NancyJohnson

Never had an issue, never knew that it was a thing, either. In hindsight, I genuinely adored the bass; I loved how quirky it was. Honestly wish I'd spent a bit more time under the hood. It was way too hot.

I think Lee Voss does this in spades - he's incredibly fluid in what he does.

I used to love the Anderton videos back when it was Lee and Nathan King; there was genuine chemistry and banter from a pair of exceptional players and I really miss that. Now it's all a bit meh. By observation, CiCi (well, if You Tube videos are anything to go by), appears to have decentish chops, but there's really very little evidence of this in any of the current bass-centric Anderton output.

Need to get a new soldering iron. FFS.

At present, it's just a bit of soldering. The tiny size of the tabs on the pot is a bit of a ballache; god knows why I can't find something that isn't Hornby sized.

Still not working. Because the pot connections are so tiny, I extended the black/ground and wired them all together, then took this to the ground and then out to the jack socket. (Does anyone actually make a pot with large tabs and a long shaft? I need a screw thread of about a centimetre.) Any ideas?

One thing I'd watch for is that when you're trying to hit a D, you'll get an F. 😀

I think it's time for another shoot out!

Everything is here, but arrived too late to get it sorted. Tomorrow. In a moment of clarity/madness, I ordered a pack of Dupont connectors, which I can strip back and use for connecting everything, limiting the amount of soldering I'll need to do.

I'm about 20 minutes from where Colin usually puts it on and about ten minutes from @cetera. Usually pick up Andy @Wolverinebass en route as well. Taxi!

Matt - I've got a spare room if you need an overnighter.

I was sent a link to a video of his a couple of years ago and was asked, 'Can [you] do something like this in the next lot of recordings?' When I said no, the guy I was working with asked if I was jealous of the bloke's talent. I just replied it was beyond my ability, not really musical and whythefeck did the bloke have d-tuners in every string? There's no doubting the guy has machine-like ability/accuracy, but it's showboating; the bass equivalent to keepy-uppy, or snooker trick shots, or those knobheads shredding in guitar shops (although to a global audience as opposed to a few guys buying strings). I've not investigated anything beyond a couple of videos. No idea whether he does band stuff, not really bothered/interested to be honest.

I have a small hole in the bass body that allowed switching between active/passive on the old John East circuit; I was going to use that for an on/off switch. No worry, I'll just put the new switch in and leave it unconnected. Thanks for your input chaps!

I'm a bit lost here. With the stereo socket, I can still use a regular cable?

Everything is getting a bit of a mess and covered in solder, so I've pulled everything out except the mids/bass pots. I'm going to put an order in for new wire and a bloody stereo socket. This was supposed to be a 20 minute job. What a load of arrrrrse! 🤣

Stereo jack? Gadzooks.

I'm starting a new thread here - sorry if this gets too wordy. I'm trying to install a Darkglass Tone Capsule into a bass with two pickups and three potentiometer holes. Struggling. I've had a short exchange with @KiOgon about this too. As I have insufficient holes to accommodate the wiring, I'm wiring the pickups to a concentric pot, the two mid controls from the Tone Capsule to another concentric pot and (just to keep things tidy) the bass control from the same unit to one half of a concentric pot. Nothing fancy or stupid. The black and shield wires were already soldered together by Lull. I've sorted the pickups, wired as follows - if I connect the black and yellow wires to the output jack, all is well; output is fine, no buzzing (even without the ground attached to the bass's grounding fixture). The tone capsule (and wiring) looks like this; in theory, I should be able to take the yellow from the above (hot out) and screw it into the 'Audio In' below, the battery is straightforward enough (you'd think). I'm assuming 'Input Jack shield' (the black wire) is from the ground : I've spent about three hours today trying to get it to work and all I'm getting is zero...it's been getting to the point where I've just tried hooking things up with Wago connectors! The schematic below is off the Darkglass site - the black and yellows off the pickups is essentially all handled by the concentric pot. Does the 9v black go to the jack tip or shaft? Need a beer.

Here's mine: All the old Nancy Johnson/Who Killed Nancy Johnson? stuff has dropped off Spotify, but there's one track up on Soundcloud (Christmastime Has Come To Town), which I've posted below. I may investigate putting them up again at some point. The stuff lower down (96DB/Eddie Roxy/Lizard Sweets/Lutz) are all fairly current projects. Ninety Six Decibels: Eddie Roxy & The Adjacent Kings (this is an old Ninety Six Decibels song): Lutz: Lizard Sweets:

I'd concur...my Lull has a sublime B.

Bongo 5HH. Honestly one of the best basses I've ever owned.

I've seen Aerosmith a few times, sadly most were a massive disappointment. I had an opportunity to see them in the late 1976 at Hammersmith Odeon; I was besotted with my mates sister, older than me, she was. My mum was working in Shepherds Bush for a few days and swung by the box office and bought me two stalls tickets. Sadly, my mates suster turned me down. Ack.

Absolutely great call on the heatshrink. I just had a quick test...requires a couple of short lengths to cover the individual shafts and applied one after another. Works a treat. Brilliant! Cheers!

Just bought some concentric pots (with solid shafts) for a project, I would have liked to have used some existing knobs but they're a little too big. The concentric pots have 3/16th" and 1/4" diameter shafts. I ordered some Allparts brass sleeves SKU# EP-0220-008 which will appear to fit, but beyond this, what's my option?

The John East unit is out and I'm just waiting for the Darkglass Tone Capsule is incoming. Going to test both 9v and 18v before deciding which to sick with. I did get a reply from Chris Kollias at Darkglass along with schematics, pots, Dupont connection details etc. I've not really found anything online that helps with wiring this unit into concentric pots, so if nothing it might be of some help to future installations elsewhere. Thanks to @Hellzero and @KiOgon (who has offered remote assistance).