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You can try one at the Musicman sweet spot position and the other at the typical Jazz Bass 70's bridge position.

The Roland GK3B is indeed an hexaphonic (per se a pickup for each string) pickup like ALL so-called MIDI pickups @ped, but it allows you to use a MIDI system so is often referred as a MIDI pickup for some reason. It was not @Rosie C enquiry. 😉

I sold mine in the mid 90's for ... 750 €/£...

I did many times, but it always ended with a whole resale as I didn't see the point of all this. That said, it works very well latency wise and I don't see why it wouldn't work with a fretless bass as it's only about converting a note into data for the MIDI system. Listen to Uzeb and Alain Caron as he's been using (6) strings MIDI fretless basses since the beginning in the ... 80's (when the latency was delirious especially with a low B).

It all depends on the power of the magnet.

Yep, the opamp could have been affected.

To reverse the demagnetisation, you'll need a lot of specially designed apparatuses, so it will be cheaper to change the pickup...

At least, you tried it. 😉 That said, I'm a bit astonished by the hiss you get, and I think I know why: Your cabinet is unforgivable on this subject and amplifies any default (not a bad thing at all per se), but it's the price to pay for transparency. Good luck with your quest, and I hope the Eich will suit your needs.

You were lucky to have a Hohner back then, I started noodling a decade before you on a crappy Maya EB-2 with the strings at around 1 cm away from the fingerboard... 🤦🏻 And people nowadays are selling these pieces of shīt at silly high prices, simply because they were made in Japan... 🤢🤮

Spinal Tax.

So @andyhaines, did you receive your GR Bass One 350 yet?

Spital Tap.

Spinal Tab.

We saw Nik Kershaw live in December 2024 for the 40th anniversary tour of his two first albums and it really was an excellent concert.

Nope, doesn't look like him either at all. He was George Benson bass player for those who wonder who he is.

She's been playing since a few years now and all her videos are on YouTube. IIRC her father is a musician too. 😉 She's quite amazing for sure!

That said, maybe one song I don't know in the list is from that band...

Great set lists @police squad and @hiram.k.hackenbacker. At least you avoided the most horrific band of the 80's, even if they started in the late 70's : The Cure (that said their two first albums were quite good, their 80's shīt is simply awful, but it's what entitled them to ... money).

Furthermore Nathan Watts was the official musical director of Stevie Wonder back then and during years.

Exactly @MartinB. 😉

Furthermore Freddie Washington doesn't look like Nathan Watts at all, because I'm 99% confident that it's Nathan Watts.

Check Nathan Watts as he was the official bass player for Stevie Wonder in 2005 (between two diets, he could have looked that way). 😉

It's George Duke on keyboards, and the bassist plays a Marcus Miller Fender signature bass, so maybe Freddy Washington is right.

Here are two diagrams from Cadfaels with the serial place on the switch better positioned (to avoid huge differences in output). The second one uses Leds, which can be interesting too. Click 3 times on the image to have it in full definition.