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The beauty of getting as much out of a 12-string as possible is allowing the instrument to push the signal through a pair of amps. I owned a Waterstone Tom Petersson a few years back, simply pushing things through a single amp/processing wasn't the way to go. For me, I was always chasing a TP/dUg kind of tone, so a crossover was essential at the time (I used a Rolls unit) and pushed two feeds into a stereo poweramp and two cabs. The lows were pushed through something that could deliver a fairly robust phat tone (Sansamp BDDI) and the highs went through something that would deliver dirt (I went with a Sansamp GT2 which is effectively a guitar pedal and way more suited to the octave strings). Moving forward, the XB Driver pretty much emulates the above (and more). It's got a quite beautiful phat-sounding clean stage and a VERY gnarly drive stage; there's low/high filters on each of the channels (which are more suited than a regular crossover) which are engaged when the Crossover button (just below the red 'BASS' knob), which really brings the unit alive. It's a fantastic unit.

Bravo, @Chiliwailer, left us all trailing in your wake. A mighty fine tune 👏

Ozzy's one of those guys you'd be happy to meet for a blether. Comes across as just a genuine nice guy who once had some issues like many from that era. Dave

From the other side.... When I turned 66 my dad was 90. His comment? "I'm not sure I can cope with having a son who's a pensioner..."

I know what you mean but I've been doing it for years and the only drawback I can see is that all my basses have gone from 34" to 35" 🤣🤣

Did you have a schematic for this please?

Progress on the main board over the last 24 hours:

How are you using it?

Well done @Chiliwailer great piece of work, worthy winner , and by a margin as well this month ! if you send me a picture I’ll post it this evening

Agree, for me it was about 80/20 neck/bridge that got me where I wanted to be.

Me too, I own an EHB and also a Sire cheapy 4 string (M2) and am a fan of both. Gut feel the M6 is probably just as well made and specced as the EHB and given that its literally half the price of the EHB looks like a good deal.

I don’t think they are being shady, just not up to describing it correctly. I recently spoke to Steve at ATB guitars who had some errors in their Vintage bass listings and corrected, human error 🧐

I’m a firm believer that with a Jazz type the last place you should default to is the traditional both pickups on full / centre detent… since I’ve never liked that scoopy sound and prefer some punch I’ve much preferred the neck pickup with some bridge blended in as required for some bite. Or somewhere around 75% neck for a more biting sound. The both on only ever gets used for some ballads… But that’s just me. A few weeks ago i was chatting to the house bassist at our jam night who was complaining she couldn’t get enough punch for some rockier stuff (she’s a jazzer at heart) and lo and behold, she pretty much always just had both pickups full up and never used the neck pickup much.

I hate when that happens. When I was a student in the late 90s I encountered a 70s Fender Jazz in a secondhand goods shop in Leeds which was on sale for £750. I had some student loan money burning a hole in my pocket but unfortunately not that much so I had to pass. Ah well.