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I did, and then had to explain to my better half why I was choking on my coffee. 🤣🤣

Of course it is….it’s in German….:)

Welcome. Nice Malawi tank, I think? That's a nice lineup.

Like if you have a number of cables running together, he found that having a power cable and an audio cable running next to each other. But that seems not that likely

Knocking on Heavens door - Guns and Roses

Funny, I was thinking about posting some love for HB flats and searched first! Basically I concur with all of the above 😄 They have a mid forward sound which I found close to TI jazz flats - albeit a bit more mellow. Not much in the way of thump or low bass, very different from LaBella DTF voicing - possibly a result of being light gauge? They feel smooth but not highly polished. No “grabiness” like I’ve experienced with TIs. Basically an affordable, easy to play flat with low-ish tension and a general purpose voicing that sits right where you’d expect. I read somewhere (not sure if it was here) that they might be rebadged Olympias. Olympia do sell a 45-100 flatwound set for £19.99 on eBay but I’m too tight to risk the extra £7.89 to find out whether they’re the same! Anyway on the back of these I tried HB “HQS” steels and they went straight in the bin.

Seems more complex according to this diagram:

Beautiful fretboard wood doesn't need spots on it. That bass looks so wonderful.

This French lady just jumped to my bed.

@neepheid It's nothing taxing Matt. Instead of pairing white/red as hot on the Vol pot you stick red on Tone pot lug 3. Just minded, I gutted one and stuck a preamp in it 🤣

Just seen this on a fBook thread: "I was just playing on my studio, as usual, suddenly I hear a few loud pops. a few minutes later, again but much worse and for longer, I look at the CQ-18T screen and it was like all the channels had very loud inputs and the screen was flickering..." Those symptoms seem pretty identical to what I've been getting. Which is kinda worrying that this might be a design flaw. However, he did follow up with this: "Update - I think I've found the issue!! I've moved some cables recently and I left one of the outputs cables running in parallel to a power cable. Once I re-organized the cables it didn't happen again." No idea what he meant by "running in parallel to a power cable" or whether that gives any wiser folk than me a clue as to what might be the cause?

I think I was referring to the electrically clever nature of it. Obviously too clever for me to implement (I hear you, I think it's (functionally) daft too)

It was never clever. You have some tonal variation with the humbucker through positions 1 - 7. 8 - 10 is your single coil, with little variation. Dan Armstrong used the same method on his London guitar/basses around 1972, he quickly saw the folly in it so added another pot, 1 did the coil to ground and the other was the tone pot. I always snipped the red wires on mine, gave the humbuckers a slight boost plus you have more control over tone.