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Just a quick post for a big up to Dawn and Rob at Status for helping to rejuvenate my beat up old matrix energy #844 - the original BP1 board sadly expired (with a teensy bit of help from my soldering skills) and Rob was kind enough to entertain finding a solution and had a spare 4 knob boardless solution - this required an extra hole drilled in the body and a battery cavity routed into the back - previously i had also swapped out the original passive J status pups for the hyperactive J versions. When i acquired it from another basschatter about 5-6 years ago(?) it also had an adjustable schaller bridge so that was removed and the original black/brass status bridge replaced this particular workhorse has been around the block a few times and probably been previously owned by 'quite a few' - back then it always felt very nice to handle but the tone just wasnt getting there - now with the replacement pups and the 4knob status circuit it actually sounds exactly like it should do - so big thumbs up to Dawn and Rob for helping to get this sounding like it ought to - it may not be as pretty as miss myrtle but tone wise it's now up there with the rest of the status gang and makes a superb working instrument knowing you lot you'll probably be zooming in on the pic to see what the cd's are 🤣

filth! 🙈🙉🙊

the fundamental difference between P tone and J tone (notwithstanding the pickup difference of course)

George said it best .... imho

i think you just answered your own question 😁

fsr tension feels fine on these and setup has matched the setup on all my other basses and tbh doesnt really feel like a massive difference when you are concentrating on slightly differnt "acousticy" technique compared to playing a solid body with rounds - although he did say that the truss rod is pretty much maxed out because of the increase in tension and too much relief beforehand

and here she is back from luthier setup at 81guitarworks - nut slots needed filing down to lower the string height which was massive and the whole nut smoothed and rounded off so no longer looking like the factory had just plonked a lego brick on the end of the fretboard, relief adjusted bridge lowered intonationation checked, all frets were good from the factory so nothing needed there - la bella fsr 45-105 and it actually sounds like an acoustic bass now! photo courtesy Simon @81guitarworks

thanks - strangely i was just comparing prices on the 760FS sets and reading the reviews on thomann and other sites - think will go for them as a starter

im guessing the manufacture for lower tension is the reason for the premium price of labella and thomastik ? using it for anything generally that might need that old school warm soft thump

soooo ..... yesterday i went out and had a totally impulse GAS purchase of something ive never had before but it was so devilishly handsome and a good bargain i couldnt resist i now have a dilemma - having been an avid swingbass 45-105 user since my mispent teens, i now find myself in a position where i need to find a set of ...... FLATS (there i said it, wasnt easy) to bring out the full beastliness of this little cracker suggest away please - ideally would like similar ish guage and similar ish tension thank you muchly

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Wizard pickups . That is all.

rocks up at rehearsal .... sorry not had a chance to learn that one yet its a song ...it got lyrics .... it got melody... listen to it on your commute or whatever ...over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over GRRRRRRRR its not like you're learning the drum or bass part is it ? am i being unduly harsh? personally i have this silly tape recorder memory thing going on and find it relatively easy to learn and memorise stuff, i guess some people, including singers, might indeed have the polar opposite? maybe? i dunno? JUST LEARN THE FKN SONG 🤣🤣🤣

for info - the tone cap across the pot is correct comparing to the later status model Board100, and on that board all three connections on the tone pot are used

updated the original pic as some omissions when tracing out the tracks on the board - the chip is a single op-amp so am guessing the tone has to sit somehwere between the amp input (pins 2 and 3) and the mixed blend input from the pickups (the blue and orange pair)

Climbing sling/tape and a krab

... just put this up here ...

For dressy functions we used to wear all black while in high contrast our two laydees wore something loud and colourful and glitzy

You should go along to a bass bash some time and check out all the King basses 🤣

My recommendation for anyone near medway towns is Dave Tutt www.tutt-technology.co.uk

Morning all - missing wire on my board - does anybody have an (early) status with a BP1 board in? i have just bought a new set of pots kindly supplied by Dawn at Status, and am about to replace the old worn/damaged pots... however i seem to be a wire short somewhere my tone pot currently only has one wire leading to it - am assuming the second lead should go to the middle tab of the pot but not totally sure hwere the other end attaches (also assuming it possibly goes to an inout of one of the op-amp halves of the chip - possibly pin 2 or 3 ??? https://www.kynix.com/uploadfiles/pdf9675/LM4250CN.pdf or does the tone control go after the op-amp? see attached - hope this makes sense thanks muchly

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