Woodinblack

Isn't that your answer there then? Or a G&L 5 which is pretty similar

They still are amoungst me.

Well, gibson never really liked basses, and lets face it they will sell 10 different coloured les pauls for every bass. Having said that, they make all of 3 basses, 2 of them are 30.4" and only one (the thunderbird) is 34", so they never really bought into long scale

Or a magazine of 6 batteries, and a mechanism that ejects the old one and puts the new one in place, like a pump action.

Interestingly (or not, depending on your interest), on the Railboard, the pickup block (which is switchable stereo / mono) is passive, unless you connect either XLR output on it to a phantom power source, in which case, it becomes active. Don't see why you couldn't do that on a bass.

Yes it would. What is the problem unplugging it?

Yeh, true, that would probably be the easiest option. Especially as I have some coverters around!

It litterally is an octave below a guitar I would say it looks like B (30.7) rather than C (~32.7), but a bit hard to see on that chart

Funny, if you don't know what that is, and you google it and go to the manufacturers site, there is a video on their main page by someone that has a really similar name to yours

3" taller than Suzi Quatro

I am suspecting that is electric bass, as it has a black section where covers where the B string would be

Maybe it was for years everyone was making copies of fender Ps and Js, which is why everything was 34", while a lot of the rest of the brands continued with their short and medium scale. I always wondered, if you have short, medium and long, why is the long most common rather than the medium?

The terms seem quite consistent

Mine weighs 7lb if that helps.

I remember going on holiday with my parents with a walkman and just a copy of Levitation when I was 15. One of the last holidays I had with them, I still love that album, although haven't listened to it for a while. I think i will tomorrow!

Good article though!

When I were a kid, so early 80s, we went to see them a couple of times a year, which was because they toured a couple of times a year. It was a required outing!

People who are not on here!

I am too

No, that is not right. If it is wired correctly, the volume control should short it out completely. The J is right, the P volume is wrong, or somehow not connected

I have a spare bass. I always throw my hofner B2V in the car, its takes no space and stays in the car, just in case. I don't have a spare amp, but can always go into the PA if required.

When you have a VVT on a fender style control (as opposed to a gibson type control which is the other way), the pickup is shorted to ground by the volume control to stop it contributing, So if you put your meter on the black and white leads on that P pickup, which as you have said is measuring 8.4K. As you turn the volume down that number should go down to 0 when it is fully down. Same with the J pickup and the other volume.

Well, I am not an expert at these things, but I would put the rug on the floor

Well, I got mine 5 years ago and they were out of production then, so there are just not many of them around any more in any country. How about the SR5, that came after it and was similar

Maybe leave it for now and enjoy your holiday for a bit while just playing on one pickup? I am hoping your read them wrong and it is 8.4k rather than 8.4 ohm or you have a piece of wire! OK, so each pickup is shorted out when its respective volume is completely off? If so you shouldn't be able to hear anything when both volumes are off