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Club Alleva Coppolo (Part IV)

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steve9000gi said:
Do you get that buzz when the gain is matched on the two pickups, or only when they're not set the same? I'll bet I'll find rooms that make mine go crazy, too, but so far I've been having good luck. Too bad your regular playing room gives you that buzz. Maybe you can have them rewire the place for you. After all, you *are* the bass player :D.

-Steve
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I haven't recently tested this to verify there isn't something else I'm forgetting, but I think they just have to match. I don't think overall attenuation matters... even tho it's via two pots instead of one (like in the case of a blend pot config).
 
#582
XavidmanX said:
Hmmm...one of each color. That's what I'm talkin' about! To hell with the economy! More AC's please!



The tone is killer...but for some reason the lights on stage at church just don't like single coils one bit. The hum is crazy nasty with any bass I put through there when everyone is quiet. In the mix it gets so loud during fast songs that the hum isn't noticeable. Lovin' my AC, though.

I will say that this bass sounds the best of any bass I've played through our Aviom in ear system. Pure tone.
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Assuming you have both pickups balanced (i.e., like they are at full volume), this isn't a single coil issue. Single coil pickups with both pickups balanced are no different than hum cancelling pickups.

However, some rooms are just horrible for any bass. There is a room up on the top floor of a tall building in St. Louis (it used to be called the Lawyer's Club) where I could not use my MTD535. Now, that's about the quietest bass out there, with active soapbars, etc., and it literally buzzed, picked up radio stations, etc. My other basses (active, single coil, passive, whatever, were fine).

Sometimes, there's just a strange interaction with certain instruments and preamps and certain rooms. Luckily, that is the only room and only bass in 30+ years of gigging that I've ever had a problem with.

I'm approaching a 'hum cancelling free zone' at this point. I have no interest in anything but nice single coild, relatively vintage sounding J pickups at this point, and have zero issue with hum, even when favoring the bridge pickup a bit.
 
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KJung said:
However, some rooms are just horrible for any bass. There is a room up on the top floor of a tall building in St. Louis (it used to be called the Lawyer's Club) where I could not use my MTD535. Now, that's about the quietest bass out there, with active soapbars, etc., and it literally buzzed, picked up radio stations, etc. My other basses (active, single coil, passive, whatever, were fine).
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You're absolutely right about everything except the MTD being the quietest bass. I've found the MTDs to actually be fairly susceptible to interference such as lights on dimmers or electrical transformers nearby, etc. Not horrible, but definitely not the quietest at all. The "quietest" basses I've ever played are my Sadowskys, Skjold, Cirrus, and my Geddy (which I shielded the crap out of and put DiMarzio HC's in). My American Deluxe P 5 bass is also fairly noisy in "rude rooms" like that and I've done the full shield and star ground on it as well.

There's a difference between "SC hum" and "Shielding/grounding hum".

Sometimes you can take a pickup and add shielding to it, but then you also risk altering its sound, so that's a double-edged sword as well.

Sometimes, there's just a strange interaction with certain instruments and preamps and certain rooms.
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... and PICKUPS. Absolutely correct, and there's nothing you can do about it without changing the "offending" component(s).
 
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steve9000gi said:
Do you get that buzz when the gain is matched on the two pickups, or only when they're not set the same?
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It's just when I favor one pickup over the other. A typical SC thing, but it's not so bad in other rooms I play in.

I'll bet I'll find rooms that make mine go crazy, too, but so far I've been having good luck. Too bad your regular playing room gives you that buzz. Maybe you can have them rewire the place for you. After all, you *are* the bass player :D.

-Steve
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That's what I keep tellin' them! Oh well...glad you're having better luck than I am. I might just wrap myself in aluminum foil cocoon the next time I play. Under those lights I could probably keep a few potatoes and veggies in there with me and end up with a nice BBQ side dish...it gets so hot!! I feel like a burger at the school cafeteria.
 
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Yeah...looks like I didn't specify in my original post that I was sort of responding to another post about someone loving their tone when they backed the neck pickup off about 20%.

So, I only get it when I favor one over the other.

My bad...

KJung said:
Assuming you have both pickups balanced (i.e., like they are at full volume), this isn't a single coil issue. Single coil pickups with both pickups balanced are no different than hum cancelling pickups.

However, some rooms are just horrible for any bass. There is a room up on the top floor of a tall building in St. Louis (it used to be called the Lawyer's Club) where I could not use my MTD535. Now, that's about the quietest bass out there, with active soapbars, etc., and it literally buzzed, picked up radio stations, etc. My other basses (active, single coil, passive, whatever, were fine).

Sometimes, there's just a strange interaction with certain instruments and preamps and certain rooms. Luckily, that is the only room and only bass in 30+ years of gigging that I've ever had a problem with.

I'm approaching a 'hum cancelling free zone' at this point. I have no interest in anything but nice single coild, relatively vintage sounding J pickups at this point, and have zero issue with hum, even when favoring the bridge pickup a bit.
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#588
KJung said:
+1 and good point. I find the Alleva's shielded wonderfully, as I do with the Sadowsky basses. That is often more of an issue than the single coil business (unless you are totally favoring a single pickup).
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Yeah, I forgot to add Alleva's to the list. For a bass with SC's in it, it's one of the quietest. Also, my Zon is very quiet for a SC bass.
 
#589
Morning all,

I am at home from work today with a very acute case of "waiting for the UPS truck-itis". To keep myself from pacing, making incessant phone calls, and watching info-mercials, I thought it might be fun to compile a bunch of AC bass photos in one place on the forum so that we all knew where to go for some "instant AC eye candy". It might be interesting to hear from some of you how you got onto Alleva Coppolo in the first place.

Let's begin with this Ken's Harvest Gold LM5. First AC I ever saw; this did not do anything to ease the GAS pains...:rollno:
 
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My 1600 and LG...2 of the best basses I have ever owned...
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#597
Thank you gentlemen, a six pack of killer instruments - those pics kind of gave me a boner :eek:. Andrew, you are a madman. I call official dibs if you ever consider releasing that white 4 string.

To continue... if I ever order an LM5, I will want this... Maybe with a natural finish? Oh, and some of those other basses aren't half bad either.

BTW, can we proclaim this an official "obligatory pics with posts" day? :ninja:
 
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