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[quote name='owen' post='229327' date='Jun 29 2008, 10:30 PM']At least it's not just me [/quote] Except I did it deliberately.

[quote name='owen' post='229327' date='Jun 29 2008, 10:30 PM']At least it's not just me [/quote] Except I did it deliberately.

Don't you mean this is not going well ?

Don't you mean this is not going well ?

[quote name='jmesa' post='228133' date='Jun 27 2008, 04:11 PM']That's mad[/quote] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLyV5JLvxM0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLyV5JLvxM0[/url]

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I've checked the X Direct out this morning and it works perfectly - I've chopped down a mic lead to make an XLR patch lead which can plug into either the line out of the amp or the XLR out of the TubePac preamp (which would cut down the excess of EQs ). I've added some velcro to the outside so I can hook it onto the side of the rack box out of the way, though I might look at ways of velcroing it inside. I'll plug into the PA at the next rehearsal to make sure it's going to do the job, but it looks like it'll be fine - I do like to arrive at gigs certain of my gear if nothing else.

[quote name='BassBod' post='224866' date='Jun 23 2008, 11:35 AM']I have the same issue with my SWR220 - depending on the age, apparantly these can be fried by phantom power, (although the fix is simply a pair of diodes?) I wouldn't expect Markbass gear to be vulnerable to this, as its all pretty recent designs? Any passive DI box will protect - I run a jack from a preamp send (or effects send) to a Radial ProI. The other benefit is that you know a passive box will not cause any added hiss and won't run out of headroom (or at least do it with better grace..) BB[/quote] I have two solutions so far. Firstly, a nice man from Markbass emailed to say that the line out will cope with an unexpected dose of phantom power. Secondly, I have ordered an ART X Direct DI box which I can use if there are issues with the line out (it does suffer from sending quite a hot signal to the desk) and which is battery powered unless it encounters phantom power, whereupon it switches automatically to using that supply. I'll try it both between bass and preamp and between preamp and amp (the second means that I'd send a compressed signal to the desk, which may or may not be advantageous). No reply from ART regarding phantom power as yet, but it's really not that important now.

At a recent gig I had all sorts of fun getting set up with the sound guy and I'm trying to establish the best solution once and for all, or at least have a couple of workable options to make setting up quick and simple. I prefer to be in a position to deal with any problems myself rather than rely on what a sound guy might or might not know My big fear is that plugging an XLR cable into either my ART TubePac preamp or Little Mark II might cause damage to either unit if the cable has phantom power running through it. (I've enquired on both company's sites for their opinions) If there's no risk then obviously I have nothing to worry about, but if it's something to be avoided than I need a solution, either a DI box that can offer protection or a cable that I can use that won't allow phantom power through. Any knowledge/suggestions ?

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='223792' date='Jun 21 2008, 07:40 PM']Could you have a look at the back of yours please, does it have one of those white labels with a serial number etc on it? I bought one off the bay off some dude last week and I'm getting a bit of a bad vibe off it and him. [/quote] Mine does.

[quote name='BassManKev' post='223330' date='Jun 20 2008, 11:29 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Musicman-Stingray-with-Modulus-Graphite-Neck_W0QQitemZ260252016638QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item260252016638&_trkparms=72%3A638%7C39%3A1%7C65%3A12&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Musicman-Stingray-wi...id=p3286.c0.m14[/url] i likey[/quote] "I would prefer the buyer to collect due to value and fragility" that's not going to fill you with confidence

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[quote name='uptonmark' post='215593' date='Jun 9 2008, 06:18 PM']sorted it out now well happy sounds the DOGS BOLLOX quality pups them wizards[/quote] care to share with us how it was sorted ?

[quote name='uptonmark' post='215077' date='Jun 8 2008, 08:13 PM']found these two diagrams on the net..... [url="http://www.axesrus.com/images/BASS1.jpg"]http://www.axesrus.com/images/BASS1.jpg[/url] [url="http://www.sonfatherguitars.com/Schematics/Jazz%20Bass.GIF"]http://www.sonfatherguitars.com/Schematics/Jazz%20Bass.GIF[/url] which one do i use though????[/quote] They're both showing you the same thing (the same as the diagram I pointed out) except one doesn't show the earths on the pots linked by wire. This is because a std. jazz control plate provides the common earth.

[quote name='uptonmark' post='214400' date='Jun 7 2008, 03:01 PM']how please diagram would be fantastic if you could [/quote] If there are two wires from, for example, the neck pickup - one wired to the back of the pot and the other to a tag on the pot, then swap them round. Nothing more complicated than that. Standard Jazz bass wiring looks like this - [url="http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=std_jazz_bass"]http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wirin...c=std_jazz_bass[/url] - but just because it says black to pot/white to tag doesn't mean that it'll work properly in your case because you're using different pickups and colours are not consistent across all manufacturers.

[quote name='jono b' post='214389' date='Jun 7 2008, 02:33 PM']I had the neck pickup of my Jazz replaced with a Duncan SJB-3 and it does the same thing. For the purposes of ease of use, when I put new knobs on, I turned them both up full then made sure screws faced the same way (making sense?). I've found that it's not when the volumes are full, but when they're both in the same position that the volume almost completely drops out and as a result sounds really thin. Someone suggested that they could have been wired in series, but I just make sure one pickup is up more than the other.[/quote] You need to reverse the two wires from one of the pickups, if both pickups together produce a really thin sound (unlike the typical slight vol drop you get with a Jazz bass ) then they are out of phase with each other.

the basic verse notes are : A - C# - D - B - E then : C# - F# - C# - F# - C# then chorus : F# - C# - D# - G# then it moves the pattern up two frets - then after the middle bit it moves up two more frets you should be able to work out all the other notes from there if you want to make it more fancy