Gaolee
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Well I have become a drummer, so my preferences are open to question.I'd rather have a bottle in front of me
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Gaolee
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Try an Acoustic 360. It makes an ampeg sound like it has a sore throat.
I have a sore throat. Stop with the smoke already!
Hmmm....
Might need a mudbucker
Might need a mudbucker
Now, that might be interesting. BTW, looking at the name on the HS, be careful where you stomp with them 'sneaks'.
I spent an hour playing this evening. The differences I see between basses is amplified (pun intended) by the YBA100. The Gibson Midtown is boomy (with a mudbucker tight to the neck, so, yeah) but polite. The Thunderbird is aggressive. But the Jack Casady is really aggressive through this amp!
Yeah, I've wanted a tube traynor since I first played through one in ~1979. I'm sure I could get a YBA-100* and a 212(or 115**) cab for less than $3K-the price of a good 63 piggyback 7ender Bassman.
*$729.USD on Reverb/**$589.USD on Reverb. Brand new in NY. $1318.
Capt. Obvious says "Yes, that's less than $3K."
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Ashdowns are hybrid..,GK are all ss...
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I've noticed on some wiring setups/diagrams, the cap is wired to the center eyelet on the tone pot; some have it in one of the side connectors. Does this make a difference? 
I'm wondering, partly because with vol all the way down, and tone up, I get a small amount of sound from the amp. Which I should not, last I checked.
I'm suspicious that whatever is causing this is at least contributory to my pickup problem...
I'm wondering, partly because with vol all the way down, and tone up, I get a small amount of sound from the amp. Which I should not, last I checked.
I'm suspicious that whatever is causing this is at least contributory to my pickup problem...
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Anything usually can be reversed... sometimes it's more difficult, but it can be righted with patience and a plan.
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Wonder if Nigel gets a commission every time one is sold?
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For the life of me I can't recall who mentioned the Electro-Harmonics Micro-POG pedal here recently... (related to imitating an 8-string bass?) but I bought a used one and it arrived today. EH makes some awesome pedals! I have an old DOD octave pedal that I think was primarily for guitar and this EH POG (non-denominational) pedal blows it out of the water. A guitarist friend has the original/standard POG (not micro) and I've always liked what he does with it, so I thought I'd try the micro. I gotta say It's a really useful pedal for bass. It does the obvious octave stuff very well - but it also fattens a clean tone with the subtlest hint of effect. All levels of the three knobs (wet dry/sub-octave/octave up) sound good; smooth, defined and undistorted/clean - resulting in a stomp-box that isn't a one-trick-pony. I feel I'd use it more in a jam session than as part of our set.., but I could also see building an original song with it as a thickening agent for our quartet. It can sound very B-3 bass pedal-esk, which is cool. What gave me confidence in getting another EH pedal was owning their Mel9 Mellotron pedal. We use it primarily for keys, which sounds great!, but I've also used it for bass. It's very expressive, responding to attack/input. Again, not for everything - but when used it sounds really good.
I was confused. The red threw me. At first I thought Kara found a bird just like his.
Based on what I can check, and what The Internet can tell me, it seems like the bridge pickup is bad. 
This quote from another (guitar
) forum sums up what I've been able to dig up:
).
...maybe I should just have that bridge pickup hole filled (wonder if that's something Marty Bell could do...
), and turn the GBP from a IV, to a II...
This quote from another (guitar
) forum sums up what I've been able to dig up:"does the tone knob act like a volume on the jb? if so, it's an open coil, and time for a new pickup. (a broken coil will still produce a thin weak sound, much like you're describing.)"
When I pulled the bridge pickup out of circuit, the tone pot began working normally with the neck p/u (which sounds bloody awesome, btw!
)....maybe I should just have that bridge pickup hole filled (wonder if that's something Marty Bell could do...
), and turn the GBP from a IV, to a II...
...maybe I should just have that bridge pickup hole filled (wonder if that's something Marty Bell could do...
Sorry to see your project hit a roadblock... don't fill the hole it's too darn expensive to get that to look right.
Put a sticker over the hole and call it good. Or maybe some well thought out PG material first and then the sticker on top of that.
Sure. Make it a Ii. Your next one can be a IV. Now that you have tools and experience, the possibilities are endless!Based on what I can check, and what The Internet can tell me, it seems like the bridge pickup is bad.
This quote from another (guitar
"does the tone knob act like a volume on the jb? if so, it's an open coil, and time for a new pickup. (a broken coil will still produce a thin weak sound, much like you're describing.)"When I pulled the bridge pickup out of circuit, the tone pot began working normally with the neck p/u (which sounds bloody awesome, btw!
...maybe I should just have that bridge pickup hole filled (wonder if that's something Marty Bell could do...
