1975 'Antigua' (kind of) Precision Bass??
- By ajkula66
- Basses [BG]
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Seems like that neck would still have retained it’s vintage value?
I was talking about the instrument in its entirety. Not about a "part it out" scenario.
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Seems like that neck would still have retained it’s vintage value?
Wow. That's quite a pedal. I could think of a few applications for a pedal like that.The Grace designs Felix is also a great option. I use the Felix 2 for running two pickups
Sorry, I used bandwidth clumsily and I understand your sensible interpretation as meaning throughput. A more precise word I could have used would be frequency.I didn't talk about bandwidth once. In fact a point I'm trying to make is that newer, faster, wifi standards are pretty much unnecessary for band use in a venue. Neither the wireless packs for instruments or a tablet-controlled mixer use much bandwidth at all. What matters is distance and reliability. Unless I am misunderstanding, your point is that 5.8 is more reliable, I disagree that that is a hard and fast rule, as you mention a few low-bandwidth, low-use, speed-irrelevant things like smart home gadgets do exclusively use 2.4, often for the same reasons as it can be perfectly appropriate for wireless stuff on stage. We're not moving large files around a network here and we don't need blazing fast ping, we just want something that works.
Anyway, I'm not some 2.4 evangelist. My current system uses 5.8 (and 2.4 as well, but whatever) and it works flawlessly. 5.8 is great and I reiterate that, all else being equal, I too would take the newer technology. I just disagree that 2.4 has "has categorically recognized problems" for this application and I don't see it as an "exclusionary criteria". Plenty of people, me included, have done a collective million gigs on 2.4 stuff without issues.
It occurs to me that you're in the Bay Area in California, USA and I'm in rural Northumberland, UK. An area that is about 50 years behind California technologically. Perhaps we have different viewpoints on this because we live in different wifi environments.![]()
No you did not. No need to apologize. It is a valid question and my guess is because of the following. As a recovering engineer, my experience is that to get a fruitful answer, it is best when asking for technical solutions to outline your requirements or end result first and define your use cases, outline your current resources and budget BUT do not get into solution space, As you may have observed, your methodology was scrutinized and faults were outlined rather than help you with your goals. Budget is important because people will either recommend top of the line , or tell you to make do.I didn't realize I asked a stupid question until much later, sorry folks.
(Duh you need power for a preamp!)
Reggie Washington is a beast!that's awesome they are continuing the legacy, love to hear/see it!
This is the Glarry "Kid's bass"....comes in at 25.5" scale, just like a Fender guitar. Strings are next to impossible to find for it, though. There are some odd solutions out there to use short scale or even regular scale strings on it, but it's SHORT SHORT. I really struggle with playing it, especially the upper registers, because muscle memory is a thing and where my fingers land are at least one fret off from where they should be.
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Oh, how times have changed. The price of a new Ric has almost doubled since 2002!
Is it still worth it? I say yes.
I was addressing the use of ANY device other than a speaker that connects to the speaker output to generate either a mic or line level speaker. This was mentioned several times in this thread which is why I cautioned about this very real issue.But I do agree,
Okay. But I do not think reamp boxes are load boxes ( I ave a load box box from Fryette which is very good and safe and I have run my Mark IV Boogies speaker output to it and it has a mic level XLR as well as line level trs. I know there are garbage load boxes.
The person who suggested a ReAmp box was talking about getting it from the DI I and converting it to instrument level and then plugging that to the second amp.
As far as I know, ReAmp boxes need line level to work properly and if the Eden's XLR out is mic level, then I do not think that will work well if at all.
The reamp boxes take recorded line-level output from DAW/Interface or multi-track tape-recording desk and convert that to instrument level into an amp and then you can mic that amp and rerecord to another track. That's how I use it anyway for guitar so I can change the amp and mics later, instead of plugins. Radial and SaturnWorks reamp boxes are both transformer isolated.
They are also the perfect upright bass amp. I use a single cp12 for all kinds of small drummer less folk/country/bluegrass gigs and it’s a great balanced toneI ran my first two gigs with my 2 new QSC CP-12's over the weekend.
These things are incredible.
Both shows were outdoors, 4 person band, 2 guitars, 3 vocalists and me on bass. Everything but the bass went through the PA.
Show #1 we used them as mains with no monitors (acoustic show)
Show #2 we used JBL 15's as mains and the CP-12's as monitors.
In both cases, I've never heard clearer sound without a full $100K+ House PA in use.
The crowd was blown away by sound clarity at the acoustic show
If you're on the fence about buying CP-12's.... buy them
Collecting was fun. I enjoyed the experience. 2 years later things have changed . Now I’m down to 4.All MusicMan StingRay Specials
1. Fretted 5H
2. Fretless 5H
3. Fretted 5 HH
4. Old Smoothie 4 string 2band (flats)
5. Short Scale 4 Active ( Rounds)
6. Short Scale 4 Passive ( Flats)
7. Sandberg 5 J/MM active / passive ( rounds)
They all bring something different to the table .
Ah, yes, missed that.? OP listed his measurements in his first post. He has set them to his taste. Know-how isn’t his problem. His problem is he’s at the limit of what the neck itself in its current state is giving him to work with.
Most pickups are do not have the pole pieces grounded. That means when you touch them, they’re floating and you become an antenna for noise. Your options are to drop some clear nail polish on the pole pieces (I’ve not done this) or to ground the magnets by running a piece of copper tape across the magnets and grounding it.I have had my My ultra pj bass for 6 years. It suddenly developed a buzz. when I touched the stacked pre amp dials (bass, treble, mids, tone) the bass would buzz. When I touch the 2 pick up poles under the D string the buzz is really loud. All the other pick up poles are quiet when touched.
I looked under the hood for anything obvious and could not find any loose wires. I took my bass to my luthier and he combed over it with a fluke meter and could not find the problem. He grounded the pots together and I no longer have the noise when I touch the dials.
The loud buzz when I touch the 2 pole pieces remains.
Thoughts?