black ice help!!

[faust23]

so ive been looking at the black ice capaciter on stew mac forever and i wanna know if anyone can tell me if the 9.6 ohmz on my emg hzs will cut it,from experience,thanx for helping before hand

 

[Steveaux]

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=565520&highlight=

 

[R. Laevinus]

Don't waste your money. Really. Instead, use two Schottky diodes - available for pennies from your local electronics supply house - wired in reverse in place of the BI. The lowest-value diodes provide the best crunch.

If you wanna get really fancy, use a push-pull pot with your tone cap and the Schottky's.

To be honest, though, it tends to sound like a pile of crap.

 

[walterw]

To be honest, though, it tends to sound like a pile of crap.

this.

you could just run your bass's 9V battery down to 3 or 4 volts to get the same bad sound.

 

[line6man]

Yeah, I never did understand why people want that crap on their instruments.

I can't imagine it would ever sound good.