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SPECTOR® Club - Part 63

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#923
j.kernodle said:
that poor bass, I've been following its journey with slight amusement.

obviously the original owner was some guy named Shane Grush then it went to guitar center. from there it's gone to:

smadder >> me >> baird >> aistentaciousC >> ebradford >> current owner.

so it's had 7 owners in just over two years. it really was a cool bass, I didn't care for the smadder pre, but if Baird hadn't swapped me a killer 78 stingray I probably would've kept it and learned to play five string properly.
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I'm really interested in the Forte, actually. They seem like great basses, and a great opportunity to get into the USA NT at a great price, considering the USA BO's I was looking at were more then the Forte's going for right now..

I was thinking ideally I'd have 3 Spectors in the end, that would be perfect for me. My current Euro (DC's) the Forte 5 maybe (take out the DC and throw in the P with the J) and then a Rex 5 with the DC from the Forte and a new one possibly. I'm expecting my OBP-2 to come in this upcoming week and I'll do the install on my Euro 5LX shortly after... From then I'll decide what pre I go with in my next bass which will hopefully be my USA!

For now, heres a quick Ipad pic of my Euro!

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#929
Basstovsky said:
Ok I promised pics of the Legend 6 (Is that the correct model designation? I know its a 6-string Legend, that's all I know) I bought from Mark of Scale the Summit, and here they are! Weather's been miserably hot, but at least it makes for good photos.
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I had a lesson with Mark when he came to town and he mentioned he was planning on selling his Spector. Pretty cool it went to a TB'r!
 
#935
Traded the OBP-2 from my new Forte 4 to Mr.Bassie for a new trim Tone Pump he had.

Wired it up following the vol/blend configuration on Spector.Com and........nothing. :confused:
No hum, crackle, nothing.

Rewired it 3 times, careful to make sure every connection was solid. Checked, checked and rechecked the schematic. Nothing. :scowl:

Thinking it was a dud, was about to give up and send it back to Mr.Bassie when I decided to look at one of my other Spectors with this configuration (don't remember the schematic I followed for this one as I've installed several of these) and noticed several different connections from the given schematic.

Wired it up one more time, following the changes I saw in my other Spector and YES!!!!! It's working perfectly.

If anyone is doing this. the changes, following the wires from left to right, with wires on the bottom like the pic in the schematic (follow this way as the colors are frequently incorrect). The Tone Pump sticker will probably be upside down this way:

1. And this may not make much difference in the ultimate grounding , but the grounds (braids) from both pups should be grounded to the chassis of the volume put rather than connected separately to the blend pot as shown on the Spector schematic.

2. A wire needs to be run from the grounded (to chassis) right lug of the volume pot to the bottom left lug of the blend pot. This same lug on the blend pot should also receive the black (second from left) wire from the Tone Pump with the white (first) wire going to the bottom right lug of the blend. This is opposite of the Spector schematic, but is the way mine (that works :smug:) is wired.

Note: The wire from the bottom right lug of the blend that grounds to the chassis, shown on the Spector schematic is unneeded. The two white (hot) wires coming from the pickups go to the middle (upper and lower) lugs of the blend as shown on the Spector schematic.

The third through seventh wires (going to the treble and bass pots) on the Spector schematic are correct.
The black wire from the battery clip to the ring (long middle lug on the switchcraft jack) is also correct.

3. A wire from the bottom right lug of the blend should go to the middle lug of the volume. The wire shown to go from the middle volume lug to the jack ground is incorrect as shown on the Spector schematic.

4. The eighth wire (or third from right) goes to the sleeve of the input jack, not the volume pot as shown on the Spector schematic.

5. The ninth wire goes to the (short) ground lug of the input jack, not the left lug of the volume as shown on the Spector schematic. The left lug of the volume is actually not connected to anything.

6. The last (red) wire on the far right is correct as shown on the Spector schematic. Just remember if you are hooking up active EMG's you have to merge the red wires from the pickups to this last connection also.

I think I remembered everything.
It may seem complicated, but this info would have saved me hours of frustration. :spit:
Hopefully JPS will get the appropriate someone on this and fix it before this happens to anyone else.
I'll have to assume the other schematics are (hopefully) correct. :eyebrow:
 
#936
#937
Fat240 said:
Well I scratched my head on the low output in the 9v in my refin'd Kramer for a couple days and believe I have solved the issue. I went over the whole pre and tested everything and I had my two Brooklyns on the bench to use for reference when I noticed that the neck pickup was wired backwards. The neck pickup on the other two had the black on the left (inside) turret and this one was reversed. On the HAZ 9v the neck and bridge pickups are wired different. The neck is black on the left(inside) and white on the right (towards the cavity wall), the bridge is wired white on the left and black on the right. I was not able to plug into an amp to A/B (it was baby nap time), but into the interface on the level in the DAW all three basses were putting out right at the same level db and sounded the same in the head phones. The pot noise and boosting off center detent was also gone from the balance pot, and back to stable and smooth blending. So, we will have the final conclusion in the morning when I wake the neighbors.
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Great news Coop. I was bummed that things had not gone 100% for you. I'm glad you figured it out before sending it to HAZ. I'm calling Phil later this morning to give him a hard time :). In a good natured way, of course.
 
