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ok, more/ better pics of both of mine, as requested..
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#1,586
Since this thread is amazingly popular, I would like to ask you - owners and others - if any of you had that pickup problems that I'm having at the moment.

Last weekend, I was playing for about 1h30 and it was awesome. I haven't played in a long time and it felt so good that I wanted to play some more... but then, I noticed that my sound was going down. Just like if I had no more battery power (9V).

So I changed the 9V for a new one on sunday and I sat down to play some more, and after not even 10 minutes, same problem. It got really really quiet and I had a broken heart... well, I was more upset than anything else.

I took out a 3rd 9V battery, and now, same thing, well, not even 10 minutes. It was more like 30 seconds and I was out of sound.

Here's what I did: unplugged the wire from the amp, connected it to my tuner, worked fine on the first try, went back to the amp - no sound. Went back to the tuner - not working anymore. Moved my amp to another electric plug... did the same routine, and nothing.

I need one of you to tell me if my EMGs active pickups are the problem. And what might be the solution?

BTW, I play on a Modulus Quantum-6 2003.

Thank you everyone!
 
#1,587
Boyer84 said:
Since this thread is amazingly popular, I would like to ask you - owners and others - if any of you had that pickup problems that I'm having at the moment.

Last weekend, I was playing for about 1h30 and it was awesome. I haven't played in a long time and it felt so good that I wanted to play some more... but then, I noticed that my sound was going down. Just like if I had no more battery power (9V).

So I changed the 9V for a new one on sunday and I sat down to play some more, and after not even 10 minutes, same problem. It got really really quiet and I had a broken heart... well, I was more upset than anything else.

I took out a 3rd 9V battery, and now, same thing, well, not even 10 minutes. It was more like 30 seconds and I was out of sound.

Here's what I did: unplugged the wire from the amp, connected it to my tuner, worked fine on the first try, went back to the amp - no sound. Went back to the tuner - not working anymore. Moved my amp to another electric plug... did the same routine, and nothing.

I need one of you to tell me if my EMGs active pickups are the problem. And what might be the solution?

BTW, I play on a Modulus Quantum-6 2003.

Thank you everyone!
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All I can say is that I have mine since 91 and never had an issue that swapping the battery didin't fix.
 
#1,589
Boyer84 said:
Since this thread is amazingly popular, I would like to ask you - owners and others - if any of you had that pickup problems that I'm having at the moment.

Last weekend, I was playing for about 1h30 and it was awesome. I haven't played in a long time and it felt so good that I wanted to play some more... but then, I noticed that my sound was going down. Just like if I had no more battery power (9V).

So I changed the 9V for a new one on sunday and I sat down to play some more, and after not even 10 minutes, same problem. It got really really quiet and I had a broken heart... well, I was more upset than anything else.

I took out a 3rd 9V battery, and now, same thing, well, not even 10 minutes. It was more like 30 seconds and I was out of sound.

Here's what I did: unplugged the wire from the amp, connected it to my tuner, worked fine on the first try, went back to the amp - no sound. Went back to the tuner - not working anymore. Moved my amp to another electric plug... did the same routine, and nothing.

I need one of you to tell me if my EMGs active pickups are the problem. And what might be the solution?

BTW, I play on a Modulus Quantum-6 2003.

Thank you everyone!
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mp40smg said:
All I can say is that I have mine since 91 and never had an issue that swapping the battery didin't fix.
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Ok. Well, It's fixed. And you wanna know how I did that? I never noticed that I had a two (2) 9V to change in my bass... Both of them are sitting ontop of another. How could I miss that? haha well, at least it was an inexpensive mistake!!

Thanks for your help!
 
#1,591
Hey everyone, I'm not a Modulus owner but I am a huge fan. My favorites are the VJ and the Flea/FU with single coils. A few years ago, I had the pleasure of borrowing a friends Quantum 5 for a few weeks while my bass was in the shop. Loved it, very hard to give back.

I didn't see this mentioned anywhere yet but I was looking through the Bass Central website the other day. Anyone else see the new Funk Unlimited bass with the redesigned pickguard and single precision pickup? I was surprised to see this but think it's very cool. I started thinking that it seems Modulus is trying out some different things recently with the optional pickups, scale lengths, and string spacing, but they don't seem to be advertising or boasting about any of these. Maybe they're just testing the market all casual-like to see what sticks.

Anyways, I've subscribed to this thread because I do like these basses and always keep my eye out for one locally.
 
