Recent content by Peter van Brucken

A BIG aspect of some of these smaller cabs, is how they're designed to be used. If you're playing a gig in a small/medium sized club, you'll have FoH speakers to deliver the bottom end, controlled by a sound tech. You just don't need or want lot's of low stuff on stage!! It will just muddy up...

I agree! There's a lot of popular, but mediocre players in there, with many greats missed out. Yep, must be going off YouTube likes or searches, rather than any measure of talent!

Hi Daniel, I haven't tested frequencies, but yeah, would imagine 100Hz would be about as low as you'd get into a low impedance input. It would roll off at around 6db/octave from 500Hz into 1 MOhm, so if you did find anything down there, boosting it would have limited success. This is why I tried...

Hey all, got the wiring sorted! The Schatten sounds great! Super quiet. The only issue was input sensitivity. It can handle 6V peak, but the NXT must be super hot as it was clipping at moderate playing levels! Put a 470K resistor in series with the input and that's made it work as it should. The...

Hey all, just bought an NXT5 to replace my very heavily modified Palatino. Anyway, I decided to put a 10M ohm Schatten micro preamp onboard so I'd have no issues going into any kind of bass amp. All good, and the testing proved it was a good idea. In the final install, ran the output direct into...

Cheers Greg! It's all lightweight aluminium tube and bracket, so adds hardly anything to the total weight. :)

Mine gets stored in a rack with my other basses at home. It's a 5 unit rack and the Palatino takes up two spaces. When at a gig, I built a handy kick stand, which doubles as support when playing. Just hooks around your knees and feels ok. Means you swing it around while you're playing ;) A hard...

Hey Greg, good work on getting a Palatino. Get some damping on that tailstock as soon as you can. You may not hear it "live" but if you record with it, you'll really notice some ringing!! Also for strings, I was very happy with the Palatino steel uprights; Palatino "Steel" Strings for Upright...

Best mod was on my Palatino UEB, was fitting a coil pickups. Also added a new preamp with a proper tone control and pickup balance between the piezo bridge and coils. Sounds really solid, less stage feedback and lots of tonal variation available. We're not just playing traditional jazz, so it...

Currently got a weighty beast in my collection too. A Custom Guitar Workshop BT406 6 string. Tips the scales at 5.3 Kg or 11.7 lbs for you imperial folk. I did a back injury a while ago and couldn't use it with a strap for more than a couple of minutes! Does sound quite nice, but had to get a...

Sounds ok, but dude, you NEED to address the tailstock resonance! It's one of the first things to change on the Palatino. I've gone a bit crazy since that and tried a few things that have worked very nicely. Now have coil pickups on a fabricated saddle, a piezo pickup mounted directly on the...

I'm currently playing an "entry level" Palatino upright electric. It sounded pretty bad when I first bought it second hand. Being a bit of a tinkerer, I have worked on it's shortcomings with cheap mods and "kiwi ingenuity", to the point now it sounds pretty damn good. And this was using some...

I'm just re-discovering my old Trace Elliot dual compressor. Really brings out the transients and limits well at the top end. Sounds really good on my upright electric, so I'm about to integrate it into a combination pedal board with a few other effects. Will give me kind of a Tech 21 Bass Fly...

Here's an ideal preamp solution if you want to make it playable again and donate it; 3 Band EQ Preamp Circuit Bass Guitar Wiring Harness for Active Bass Pickup-in Guitar Parts & Accessories from Sports & Entertainment on Aliexpress.com | Alibaba Group This is one of the more expensive options...

Hey all, just wondering what strings people are using out there? I think it's time to replace mine. I had a wee play on an NS 5 string EUB today. Very nice, and with a price tag of NZ$7,999.00 I would hope so too! The strings felt great - very crisp and great bottom end. I think they were NS...