Kill your batteries and send them to me :)

[JonathanD]

I recently got an awsome dirty tone from my G&L tribute. After 2 days it started cutting out. The battery was dying

Damn fine sound. So if you guys could "break in" the batteries for me that would be fantastic.

j/k

But really, it was so nice that I thought, wow I don't need an SVP PRO with my eden head, this bass does it well enough.

[AJ Brown]

I'm sure there is a way you could insert a resistor or something to limit the voltage getting to the preamp without losing 'actual' voltage... any IEEE's here?

[bacid]

Danelectro vintage voltage batteries. They are made to sound like old, decrepit batteries. As far as I know.

[Jamiebass]

Originally Posted by AJ Brown

I'm sure there is a way you could insert a resistor or something to limit the voltage getting to the preamp without losing 'actual' voltage... any IEEE's here?

I think that could work.

[TrooperFarva]

That gives me an idea. Has anyone ever connected a Pot up to the battery input of an on-board preamp? If you connect the high side to the battery, the low side to ground, and the center to the preamp, you'd have control over the amount of voltage that goes to the preamp. So theoretically, you could control the distortion. Interesting.

[Johnny Crab]

Originally Posted by TrooperFarva

That gives me an idea. Has anyone ever connected a Pot up to the battery input of an on-board preamp? If you connect the high side to the battery, the low side to ground, and the center to the preamp, you'd have control over the amount of voltage that goes to the preamp. So theoretically, you could control the distortion. Interesting.

That should do it IIRC.
What you'd be doing is "shrinking" the headroom the preamp has so the bass waveform gets chopped somewhat. You could get some test lead(alligator clips on each end of a wire) and some linear pots from Radio Shack or your parts box to experiment with.

It's been about 20 years since that class.....

[JonathanD]

Wow, great ideas.
I am very bad a soldering and electrical work. I try and I just don't heave a steady enough hand/good technique and I make a mess.

I will look around on the net and see what I get.
Jonathan

[flakeh]

Originally Posted by bacid

Danelectro vintage voltage batteries. They are made to sound like old, decrepit batteries. As far as I know.

Had those in my sovtek muff when i got it used. They didn't work even when they were brand new