What gets played on the road was not always what was used to record the album. On the road for the Head Games tour, Willis did use a P (remember, we were all still a little skittish about batteries going dead while playing live back then)... but recording up through Agent Provocateur was a SR... not...

These budget pickups are meant to produce reasonable output without a preamp. Which actually makes a little sense in all reality... likely the biggest reason for someone wanting a cheap replacement pickup would be due to the preamp calling it a career... & since the pickup has such a low output...

I have one of these preamps in my '87 Ibanez 5 string with neodymium j style humbuckers (dual blade) that I make. If I cranky the treble control it sounds very much like a Stingray. Ditto what I can get out of the Gibson Victory Artist... which then relegated the SR to backup status... is it a &quo...

Regarding these pickup models done in Spice, etc. They are close, but never really on the mark. Pickups are complex impedance devices. You can do high inductance and low resistance, and get a nice clear tone, or higher resistance and low inductance for a similar tone. That may be true (again, I'm n...

Jay: That's typical of other knockoffs I've seen (or it may in fact be one of 'em I've seen - who knows?)... also remember that a lot of people commenting on the internet may not have any real frame of reference... they may stick that pickup in something they're building, wire it passively, & t...

3.9k per coil, or 3.9k total?... big difference with this preamp. If it's 3.9k total.... Is it a 2-wire pickup or 4-wire? If it's a cheap knockoff 2-wire pickup it's not likely to sound as good as something made closer to the MM specs... I've seen a couple different knockoffs (probably Chinese).. th...

When it comes to electronics I'm at that dangerous point where you might think you know what you're doing, and a minute later you come to understand how little you really know(!) Welcome to the club. :mrgreen: I suspect that the impedance went up pretty much when MM started winding to 3.9K. Just re...

Your numbers are about spot-on for the earliest version of the SR pickup... the numbers I found are 2.5K & 1.5H wired in parallel. http://www.musicmanbass.org/ Later version's DC resistance was upped to 3.9K (about 1978-ish)... I'd assume the inductance likely went up a tick as well but the diff...

Thanx a lot!!!! My english is not verry good, I'm from Germany.. Don't sell yourself short, your English is fine... I'm just a simple dumb*ss mountain redneck & I can understand it... that being the case, you're good. In fact, your English is better than some natives of this country... but don'...

If I'm getting what you're asking.... I doubt it. First thing you'd need is a model for the LDR.... I have no idea if Spice even could model an LDR... well, I suppose someone with way more expertise & knowledge than I have could likely come up with a simulation for one, but that's something that...

OK... above question retracted... I think I've found my answer... isn't the "improved" schematic missing a resistor (10k) on the "de-emphasis" part between the 2.2u & 10n caps? At least Spice seems to think so. I actually ran into the answer while working on another circuit s...

I guess one could use and audio interface to run left channel through it and then right channel recording them back to the daw and recombining both track back to stereo. Maybe not drums, but general mixbus compression? Just an idea to toy with If you're going to combine a "dry" & &quo...

OK, apparently I'm missing something here, so hopefully someone can give me a lesson in what that is. First off, I'm pretty much a novice in circuit design... I can understand what changing component values should do for the most part... but beyond that it gets fuzzy fast. :mrgreen: In other words I...