Muzz
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If I ever change mine I'd put an East U-Retro in there. Cracking preamp. I've got a P-Tone pickup in my ABZ4, and it's a major tone upgrade IMHO, but I've left it passive, just as a change from my other main basses, which all have U-Retros in.
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Yep, just goes to show something or other - as an example, WoT and I have played a range of similar amps, and we have completely opposing views on them. I even bought his Walkabout and sold it back to him shortly afterwards. Not that we get into scuffling in the taxi queue about it - we're far too gentlemanly for such indignities - but it's interesting anyway.
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Loved my Streamliner, with Barefaced and Schroeder cabs. So much so I'm getting it back. My Markbass F1 is OK, but lacks the character of the Streamliner. I also A-B'd it against an M-Pulse and a Walkabout I owned. They were nice, but the Streamliner was better. The EQ is different to most, something you have to get the hang of.
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Kind of a lazy bump... -
Bump...
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Aaaand another bumpette...
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oooo...PM'd
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Well, I'll see - I'm trying to make this one cashless so that SWMBO doesn't get a whiff of the movement of readies which could be diverted elsewhere...oops, I've said too much...
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Time for a little attention-seeking bump...
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For function or wedding gigs, I use mine as a preamp with Jamup - bass into iPad (in a holder on a mic stand) via a Sonicport, then into my F1 set flat. A dozen or so presets cover every sound I need. Excellent. For acoustic or dep/jam gigs, I use it with charts.
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Just to clarify - I'm after a trade here...
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I had a Compact and a BB2 for a short while and ran them both at a rehearsal, which was immense with my F1 and Fusion. Two BB2s will be huge sounding, and you'll be able to walk in carrying both of them. Even my drummer volunteered to carry mine. You'll need to re-EQ, mind - they're very clear, and will start off sounding very different to your current cabs.
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Transforming a MM pickup into a P pickup - can it be done?
Muzz replied to Osiris's topic in Repairs and Technical
Yeah, my MM is a Delano, and I've done the coil tapping thing, It's just the sound doesn't really get close to the P-pup for me...tho YMMV, so it might be worth trying the rewire route, shouldn't cost more than £25-30 to have someone do it for you... The pickup position does mean it won't ever get exactly to the P-pup sound, but you can definitely get away from the MM sound... -
Transforming a MM pickup into a P pickup - can it be done?
Muzz replied to Osiris's topic in Repairs and Technical
Been all over this question for some time - and the answer is, like so many things - how much do you want to spend? You'd effectively need a quad-coil pickup winding, and take the top-left/bottom-right (or vice versa, depending on how you're looking at it) coils and make them live. You could get a full set of taps done from this configuration, to get series/parallel, front pair, back pair or the diagonals as above, depending on switching. I was in contact with Armstrongs and they can do this. I've got a Shuker with a single MM pickup, and I'm the same as you: don't like the Ray sound much. I've got mine switched for series, parallel, and just the front pair. Series or parallel don't sound anything like a P to me, but the front coil on its own sounds a bit Jazz single coil-ish, which I'm living with. I haven't jumped at the custom job yet, because I'm pondering one of these instead: [url="http://nordstrandpickups.com/products/the-bigman/"]http://nordstrandpic...cts/the-bigman/[/url] -
Yup, I'd post, it's only a tiny thing, after all...
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Gone
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An old SVT (it was old in 1984 when I bought it) and one of the box-shaped (no angles on the back) 810s, and I had a mid-70s Precision. 75, I think, but I wasn't as knowledgeable (or frankly that caring) about my gear as I am now. Just the simplest thing to EQ, and always sounded epic, IIRC. Didn't mind lugging the head, but even when I was 20 and a loose head prop that 810 was a pain in the arse.
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I have probably £4-5k (new replacement price) of Shukers/Dingwall on my guitar stand at every gig, posh wedding or local pub. Doesn't give me a second's thought, tho obviously I keep an eye on them. I've gigged every bass I've owned.
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I've had a couple, and still have an ABZ4, I've added the P-Tone pickup, because that's a sound I like. They're a fantastic bass - not just the fanned frets: the banjo frets, composite radius board, superb build quality, great string tension and super-light weight. The passive setup has the four-way pickup switch and the tone control sweeps really nicely. I have East U-Retro EQs in all my other basses, but I've not felt the need to put one in my ABZ. I've had an ABII, but for me it wasn't different enough to the ABZ to justify keeping both.
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And sold...thanks for the deluge of interest, chaps.
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OK, soooo I've run out of money post-Xmas, so something's got to go, and it's the Big Baby 2. If anyone's unfamiliar with these cabs, the full details are here: [url="http://barefacedbass.com/product-range/Big-Baby-2.htm"]http://barefacedbass.com/product-range/Big-Baby-2.htm[/url] It really is a fantastic full range cab, the loudest thing for its size I've ever heard - I played a gig with it at a RAF base not long ago, 300+ people in a hanger, on a raised stage, and it was just extraordinary. The only reason I'm selling it is it's either this or my old Compact, and I need as much money as I can get, so this will have to go. I'll definitely miss it, and no doubt when money's not as tight I'll be after another, but that's the way stuff goes. It's unmarked, very lightly used, and has a Roqsolid cover. £575 plus postage, firm. For some reason the editor's not letting me break this text up, so apologies for the big solid lump. [attachment=179477:BBa.jpg] [attachment=179478:BBb.jpg] [attachment=179479:BBc.jpg] [attachment=179480:BBd.jpg]
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UPDATE! NEVER GIVE UP! Don't get slack like me! BF cabs nicked from car.
Muzz replied to Reverend's topic in Amps and Cabs
Sorry to hear that mate, there's some opportunistic scum out there. Will circulate. -
Wedding stuff: Mr Brightside, Dakota, Sex On Fire, Superstition, Play That Funky Music, Long Train Running. The punters love em...
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I've a mate in a heavy rock covers band, and the singer uses a stand to read the lyrics. It looks Godawful, he spends half the time singing down to one side where the stand is. And yes, a lot of people comment. There's a time and place for music stands, but in a halfway decent covers band, no.
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[quote name='Hot Rod (Wizard) Pickups' timestamp='1417619089' post='2622302'] Hi Guys, Sorry for the radio silence, We have been extremely busy and I have been welcoming a new baby daughter to the Hot Rod family Below is a quick comparison demo of our Thumper P Bass set by session ace Don Richardson, He describes them as "Its like having a blanket lifted off of my amp", Love to know what you guys think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjzgCdNLLlw [/quote] Can you confirm if the strings were changed, too? And from what to what? That'd make a big difference to the sound.
