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  1. Keep coming up as below.... ?
  2. I have a similar problem with my passive two pickup bass and a Midas M18 with a Presonus PA. My solution is to use only 2- 3 db of bass boost around 50 hz and 3 dB treble boost around 1 khz to compensate for flat wound strings. Leave the mids alone or use a small boost around 500hz. Do not cut the mids. This solution is essentially a flat eq. It will sound very week in the bass and bright on its own but in my situation it cuts through the band mix.
  3. The link does not work for me.
  4. Unfortunately it's not the bolt that has lost the thread it's the saddle. I will have to find a second hand bridge to use it for parts.
  5. Lars from Schaller got back to me this morning. Unfortunately they haven't got any left. Looks like I will have to check out eBay and Reverb for parts.
  6. Fantastic... Thank you for your help.
  7. Hi... I have an old vintage bass that has a replacement bridge. The E string saddle spacing bolt has stripped and pulled out. I replaced it with a slightly larger diameter bolt that has held for now. Does anyone have a complete bridge or just a saddle that matches this unknown make of bridge. Many thanks.
  8. Send it back.
  9. You could use a passive volume control in the effects loop. This would allow you to find tune the output volume. https://brightonion.co.uk/products/micro-volume-control
  10. https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product-category/effects-pedals/trace-elliot-pedals/ I don't know what to make of the Di... Line level passive Di with 1:1 transformer. Very odd from a so called bass amp manufacturer. Really only suitable for line level low to med impedance gear. Thinking about it, it could be used for an active high output bass?
  11. You are right... The valves does impart a small amount of sound differences. I've used many Brimar valves and find them to sound really good. It is so difficult to find so called good quality NOS valves because even if they test as GOOD in a well maintained and calibrated valve tester there is no guarantee that they are so heavily used that the sound you are hearing ( warm or bright ) is not a symptom of just being clapped out / worn out. I pop a valve in and if the sound is good then it is good.
  12. After many years of tube rolling in high end hifi amps and bass amps I believe valves do not have a given sound. It all comes down to the circuit that the valves go into. For example yesterday I was playing around with valves in my ABM head. A JJ and EH 12ax7 buzzed and hummed like crazy but in a hifi amp they were silent. The JJ was very bright and the EH warm. Next went in a vintage 1980s Marshall that was silent but sounded very thin and bright. I settled on a 1990s smooth silver plate Sovtek 7025 that sounded perfect to my ears. All of the above valves sound very different in my other amps. I firmly believe that it all is down to the circuit that the amp uses.
  13. Custom Compact Bass Cab made from Gallien and Krueger light weight cab with NEW 2 x Jensen NEO Smooth BS 12N / 250A speakers and a custom tweeter. Casters have been added to aid easy transportation. 500 watt power handling at 8 ohms. The build cost was over £400. 48 x 37 x 74 cm. Collection from Torquay. Only £150. Ashdown amp is pictured for scale only.
  14. After a 9 month break from using any amp head because I go straight into my PA for pub / club / function band gigs, I thought about looked around for a suitable head in case I need one for rehearsals or non PA type gigs or jams. For 10 years or more I've used digital heads because of weight saving but always felt unhappy with the sound unless spending well over 1k on more high end heads. I've had Ashdown digital and class AB heads before but never got on with the sound as I was using only active basses at the time. ( Just didn't suit my idea of good sound ) I now use only passive basses so I thought of trying out Ashdown again. I managed to pick up an ABM 400 ltd edition 25 year model for a good price. It's new and came with a large metal flight case and foot switch. Well the sound is perfect for my passive basses and it has all the authoritiy anyone would ever want. I changed the valve from the non descript Chinese crap to a branded Electro Harmonix with a marked improvement in overdrive tone. While I was in there I noticed that the preamp board in labelled ABM 600 and the power board is also from an ABM 600 but is labelled 500 watts. The amp is labelled 600 watts? I've just tried the foot switch and to my surprise and bonus the Compressor button turns on the compressor that is obviously on the ABM 600 preamp board. I can't change the compressor settings as there is not a knob on the front panel but it sounds great for squashing the in coming sound.
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