Killed_by_Death

Well, if you're going to look, search on NUAGE & D.A.R.K.'s posts, those are the 2 East pre advocates. It started innocently enough: them: A new preamp is your solution to the BH2 pickups in your EHB10xx model me: change the pickups, you don't like the sound of the pickups them: but the East pre improves the sound of the BH2 pickups me: technical reasoning why that's not really true them: but it does, I can hear it, even in passive setting One even reasoned that the East components conduct Electricity better, so I was done at that point.

Ibanez uses A/C taper blend-pots, & isn't the Aerodyne a P/J? Also, if there's a passive switch position, it's using a passive blend, so there won't be a difference. From looking at wiring diagrams of some BTB Ibanez, they have used active blend on some preamps, but I'm not sure if that's happening on new models. They've recently removed support of wiring diagrams completely & in the past the newest ones available were from 2007.

Another hypothesis, that I've read many many times, is that there's comb-filtering due to the position of the pickups & their audio waves are canceling one another out in the mids: comb, because it looks like a comb when they're perfectly inverted from one another: However, this explanation holds no water if a buffered mix solves the issue.

Except the R is after the L in our basses.

My 1500 has survived Winter, which I would think would be the prime-time for it to split, if it were going to. In the past I would always keep an instrument through Winter before making my final call on whether it was a keeper, because sometimes their necks go awry with the low humidity. I had a Hadean u-bass that didn't make it, the glue started coming loose on the bridge, & this is with a humidifier running all the time. Anyway, there was a bit of a battle between myself (change the pickups guy) & the East pre people (change the pre-amp people). At least the thread lives on w/o me & is still a source of info for many.

I've measured the A/C taper pots Ibanez uses & there's 50k Ohms of Resistance when they're centered, enough to take off some high-end, but not enough to make the output volume suffer. Of course passive controls won't make anything brighter, they're meant to subtract, not add. Those two East users kept flogging in the East pre instead of new pickups, that's how that started, because I always recommended Nordstrand pickups instead of a different preamp. If you don't like the sound of the source (the pickups), tacking on a preamp to make it sound better is like adding a band-aid instead of solving the real problem. That's when each of them commented that their BH2 pickups sounded better even passive, which I still fail to believe, unless...

Oh dear, up until now I thought our non-roasted necks were not suffering from the same splitting. I took mine down from the Hercules earlier today & looked closely with my reading glasses on, no cracks. However, now I am uber-concerned about temperature & humidity changes affecting it. Guess I will be holding on my my #2 (Premium Soundgear) for a while longer. If 3 have been reported in the forums, there are probably heaps of them out there that happened w/o being reported. TBH I HAD been considering selling my other bass & having the EHB as The One, until I saw your photos. I spent 5 years on there & started the thread, but my constant need to be right overpowered my sense of civility, therefore I can no longer comment on my own thread. If you look back in that thread I went round & round with the East preamp users, because I find their take on how it improved the passive sound of the BH2 pickups to be incredulous. Just this weekend I've read what I believe is the reason why, but will probably never get confirmation on what I suspect is happening with the East Pres.

The Resistance becomes part of an R/C filter, & it definitely takes some edge off the high frequencies: albeit, the capacitance will be mitigated in an active system (cable Capacitance is not introduced), but still exists If you read back in my thread that I linked to in the Ibanez club thread, both the East users with EHBs specifically purchased 4-knob Uni-Pre.

That would dull them down, while the response from the two folks who make the claim is that the BH2 sound more open (more highs) than when in the Passive switch setting with the stock preamp. This is the Uni Pre 4-knob, in Ibanez Ergonomic Headless basses (EHB). I do wonder why they didn't get the 5-knob & drill out the hole for the active/passive switch. As-Is they have a switch on there that has no function.

A few months ago I had 'discussions' with two East users who swear that their BH2 Bartolinis sound better with the East preamps, even in Passive mode. That makes zero sense, unless that buffer is still active even in passive mode, which would make the switch name a misnomer.

The roasted necks on the EHB10xx models seems to have a tendency to crack at the head, around the string anchors. This is the 3rd case I've seen: >>another cracked EHB neck<<

Ibanez uses a A/C taper blend-pot to mitigate the mid-scoop. Another, better way would be to incorporate an active blend, but most active basses have passive pickups with passive controls that feed a preamp.

In Poland, the string must go OVER the Pole:

The woods chosen directly affect the stiffness of the system, & IME the stiffer it is the better it sounds. Some will disagree on that, because they want 'warm', & really rigid woods sound bright, at least w/o some treble-cut.

any LIVE Motörhead:

The only reason I can think of to leave a concert is if it were too loud, but I learned to carry earplugs for those occasions. There was even the beginning of a serious earthquake when I saw The Cure at the Rose Bowl & some people chose to split. We ignored it & I somehow slept through a 6.7 Richter quake that night. Sections of highway had fallen & our mobile cranes on the shipyard pier were frozen in place by the bent tracks:

Gibson & Epiphone are completely off my radar. I had a Tony Iommi SG for a weekend, the location of the strap button makes it difficult to form chords on the first position. Adios!

I don't even like single-cut guitars, just put the top strap button as close to parallel with the 12th fret as you can & I'll be alright.

I'm quite angry over them taking away that support!

Music Man does the phantom coil thing on some models, when you switch to single, it's really in parallel with a phantom coil. I think most people who have tried phantom coils (including stacked) have agreed that they are anemic in comparison to split-coil humbuckers. The downside of a parallel-wired split-coil is that the output is 33% less than wired in series, but it does get closer to that single-coil sound. The Nordstrand Big-Splits in my Ergonomic Headless Ibanez are damn close to single-coil sound, but they're wired in series, parallel would take them over the edge.

Did I drop this in the wrong sub-forum? 50+ views & ZERO response, hmm

The B90 is not a humbucker. If you want a humbucker, get a Nordstrand Big Split in a custom shape to fit.

pre-owned Premium Soundgear are great value-for-money, they're usually half the price of a new one I highly recommend them for a couple of reasons: reinforced neck (Titanium bars) GOTOH machine-heads, not the chintzy ones on Standards and get one with Nordstrands

Where do we draw the lines? A luthier who winds his own pickups might consider everyone who doesn't is just buying parts. I doubt any of us have the equipment to make it all from raw materials.

Mötley Crüe - Live Wire (220 bpm) AoS isn't really that fast IMHO, but I've become quite accustomed to playing it. It's my 'summon the salesman' riff if I'm serious about buying something. Killed by Death is slightly slower, but a fair bit more difficult to play.