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  1. There's an Ibanez Axstar and a Yahaya Motion here for sale that would fit your specs. Iba even has a 34" scale. Check them first. I have a partsbass with a Status neck. Because the neck is so stable, I detach it and pack it with the body to hand luggage. No one has asked about the neck coming out from the bag.
  2. Like @ian61 said. Problem solved. The lower you go, the further the two instruments/notes must be. Frequency difference gets very small the lower you go. Therefore you should not get closer to the keys than a fifth, but an octave sure is safe. The same applies to chords played ɓy us bassists. You can make simple calculations by subtracting A4 from F4 (a major third), and then A1 from F1 (try this with your bass!). The difference in the lower end starts to resemble flanger, and the result is really mushy. Besides if there are any issues with tunings of different instruments, the result will be even worse. https://www.vibrationdata.com/piano.htm This is the musical theory reason why only one bassist is needed, and keyboardist should stay far enough. For the same reason there's theoretically space up there for two g-word players, but in practise...
  3. If you open the case, you can check date codes from the opamps and other semiconductors.
  4. It would be easiest to use a thin carbon fibre plate/strip. Weighs nothing, is stiff, and could be taped to pickups (3M VHB). Can be removed if necessary.
  5. Pictures please, sharp ones. Do you have a DMM (Digital MultiMeter)? If yes, start measuring from output jack.
  6. The singers (most probably you all) sing very well! Kool performance!
  7. Picking the string hard may move the whole string a bit away from the actual tuning. If you do the same with a harmonic and softer touch, the frequency should be exact all the time. This may happen also when the tuning post has lots of random rounds and the saddle is slightly sticky. Graphite may help as well as the right way to tune the strings. But if the whole bass is like a spring, toss it.
  8. I have read this a few times and must get back. Magnetic pickups can catch very low frequencies, and there sure is the fundamental seen (/heard/caught). But how much less, when the pickup is further away from the middle? Amplitude is smaller but that is true for harmonics, too. (It is not even possible to have the pickup in the middle because that middle is true only for one single note, or the pickup should move.) Piezo is another thing because it listens to the body or the bridge.
  9. I have an ALU212 which is a breeze to carry to gigs. Functional unit.
  10. @Basvarken is the man! You have to check his works here.
  11. What? Few days ago here was a Series II Arpege for sale, and now a Series III Passion. Help!
  12. How about contacting @KiOgon? (I do feel your pain. Last time I ordered components, opamps were of wrong footprint.)
  13. This was new to me, and I decided to open this thread about any add ons that could be helpful when tweaking with pedals or pedalboards. https://knobyfier.com/ Yesterday I tried to find Stompshields from T-shop, but no more in their selection. http://stompshield.com/
  14. After going through preferred setup and changing suitable strings would help. But I find it true that usually you get the feel about any bass pretty quickly, no matter what strings or setup. The instrument just feels good to you or not.
  15. This depends on the sensitivity and power amp performance. But the loudness difference is most likely negligible.
  16. The original was powered by an internal PSU. The signal chain had a compander (like dbx, Dolby, or Telcom). Therefore the noise level was super low: signal goes to compressor, then it is processed (analog) and finally expanded to outputs (full delay, and half of it to make it sound like a stereo unit). By the way, this pedal was also available in rack format as 1210. (tce had many interesting units at that time like 1140, 1144, 2240, 1220, 1280, 1380, 2290, programmable Phaser XII and XII B/K, dual parametric pedal...)
  17. Wonderful bass, trusty seller. bartolini mod sure is an upgrade here. (I had a '91 Quantum 5 with bartolinis - and the neck had a similar chip in pretty much the same place!)
  18. If you even try that Sonuus (B2M), buy a piccolo set, too. Prepare yourself to play everything again and again to get something reasonable out of the MIDI rig. The best solution is to use a keytar, MISA Tri-Bass, Industrial Radio (split fret) bass or similar. Bass is so slow in frequency to MIDI conversion.
  19. Mark King was originally a drummer, therefore it is possible to him to play bass and sing. But if you are a true bassist, walking and talking simultaneously is not possible. Forget singing and playing at the same time.
  20. Glass (or carbon) fibres make the material tough. The fibres tie the polymer together (and the other way around). Practically many polymers (like polyamide, PA) containing lots of fibres are very tough. Most of them are also injection moldable, depending on fibre length (from ball to fibres to long fibres) and machinery. Here's a product that is made of PA that includes tens of percents of fibres. These were built from metal earlier, and are in a hard place: M. Cipollini et al. have pushed far over 2 bhp through similar pedals, and cleats. https://www.lookcycle.com/us-en/products/pedals/road/comfort/keo-classic-3 P. S. Because of fibres (especially glass) these polymers (plastics) are not that easy to recycle.
  21. https://www.campusplastics.com/campus/en/datasheet/TEDUR+L+9107-1/MOCOM+Compounds+GmbH+%26+Co.+KG/5/91e531bc Polymer that has 40 % glass fibre. Injection moldable. Cheap material, but the mold will cost quite some. Most likely easy to machine.
  22. That's a good one. A low cost solution that is easy to use and apply.
  23. ...equals the right amount of basses is +1.
  24. No one has mentioned Kustom? alusonic makes aluminium cabs (12" and 2x12"). You can choose custom colours to the frame and the front grille. https://www.alusonic.com/aluminium-cabinets.php
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