Modulus Mob

[VT Pete]

Is there a significant improvement in tone and sustain to outshine the added weight in your opinion?

 

[Angus]

Is there a significant improvement in tone and sustain to outshine the added weight in your opinion?

You'll never get definitive answers on this one way or another on this. People will answer with 100% certainty that it does or doesn't affect it, so who knows.

I definitely prefer brass for bridges, though.

 

[drewphishesp]

With my brass I get sustain for daysss with aluminum it's more like 7/8 of a day lol. I can't tell but I prefer brass

 

[VT Pete]

Yeah, I just have always kind of had that feeling too. I think I’m gonna make the swap. I’ve been leaning that way for a while. Thanks for the input. And hey, I’ll never know if I don’t try it for myself.

 

[drewphishesp]

For everyone using a bqc. How do u have ur treble dip switch set too?

 

[iriegnome]

I use mine all the way up. I believe they are 250/500/800 or something close to that. I prefer my 800 boosted.

 

[drewphishesp]

does modulus use shielding paint when they finish a cavity usually? Its so weird, while installing my bqc last night, if the back of the balance pot, (where everythings soldered into and the ends pop out) touched the paint or the side of the cavity, no sound, if I spin it around so not touching anything fully on and working great! I am assuming its conductive paint and when its touching theres a short somewhere in the circuit? either that or I got a bad pot but I doubt thats the case

 

[iriegnome]

none of mine were painted or shielded, but mine are all older. Not sure if the new ones use it.

 

[drewphishesp]

im pretty sure bc its like gold in color, if they didnt the guy before me mustve

 

[MattLplaysBass]

Pretty aure they do/did. My more recent ones (post 2k) have had the copper paint,

and I think they’re using the black paint now.

 

[drewphishesp]

yeah def, so my theory makes a little bit of sense then?

 

[drewphishesp]

this part was hitting the paint and I think probably connecting some of the pcb together

 

[drewphishesp]

yes my theory was correct, from emg:

As for the shielding, we don’t recommend ever using shielding paint as it almost always causes problems. Basically, what is happening is that when those metal parts touch the shielding, you are shorting the signal to ground so you won’t get a good output. Our active stuff is already silent, so you really don’t need shielding anyways.

 

[loveandbass]

No idea if my tbx is shielded

 

[Bob_Ross]

For everyone using a bqc. How do u have ur treble dip switch set too?

Uh... :::scratches head::: I honestly forgot that they even had DIP switches! No idea.

does modulus use shielding paint when they finish a cavity usually?

My '96 has the black shielding paint. My '88 came with none whatsoever (but when I upgraded the electronics I added copper foil shielding).

 

[fauxtoe]

does modulus use shielding paint when they finish a cavity usually? Its so weird, while installing my bqc last night, if the back of the balance pot, (where everythings soldered into and the ends pop out) touched the paint or the side of the cavity, no sound, if I spin it around so not touching anything fully on and working great! I am assuming its conductive paint and when its touching theres a short somewhere in the circuit? either that or I got a bad pot but I doubt thats the case

All three of my Modulus basses (FB4, FB5, Q5) have shielding paint and they were made between 2001 and 2004. All of them also have a grounding wire soldered to each pot that runs to the ground connection on the input jack. I've never had any noise problems or shorting that I could detect.

 

[GeoffGould]

I'm not aware of any other pickups besides EMG that recommend no shielding. I shield EMG's because it looks cool, and if you want to swap out for some other pickups, you don't have to worry about shielding.

 

[fauxtoe]

this part was hitting the paint and I think probably connecting some of the pcb together View attachment 3314994

That was the problem. No doubt. If you absolutely have to have it turned towards the shielding I would bet that you could stick something non-conductive between it and the cavity. Electrical tape will probably leave a weird stickiness on it over time, but anything else like a thin piece of closed cell foam would work.

 

[carsonchilders]

Does anyone have an output on the low side with their Barts + Aguilar inners on a Q5? I feel like my bass is a lower output than my passive p bass and there is no independent gain control inside the bass. I have already changed the battery.

I've thought this for a while, but over the weekend I borrowed a "backbeat" and noticed if I cranked the thing to full it wasn't giving me way too much vibration. But if I plugged my p bass in it was killing me.

It seems to be very nuanced. It's not low enough for most people to complain, but I feel like I'm getting too much noise trying to pull more brightness out of it.

 

[drewphishesp]

Does anyone have an output on the low side with their Barts + Aguilar inners on a Q5? I feel like my bass is a lower output than my passive p bass and there is no independent gain control inside the bass. I have already changed the battery.

I've thought this for a while, but over the weekend I borrowed a "backbeat" and noticed if I cranked the thing to full it wasn't giving me way too much vibration. But if I plugged my p bass in it was killing me.

It seems to be very nuanced. It's not low enough for most people to complain, but I feel like I'm getting too much noise trying to pull more brightness out of it.

you running at 18 or 9 v? I found a hugeeee difference with barts between 18 and 9