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No problem @Danage, I should have understood that as you mentioned it in your first post.

No, this is just a straight up normal audio taper pot, no indent, not a stacked pot. I'm calling it a "blend" as it blends in the second coil. There's no attenuation of the first coil. Sorry for the confusion

Oh cool, not heard of that one, I’ll make sure the band know about it!

Now that you've pointed it out, this seems to be the case, good eagle eye there. The line is too straight, not really a contour. I reckon our bass player brains take a quick look and fill in the details to fit what we already know.

Christ, that’s a good idea

The fella who made them just stopped doing it, sadly.

I should share this beauty which arrived from @skelf last week:

For us, playing pubs with a vocal-only PA, soundcheck - two verses and choruses of a song using BVs. Checks that the vocals are balanced and the instruments are balanced with each other and the drums. Seeing as most of the time we have to eject people from their seats in order to set up, we're never going to get to soundcheck in an empty room. And we do a song that everyone will know and we do well, so those already there may have their interest piqued enough to remain (unless they're sulking at being ejected from their seats).

Did you use an MN taper type for the blend pot? It will be way more progressive than a non MN, and without the typical loss in the middle (indented) position.

hi all.. please bear with me here, I'm new to guitars.. I'm hoping I can glean some wisdom here before I buy stuff that won't help.. my daughter and I recently got a bass guitar and it came with an amp. unfortunately we didn't realise and it was a guitar amp, Fender Mustang 1. ok to start with on headphones, but not great with a 6inch speaker.. now I got the old fuse software and made some profiles with various amps and effects which is cool.. today I picked up an old bass amp Hartke b600, 12 inch speaker 60w.. nice but now I'm missing the effects and also it doesn't have an aux in to play track through it to play along to lessons etc.. the effects loop return/amp in stops the guitar working so can't be used as an aux in.... agreed I don't really need effects to learn to play, but headphones are essential as I mostly get to play late at night. natural I was hoping I could wire the Modeling amp, Mustang1 to the effects loop on the Hartke, so that I can use the aux in and the effects from the modelling amp.. but here is the problem.. as soon as I plug in a lead to the amp in on the Hartke it starts buzzing. without it being plugged into the mustang... now this is a stereo lead 3.5mm jack with a converter to 6.35mm.. I have several, some where labeled shielded... the only one it is not to bad is an old computer cable with magnets at either end... if I however plug in my instrument cable, again without any input plugged in, there is no buzz... and I even tried the guitar here and it was fine.. is my problem that the amp needs a mono in??? and the output form the mustang is stereo form the headphones.. aka a stereo cable....???????? now to solutions.... 1) a simple stereo to mono y lead??? 2) a simple stereo to two mono lead and only use one? 3) a stereo to mono converter? do I need to lift the ground?? 4)a di box like the bearings di400p? and lift the ground but again that I think is mono in and stereo out.. 5) to make it more complicated I would like to keep the mustang1 speaker on while going to the hartke amp. obviously the headphone out stops speaker.... the Di400- says it can take an input direct from speaker output of a power amp up to 3000watts.. could I wire a jack in the back of the mustang in parallel with the speaker 20watt I believe.. and use this to the passive di box. and use one side of the balanced xlr to amp in on hartke?? just realised this might not be possible as the hartke amp in has no master volume to balance the two, so I'd need something with a volume adjuster? 6) the obvious other way I haven't even fathomed as yet.... I want to keep it simple for my daughter so she can just pick up and play... so no computer daw.. here is how I've used it at the mo.. just to clarify.. guitar (passive) inputs to mustang 1. computer inputs to aux in.. headphones out of mustang into Hartke amp/in (efx return), no control or eq on the hartke.. master on mustang does all. I've also tried guitar inputs to harkte preamp, can use shape and eq. fx loop out into mustang 1 input (yes I know keep volume down and possibly bad if my daughter plays and turns it up) then back to Hartke amp in from the headphone out.. or I plug headphones in to mustang.. hartke has an active input to so I thought maybe this could be a aux in... but when I have both inputs plugged in nothing comes out... yes I did disable amp and cab simulation in the modeling amp.. fx and preamp only.. hope this makes any sense.... thanks for helping me out.. Dieter

That said it's quite funny that it looks like the first iteration of the Precision Bass headstock...

Once it disappears into Evri's maw, it can be over a week before it re-emerges. The mills of Evri grind small, but they grind exceeding slow. I'm not sure whether it's a universal AliExpress thing, but I think all the things I've bought from there have gone to Evri as the local delivery company - so far without problems.

Is this a one-size-fits-all device? If so, I don't see how it can work. Valves need varying voltages, circuits, biasing, etc. You can't usually just substitute one type for another.

Big warning to anyone who finds this thread and thinks "I'll do that!". I've had to put the old standard pick back in. Even with the pickup completely decked to the body, the magnet field strength is so strong that I'm getting fret buzz almost everywhere on fretboard. The magnets are pulling the strings down towards it, causing fret buzz. I've switched back to the original pick up and the problem has disappeared... You've been warned! Anyone wanting to juice this pickup... install a steel bass plate or something. Don't put N38s in it!

If I manage to get to the shop when it's open and it's still there I might just pick it up.

IIRC the song ‘Footsee’ is generally regarded by true Northern Soul fans as being a bit naff and subsequently doesn’t appear in many band’s repertoires who specialise in the genre. I remember it being released when I worked in record retail and even then it was considered too ‘poppy’, but at least it introduced many to the delights of NS. ‘Wigan’s Chosen Few’ was the band credited on the label, but I believe it had it’s roots in an earlier recording from the 60’s.

Quick update... have done the mod. In the end, I set up the blend only for the series configuration. So the pot isn't doing anything when the switch is up in parallel. I just need to move one wire to a different lug on the switch, should I wish to change it... On the bass in question (Warwick Streamer Standard - one of the old single-pickup German made ones), the star of the show is having the blend _almost_ all of the way off, so that a bit of the back coil is being added to the front coil. This stops it getting too thin, in the way that a split humbucker can sometimes be. It works pretty good as a mid-cut. I'm a fan! Possibly the more sensible thing to do is just to do the coil tap via fixed resistor (or internal trim pot?), to allow the desired amount of second coil to bleed in consistently. I think this is how PRS do their coil taps. A word of warning - I only had an audio taper pot with a push-pull. A linear taper would definitely be preferable. Too much of the blend is bunched up at one end of the travel. The parallel option is more different from the single coil sound than my experience has taught me to expect... This could be because the coils in the pickup housing have some distance between them - there's enough space inside the pickup for a third coil between the standard two. So maybe parallel is sounding a bit more different than it usually does to a single coil sound as it is "listening" to a wider stretch of string by more than what a standard humbucker does in parallel.

An idea that seems all too obvious after someone else has had it But very interesting 👍

I have the Lekato WS-80, and have been using them for a few years now. No good for active basses as you get a high frequency whine when in circuit. if you switch to passive it immediately stops. Be interested to know which of the newer models have got rid of this problem. Battery life has been superb and they've been solid otherwise.

I do remember that one too yes!

I've a fond spot for those threads which provide an answer to a question that wasn't asked, always entertaining