Al Krow

Snooze over a BBQ... but what a great way to be spending Easter on a day like today! 😎 Well you could maybe console yourself with an almost new BB734A in the FS, which is on for a good price. I suspect you may love it Interestingly the BB5000A that Andy mentioned a few posts back doesn't seem to be shifting quite so quickly...

Really sorry to hear about the OA Mark, that's rough.

Be nice to Cuzzie. Be nice to Cuzzie. Be nice to Cuzzie. Be nice to Cuzzie...

Swapping the Nordstrand pups out on the SR Premium range would be an expensive and totally retrograde step in my opinion. YMMV etc.!😎

Haha, you must be getting old if you're forgetting so quickly. But seriously Cuzzie, correct me if I'm wrong on any of the following: you play your basses almost exclusively in passive mode, you don't own a Yammy bass and you're not actively gigging? So dishing out advice to someone who's doing the opposite on all three counts would seem a bit odd to me.

On a more serious note: being able to tweak EQ knobs beats presets on a Stomp, every time, when you have several gigging basses plus a couple of different cabs and here's the killer point: different venues and three different band line ups. Try programming that on a Stomp!

Haha! (Except I've avoided horses as well. Apparently 4 times deadlier than motorbikes in terms of serious injuries). When you play more than one gig a year, get back to me on that.

Yeah know what you mean about lusting after a John East Pre. Seems that the Ibby 1206 isn't the only bass that's defeated ol' John boy from installing his preamps from my recent discourse on the Yammy thread!

Yup - getting a programmable pre-amp with a setting for each bass I'm using does sound like a good way forward, although less tweakable on the fly, as the Cuzz entirely correctly notes. Helix Stomp, for sure. Fortunately my post Stone Age (and also post Stone Roses) active basses all have 3 band EQ and they do work well for me. I appreciate some may question my lack of a decent Attitude here.

Haha - love it! Going on my epitaph together with 'generally apathetic'.

Tbf that's not such a hardship (speaking as a fellow Ibby lover) and a lot less painful, particularly as you'll only be able to use a 'local' if you're doing the surgery DIY. Kidney + Ibanez 1206 = Alembic : I think most audiences may not appreciate the price you would be paying for your art. It's just the way of the world in this modern shallow era... Should be able to get minimum wage for paper rounds, these days, or does that still not apply?

I generally wouldn't recommend getting rid of any of the others. Have you considered doing a paper round instead?

Excellent, that's what I was hoping to hear, thanks!

So your Appendix then? 😂

I've just amended the earlier post, as it was clearly causing a bit of confusion - a BB 5000A is not yet in the Krow household and if the answer is 'no' in terms of being able to swap in something like the John East pre, may never be.

I would have bought mine back, but it wasn't for sale (for good reason, it's a LOT of bass for not a great deal of money, and the guy I traded it with had the biggest grin on his face when he first tried it out in the PMT Store where we met to do the deal). I got another of the same model instead... ...which I'm looking forward to getting my hands back on soon But it has directly resulted in the another, albeit 4 string version of the bass, being bought by the guy it's on loan to he's been so impressed! So I guess my original sale has resulted in two direct and indirect replacements?!

+1^^ Mine are on my Ibby 1206 and 1825. Just great! Now here's my Q: I'm looking for some quality hum cancelling P/Js and I came across these Nords, which seem to hit the mark in terms of a punchy P and that Nord growl in the bridge J https://nordstrandaudio.com/collections/5-string-pj-bass-pickups/products/npj5s-hum-cancelling-set Be interested if folk have any views on these? @Marcoelwray - appreciate that you're not a fan of P pups and prefer passive, BUT if you could potentially 'hold your nose' and get hold of these, what price could you get them for?

@blisters on my fingers Thanks - neighbours are fine, I'm lucky to have a 'bass-ment' for making noise and my desktop computer (upstairs) is accompanied by a decent set of headphones! Glad I'm not going entirely mad today! Seems my 'glitches' and queries are fairly standard ones - and my stuttering start above may hopefully prove useful to others thinking of downloading EZ2, who haven't yet done so.

Fixed? Agreed!

Ah so I found a typo but just in the wrong place 😁 Have a word with @krispn - he knows a thing or two about Dingwalls. Sounds like you and I have a plan then which is to get a decent used SRMS805, install some Nords and save ourselves £2k on getting a Jap / US only Prestige. IMO the SRMS805 actually looks a LOT less dull than that Prestige anyway!

To the great and good on this thread: could a Yammy BB 5000A be realtively easily modded to take a John East Uni-Pre 4? The John East has 3 band EQ, sweepable mids and active / passive modes. If so, I think I may just have landed on the idea for something that may be close to an ideal P/J bass for me! Just to be clear the BB 5000A below is not in my possession (it's just for illustration). I'll be looking to get one if the answer to the modding question is in the affirmative, as it will give me a fall back if I find I'm missing the flexibility of a mid boost and the ability to switch between active and passive.

Aha indeed - what comes of trying to read 'the small print' quickly eh?! That's not a good story at all! I presume the higher end Dingwalls have better pups? Nor me. Doesn't seem to be any mention of these on their website either, so I guess it's a discontinued product?

Any ideas on how good the DSP is as compared to the Helix?

@Woodinblack Cheers Woody - was that a typo in your first sentence? "My nord is quite approachable..."? I'm slightly bemused that you rate the Nords so much more highly than the Dingwall pups as well!