Owen

Thanks everyone. It has been suggested that because the preamp is super high impedance for piezo that I could usefully put a 250k resistor across the mag input to lower the load the mags see. Someone else was in exactly this situation and this was done with good results. The bass is wired with a 5 way switch at the moment and that works fine. I had two soapbars made which had one J and half a P in each. Just because I wanted to try. As it happens I tend to stick to the 2xJ option and ignore the P. But you have to try! Again, thanks all for your input.

I like it a lot. How did you do that?

[quote name='mxm' timestamp='1445679398' post='2893287'] Got the Aluma J in my Mex Jazz, more of an aesthetic choice as the bass is refinished in chrome. [/quote] Pictures. NOW!

I decided to take a bunch of my students to see this gig and they all said "yeah!". I then asked them to actually front up and give me the money they agreed to pay and they went "oh". I have 20 spare tickets to sell at face value. These include entry to the Jojo Mayer drum masterclass. Bass content = John Davies playing synthy bass goodness on fretted and fretless bass guitars. Here is a link to the venue page http://www.therubylounge.com/index.php/shows/jojo-mayer-nerve-guest-dj-arkell-hargreaves This is the noise they make [media]http://youtu.be/gnQr0VvF9eE[/media]

Everything is fine but I am seeking advice. I am wondering if I have made a mistake. I have a bass with 2 x J pickups, 1 x P pickup and piezo elements in the bridge. I have put a John East pre in the bass to buffer the piezo and that makes a lovely noise. The passive pickups are going through the 5 way switch and then into one side of the preamp. http://www.east-uk.com/index.php/all-products/mpm-01.html The piezos went in after the magnetic pickups were fully funtioning. In the original pre-piezo set up the magnetic pick-ups were lush beyond. After the piezos were plumbed in along with the preamp I am not sure if I have lost some of the heft of the magnetic pickups. The Piezos sound lovely. I am just not sure if I am experiencing the full lushness of the mag pickups as they were. Would it be possible to wire the bass Vol/Vol/Vol for the mag pickups (2 x J + 1 x P) + passive tone and then have a plain 2 x way switch so that the output is either passive mag or pre-amped piezo? Would the magnetic pickups load each other (I am not entirely sure what I have just asked) in a negative way, that is - would the P pickup mess with the 2 x J pickups if they all had their own passive volume controls and the P pickup was turned off? Would a 2 way switch create a nasty "click" if I went for it mid song? I freely admit that I am utterly cluless in these matters. I know enough to get myself into trouble but not enough to get myself out of trouble

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Whatever tuning you use, the ukes look nice

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1445253977' post='2889918'] coz I'm a shallow magpie gear whore [/quote] My name is Owen and I am a shallow magpie gear whore.

I paid. It came. Most excellent!

This is lush. I am subscribing.