

I would also say the barts in the 5005, the american ones are very good.

Im getting some delano pickups next week. Prepackaged in a bass, I will see what they are like then!

Re the big splits / big single. I recently got (and am waiting for a replacement for) my ibanez EHB1505 which had big splits. I have big singles in my SR1605 and 2605, and they were my favouritist pickups ever up until that point. I didn't actually realise the 1505 had big splits because they look exactly the same and sound very similar to the singles - ie, not the same, but no more noticable than the difference between sound of the 1605 and 2605 which are both the same pickups. THe only time I noticed is doing a back to back on sound and noticed that the 2605 was picking up noise from somewhere, most likely monitor noise, I posted on here that it was odd and someone pointed out they were splits rather than singles. So yes, they sound the same but have no noise. I would say I never really had an issue with noise in the first place, apart from getting to close to a valve amp that I rarely use, but with all other things being equal (i don't know prices / availablilty) I would pick the splits over the singles, but not be unhappy if I got the singles!

Or moving ones, that is good too.

They are ok, not quite as good as the big splits, which are now my favourite pickups. Obviously they are single coils and will pickup noise, but not excessively. I have to be aware if getting near my valve amp!

I generally have the opposite feel - I prefer that to the fender which always looked oversized.

I haven't replaced those pickups but I have replaced every bass I ever had with a licenced barolini. I honestly don't know why they licence them. I assumed Barts were just a rubbish brand, and it was only when I heard the barts on the 5005 that I realised what they could sound like. It doesn't them no favours. But I would agree, big splits or big singles all the way.