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Mama is making terrific good pickups and especially (quite) direct drop in replacement pickups for basses like yours, the Yamaha TRB's (excellent) or Alembic. I'm not affiliated to them, but here is a link : https://www.mamapickups.com/it/shop/altri-bassi.html

Or how to kill Lemmy twice ! A real shame to do such business on corpses... Ace of Spades is a brilliant album, no need for unreleased songs. If they were unreleased, I think there might be a good reason, no ?

Did you just land here from another planet ?!?

So somebody has been fooled. 😁

Again sorry, but I'm using these strings for decades now and I have a perfect intonation on each and every note on all my basses which are mainly sixers. That said, I really fine tune my set up. I'm also mainly a fretless player with uncompromising ears. All the persons who have received instruments from me are always amazed by my perfect set up. So I deeply think it's a false problem linked to approximate set up.

Thanks for the long answer, but I'm speaking about exposed cores, not tapered strings...

A piano string is an exposed core : do you hear any weird overtones ? Rotosound pioneered the Piano String Design which is an exposed core string and LaBella, Galli and Fodera propose some sets too. I've used these kind of strings for decades without any problem, except for the dead A string by LaBella some 20 years ago which is a known fact. I've also used tapered strings without any problem. The length of the exposed core or the tapered part has no impact on the sound or strange behaviour... Think piano strings and you'll understand.

If your instrument is properly and perfectly set up with correctly fitted strings, you won't hear any strange overtones, but a perfect intonation. Yes, most people can't fit strings correctly, nor set up their instruments : it's a fact. I'm using LaBella Super Steps and Fodera Anthony Jackson exposed cores strings to this purpose : a perfect intonation.

This is the Chinese copy, horrible gloss finish, and awful knobs placement. Somebody's been fooled.

Can't agree more, but do they hurt ?

He looks like Percy JONES, indeed ! If it's a recent photo...

Too much Oban in Oban, certainly...

I want a bad reCaptcha reputation too. Looks very hype !

Should you prefer a P-Bass pickup instead, I'll offer you this one :

@Chris2112 No, I didn't contact the seller. That said it will be a sixer fretless (defretted) coming...

He he, knowing Manne basses for decades as I played one in a shop back in the day, I was also about to buy this one at this very slim price. I ended up buying another sixer fretless from Italy that I'm awaiting in the next days. Manne basses are quite unknown outside of Italy indeed. But once you've played one, you know these are high end instruments. I always liked their look and craftsmanship too. Their sound has something organic that is hard to describe. That said Dominique Di Piazza is French. 😉 Good pick @Chris2112 ! PS : It would be nice if you removed your black background for the text as it's quite aggressive to the eyes. 😎

Top notch work. 👍

Yep sounds fat indeed and nice too with the right amount of harmonics. Well done Harry.

Number 3 is my favourite. I hate number 4 which seems to act like a flanger at the same time. I'm using a JAM Pedals Waterfall, maybe it's in there too.

@ped : According to Chris Celinder, the serial number on the bolt-on basses is in the neck pocket. So, you'll need to unscrew the neck (again). My sixer was a neckthrough.

I checked my (numerous) photos, and on my sixer, the "serial number" was on the inner side of the back plate, but hardly readable. Maybe it's there too for yours.

Did you check the edge of the headstock for the serial number, Chris ? And below are the specs of the Greengrove preamp. User pot-meters : - Treble cut - Bass boost with center-detent Onboard configurations : - 6dB overall gain (dip switch) - Narrow/wide equalizer (dip switch) - Bright eq settings (dip switch) The treble cut is designed to cut 6dB/Oct @ 500Hz-16kHz The bass boost is giving boost or damping up to +/-16dB @ 40 Hz DIP switches : 1.ON = Narrow Eq (on bassbost) / OFF = Wide Eq (on bassboost) 2."Higher eq" treble boost 3."Lower eq" treble boost 4.ON = +6dB gain (overall signal gain) / OFF = 0dB Overall gain can also be adjusted on the mini trim pot-meter Power supply : +9volts DC Bass boost/cut : +/-16dB @ 40Hz High cut : 6dB/oct 500Hz-16kHz Hours : 200h (9 volt Alkaline)