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[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1150719' date='Mar 5 2011, 04:57 PM']Done[/quote] So... how did it play? And how did it sound? You look... er... delighted with its performance.

Right, silly me: I've misremembered. Just been having a poke around on the EB forum (lawd help me) and Talkbass (er... lawd help me again). It's not "Enhanced Parallel". It's "Enhanced Series", or "Series with Filter" (there's some rumour it's a treble-cut). But there is genuinely [i]no[/i] single-coil setting of any sort on the current SR5. They don't shout about it though, do they?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1150606' date='Mar 5 2011, 03:01 PM']This conflicts with the up to date website spec and my own Ray5 unless they have swapped back since 2008 which I doubt, Middle position on a real Ray5 is still single coil with a phantom coil not enhanced parallel.[/quote] I've just this minute downloaded this spec sheet from the EBMM website: [url="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/429522/Music%20bits/cfd_stingray5_alnico2008_h.pdf"]2008-current SR5 alnico single-H spec[/url] Middle position is actually described as "Coil 1 + Coil 2 + Filter". [s]The key gives "+" as meaning series (rather than parallel, denoted by "&"), so maybe "Enhanced Parallel" is really filtered series... strange. [/s]

[quote name='mcnach' post='1150162' date='Mar 5 2011, 12:24 AM']...The SR5 comes along, and rather interestingly it's ceramic parallel (rather than a more Stingray-ish alnico parallel). <snip> Later on the SR5 becomes alnico parallel. Back into Stingray territory.[/quote] IIRC, the SR5 was originally alnico for the first few years, switchable series/single/parallel (as my old SR5 was). It was around 1992-93 that EBMM made it ceramic, and they introduced the phantom coil around the same time (to buck hum in the single-coil position). In 2008, they switched back to alnico to make it more like the StingRay (so that StingRay = alnico and Sterling = ceramic); they also ditched the single-coil setting and made the switch run series/[s]"Enhanced Parallel"[/s]series-with-filter/parallel. I've never actually tried an SR5 with [s]"Enhanced Parallel"[/s] series-with-filter... it'd have to be pretty damn good to live up to the loveliness of the original single-coil position. That was my go-to setting.

[quote name='nipplebass' post='1148433' date='Mar 3 2011, 02:47 PM']so if i was to drive the 412 and the 210(yamaha) at 2ohm both cabs would be recieving 200watt?[/quote] Yes. They're both 4-ohm cabs, so plug 'em both in and the amp sees 2 ohms total load (so make sure you flip the switch to "2 ohms"), and the 400W of power will be divided equally between them: 200W each. Proceed to rock out and decide if you like what you hear.

[quote name='nipplebass' post='1148416' date='Mar 3 2011, 02:31 PM']ive got a yamaha 210 that runs at 250 at 4ohm just a bit dubious at running it with a 400watt all valve head[/quote] If you're running it with the VBC (and I'm not getting into the "mixing cabs" thing now), you'll have 200W running to each cab, so if it's rated to 250W, you're well within acceptable limits. (Of course, there's no substitute for listening to the cabs and hearing when they're at breaking point.)

[quote name='obbm' post='1148237' date='Mar 3 2011, 12:06 PM']At one point I considered trying to build a remote controlled VCA (voltage controlled amplifier) that would sit in the effects loop. That way if anyone turned up themselves up, then I could remotely turn them down again.[/quote] Do it! Sell it! Based on the number of threads on this exact issue, you'd have plenty of sales from Basschat alone.

[quote name='Toasted' post='1148140' date='Mar 3 2011, 10:46 AM']I love it. This is what basschat is about... I get to learn from your experiences. I'd already reached the "don't touch the gain" note stage in my head, but I can jump right onto taping a bottle cap over the gain... and liklely the EQ Excellent![/quote] I'd be wary of this approach unless I knew that my bass had a hotter output than virtually everything else that could ever plug into it. My Recurve 5 is one of the quietest basses I've ever had, so if I handed over my amp with an untouched gain stage (nicely set up to get my signal in without distorting) to someone with something hot (my old BTB springs to mind... could happily run straight into a power amp without any problems), we'd be into proper preamp-clipping and distortion territory. Of course, that could be a good thing. They'd sound so sh*t they'd never want to borrow your gear again.

