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Its easier if you only have 4 way as you need fewer wafers. So you are ruling out the option of ever having either the J or P pickup on their own? Seems odd as that is the largest toneshaping option you can have.

Not something I would want to listen to, but I do love the external control box on the guitar synth. Also shows that latency of the original roland guitar synths wasn't an issue!

You are selling yourself short, if you can work out how to do it with switches you can work out how to do it with rotary, its just that it is a bit more effort and there isn't much reason to be bothered how to do it unless someone actually wants to, and until now, that never happened. Also, who the hell is going to remember what all the positions do on an 8 way switch - I know I wouldn't. Actually not 8 - 12 if you want off to be an option: sss, ssp, sps, spp, so, po, pss, psp, pps, ppp, os, op. technically also off off, but not such a great connection! At some point when I have litterally nothing to do I will work it out, or if the OP is brave enough to want to wire it As above. Sound gets converted in both coils of a humbucker as an AC voltage. If those coils are in series the output of the coils is both of those AC voltages added together. If they are in parallel the output is both of those AC voltages averaged. So the parallel output has a reduced output and a slightly softer sound. TBH, as individual coils in a humbucker are very close to each other, they have mostly the same sound, so parallel / series on a humbucker makes little sound change apart from the output level. However between pickups, the sound is quite different so series parallel between pickups makes a lot more of a difference.

I am the very model of a modern master, master..

I can do the wiring diagram no problems. However, its not something I would want to wire myself, even if you can get it in the body of the bass!!

If beethoven was such a genius, how come he didn't get many top ten hits huh? I always liked Sixx:AM, certainly their original stuff, and don't view them as naff, and DJ Ashba is a great guitarist, although unpleasant in most other ways!

No, its parts of Howard Jones 'What is love anyway'.

First time I have heard that - I don't think it is possible to be any more 80s! The riff after the chorus reminds me of something else, not quite sure what. And now it is bugging me!

And now they should be back

The images that show like veteran and newbie rank - so they do! Good spot.

Cambodia and what other?

The wiring isn't an issue, it is how you want the series / parallel switching between the two and individually controlled - all by the same rotary switch? In which case what options would you want? Assuming you want all the options, so series on the p, series on the j, series on the connection (sss), all the way to parallel on all (ppp) means you need sss, ssp, sps, spp, pss, psp, pps, ppp which is 8 options, and you might also want to have only one pickup (another set of combinations). Also it would affect your volumes - is this with one overal master volume or would you still want volume for both (in parallel between them, doesn't work in series between them) I would also advise, although that is literally what I would do as I love switching (in fact I have a bass up there that has this), once you have found the sound for the pickup you will literally never change the individual pickup parallel series switch again Anyway, if you want the full set of options and because you have gone past 6, you are going to need a 4 wafer switch, which is pretty deep - does the bass have enough depth for that?

The funny thing is that I am sure there are many people on here who would have never heard of Jaco if they had not come on here. He is certainly never someone I would have never heard of if I wasn't here. And I am not sure that is true of anyone else.

It really isn't. I was gigging my EHB at the weekend and for some reason my G string intonation was quite a bit out and it was terrible. If I had brought another bass I would have switched to that, but it was really cringy (ok, if I had been the guitarist I wouldn't notice). Frankly it is rare I play anything on that string at less than 7th fret, doing alright now, on the 17th is was very clearly out Intonation is definately important.

Both too course to take out a specific couple of notes like that. Need a parametric something for that. if I had that live I could probably take it out on the PA if I remembered (with an X18), or if I had one of my parametric basses (the EHB or something with a john east), although a bit of a fine cut for those.

Hmm...

Clearly it wasn't or Moldova would have won

The BBC is a member of the European Broadcasting Union, so it has to be them.

That is down to you not checking, they have actually done really well, have a new album, single and tour out. Personally I am looking forward to next years Eurovision final in Kyiv

Indeed - I did a picture posts on how to do it on one of the EHB thread. I love side leds. Not a fan of blue but other colours. AFAIK though, I don't think there are any that you can't turn off. Same here. OK, as I use wireless all the time it isn't so bad, but I find it cures a problem I have never had by risking several problems that I could have. I thought that they were there just for decoration, same as other things. And as such they are fine, although prefer it without them.

Yes, they are fine on the 1505 as the neck is dark. I had that problem before when I had luminays on a mid brown neck, you can't see the luminays at all when they aren't lit (which is most of the time), unless they have a collar (my shuker has that coloured fingerboard, but the luminays are in a brass ring which shows well in any light). Yes, taking the bass off, sitting down, putting it across your lap and pressing down really hard until your finger hurts to undo the clamp. I don't tthink I ever managed to do it when I was wearing the bass.

A few people have here, I have the normal scale one. With the nords. In which case that is the only down side, so you are good. Note the Nords you can take off the top end warm them up just fine with the EQ, the barts aren't well liked as they lack definition, as well as just being wooly. But if you like the sound then you are good. The pickups are the reason I don't have one and that when one came up on here with replaced pickups i had already bought something else! They feel well made, but light. The B string sounds fine but the ergonomics are down to you - the neck is smaller than the SRMS805 but similar in its still an ibanez.

Was a bit confusing, yes! I would just pick whatever bass you want to play, they will all sound the same to the audience so play the one you like.

For me that always works against an instrument - some famous artist who can afford whatever they want had a choice of keeping this bass, but they decided to get rid of it as it wasn't as good as the other ones they had.

Private party for a 40th. I don't think necessarily they really needed a band but we got them dancing once they had drunk enough so it went down ok, and paid well as it was a party. Down these ways, since the pandemic, we have had more people at our gigs, and they have been paying better for the first time in a decade