Recent content by Bassy Mark

I'm very pleased with mine. The stock tone controls give great flexibility.

How do you all manage to talk about the amps looks without posting one picture!?

Good deal? I'm looking for a bigger cab than my current 112. [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

It will also remind him that the low string is not an E. That's probably the biggest shift one has to make aside from the wider neck.

I've read this whole (ok, 25 pages) thread and it comes down to arguing to a guy about the purity of essence with fancy guitar amps and his $1100 dollar speaker cabs for his guitar. Why is FFTT even on this thread about bass amps. Class D amps rock because a head that once weighed fifty pounds...

Nearby me, might have to stop in!

Or you can take a file or grinder to it. The hex wrench that is...

I have added a BB200 to join my BBN5. This bass has a great tone and playability. The best $80 I will ever spend on musical gear I'd say.

http://www.yamaha.com/apps/guitararchives/serialnumberwizard.asp

Thank you for the great info and feedback. I was pleased with my soldering job and thanks for the kudos on it. With the bass working well I'm unlikely to go back into the cavity again though if I do I'll clean it up. Most of the extra wire is from the pickups. The previous owner installed them...

Then none of this seems to make sense despite my best research. Oh well, I'm happy with the way both instruments sound.

The original pots sounded very nonlinear. Between 8 and 9 they would jump in volume, making blending the two pickups difficult. The new pots seem to have a predictable slope between 0 and 10. When I read that article that I posted, it seems to be saying that audio taper are marked with an "A"...

Audio taper is what makes sense for a volume pot to our ears. Our ears don't hear things in a linear fashion. Nice explanation here.

Before and after shots replacing the volume pots on BBN5. The OEM pots were linear taper. New ones are volume taper and much more usable for fine tuning the mix between the pickups. I considered doing one volume and a mix pot but things I read suggested that this was the best solution. Only...