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EBS pre-amp in Jazz Bass


silverfoxnik
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Hi Folks

Just wondering if anyone has one of the EBS pre-amps that Bernie Goodfellow supplies and fits in basses and if so, do you know if the pots can be trimmed in any way to adjust which frequencies are increased/decreased? Hope that makes sense......

Cheers

Nik

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[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='121259' date='Jan 16 2008, 02:12 AM']Hi Folks

Just wondering if anyone has one of the EBS pre-amps that Bernie Goodfellow supplies and fits in basses and if so, do you know if the pots can be trimmed in any way to adjust which frequencies are increased/decreased? Hope that makes sense......

Cheers

Nik[/quote]

The stock preamp is basically a treble, bass, pan and volume - pretty straightforward. With the switch engaged, you get a high cut circuit - the switch changes between treble or a mid/treble mode. In the mid/treble mode, boosting the highs simulatneously cuts mids (superb for slap) and similarly, cutting highs boosts the mids.

As far as modifications to the circuit, you'll be pretty hard pushed; its in a plastic case sealed with epoxy resin to keep it noise free. It's all that micro circuitry stuff so it'd be pretty hard to do anyway - I guess you could experiment with capacitors at the pots as that could manipulate the frequencys to what you want...

PS - they are super circuits. Defo worth putting in your bass. They may be only 2 eq, but the circuit doesn't require anything further.

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I don't see how it could be done because it's a sealed box with just a wire running out of it. You'd have to pull off all the resin type stuff and then tinker around with what would be a pretty small circuit.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='121259' date='Jan 16 2008, 02:12 AM']Hi Folks

Just wondering if anyone has one of the EBS pre-amps that Bernie Goodfellow supplies and fits in basses and if so, do you know if the pots can be trimmed in any way to adjust which frequencies are increased/decreased? Hope that makes sense......

Cheers

Nik[/quote]

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[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='121842' date='Jan 16 2008, 11:47 PM']We played phone tag, so am calling him tomorrow morning.. will let you know then![/quote]

Spoke to Bernie today and he confirmed that the EBS circuit can't be changed internally by trimming the pots. shame :)

He said that this circuit is really something that started as a one-off idea but has become pretty popular to the point where, they will be including it as one of the EBS products available on the new GB Guitars website when it launches in a few weeks.

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