#938
PhatBasstard said:
Traded the OBP-2 from my new Forte 4 to Mr.Bassie for a new trim Tone Pump he had.

Wired it up following the vol/blend configuration on Spector.Com and........nothing. :confused:
No hum, crackle, nothing.

Rewired it 3 times, careful to make sure every connection was solid. Checked, checked and rechecked the schematic. Nothing. :scowl:

Thinking it was a dud, was about to give up and send it back to Mr.Bassie when I decided to look at one of my other Spectors with this configuration (don't remember the schematic I followed for this one as I've installed several of these) and noticed several different connections from the given schematic.

Wired it up one more time, following the changes I saw in my other Spector and YES!!!!! It's working perfectly.

If anyone is doing this. the changes, following the wires from left to right, with wires on the bottom like the pic in the schematic (follow this way as the colors are frequently incorrect). The Tone Pump sticker will probably be upside down this way:

1. And this may not make much difference in the ultimate grounding , but the grounds (braids) from both pups should be grounded to the chassis of the volume put rather than connected separately to the blend pot as shown on the Spector schematic.

2. A wire needs to be run from the grounded (to chassis) right lug of the volume pot to the bottom left lug of the blend pot. This same lug on the blend pot should also receive the black (second from left) wire from the Tone Pump with the white (first) wire going to the bottom right lug of the blend. This is opposite of the Spector schematic, but is the way mine (that works :smug:) is wired.

Note: The wire from the bottom right lug of the blend that grounds to the chassis, shown on the Spector schematic is unneeded. The two white (hot) wires coming from the pickups go to the middle (upper and lower) lugs of the blend as shown on the Spector schematic.

The third through seventh wires (going to the treble and bass pots) on the Spector schematic are correct.
The black wire from the battery clip to the ring (long middle lug on the switchcraft jack) is also correct.

3. A wire from the bottom right lug of the blend should go to the middle lug of the volume. The wire shown to go from the middle volume lug to the jack ground is incorrect as shown on the Spector schematic.

4. The eighth wire (or third from right) goes to the sleeve of the input jack, not the volume pot as shown on the Spector schematic.

5. The ninth wire goes to the (short) ground lug of the input jack, not the left lug of the volume as shown on the Spector schematic. The left lug of the volume is actually not connected to anything.

6. The last (red) wire on the far right is correct as shown on the Spector schematic. Just remember if you are hooking up active EMG's you have to merge the red wires from the pickups to this last connection also.

I think I remembered everything.
It may seem complicated, but this info would have saved me hours of frustration. :spit:
Hopefully JPS will get the appropriate someone on this and fix it before this happens to anyone else.
I'll have to assume the other schematics are (hopefully) correct. :eyebrow:
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I'm really happy that you hung in there and beat that thing into submission. :D Good looking out Phat.
 
#939
bunkaroo said:
It's here!

Couple of crappy cell pics for now - gotta jump on a Skype interview for ProgPower before I can play with it.

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My first impression is, it's lighter in color than I thought it would look in person, especially based on the pre-gloss pics I saw plus the other photographed UV basses. It definitely seems to look different in different light. Perhaps Todd or Torn or Patrick can tell me their experiences with how they look in person via photography. It looks a darker in these pics than it does in person to me.

Then again, my black cherry has a different look than in the pics too so I think that's just how they photograph.

Thing feels great - I like the feel of the BEM quite a bit between this and the Coda 5XL. Now I gotta plug it in in a couple hours and here the 9v with this 40P5 and 40J. :bassist:
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Wowzers!!! :eek: Congratulations Bunk, it's sexy! :D
 
#940
bunkaroo said:
Thanks everyone - feeling pretty good about this one! Todd that makes sense on the wood. I have a feeling this was from a lighter piece of maple. Coop to answer your question, this was the "standard" 4A quilt - I did not upgrade to premium. Between this, the Coda and the 6XL I think I got as good as it gets before upgrading to 5A.

Oh and I meant to show this one when I first saw it but it got away from me - this is the "last" (hahaha) one I should have coming in for a while, pre-gloss:

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This is modeled after John's "Great Gazoo" bass in color but I think this one might wind up a little lighter too based on this pic, which is cool. It's got its own thing going on. This will have the unlined ebony fretless fretboard and (gasp!) black hardware. Basically wanted Colin Edwin's fretless as a 5-string in green.
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Wow Andy...Your man on a mission! :cool: You'll have almost all colors of the rainbow in Spector Basses. :D
 
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