Recent content by nickbass5

Several of my bass player buddies were curious about these Bartolini B Axis pickups that I just installed in one of my basses.. So I figured I'd post some cut down clips from this past weekend.. They are brighter than the original bass Barts but still have the same lows and low mid punch. The...

Howdy Muckelroy Bass Club... I'm the proud owner of an Ensemble 6... Alder body, Flame maple top, Paduk body accent and neck stringers, Maple set net with birdseye maple fretboard....This is the best bass in my collection and I have some high end stuff...My 2nd Muck is on the way....Get a Muck...

I've owned three early 90's Modulus basses with no truss rod. The graphite doesn't move but the phenolic used on the finger board expands and contracts with temp change. In a hot environment like an outdoor stage in direct sunlight, it expands and pushes the neck straight .in cold it contracts...

Heres something I ran across

I have a bubinga 5 string corvette that I put Duncan SJB5 set in. Quite, nice full bottom end. Has a upper midrange bite that the original pups didn't have that I don't particularly care for but great for a rock tone. Put the same set of pups in a maple body peavey TL5 and the midrange is a lot...

The input gain control is not the same as a PAD. There is an active gain stage / buffer circuit before the input gain control that gets overdriven if you hit it with a hot signal. Unless Eden has changed this, the level has to be padded at some point, either decreasing the output of your bass...

Look in the Eden WTDI Club forum. I posted an input pad modification that has worked well for the two WTDI's that I own.

Heres my setup/signal chain at church, bass to tuner to WTDI to splitter. Split goes to FOH and monitor consoles. EQ set flat on both consoles. Stage rig is a powered wedge through one of the auxes on the monitor console. Always sounds great on stage and through the house. Have a second unit...

I feel you man... Geddy was my first big influence. I first dicovered Rush in 76' when 2112 came out. Saved up my money from my little 2.50 and hour newspaper job and got a black Rick and everything. (Which was $575 for a brand new Rick back in that day) I was 11 then and been playing bass for...

Got my second WTDI in today. Has the same gain as my first. I will do the same input pad mod to this one as well. A note to the people that have experenced the distortion problem with high output basses: Some active basses have an adjustable output trim pot inside the electronics cavity. You...

Can't find any official info confirming a fix for this gain bug and hadn't tried to contact Eden myself. I assumed they may have fix it after reading of a guy that worked at a music store having a WTDI with the problem. He claimed he gave it to thier Eden rep and the rep gave him another one...

I was thinking about adding a switch but this box has so much gain, even with the pad in, has enough gain for lower output instruments. You could go further and make this pad variable by putting a 5k trim pot in place of the 3.3k resistor. This WTDI lives at my church as part of my rig there...

.... so all you need to do is close that one pc trace shown in the pic and put the one end of the 3.3k on the switch. The 6.8k and 15k can stay soldered where they are. They will be bypassed out of the circuit when you close the switch and the other side of the switch opens and lifts the 3.3k...

Don't have the schematic. There may be a different way to pad the input by looking the schematic. Those small SMD components are difficult to work with. You could make a mess of things trying to de-solder without the proper tools. Also this is easier to demod if you need to. The blue wire is...

Notice you have to cut open the trace on the pc board in two spots to put the pad in circuit. To disable the pad you would wire a switch between the one pc trace cut as shown and wire the 3.3k resistor directly to the switch as shown. This would effectively reconnect the one cut pc trace and...