Recent content by Matt-bb

Hey guys! I’d like to join the club! I have been playing a 1994 Foundation (rare find where I live), which I am totally in love with. Sounds great and has the most comfortable neck I have ever seen. Sold my AVRI75 Jazz short after I met the Peavey, and have not been missing it :) Any chance...

Thanks! Unfortunately I don’t know of any online retailer well stocked with single strings… DR hi-beams seams like a viable option, can’t find them in 30-90 so I ordered 40-95. Let’s see if the roundcore does the trick! Will report back once I get them… P.S. I was going through DR sound...

I used to play with heavier strings, but after recovering from tendinitis I am learning to love super light gauges. For context: Thomastik jazz rounds, and Daddario ProSteels 40-100 for D standard is what I use on my main players. I have this one 75 AVRI Jazz that really does not like nickel...

Actually, I just picked up a Yamaha RBX550m for 90€. It’s a PJ from 1992 and I think it was considered a medium-low end bass in those days. Details and finish are quite cheap, but the bass is light and solid, neck is super confortable, hardware is really good and the sound is OMG. It kinda puts...

All my bass are passive, I find it easy to find a sound I like in most situation. My first bass was active (Ibanez SR700 PJ). Tone was ok but I never loved it, ended up in the closet once I bought a few passive bass. One day I removed the preamp and wired it VVT, and loved it at once: it became...

Thanks everyone for all the amazing answers: there is so much value in them! Reading how everyone is at ease with his mistakes really helped me putting things into perspective. Besides the many great advices on how to practice\play (some of them I was already doing, some of them I will surely...

Here is what I learned in my short bass playing (and bass buying) journey: My first bass was a PJ (Ibby SR700), so I never had any P or J expectation. While I initially started to play with both pickup dialed in, I quickly started loving the P soloed while I could never really figure out the J...

Happy but surprised to see I am with the majority. 1994 Peavey Foundation 2001 Ibanez SR700 PJ 2008 Fender AVRI 75 Jazz 2016 Fender Mexican Precision and I am picking up tomorrow a Yamaha RBX550M to keep in the office… I play the Peavey and the Ibby in my bands, so they are also the one I...

Will it ever happen? I am 30 and started playing during the pandemic (mostly self thought, but I finally started taking lessons). Last April I started playing in bands and I am now in a metal cover band, and a jazz group from my local music school that covers mainly bossa nova stuff. I never...

So, I went on and built the circuit above and wired the stock ibanez pickups to it. Everything works as expected and I gotta say I am very pleased with the result: this bass is my best player, but I was never sold to the sound. After removing the junk electronics those dxp/dxj both sure sound...

Thanks for the feedback. I guess I want to keep the option to adjust the extent of the cut... According to my (hopefully correct) understanding: different capacitors will determine both the cut frequency AND the frequency at which the resonant peak happen, the variable resistor in series with...

Hi, So, I am using a nice sounding (both somehow incomplete) SR700 as a pilot project to learn as much as I can about bass electronics. I’ll be starting by wiring the original PUs passive, so that I can listen to how they sound by theirself. Originally I planned a standard VVT configuration...

Thank you Crater for confirming this is weird. It was driving me crazy. So, motivated by your clue I spent some time playing with the push/pull switch and a multimeter, and I think I got a grasp of how it works. If my understanding is correct, I could wire it this way in order to have the...

Hi to all you knowledgeable people, I am going to swap out all the electronics in my SR700 with a Delano Sonar 3 band and Delano FE/M2 pickups. I did my research but still I would appreciate your help in confirming that I am tackling grounding issues correctly. (Note: the cavitie is already...

Hi all, after a couple month, here is a ‘little’ follow up! This is the story of how I went from ‘maybe a new pups’ to owning two new basses. Maybe it was GAS after all :D So, from the place I was I had basically two options: a) blindly change components and hope to get lucky b) figure...