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New Cort Headless Bass
- Thread starter Nunovsky
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In my case I will use stock preamp. Just mod to have passive tone and change from volume/blend to vol/vol and 3way switch like I have modded my PJ bass. I think is the same preamp as my Jackson bass probably a 20 or 40 bucks preamp, nothing fancy but do its work.
Per description, it smacks of the proprietary preamps Ibanez employs with the MK1 pickups. Then again, the same pre was paired with the BETTER pickups, including Nordstrands. Enjoy the bass and hope your mods go without a hitch.
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Anyone else get a hum from stage lights and such? Mine does that when facing them, goes away when I turn to the side. Touching the strings or active/passive mode or front/rear/even blend has no effect, so I'm guessing it's a shielding issue? It's a bummer because it does have a nice tone that I have to eq out due to the hum until I can try shielding it. That's the only issue I've found with it so far. Tuners were very stiff so I lubed them.
By the way mine's 8.3 lbs for those that care. Here's a video of how they make these (featured briefly, mostly around 2m 40s)
By the way mine's 8.3 lbs for those that care. Here's a video of how they make these (featured briefly, mostly around 2m 40s)
Still no hum wired. With wireless equipment I get a noise so I put it passive mode. Idk why. Maybe cheap wireless??? But wired is dead quiet.
Haven't had such issues though I play wired, mostly bedroom jamming. I experienced ground issues before but that was totally the fault of the house I was in which had very ancient wiring. I recently moved to a condo and my ground issues were gone.
As for shielding, the Artisan Space 5 already has conductive graphite paint in the cavities that serves as shielding.
They make holes for mounting one string bridge by hands? That is the answer, why on a bass few pages ago bridge mounted uneven from string to string
About bridge still at naked eye looks perfect in mine. Btw I'm going to mod this bass electronics to an extent to fit my play style. At center blend knob to all neck the tone not change a lot. I mean neck position not sound like p bass. Still too growly and modern. I like that but for that I have the bridge pup. There's a way to sound more like a p bass in the neck?
the bartolini mk-1 has reverse split p-style coils. neck position should get you close enough to the sound with some EQ tweaks but i doubt you'll get the exact pbass honkiness as the space 5 is modern sounding overall
low-b string sounds massive with decent clarity, at least to my taste. not same as a 35" ibanez btb/dingwall low-b though.
yes the gig bag is similar size as a normal 6-string electric guitar. the gig bag should fit a strat with a few inches of allowance on the headstock
Thank you. I will try first the passive with an tone control if I can tame some of the modern sound. The bass already have passive/active switch and I will make it vol/vol 500k 3 way switch and 500k tone 0.047uf in passive mode.
Why would you assume it would be light? It's still a full size bass made from highish density timbers.
Well, my full size Edwards with headstock weight 3.6 kg. Mexican Fender P - 3.7 kg. I though Cort would be around 3.4/3.5 kg
I think 250k pots will be your bet if you want the pbass sound. 500k pots lets more high-mids / high frequencies pass through