[quote name='Strife34' post='1143589' date='Feb 27 2011, 05:39 PM']I'm looking at advancing from 4 string to 5 string and wondering what was a good bass to get around £300 - £450[/quote] What 4-string are you playing now? It can be a good starting point to take a look at the 5-string version of whatever you're playing currently (if there [i]is[/i] a 5-string version). And IMHO it doesn't help to think of it as "advancing". 5 isn't [i]better[/i] than 4, nor is it [i]harder[/i]. It's just slightly different. Emphasis on [b]slightly[/b]. Don't throw psychological roadblocks up in front of yourself (however subconscious they might be).

[quote name='munkonthehill' post='1147192' date='Mar 2 2011, 02:57 PM']Who's pops and LJ??[/quote] LJ proving JTUK's point rather nicely there by bashing the living f*** out of that poor lil bass.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1146975' date='Mar 2 2011, 12:22 PM']god forbid it's a verb. [/quote] These are the moments I miss the old :brow: smiley.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1146965' date='Mar 2 2011, 12:14 PM'][/quote] Something about that smiley just made me laugh like a complete snorting twat. Love it!

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1145719' date='Mar 1 2011, 01:43 PM']Sorry BB5 I guess the sarcasm isn't coming across to well today. [/quote] I thought you might be carrying out some sort of sociological experiment, Rich: post controversial statement and see how many agree just to conform.

Rich and Gary... condolences and thoughts are with you both. Having seen this bass in the flesh at Moffat, I can say that the grain showing through the finish looks absolutely fantastic, and it's a beautiful beast.

[quote name='munkonthehill' post='1119636' date='Feb 7 2011, 11:16 PM']hahahaha this was my favourite quote of the weekend. It was great meeting up with you buddy and sorry for trying to force you to drink cider!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/quote] Aye, you're a bad, bad man.

[quote name='7string' post='1119616' date='Feb 7 2011, 11:06 PM'][/quote] Bwahahaa! I hadn't realised quite how much that 9er completely dwarfed me! Still... I'm only wee. Fabulous weekend, and great to meet everybody. Roll on the next one!

[quote name='MythSte' post='1118020' date='Feb 6 2011, 06:33 PM']Edit, I don't actually have monstrously sized hands... I don't think?[/quote] Judging from that picture... yes. Yes, you do.

[quote name='Earbrass' post='1114091' date='Feb 3 2011, 04:26 PM']Could this be an equal temperament issue? The harmonic will be a "pure" maj 3rd, while the keyboard will be tuned to equal temperament. Could this account for the discrepancy?[/quote] Yes. The only harmonic that's genuinely "in tune" (in terms of equal temperament) with the open string is the octave (12th fret). Everything else just gently drifts off from there.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1112036' date='Feb 2 2011, 09:27 AM']Seems a rather lofty opening price considering it's condish.[/quote] +1 I'd be surprised to see it go much further. Still... wouldn't be the first time I've been surprised on eBay.

Not [i]really[/i] famous as such (famous enough to have a [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Hairsine"]Wikipedia page[/url] though)... I happen to know that comics artist Trevor Hairsine is a member on here, and you wouldn't guess who from his username. And no, I'm not telling.

[quote name='jezzaboy' post='1108141' date='Jan 30 2011, 02:04 PM']Question. What to do - play a gig, get paid and mabye have some fun with the ladies afterwards or drive for 1.5 hours to spend time with some hairy ars*d blokes and bass guitars?[/quote] I'll shave my arse if it swings the balance.