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Steinberger Club
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Very expensive for a bit of 2ch EQ. Definitely not worth it to me especially with active EMGs as the PUs.
My dogs bring home enough sand from the beach daily, and there is no tort here and never will be.
I just don't see the value in the HAZ.
My XL2 had the Haz installed when I bought it. I have to say I vastly prefer it to the V/V/T on my XP2. But I don’t care for V/V/T on any bass…give me a blend knob any day.
Not difficult or expensive to add as heaps of JBs show. It will be even better here as the EMGs are internally buffered.
Great! Count me in. I have an XP-2 and recently acquired an XL-2A. Will post pictures this week-end.
25 grand, not worth it, to me at least! Still looking...
well, apparently one of the collectors has released one into the wild. and it's "on sale" for a paltry $25k.
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Long time Synapse 5er owner. Still all original, and I'm finally thinking about mods. The EMG 40P5 just sounds sterile to me, or at least too close to the piezo (there is some extra boom and mid range added by the EMG).
Anyway, aside from the EMG, the treble roll off has always been a bit too underwhelming.
Has anyone dropped a Seymour Duncan NYC in the emg's place on this bass? Or modified the preamp so the treble control can really roll off the top end?
Thanks!
Anyway, aside from the EMG, the treble roll off has always been a bit too underwhelming.
Has anyone dropped a Seymour Duncan NYC in the emg's place on this bass? Or modified the preamp so the treble control can really roll off the top end?
Thanks!
Just made a deal on XP-2 to have a backup for my L2 (planning on making/modifying a semi-hardshell case for the two of them, should still be smaller than one e-guit case). Because of it becoming a backup to L2 I'm wondering whether it would be feasible to drop in active EMGs to have the input as close to that of the L2 as possible.
Anyone done this?
Anyone done this?
XPs (as well as the guitar counterpart GP) always have been available in both versions, with either passive or active EMGs. The originally active ones have a two-part pickguard, for making battery access possible. This might be a problem on single-part pickguards, because you'd always have to remove them completely to replace the battery. This is the main part of an XP pickguard with active EMGs. The missing upper left part is the (here missing) battery cover.
This is the back of the pickguard above:
EMG-SS is also what many L2s have.
However, you rarely find used SS pickups today. Andy Yakubik (SteinbergerWorld) recommends EMG HBCS (instead of HB) as replacements for SS pickups.
Absolutely. Not expecting them to sound identical, but would like to get the output levels (don't know why I wrote "input" earlier, brainfart) as close to each other as possible, as I use some dynamic filter type things that are sensitive to instrument output levels.
Be_eM: again, thank you for the information!
