Woodinblack

As I bang on endlessly about. the point of a preamp is to buffer the signal so that it doesn't inject noise and filter out your treble in the long RC circuit that is your cable. The fact you can also change the bass and treble if you have an active circuit is a bonus, but it is more a side effect than anything else. Although I also believe that you don't need an 18v preamp in anything, seeing as you are almost certainly clipping your amplifier when you go much over 2v output from your bass, but that is a different panier de crabes.

Certainly if it was off the polepiece it could affect sustain and tone (both would be technically improved, but not by so much you are going to notice), but there is no way the vibration of that string in that picture is going to move the string away from that pole piece. For that to happen the primary of that string (ie, centre) would have to be moving into the neck

I only how good the drummers I played with were good when I finally played with a bad drummer. That makes the whole thing pointless.

Agreed on the laquer line, but if it is passive what are the two batteries compartments on the back for, storage?

Dark enough to be noticably present and black, but light enough to be able to see the pattern!

Good short term recolection although I suspect it is the sort of thing he would have done anyway. If you can play it you can play it. I do like decent drum videos if there is stuff going on, it is nicer just to have it higher in the mix anyway, or just focus on one part of a song. Sometimes you miss the subtleties when you don't see what is involved. Like here, at 7 minutes - 9 minutes, the left and right hand separation are something I couldn't do, even if I could play drums (which I don't), let alone keep it up for 2 mintues. And you know it isn't cut in because it a multicamera live. Also shows that drummers can get away with such bad clothes choice as they are hidden away!

I like the string spacing on it, but not sure about that line. Not that I guess it would notice much when you are playing it.

I think too much weight can be given to whether a string is over the centre of a pole piece. I doubt it would be possible (all other things being equal) to measure any difference between the output of the G string in either of those string positions. I think the second is better, but only asthetically.

Agreed, but a dark transparant pick guard wouldn't.

I would also say it looks like your earths are not connected to each other so just floating, but until you can take a good focused picture it is impossible to say for sure.

I am getting it right that you currently have Volume, Volume, tone, and you want to covert to just volume, volume? If so you don't need any other pots, just remove the tone pot and ensure that the wire that went from the volumes to the tone and jack still goes to the jack

Thats beautiful. I don't really like fenders that much and I don't play a 4 string, but that finish is great (well, I think the scratch plate ruins it a bit, but it comes off!). Yes, the gig bag idea is silly. its not like it is a budget range instrument, a decent quality gig bag that you can actually use costs very little from a manufacturers point of view, why not provide one?

That really depends on whether you think that that headstock is uglier than a fender headstock, I guess its what you are used to. Would pick that in a heartbeat over the tele headstock - its about as ugly as a normal fender headstock.

Maybe if they install a card reader you can visit, seems to be the difference!

They were thinking with that hideous scratchplate, noone would care if the pickup was the wrong colour!

Yes, a hideous clash that is even worse than tort scratchplates which is pretty awful.

In fact, after mentioning the telecaster style headstock, the original P bass pick-guard. What the hell is going on with that. In fact, extend that to the 50s P bass. The later P bass is not so bad once they got rid of all the metal and put a slightly better headstock on it.

I had one of the original CV P basses. I can't see they would have intentionally made the next generation worse for any reason. The only thing that was even slightly suspect were the tuners, that felt a bit cheap, but only a bit, not much worse than others of that style.

Probably a good reason for that

Well, thats fine, can't see why you would want to do it another way.

Yes, if you wanted to go to a 5 you could just move the E further up and put a b nearer the end.

So what you are saying is that you don't dislike reliced basses, you just don't like the colour of some!

Looks at all the fenders out there.. the world has turned since 1950s? Are you sure?

I don't get foderas, I know they are supposed to be fantastic things, but so much of their design looks like an afterthought - I always hated their random knob position, but that is just jarring. And not only that, when tuning you have a lifetime of picking the wrong tuner - tuning strings in order means furthest, nearest, middle!

I can probably put up with any single thing on a bass (Given the neck profile, string spacing etc was ok), although some headstocks are hard to love (esp fender tele style) as luckily most things that are really terrible such as tort pickguard or silver hardware can be replaced.