#1,592
Z-Bass said:
Hey everyone, I'm not a Modulus owner but I am a huge fan. My favorites are the VJ and the Flea/FU with single coils. A few years ago, I had the pleasure of borrowing a friends Quantum 5 for a few weeks while my bass was in the shop. Loved it, very hard to give back.

I didn't see this mentioned anywhere yet but I was looking through the Bass Central website the other day. Anyone else see the new Funk Unlimited bass with the redesigned pickguard and single precision pickup? I was surprised to see this but think it's very cool. I started thinking that it seems Modulus is trying out some different things recently with the optional pickups, scale lengths, and string spacing, but they don't seem to be advertising or boasting about any of these. Maybe they're just testing the market all casual-like to see what sticks.

Anyways, I've subscribed to this thread because I do like these basses and always keep my eye out for one locally.
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Modulus has kinda always been that way, IMO. It's kinda weird. They obviously do plenty of business otherwise they wouldn't stay in the game, but they don't really do much advertising (anymore), and you kinda just hear about them from other players. I played them exclusively for about 3-5 years and am going back to the brand, but even then yeah I only found out stuff as it came out, here or there. The biggest little bass company you've never heard of. :p :D
The FU w/ P's indeed looks very cool. I wonder if they'd consider a P/J configuration.
 
#1,593
Hi my name is Pete and I have major GAS for a Q5...
Thing is I think I want the wood fingerboard (chechen) rather than phenolic, for feel as well as a mellower attack. I'd appreciate any wood fingerboard owners opinions regarding any real difference, Thanks.
It'd be nice to get my hands on one before the fact but (IMHO) Q5s are rare in the wild and wood fingerboard is never seen.
I own an original Modulus 4 string (Q shape headstock, 2 passive EMGs in P-J, quilt over alder, 870522 in ink on the back of the headstock) that the attack I sometimes feel is too...brittle? plus must have 5 strings.
I've been drooling over the Q6 on ebay but I don't really need/want the high C and that 98 Q5 with EMGs is way overpriced.
GAS is forcing me to act soon though and there's many beautiful Q5's with phenolic available...Please let your opinions flow freely - thanks
 
#1,594
Anomalous said:
Hi my name is Pete and I have major GAS for a Q5...
Thing is I think I want the wood fingerboard (chechen) rather than phenolic, for feel as well as a mellower attack. I'd appreciate any wood fingerboard owners opinions regarding any real difference, Thanks.
It'd be nice to get my hands on one before the fact but (IMHO) Q5s are rare in the wild and wood fingerboard is never seen.
I own an original Modulus 4 string (Q shape headstock, 2 passive EMGs in P-J, quilt over alder, 870522 in ink on the back of the headstock) that the attack I sometimes feel is too...brittle? plus must have 5 strings.
I've been drooling over the Q6 on ebay but I don't really need/want the high C and that 98 Q5 with EMGs is way overpriced.
GAS is forcing me to act soon though and there's many beautiful Q5's with phenolic available...Please let your opinions flow freely - thanks
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I have a pheno board so I can't comment but you could always fulfill your Mod gas w/a pheno board and then flip it for a wood board when one came up. The value stays pretty constant.
I looked for my mod (Q5/fretless) for a year. created a custom google search and just looked every day...finally found one at used.guitarcenter.com
 
#1,597
I have a quilt maple top, bart pickups and aguilar electronics Q6, and I absolutely LOVE it!
It's so fast even though the neck is quite wide.
It sounds amazing, although a little lacking on the bright side IMHO, even when EQed.
I should try to change the strings more often, but a 6 string pack is not cheap around these parts (if at all can be found...)

Can I please get a number?

Thanks!
 
#1,599
odk said:
I have a quilt maple top, bart pickups and aguilar electronics Q6, and I absolutely LOVE it!
It's so fast even though the neck is quite wide.
It sounds amazing, although a little lacking on the bright side IMHO, even when EQed.
I should try to change the strings more often, but a 6 string pack is not cheap around these parts (if at all can be found...)

Can I please get a number?

Thanks!
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a Q6 that is *not* bright?! Those strings are flats, dead rounds or something is broken.
 
#1,600
Hey guys,

I'm a new guy in these parts and I have a question I hope you all can answer. I've recently grown out of love with my Warwick SSI and have began considering possible brands I might want to trade into - Modulus being one of them.

I'm a bit of a StingRay lover and I was wondering how well the Flea/Funk Unlimited bass compares to it in tone and general feel. I did play one of these at a studio a few years ago and remember it being nice, but I can't remember much else besides that.

So yeah! How do you guys think they compare? If I like StingRays will I like the Funk Unlimited, or are they completely different beasts?

Thanks!
 

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