Woodinblack

The P part of that set is the same as the P that I have just bought and I am very impressed with it, so I would imagine the J part would be just as good. I might have got them for my Maruszczyk but I have a double J pickup on that.

Sadly it has to be a hearing thing, I need to hear one and see how it responds. I have had several people tell me their combustion sounded fine, and maybe it did to them. But I can't believe that the other dingwalls sound the same. Yeh, I wasn't that keen on the finish of the SRFF805, although my wife liked it. I also thought it was a little rough in places, especially the nut and headstock, but maybe because it was the first of its type. That SRMS looks a lot better finish and with something a bit more lively in the engine room it would be killer.

I am hoping so. I would still like a dingwall, but I would have to try it first. I would specifically love a dbird, but I would need to give it a shot. ahh - I got the number wrong, it is a SRFF-4505, missed that 5 out. https://www.musicstore.de/en_GB/GBP/Ibanez-SRFF-4505-SOL-Fanned-Fret-Stained-Oil/art-BAS0007776-000 Seems they may have been japan and america, or very low production levels, if you can find them they are over 2k, but basically a srff with nordys, which means there must be an official pickup for them.

Forgot to mention, there is another option, the SRFF4005 prestige! Never seen one though.

There was no typo in my sentence, was there a typo in your reading? I didn't say 'My' You wouldn't find it that bemusing if you have a look back at my comments about the combustion before. I sold my combustion, I liked everything about the combustion but the output was worse than lifeless. I almost lost an audition because I took my dingwall, ie, the group asked me after a few songs if I had another bass, luckily I took the hohner B2 which I played, which they liked and I got the gig. With the standard pickups whatever they were in that. I couldn't say bad enough things about it. But nordstrand do replacement pickups for them.

Mr nord is quite approachable with these things. There was a discussion on here somewhere about it. Oh looking through messages we had a discussion about this in the beginning of jan 2018! So yes, there were custom orders available, but apparently since then the big splits fit and there is this: https://reverb.com/item/4621629-nordstrand-big-split-pickup-set-fits-ibanez-srff805-5-string-fanned-fret-bass-custom-built Well, yes it would but they are a long way different from each other. A cheap way of getting a dingwall is to get a combustion, which s/h is probably less than 1k (at least I sold mine less than that). They are remarkably different - the 805 is very much like all the other SRs with a slight bend to the frets, it isn't that noticable. The dingwall has a very very different neck and the scale is also very different (especially as it goes a lot longer). It plays very different. TBH, I would like to go the other way. Get another dingwall and put a nord on that to get a decent sound out of it. I might be happier with that. I would say though that if a 805 came up in that finish cheap enough to make it worth sticking a nord on, I would be pretty tempted.

I am the same on those, I got rid of my 805 because of the pickups. It was £300 for a set of nords for an 805 as a custom order, if they had been cheaper I would have kept it.

I have a smoothhound. I have rarely had any problem with it (and when I have it was power supply related), but one of the things I am not keen is connecting it to the bass. It does seem to have a dodgy hinge these days, but it is connected always by a little cable which has to be tied somewhere, so it is a bit of a faff if I want to change bass. Do the little boss things fit in an ibanez? The smoothhound will not really fit in one, well, it sort of will but sticks out and presses against the wood making marks. If the boss thing goes in then I will probably go for having both.

especially with a brass band

I just use the X18 live, which has Midas inputs. Does the job for me. Wouldn't want to go back to a normal mixer.

Frankly high quality opamps are about the cheapest, because they are the most commonly made. The cost difference for components between a high quality circuit and a low quality one is pennies.

Yeh, it doesn't improve the picture!

I quit the course yesterday. The guy can do amazing things but I couldn't really understand where he was coming from and TBH, if I had, it might be interesting that I could use a cm7 pentatonic when someone asked me to solo over a VI-II-V key-change but that is absolutely never going to happen. I don't have the knowledge to get much out of it, or the desire to get the things that it is going to give me. I suppose in hindsight it is a bit of a silly course for me to take, as there is no way I would be interested in listening to a track that he was playing on anyway. But props to SBL for having a cancellation thing.

I could go for that. For me I would want to replace the metal parts with decent cleaned up versions, but I don't mind the wood being like it is.

it was $70 with $11 shipping and £20 customs and royal mail extortion charge, overall i thought it was a good deal as they are at bass direct for £140

I power the HX effects with a normal power supply. It seems fussy though although it takes about an amp. edit - By 'normal', I mean a normal multiway 9v gig power supply, helix HX, smoothhound, voicelive, jamman

I should actually post this here as it is related. This is my elwood l24. It has Hausell (?) pickups, for no other reason than apparently those were the best option when I chose them, but tbh, I was never enamoured with the P pickup. It is ok, but nothing special. So I got an open box deal from the states on a nordstrand P pickups for $70, and at the same time put on some tapewound strings as I was impressed by them at the bass bash. The pickup is great, it has a lot more life to it. Obviously it is hard to do a direct comparison as the strings are very different, but I did try it with a metal string to start with, also I can tell based on the back pickup which hasn't changed.

You know what they say, haters gonna YouTube!

I have had problems before too, which is a shame as I really don't do phoning.

The mic inputs are 2.6k, the lines are 10k, or 20k balanced.

OK, I looked at the spec and it seems they are reasonably high impedance, so ignore me. Yes it would work, although not as well as the proper XLR inputs, and if it was too quiet you could turn the rest down and that channel up at the risk of a little bit more noise, which I doubt would notice live. They are fairly quiet things anyway (mine never really gets round to showing LEDS, not that it matters as you can barely see it for the leads).

Note also that a line input has a very low impedance, which will heavily load any non preamped circuit, and many preamped ones, which is why a microphone input is very important for those things.

It was even prettier in person (well, they also did a green / orange one, but I could live without that), but that one, not just the front, the back. But for me, that fingerboard - there aren't enough painted fingerboards in the world.

Why - where are you going to sell them, cash converters?

I had one of those on my last ebay deal, someone said 'this sale here went for a lot less than you are selling for', to which he got a response of 'well, he got a bargain then, shame you didn't bid on that'. I don't think that is what he was hoping for.