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Aye, 'cos that's what the world needs - another butcher of precious rare guitars and basses. A Coronado Bass being parted out? For shame.

Also, I would steer clear of these sprung loaded jack plugs. The regular ones are fine and designed for the socket. The spring loaded ones apply extra pressure which really isn't necessary.

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1339061354' post='1682958'] Yours have the Moog circuit, Neep? [/quote] Hell yeah it does. It's totally bonkers, but it can be used tastefully Or you can turn it each way in its maximum direction, play a scale repeatedly and record it! [url="http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/mp3/RD%20soundclips/"]http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/mp3/RD%20soundclips/[/url]

Set the volume, treble and bass controls on the instrument at 75-80% of their travel. There is plenty output, you don't need to set everything on 100% and it gives you some wiggle room should you need it (like for balancing the volume between series and parallel). Keep it passive - I really find the active thing (which is just a line boost, nothing more) rather pointless given how hot it is anyway. According to your signature you use an Ampeg SVT3 Pro. I feel a bit silly and like I'm being cheeky and telling you how to operate your own amp, but I'll ask the questions anyway. Have you tried using the -15dB pad switch (even if the L-2000 is in passive mode) to give you more travel on the gain control? Have you set the gain while plucking strings as hard as you are likely to for your playing style so that it's just tickling the peak LED? Also, resist the urge to fiddle with the bass! There are a lot of switches and stuff to play with but your best bet is to work out in practice/rehearsal what sounds best and then stick with it. I know it's rich coming from someone who modded mine to give me even more options (single coil mod giving me the inner coils) but my favourite sound is when I'm using both inner coils together (in a parallel fashion) - it's kind of like having a third pickup in between where the two actual ones are. It rarely moves from that setting. Hope that helps, and please don't interpret the above as condescending, I'm only trying to help because these really are fantastic basses and I'd hate for your judgement of them to be coloured by a negative experience which might not be the bass's fault.

I haven't tried it, and I won't bother. Apart from a few things about it irritating me, there's no way it'll be superior to my RD Artist unless they stop making 9V batteries.

There is no need to muddy the waters with the 2 point replacement. It is definitely the 3 point variant you want. It will fit, I've fit a Supertone to an Epiphone EB-0 and EB-3 as well as my RD Artist. It comes with two sets of bolts (metric/imperial I guess) to cover both Epiphones and Gibsons. The front bolt is not used on the Supertone - the unit covers it completely and is secured with the 2 side bolts. The only gotcha I've encountered was actually on my Gibson - the insert for the front bolt was the same as the side ones, not the smaller diameter and therefore the Supertone didn't slide over the front but rested precariously on its edges. So I got the Dremel out and ground out the front slot in the base of the bridge a mm or so each side. Then it fit fine. Looking at the pictures of your bass though, it doesn't look like you'll have this problem.

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1338932175' post='1681426'] Bartolini list a thunderbird shaped pup on their website [/quote] Those are designed for Gibson Thunderbirds with directly mounted soapbars, not pickup rings and will need routing in this body to fit them.

[quote name='dc2009' timestamp='1338931231' post='1681407'] Thanks for the advice mate. What are these pickups (the Rio Grande & the TV Jones) like sound wise, I've had EMG's, Bartolinis etc in the past but these are beyond my knowledge. Also, a supertone is £129 from Bass direct, may have to ebay it. Do you think Monorail bridges or a Badass may be an alternative solution? [/quote] I don't know what they sound like, I was just thinking of pickups which would fit more or less directly into what you have. I bought my most recent Supertone second hand from someone on here. You could try Bass Parts Resource in the US - [url="http://www.basspartsresource.com/bridge_hipshots.htm"]http://www.basspartsresource.com/bridge_hipshots.htm[/url] - $114.99 posted, and the last time I got one this way it snuck under the taxman's nose. I wasn't going to point it out to them So that means (approx) £75 if you don't get done for tax, £90 if you do.

The only direct bridge replacement is the Hipshot Supertone bridge. I have one on my RD Artist. It looks like they're using those guitar humbucker sized pickups. I had some in an Epiphone Les Paul Standard. I changed them out for a set of EMG-HB (active pickups). They fitted straight into the existing pickup rings. I think that there is the Rio Grande Pitbull pickup which should also fit right in - it's passive and coil-tappable if you wish. Also you can get TV Jones pickups in what they call "English Mount" which should also fit into Gibson guitar sized pickup rings.

Odd, isn't it? I don't use it much (the P pickup is too good ), but I always marvel at the bridge pickup in my BB614 - it's silent and easily keeps pace with the neck pickup. Just my opinion, of course.

I like basses, ergo I own multiple ones. I play whichever one takes my fancy at the time but I do make sure that they all get a run out (even my office bass gets out into the real world sometimes) and it's not a chore because I like playing all of them. I have no time for agonising about "which bass sounds right" - they all sound like basses - so I just pick one up and get on with it. In short, I don't worry about it at all.

If Mr. Ou7shined can't make that then I'll eat my hat!

That's a new one on me as well.

Hercules mini fold up stand thing all the way for me. They fit in my bag of gig stuff, it's no hardship to bring one along. If I ever forgot it, I would put the bass back in its case/bag and put it somewhere safe. There's no way I'd rely upon leaning it up against an amp or whatever. Last gig I had two stands on me accidentally. Pure luck and just as well - our guitarist had forgotten one of his stands. I'm not doing much to smash the stereotype of the bass player being the all round useful guy then...

A new bass isn't going to get you any more volume

No, was going to be playing one but it fell through. Ahh well, a bit of time off to practice and jam out new material before the next gig (29th June)

Do you know where they live? Go and visit 'em. It's easy to ignore/fend off communication at distance, it's not so easy when it's face to face. If you think there will be aggro/contentious things said and want some reassurance/witnesses, take someone along with you.

I purchased a bass from Eamon, he sent it quickly, well packaged and kept me updated throughout, top man. Just how it should be done.

Seriously though: Favourite brand: Gibson Favourite model: dunno, my three (currently) are very different and I love playing each of them. Why? Because contrary to what some might say, they really are tremendous basses. I love the sound, I love the looks, I love the chunky necks and if I'm perfectly honest then despite my potty-mouthed advocacy of Gibson basses I paradoxically love the fact that relatively few people play them. Me vs. the world and all that. But I'd still play them in a parallel universe where they were the most popular basses in the world because ultimately, to me, they're fantastic.