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What about the centre pickup? Are the controls for that on the upper bout?

Alternative - have a series of bars the width of the strings (plus a bit) running across between bridge and neck, each having two coils. One coil is for the signal, the other is connected to DC to turn the bar into an electromagnet. Power would be applied through a sliding switch - the wiper would connect a single bus bar to a series of segments, each powering a single coil. For added entertainment, there could be more than one slider - there would need to be a bit at the end of the slider's travel where it wouldn't connect power to any coil, so that either one or two pickups could be suggested. I suspect that to get an adequately powerful electromagnet, the voltage to be applied to the coil would be a bit on the high side, but I'm sure that could be catered for and the simple expedient of playing wearing rubber gloves would be a minor inconvenience when this is considered in the context of the next great advance in pickup technology.

If Leo got it right with the G&L, why did he persist with that stupid overweight and oversized 4 inline/4+1 headstock when better-designed basses are 2+2 or 3+2, or headless? It's reminiscent of Edward Turner when he was brought back to Triumph to design a 350cc twin to compete with the Japanese and persisted with the vertically split crankcases, so there was no centre main bearing and the crankshafts kept breaking. Admittedly not quite as disastrous, but definitely a poor idea.

Have you put this file up before? Went to download it and I already had a copy. Anyroadup, as it's got measurements in groats and cubits, I did a swift edit: Pickup Positions For Many Makes Of Bass - metric & imperial.xlsx

You've been watching Project Binky too then.

At least cut the plate down a bit, like on one of the Variax guitars:

That depends. It certainly takes the EQ part of the preamp out of circuit, but I can't see any point in the pickups being wired to the PCB (as they are) if it's not to put them through buffers. The pickups feed in to the bottom connector, then wires come from the bottom connector to the blend pot. They'd go straight to the blend pot if they were unbuffered.

I've got a Smoothhound, a Line 6 G50, a Harley Benton something, Lekato WS-50s and WS-70s and the M-Vave clone of the WS-70. Almost all my basses are active although none of them are ridiculously high output. Never had a problem with any of them distorting through any of the wirelesses.

And drying your shoes out.

Looking at things from the opposite angle, I was just thinking about whether my main band would want a dep in. The two guitarists, one of whom is also the singer, really both need to be there. As the drummer gets 95% of the gigs, he's not going to book one for when he's not there, and as well as providing myself, I provide and run the PA and it's far easier not to book gigs when I'm not available than for them to work out the logistics of collecting and storing the PA, setting it up, and making it work. OTOH, the number 2 band has singer/gob-iron player and guitarist, both of whom are necessary, but the rhythm section is deppable - I came in as a dep and became permanent, and also got depped a couple of weeks ago when there was a gig conflict (annoyingly, the gig for the main band was cancelled).

Shame they don't do two-packs of the 5-string 40s.

May 2022. You still hadn't calmed down by June 2022, then you managed to let it lie until the end of September 2022, then another cooling off period that lasted till the end of February 2024. And it was an 8x10, not a 4x10.

The HX Stomp allows three snapshots and the Stomp XL four - just set a different EQ (and different effect parameters, including switching them on or off) for each. The Stomp XL has four snapshots and if that's not enough, the Helix LT and full-fat both give 8 snapshots. There's also a send/return loop on the Stomps and two on the Helices, so you can plug effects in partway through the effects blocks if you want to.

Presumably they do because one of the links above points to a thread where one poster says that the Tributes are QCed in the USA, hence they'd presumably have to be imported unless there's some sort of special dispensation. The answer would be to export the QC jobs to Indonesia, then export direct from Indonesia, which would avoid US tariffs except for those to be sent to the US anyway.

I was so glad when I got rid of mine. Heavy as a small planet and didn't sound that great.

The DC bias must be coming in earlier on then and there's no DC blocking capacitor afterwards. As the active/passive switch takes the EQ part of the preamp completely out of the circuit, that would leave the buffer as the suspect section (the bottom connector with leads to the pickups and the balance pot).

Mike Read isn't though. Warning - do not play, political content.

Those heavy old things? GR Bass AT212, 11.5kg.

I'd suggest a bipolar electrolytic capacitor, 100uF, between the volume control wiper (centre terminal) and the jack socket. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/135605376775?_trksid=p2332490.c101875.m1851&itmprp=cksum%3A135605376775cef0a91da54e454782348804eec8ffed|enc%3AAQAKAAABAGqm9FAFUYsD%2Bg2P7amRF5PbrMKBN936TfFmdyEufDvNNKlouoyOXUVGTPycutqBFaPaOz%2BQqnhN8qhZ%2BG5l%2BL7DDJt8BGa%2FL%2FwS2wEfKZPNxF6YW3%2BOx%2F7ihlnjbvlvBdhOpkkf4UKXyGM%2BbVkoLJB52mgrxZb48efu8b%2FhufVM8MgbVsMtNLBULIZNQOKjZc5QWzm1qqCJ6%2FxIL4Bf7IPNWqZCHUiTIXx8mqkMApNuDghAJGD4Cl0x4rpQFzfYOmJWkS7uv9s19vuRnPSWKX6%2F7kol5CacR7y0rSDod%2F1DYURL1WsxQVrGELLor6eq4lvgL5Ifzlg%2Bthp6HhqDbZA%3D|ampid%3APL_CLK|clp%3A2332490&itmmeta=01K5V1RHF038YS2JAVXMHRP6AW&var=434962815180 - the 100uF and axial (one lead each end) would probably be easier to fit than radial (both leads at one end). Depends how urgent this is. If you've got a little time, it's going to be worth getting the sticky foam off the component side of the preamp circuit board. There's going to be a capacitor connected to the orange wire just by the red wire in the upper connection block on that diagram, and that's most likely the guilty party. It may well be a case of replacing the entire board though. I think there's another work round, which is to briefly switch to passive when switching a pedal, although that's not ideal either.

That's looking lovely.

Is the preamp potted (encapsulated), or is it a naked circuit board? PS: you could try connecting a high value capacitor between the preamp output and the jack socket - as there's a DC bias you could use an electrolytic. High value as it'll be in series with the output capacitor so it'll minimise the capacitance reduction.

Actually, I was wrong. Jon Shuker used a 5mm truss rod on the bass I've just bought. However, all three of the B2 variants I've had have been 4mm truss rods. That truss rod nut looks a bit mullered. This is what mine looks like: If you slacken off the strings, you could take the string holder off (just those two screws) and have a look at the end of the truss rod - you should be able to see more. Not sure if you can take the nut off, or extract the truss rod.

It's other people's irrational prejudices. Although I've never had a problem taking a headless fretless 5 string to auditions, so maybe there aren't that many irrationally prejudiced people around, we just assume there are.

Also missing All Right Now and Sweet Home Alabama.