paul_5

The basses are ‘no great shakes’, but some of the telecasters look quite tasty...

Nobody? 😪

Found this diagram on TalkBass; it's a fairly straightforward affair. If you don't fancy doing it yourself then I'd have a word with BC member Kiog0n who does custom wiring stuff.

Series is probably the way to go on this; the distance between the pickups on a Jazz causes the famous (and wonderful) Jazz bass tone, as one magnetic field interferes with the other they cancel each other’s midrange frequencies out.

I’m down to 3 now; fretted and fretless Jazzes and a ‘beater’ P bass for sweaty rock gigs... ... for now.

I’ve been having noise issues with my VT2 for a couple of weeks and finally opened it up today - I’ve got a stray black wire running from the input socket to fresh air at the other. An educated guess would be that it’s a ground wire, but I’d rather not chance it. What I’d like is for a fellow VT2 owner to photograph the internal wiring on the board with the pots mounted to it (there are 2 inside, stacked on top of another). Obviously it’s a big ask, and I’ll completely understand folks not wanting to take theirs apart, but if someone wants to take pity of me then I’d be eternally grateful .

I absolutely LOVE my DHA VT2, but am having some noise issues. What power supplies are people using to power theirs, and are they noisy?

Picked one up for less than £30 brand new last week and it’s a really good OC2 soundalike. Very impressed!

I fancy changing the look of my ‘beater’ bass, it’s an ash body with a rosewood board and currently sports a white scratchplate. I really fancy a tort one, but the control cavity is a little over size, does anyone know where I can buy a tort plate that’s on the larger size?

I’m guessing it can’t be powered from phantom power... 👻⚡️

Oh my god!! That’s beautiful!!!

"Hand Made Bass Guitar. House clearance find scratch built bass electric bass guitar.just see pictures and see what you think and for condition.think it needs some work setting on fire." Fixed.

Me too

Have you updated ti recently? I struggled to get a good chorus effect until I downloaded the extra patches and found what I was looking for.

Fair point, but it’s the best half!

‘My Favourite Things’ - John Coltrane. 😍

I like a bit of bite from my Jazz so I went for the Ernie Ball Cobalts - perfect mix of thump and bite when I dig in.

I really like these: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/chairs-stools-benches/junior-chairs/urban-junior-chair-green-art-50207036/ Sold as a childrens’ chair, but great raising the sitting height of adults too. I’m 5’9” by the way.

It’s great isn’t it? I love flats on a Jazz.

Stretches. 😉

Yes, but no-one has mentioned the Elephant in the room - guitarist is looking at his hands...

My main 'squeeze' is a fretless Jazz/Musicman hybrid. I have fretted basses for playing live with bands etc.. but at home I'll plump for the fretless every time; there's just something about the timbre of the notes that I love. I don't approach it as a 'fretless' instrument, just another bass. My technique doesn't (consciously) alter though. Occasionally I'll drop in some of the techniques that are associated with fretless bass (sliding/vibrato etc...) but I honestly can't remember the last time I did it during a performance.

“Charlie don’t surf!”