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This is a work in progress - needs screwholes countersunk & knob positions decided. That requires a steady hand so it's going to need to get a bit warmer in the garage first!

The black active 5 string that @Linus27 is maybe considering? Not to rain on this thread but other people's opinions (mine included) generally don't help. The real solution is to try for one's self 😊

We played a gig the Sunday before Christmas; the keys player was hobbling around with an arthritic ankle and foot (6 months ago he had an operation to fuse the joints and went into anaphylactic shock and all but died on the operating table, caused by the anaesthetic, and they couldn't operate!!), the drummer brought his nephew to set up the kit, because he'd strained his lower back and couldn't bend down, the guitarist is a cancer survivor, currently OK and I've a bad back and arthritic hip which meant I sat on a stool for the gig! In the last year I've lost a band leader to fatal stroke, another will probably never gig again due to several doses of double pneumonia, lost dozens of gigs due to 2 band leaders having hip replacement surgery, and 1 band leader taking time off to be with his sick wife! Getting old is more than tough, it's an Fing PIA.

flat! 😂

Here is the reason for this request, @BigRedX... 😉

Now for sale on here.

It was active and terrible. Decent quality paint but thats the only positive I can think of.

I was given this by my wife as well, a complete surprise. Also Kevin Rowlands' 'Bless Me Father', I don't know huge amount about him other than I really liked the early version of Dexy's, but he does seem like a very interesting character so it should be a good read.

This is why I always move on Stingray 5s whenever I get one. Breaks my heart as I find them amazing apart from the string spacing.

Thanks, I came across these when I was looking into options. I drew out the circuit in the OP and added in the second cross-connection as per the lower diagram, then compared the two. The OP circuit simply puts a resistance (let's call it R) in the path of one of the pickups at a time, to attenuate its signal. The effect of adding the cross-connection is to add a second resistive path in parallel: At zero attenuation there is no difference. At maximum attenuation the resistance in series with the pickup is now ½R instead of R. At the halfway point, it becomes ⅜R instead of ½R, so the taper of the blend has changed. Also with this circuit you wouldn't get the effect of completely disconnecting a pickup if you cut the resistive tracks near the end. It would be a quick and easy thing to try though. In the upper diagram, the second cross-connection is tied to ground, which is a different approach altogether and has the effect of loading the pickups, which the OP circuit doesn't.

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Ahh, I knew it was too good to be true. There's a niggling fault and it looks a lot like it's the pickup There's an intermittent low level buzz coming from the bass which goes away if you wiggle or press down on the pickup. Also goes away if you go into the cavity and pull on the pickup wires. It doesn't stop the pickup making sound, but it's audible and seems to change the tone of the pickup a little when the mild humming/buzzing is happening. That's a PITA because the pickup is epoxy potted by the looks of things. Damn! What I think I'll do is get a Warman MM sized pickup as a stopgap (they're only £25 after all) then see what I can do about the stock pickup issue - if anything. What's low level annoying me is that I had a spare ATK CAP quad coil pickup, but I put it in a Squier Jag H and I was too lazy to take the pickup out when I sold the bass. Should have used my crystal ball!

voting is up, sorry for the delay , late one last night

Its Showcase time ... or at least copy someone else time, as December is traditionally the challenge of presenting a cover, a new one specifically recorded, or any that had been recorded this year. A faithful attempt at the original, a minimalist approach or a radical re-imagining but based on another song or tune. here are the entries showing their... ...Factor Have a listen and vote for your favourite 3 1 @Al Nico A pop/disco track transformed into a future rave disco remix, 2 @SH73 This month a short one, Napalm Death cover You Suffer. All instruments and vocals played, recorded, mixed etc by me. It's the shortest song ever, Napalm Death is famous for. 3 @Leonard Smalls I've had a go at DAF's AntiFascist anthem, Der Mussolini.... Featuring my very best German vocal! 4 @Jean-Luc Pickguard Here's my cover of Sonny & Cher's "The Beat Goes On" written by Sonny Bono before he formed U2. 5 @upside downer I've done a cover of 1-2-5 by the Canadian garage rock band The Haunted, which was a number 23 smash in the Canadian charts back in 1966 6 @lurksalot Happy Chrimbo guys this is fairly short , but maybe, for some, not short enough 7 @MoonBassAlpha Listen to Girls Talk Dave Edmunds Cover 8 @skankdelvar A Happy Christmas to you all. A great bit of fun this year , some brilliant ideas well done all let's have 3 votes each, voting will end at midnight on 31st december Happy Christmas