neepheid

The "system" part of it is only for EMG pickups - the volume/blend pots are the wrong values for passive pickups. What you need is the BTC Control on its own, you take care of volume and blend or pickup selecting yourself and feed the results to the BTC Control. The BTC System is a BTC Control bundled with the volume/blend bit. Don't waste money on a BTC System for passive pickups, just get a BTC Control. BTC Control: [url="http://www.emginc.com/products/index/104/146/4"]http://www.emginc.com/products/index/104/146/4[/url]

Welcome to the forum

I use a forstner bit in a drill press for this kind of job. The way a forstner bit works you'd probably get away without having to plug the holes if your aim is good with the drill press. I've done this for a couple of Squier basses with the small shaft 'orrible enclosed tuners to fit full size open back types. +1 for having scrap wood underneath to avoid splintering when the bit breaks through the other side.

Welcome to the forum

[quote name='derrenleepoole' post='659567' date='Nov 19 2009, 07:50 PM']This is the crux of the problem: Basically, the instructions are printed out in black and white, no biggy but just odd. The are a total of 4 wires from the humbucker pickup, 2 for each side I'm guessing, and the ground from the bridge. The preamp only has 3 wires to connect - 1 to the bridge ground, 1 to the hot wire of the pickup and 1 to the ground of the pickup (as the instructions call it). Now I've never owned a bass with a humbucker before, but I have successfully installed an Audere into a jazz bass. I guessing I need to wire the humbucker in a specific way, but this is were I'm coming unstuck and need the help.[/quote] In that case then you need to join the ends of the two coils on the OLP pickup. In the original OLP wiring, one hot will have gone to one volume pot and the other hot will have gone to the second volume pot. You need to take the hot of the south coil and wire that to the ground of the north coil. Then use the ground of the south coil and the hot from the north coil as your two pickup wires to the preamp.

I have an EMG-BQC with a couple of EMG-HB pickups (like a 35P but in a guitar humbucker size/shape enclosure) in my Epiphone Les Paul bass. It's a very modern tone, I get what CK is saying about the harshness, I'd prefer to call it precise. The BQC gives a good range of tones, not too much warmth in there, I can get it to sound a bit like a Precision for instance, but it's a super hi-fi, SACD, DVD-A Precision, if you know what I mean. I guess that's just the EMG sound. I quite like it, FWIW.

Welcome to the forum

Bought a pair of bass humbuckers from me recently, paid promptly, good comms, a smooth transaction all round

Welcome to the forum

Took delivery yesterday of a phaser pedal, well packed, posted promptly, can't ask for more than that. Nice one.

Saddles: [url="http://www.axesrus.com/axehardware.htm#Saddles"]http://www.axesrus.com/axehardware.htm#Saddles[/url] (look for "£2.30 EACH CHROME BASS SADDLES A OR B") For a new bridge, a Gotoh 201 would be less hassle than a Badass, no need to cut saddles. If you play as hard as you suggest, saddle cutting would be an absolute necessity on a Badass

[quote name='henry norton' post='656182' date='Nov 16 2009, 06:08 PM']My custom made fretless neck's had it - one too many mosh pits and careless drops - and I'm wondering whether I should defret the original maple neck, maybe even machine off a quarter inch and replace with a nice plain ebony fretless board. Thing is it's a JV precision, valuable in some peoples eyes but I figure I've already devalued it enough by adding a Jazz pickup in the early nineties. What does Basschat think???[/quote] I wouldn't do it - there are plenty replacement necks which will fit right in there without you molesting a perfectly good neck of some historical note.

I guess users of 18V (or more) gear will have to remove and test each battery individually?

Welcome to the forum

Welcome to the forum

+1 on the fitting in thing. I'm far from the best bass player in my geographical area, but I play what I'm supposed to when I'm supposed to play it, I don't cause dramas, I get on well with everyone (drummer in particular - both musically and personally), have own gear, have own transport, can look after the myspace, yada yada. In fact sometimes I suspect that I'm in the band more because of these other factors than for my playing

Welcome to the forum Good practice that - some quite challenging stuff in the Ska/2-Tone music.

I wouldn't know - my wife doesn't have particularly strong opinions about any basses, except these. Most basses I show her and she's all like "mm, that looks nice dear". The mere joking mention of the arrival of an Explorer or a Flying V results in a joking threat of divorce. Go figure

[quote name='barnettiuk' post='652418' date='Nov 12 2009, 11:06 AM']Friends, I recently put a set of LaBella Deep Talkin' Flats on my Vintage V4 (and the neck has barely moved by the way). The strings sit slightly proud of the top of the nut. (There's no gap between the strings and the bottom of the individual slots, and they don't rattle or buzz from there). Does this matter? I mean could it cause any problem sound- or stress-wise? cheers Ian[/quote] No, that sounds fine - in fact the strings shouldn't be completely buried in the nut anyway. As long as they're sitting firmly on the bottom of the slots and the slots are deep enough (maybe 3/4 of the string width) so that strings don't ping out under sideways duress then you should be fine.