Recent content by IBJammin

Repetition ad nauseam.

Simple, pure, and solid built! Ibanez's are some of the best "beginner" gear. I believe 200's have the "Bass Boom" knob, making it "active electronics" (still with passive pickups). 190's were pure passive and one less knob.

Are you sure you are using an instrument cable from your bass? Not a speaker cable.

I always know that my pick has been in my pocket. I don't know where my fingers have been.

Not a serious endeavor, but I am/was in a duo we call "The Johnny Cash Cover Tribute Band", paying tribute to (a few of) the songs that Johnny Cash covered. We played a couple open mics with this format, and still occasionally do. They are now in our general repertoire, and sometimes gets played...

Orange Amps Micro Terror Guitar Amplifier Head - White - Rare | eBay This is what those things look like with the cage protection taken off. Edit: realized he is talking about Dark Terror, not Micro Dark.

You said he is giving full refund - but you are not sending it back? If he is not asking for it back and giving full refund, I think he did it. And this doesn't look like just a "hacked repair" to me, it looks more like a "hacked mod". Correct me if I am wrong, but where's the tube in that tube...

Im in favor of name-and-shame, but that probably is against the rules. You said he was listed as "commercial user" here on TB - I would report this to the mods to make them aware of their games. "Commercial user" implies he makes a full living on reneging on deals just like this. Maybe, you...

Has anybody noted that the wood or least the veneer looks like spalted maple? Isn't that fungus? I believe I have read in these forums that dealing with that is nasty. (If not spalted, please ignore.)

Intonation compensation. See The Compensated Nut which happens to be a very timely and excellent explanation.

Is there a balance control in the system, and if so, do the pickups go straight to that? If so, it probably takes both active and passive. Everything past that balance control needs to be valued for active. There is a real good chance you can just swap the pickups.

No, you cannot use those passively, no matter how you wire them. They need a battery.

Guitar Fetish does have active pickups with dip switches that do exactly that. Not extreme tone shaping, but db boost, and what I guess is essentially a low/high boost (resulting in a mid scoop). REDactive EQ Switchable P Bass Active pickup black Case-RL1 is an example. It's been done, just not...

As a lot of people have said, there is a very wide range of pickups with a wide range of tone from EMG. I believed the "harsh", "brittle", "sterile" reputation they had until I started experimenting myself. To my ears, HZs seem to live up to that reputation. DC, CS, P soap bars got progressively...

Ibanez AEBs are decent. Keep the stock bridge (or replace if the previous owner shaved it), use acoustic bass strings, and add the DAddario O-Port. Im heard over 2 guitars with no amp.