Recent content by Thomas Cordery

Those crown inlays are stock on their higher end basses from that era. They're on my 6000B which I've had from new. As Lo-E said, you can see them on 500/600 as well as 5000/6000 series fretted basses. So, I wonder if yours is a 550B? The 650B was a two pickup bass, and it wouldn't be a...

Mike, the easiest, cheapest, good thing you can do for the low end of your Pathfinder 10 Bass is set it up with its back against an upholstered chair or couch, or shove a cushion between the back of the cabinet and a wall to cover that open back. It's still no 2x10, but at least it then finds a...

Yes, I looked at that, printed it out to correct scale and checked it against my basses. This would work for a Jazz Bass and seems to be a Fender template apart from the "alternative position" screw holes that I think were added as a personal preference by the person who originally uploaded...

Only two screws means only two chances to screw it up then? The official template at that link is for a J bass, so the P bass question remains. Still looking ... measuring an old bass may be the only way to get it right.

I've had a BC80 for about a year now. It's extremely clean and pretty quiet, though I'll say that it does have a little hum from the power supply. In the rehearsal hall with unamplified reeds, brass and drums (sextet) it's not noticeable, but practising at home I hear some low level harmonics...

Okay thanks Aloe. It won't be a grounding problem; in North America only the BC150 has a grounded power chord. BC80 and below are double insulated and only connect to live and neutral. And I've had nothing else connected that have introduce a ground loop. The low level hum I'm getting...

Ah! I just replied to your question about hiss from the output stage of your BC80, asking you if the problem was resolved. So was the ultimate resolution getting rid of the thing?

I just bought a BC80 and have a different, though similar, noise issue. Did you ever get a resolution to yours, Aloe? You said you hear white noise that is unaffected by any of the controls or even by plugging into the headphone jack. That tells us the noise is in the power amp stage, as...

Line6man, the switch in question is "preamp on /off", not active / passive. Note that the output still comes from that potted preamp. With the switch off, the bass will have no output. On my DMZ6000 this functionality is handled by pulling the cord out which breaks the battery connection to...

Yes, it runs on a 9V battery. It definitely is the preamp; I suspect some semiconductor or more likely a capacitor going intermittent. I did contact DiMarzio on the off chance they had a schematic, but they informed me that they didn't provide the preamps. Looking again at the brochure I see...

Yes, takes a 9 volt battery. The preamp is completely potted so component replacement would be a huge undertaking and probably unsuccesful. The part number is stamped "DBL-2" with a second line "07 167 9" and something like a dozen wires coming out one end. DiMarzio says they didn't make it...

That's a great one. I started recording my sax at rehearsal, close mic'd, and what a difference it made. Everything sounded great in my ears at rehearsal, but the playback was brutally honest. Every hesitation, odd timbre, mistake of any kind brought out in the bright light of day. Really...

Was looking for some technical information on an early '80s Kramer bass. Found this site loaded with lots of obscure and interesting stuff - okay not what I was looking for, but what a resource this community is!

That was never my experience. I bought my Kramer specifically because a band I was in was doing gigs around Toronto to Hunstville in the dead of winter. Sometimes we'd arrive, set up and play, and I'd be cracking my bass case before it had a chance to warm up from the trip. I worried that...

Late response to your post. Thank you for posting that single sheet, Jack. That DBZ-6000B is exactly my Kramer bass. Bought it new at Steve's in Toronto in 1981 or '82 and played it for years. Just dug it out recently. Sadly it's developed an intermitent where it suddenly howls; I suspect...