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Nope. You can supply a device with excess current but NOT excess voltage. You could make one easily enough using an LM7812 voltage regulator - they can be had for pence.

I can't find my pig iron. Looks like I'm giving the county fair a miss this year; nobody wants to look at a dishevelled pig.

Mine would be a '75, so I reckon a Jazz bass would be best. to TheGreek - you'd have been gestating at the same time as a '62 was being made, so I reckon you should plump for that...

I've run a 4 string fretless Jazz through s Fender DeVille before now and it sounded excellent. Bill's right about the low end though; it's great for soloing and chord work, but it wouldn't be my first choice for a reggae gig 😉.

I'm loving mine. Admittedly it's a 'baby' ampeg - SVT-IIP preamp into a solid state power amp and Barefaced cab, but my back will thank me in 10 years time.

Bought Timo's Ed Friedland book. Nice, easy and stress-free transaction. Cheers Timo.

Sold Sid a Blueberry O/D clone pedal. Almost immediate payment and great communication throughout.

Just finished 4 hours with flats on my Jazz into my Ampeg and a tube screamer modded for bass. Bloody luverly! 😍

There's only 1 available too, better be quick to avoid the rush.

Swamp ash Jazz body, Squier neck and VM pickups with 500kΩ pots. Action as low as you can get it. Add an S1 switch and you're good to go.

I've done it, but bear in mind that you're completely at the mercy of the engineer - I remember one gig where the chap on the desk was less than competent and I ended up not being able to hear anything bass on stage; just guitar and drums. Not braved it since.

Congrats on your new bass, glad it worked out for you.

I retubed an SVP PRO preamp using their tubes and the difference between those and the stock tubes was staggering. Yes, Watford Tubes aren't cheap, but you gets what you pays for - particularly with tubes.

I do step 1 & 2 and then wind so that the string works its way down the tuner. I've never done step 3.

Yup - East for the win.

Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys. Magical. https://youtu.be/QSLMWasU0rM

Frank Zappa had some great (and equally questionable) song titles; some of which are not for publication on a squeamish and conservative forum such as this. 😳

Your Youtube channel has clickbait.

Are the pickups out of phase? That'll cause a Jazz to sound weak and trebly.

To be honest though, fretless never went away 'round here...

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[quote name='FuNkShUi' timestamp='1491815068' post='3275479'] Quite surprised no one has mentioned strings yet. Do you have rounds or flats on there? Flats would make it less bright [/quote] This. Although if you want to play about with the capacitor on the tone knob then I think the standard is a 0.047µf and a 250kΩ pot. If you swap it for a .1µf then you'll drop the cut off frequency. As a rule of thumb, larger capacitor values send more of the treble to ground (making it disappear from the output signal). Have a play about. It's a much cheaper option to buying a set of flats - capacitors can be had for pence.