ACG battery life

[Dread Bass]

How long does it take for your ACG bass to go through it batteries? mine seems to eat through them in 2 - 3 months and i don't think that can be normal, i think i must have a fault. Does anyone know of anything obvious i should check? or do these preamps just hammer the batteries? I have the ACG filter preamp 18V

Before anyone asks i do not leave leads plugged in the jack.

[Ou7shined]

I've never heard anyone complain about poor battery life. Have you spoken to Alan about it?

[Dread Bass]

Nah didn't want to bother him. If no one else has this problem i will send him a PM.

[7string]

Haven't had a battery problem with my ACG.

[steve-soar]

[quote name='Dread Bass' post='947675' date='Sep 6 2010, 09:25 PM']How long does it take for your ACG bass to go through it batteries? mine seems to eat through them in 2 - 3 months and i don't think that can be normal, i think i must have a fault. Does anyone know of anything obvious i should check? or do these preamps just hammer the batteries? I have the ACG filter preamp 18V

Before anyone asks i do not leave leads plugged in the jack.[/quote]How often do you plug it in?

[Dread Bass]

A fair whack to be honest probably between 2-3 hours a night during the week then 2 x 3-4 hour practices with bands at the weekend at least. Still i would expect it to last between 9 - 12 months.

[MythSte]

Do you leave it plugged in? I know active pre-amps use power even when just left with a jack in the socket. Ive E-mailed Alan once or twice and i'm sure he'd be more than happy to help though

[BottomEndian]

[quote name='Dread Bass' post='947768' date='Sep 6 2010, 10:48 PM']A fair whack to be honest probably between 2-3 hours a night during the week then 2 x 3-4 hour practices with bands at the weekend at least. Still i would expect it to last between 9 - 12 months.[/quote]
Sweet zombie jesus. I'd love to even have the opportunity to play that much. Jealous here.

At that level of use, you might get 9-12 months out of EMG active pickups (they seem to last for an age IME), but any other active system... 2-3 months sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

Fire off an email to Alan and he'll usually reply within a few hours.

[charic]

Mine lasts around 6 months and even then I only changed it because the sound was a little fuzzy. Mines not the 18v and I went through a.spell of not.playing tbh.

[Faithless]

Well, I also have some issues with batteries, though, I managed to leave the jack in the bass for a night, so this may contribute why they ran off after about two weeks - I put brand new Energizers into bass.. (at least the red light says so)

I'll just buy a new pair of batteries - the third time won't lie..

[synthetic]

[quote name='MythSte' post='947846' date='Sep 7 2010, 01:04 AM']Do you leave it plugged in? I know active pre-amps use power even when just left with a jack in the socket. Ive E-mailed Alan once or twice and i'm sure he'd be more than happy to help though [/quote]

Rat pedals do this even when bypassed if the jack is inserted. Could be as simple as that

[BottomEndian]

Original post:
[quote name='Dread Bass' post='947675' date='Sep 6 2010, 09:25 PM']Before anyone asks i do not leave leads plugged in the jack.[/quote]

[Dread Bass]

Thanks for reading the whole post BottomEndian. Yeah i play a lot its not always as much as that but thats probably the average. What can i say I have no life except playing bass and playing gigs.

I think i will drop Alan a PM and see what he reckons.

[Faithless]

I'd be happy to hear his response about this..


BTW, I just got from studio, where I recorded bass part on some dnb/rap/dub stuff, and studio guy (a DJ actually) was raving about all those amazing sounds coming from ACG.. really cracking basses and preamps those ACGs are

[skelf]

Hi
The pre-amp does require more than average in terms of power there is a lot going on in there. In this case with that amount of playing I don't think there is a problem just a monster wmount od use.

Alan