I went to look at your blog and enjoyed your nod towards Pete Hurley. I used to love watching him and his Wal on the Welsh language scene a long time ago.
I just wanted to post so that every time someone answers I can come back and look at the shiny goodness!
I have no experience of the East MM pre but extensive experience of other East preamps and they do everything I want them to do.
I am late to the party on this thread, but I used to think that I needeed one bass to rule them all. I had custom soapbar pickups wound each containing 1 J coil and half a P coil. They are placed very close together so eveything is kind of where it should be. I also got John East to do a tweaked version of a Uni Pre to make the magic possible.
I then learnt two things.
1. I like the sound two J pickups on full make more than a P pickup.
2. Live with a drummer and a noisy guitarist the difference is negligable.
YMMV
I need a recomend for a luthier who is competent to sort out a dodgy piezo bridge on a bass Uke. It also needs earthing. I am happy to put it in a flight case and courier it to wherever. I just want it done right once and for all. Can someone point me in the right direction? I am tired of paying for work which is not right.
Who am I kidding that I will ever use this?
I could give you a picture of the actual unit but it looks like every one you ever saw on the internet ever. It still has the plastic on the screens so you can enjoy that just picked freshness.
Inc box, psu and the dust that I have let collect on it while I kid myself I will get round to it one day.
I have a 66J which is very mature. I had a Bravewood P. If I could get on with a P nut I would still own it. It ticked all the same boxes as my J does. All of them.
For the record I will have "A remark you made" off Heavy Weather, the Hymn "I cannot tell", the Hymn "Mi glywaf dyner lais" (Welsh) and my mate John pumping out "What a friend we have in Jesus" on a steaming Hammond as the outro.