Woodinblack

Thing is with the VB, you can pick them up cheap and all you need is the gk pickup. If your VB goes badly or you want to upgrade, roland / boss still make (have just released) gk pickup compatible systems. Variax parts are near impossible to get, so if you really like the VB and it works, get yourself the SY1000.

Although I am hot on the email thing, I don't expect a business to reply to me outside work hours. My wife runs a shop, it is hard for her to not work outside normal hours but she gets herself stressed about work and doesn't unwind if she doesnt. I might be contacting a few of these people. I have an old '79 Gibson 'the paul' which was resprayed by its previous owner in glossy varnish and slightly darker (which I dislike - I loved that it was plain matte wood. but I got it cheap, so have been thinking, maybe I can just get it refinished in TV Yellow!

The only bit you need is the variax bridge and enough room for all the electronics (which won't be small). If you used your own piezo bridge you would need to do your own impedance matching, or need a separate preamp which would be a bit awkward (a friend did it for a Roland gr system)

If you are an 80s pop band (rather than say NWOBHM) it doesn't seem that much of a stretch request, she was around in the 80s

Yeh, a bit better. Still not a favourite but it is better. Maybe it is just style related, as this sounds fine:

no, I have nothing against many of the tones of a ric. That just sounds muffled and lifeless. I am mostly immune from getting one, ok, ow they have a 5 string but it is still too much for me and apparently heavy? yeh, one of those things once you listen they are good. Still couldn't say it's something I would listen too much but it is fun to play. I would say peg is a bit more of a pub song than josie (hadn't heard it before the suggestion) pretty good, but there are only 5 of us!

Yes, I have seen his thanks, I always see his. I would say he is more a rush fan than anything else, that is what he does most (and also he says he is), also Tony Levin. I saw that after another one.. Which was good for learning the song, although I find it more comfortable to play up the neck but watching what he plays I could translate it further up. Its amazing how we interpret things. I was thinking watching that video what a horrible bass sound he has on that. normally his sound is really good (and I had watched a few others before that, with one of his jazzes, the gould and a status), with any of his other basses, but that is horrible. I guess that is why there are other basses!

been doing Josie by Steely dan as it was the new guitarists choice for a song in my other band. Not really familiar with steely dan (although it is one of my wifes favourites), and can't see why anyone would want to listen to that in a pub but it is interesting to learn if nothing else!

Well, thats a shame, that would have been an easy fix! OK, its hard to see on a picture and the layout I can see on the net is a bit different from the circuit I can see on line, and obviously I am looking straight down, and I don't want to offend by being wrong or 'teaching to suck eggs' but those orange capacitors, I assume they are the normal ones where the cathode (the minus) is marked on the side, some of them the mark seems to line up with what is marked with a + on the layout I can see. I mean one of the ones near the power is, but the other two are in a different place. Although if that is the case I would think you would find out quite quickly! Could that be it?

Indeed - streaming is good, its just making money from them I am not sure I can see. I mean my favourite artists I could pay a few quid to go and see them live, but if I want to see them on the computer I can just go and watch on youtube. Maybe I suppose if they start removing that content. I agree with that, but music used to cost a lot of money, so then it went to streaming, and now you have to stream several million runs of your single to get enough for a sandwich. Its a commodity and it has got really cheap. I am not sure that it is going to be possible for a group to get a load of people to pay enough money to make streaming that profitable. And yes, there are limits which matter for different types of music, some of it is purely the event. Yeh, well I am just in a cover band, I don't really see that there is an option for that in a digital way. I mean we aren't even that good, but we are a good party band. That isn't (and can't) translate well into an online form, so maybe it is time for me to accept that was fun while it lasted and now it is over, and if I am lucky maybe it will come back.

Is it the JKM big bass drive? If so that switch looks nothing like this. Well, the left and middle does, but not the output!

Dawsons did have an online business. I bought my 2605 from there last year (well, year before last).

I used to be a car journey away from PMT in bristol, or Absolute in Poole (although didn't often go there as it is a pain to get to). Now it might as well be the other side of the country!

We don't have anything like that around here. I would go and see it. We have quite a reasonable sized originals scene, although having formed into a collective it is a bit cliquey (no way of avoiding that), but it is largely guitarist/piano singer songwriters doing angsty stinky poo, punk/oi stuff or rock. Nothing that I would want to go and see. There is a guy who is a great guitarist, but that is just instrumental so although it is clever and very good, in the same way as Satriani, I can admire the skill without it really speaking to me. But all of this is very nice and all, but there isn't room in a town for more than one or two venues doing original music, which means the other venues would probably stop doing it. With fewer venues, there are going to be fewer oportunities.

Yeh, maybe it is there for that sort of music. We have a local venue that does that, it was doing ok before the lockdown, although not like the sort of audience you get for a decent covers band. It would be nice to think that. But as soon as this goes back if it does, I don't think that is going to be one of the lasting effects.

I don't know, ordered one from Andertons last year and they told me that there was a 7 month wait. So I cancelled the order! I prefered the look of the mini p pickups compared to the fender ones that just look hashed together

Handy if you are close, for me that is 40 miles further than either bass direct* (where I have never been) or wunjos* in london (where I have) * i have bought things from both of those

Well, you were probably not in the majority, most people have not been going to their local music shop for a long time. Unless you were lucky to live somewhere big, the chances of having anything in a local shop that was more interesting than a sunburst fender, the music shop hasnt been that interesting.

I would say only suited to original artists. There are indeed, but in the large part, a lot of people want to listen to stuff they already know. I know a few groups that have originals and covers, and one group that started as an originals group, but also go out under a different name as a covers group. As the covers group they are booked up for all the big local events. sadly, this. Without established bands and cover bands to keep venues going I don't see there will be enough venue staying open to be there for original artists to be able to make a living.

Oh you mean an inline output capacitor? yes, I was thinking of a parallel one. Yes, that could do it. Either way the thump is caused by a large DC offset on the output when not connected, so there is nothing bringing the output down such as a bleed resistor or something.

Yes, as @AndyTravis said in another thread. strange thing is their website is still up and running with "bank holiday deals" and no mention of it?

I believe the instrument thing, I bought a new bass the other day. But I can't see how there is any money in doing streaming gigs. I can believe that. I was going to get a subwoofer, but there isn't any point until I am gigging again. The bass is fine at home, I have enough amps for my room.

well, there is an autoreply you can put on an email saying 'sorry, we are closed at the moment due to the pandemic, we will get back to you later'. Or someone could just answer they email, if it is their business and they want it working when they reopen.

I would say almost certainly that is the one thing it couldn't be, there would be no pop in that case. its something to do with the part of the circuit that isn't connected gets to build up a charge, and when you switch that part in it discharges through the amplifier input. Something not grounding the output, so the opposite of a short

Fully agree with that, I have spent leads of money dealing with people who can answer email, and saved myself quite a bit buy not doing business with people who couldn't.