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  1. bremen
    Is that a normal feature then? I havent noticed it anywhere else. Why not a wire to the control cavity? I don't doubt that it works. Just curious.
  2. bremen
    I'm curious; why is the bridge grounded via the pickup rout and not the control cavity as is usual? And, sorry to ask the boring question that everyone does, what does it weigh? I have a Japanese P of that era, lovely. Maybe it deserves a brother :-)
  3. bremen
    Many of them mythical
  4. bremen
    I'd rather be seen with a giant p... oh, sorry, wrong thread 😅
  5. bremen
    ...apart from the price, the appearance, the pure embarrassment of having to be seen in public with it... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175896467993?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=VLVxzDI0Swq&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=hNc7PDPYRJi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
  6. bremen
    Obvious questions coming up, sorry: -does it happen when you plug into guitarist's amp, or plug her guitar into yours? -do you have another bass to compare? Assuming you have a guitarist of course!
  7. bremen
    What is this "not repairable" bullshit? Are we now accepting that amps are disposables, like strings or bogroll? And that it's OK for manufacturers not to give technical data to repairers? For shame. Leo would be turning in his grave.
  8. bremen
    Same issue as me then, my bass and amp are fine except this particular venue. Humbuckers work equally well series or parallel, precision or stingray, for noise cancelation. Are the pole pieces grounded? They weren't on the Alan Entwistle P pickups I just fitted.
  9. bremen
    Op doesn't say whether the problem got better or worse after shielding. Yes I agree if it wasn't grounded it'd make it worse.
  10. bremen
    Yes but it was picking up the interference before the shielding was installed, as well as after. Is it well behaved elsewhere? How about if you move it close to an amp? There's a rehearsal room I use that sometimes but not always puts weird noises into my amp. Apparently others have also suffered, but noones got to the bottom of it. Best guess is it's something in the mains, it's on an industrial estate shared with some heavy industry.
  11. bremen

    Hand size...

    bremen replied to untune's topic in Bass Guitars

    For every health tip online there's an associated health scare https://www.jeffersonhealth.org/your-health/living-well/the-trouble-with-turmeric-associated-liver-injuries I think there are as many Daily Fail articles condemning coffee as a carcinogen as there are touting it as a cure for cancer.
  12. bremen
    To make your hat look huge and your feet reet petite!
  13. bremen
    That's a weird optical illusion brought on by the parallel lines. Looks as big as the body till you count the segments of garage door, then it looks about half the length of the body. Very pretty.
  14. bremen
    Old farts behaving badly! https://thejesuslizard.bandcamp.com/track/westside?from=fanpub_fb_trk&utm_source=track_release&utm_medium=email&utm_content=fanpub_fb_trk&utm_campaign=thejesuslizard+track+westside
  15. bremen
    I decided that I'm a P player, end of story. Then I saw ...does this make me bi-curious?
  16. bremen
    Well it's a start 😁
  17. bremen
    I know! I got a Jazz because...er...because I thought I should...um...out of curiosity...? Anyway. Those three knobs! So confusing! Almost as bad as having five strings! How folk deal with active preamps, I'll never know... Edit: this is not intended as sarcasm, to be clear:-)
  18. bremen
    For sure!
  19. bremen
    Ha!Ha! Didn't I say! 🥰😄
  20. bremen
    I might be wrong and bad, but I prefer to carry on with leaded solder at home. The lead free we're obliged to use at work isn't as horrid as it used to be, but the bad old toxic old shit just flows nicer. https://cpc.farnell.com/c/tools-maintenance/soldering/solder/solder-wire?st=Solder
  21. bremen
    I'd never heard of him so I consulted Wikipedia and learned that he was to AOR what Brian Pern was to prog 😆
  22. bremen
    Yes, certainly safer than ebay. I got a beautiful Japanese precision neck here.
  23. bremen
    I'd be very wary of spending that much sight unseen. If you can find another 100 you could have Jon Shuker make you one, and going by what I hear here you're guaranteed it's going to be as good as it gets.
  24. bremen
    I think it'd be well worth it, only a few quid and you can reuse them if the varislope is unfixable (which it won't be unless someone's let the air into the valves). I'd put the switchers, with a little extra filtering, into a plastic box and tape that onto the inside of the lid, put a connector for a wall wart where the redundant power switch connector is now. Happy to share circuits here or by pm.
  25. bremen
    Yes I just got the Official Basschat Soldering Iron! Very handy. You could make a power supply froma 9V wall wart, one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/146033415851?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=fuFx_Xa4SFq&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=hNc7PDPYRJi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY to take that down to 6.3V for the heaters and one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264785680757?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=HWuPrm7wSWu&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=hNc7PDPYRJi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY for the 195V rail. I've used both those modules for valve preamps.
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