Doctor J

This live stream costs as much as a ticket to a real gig, it's, what, £25? Much as I love Sabbath, this is 10 years too late and looks like being a bad cabaret. Not for me, thanks.

Dusted off the old Saber for this one

Pickup too close to the string, perhaps? I've seen lots of anomalies over the years because the pickups were pulling on the string.

Nice, the $$ are beasts.

Right on!

New to this video game but figured I'd give it a lash. I'm not one for covers, though, so it's original basslines for The Homeball tunes. Sorry 😉

I recall a similar major/minor line issue at a Stone Roses tribute many years ago. The bassist in question constantly played one passing note of the chorus of She Bangs The Drums one fret from where it should have been. Most people didn't notice but, to me, it came across as half-arsed. If you're charging money, and it's as hard to get it wrong as it is to get it right, it's just laziness not to get it right, regardless of whether anyone but you notices or not.

That's entirely the point, the lads were discussing potential routing hidden by the scratchplate.

You'd expect there to be extra routing to find a home for the battery powering the EMG, no?

Another massive alarm? There's no gap in the neck pocket, very unlike 70's Fenders 😉

Cancel the order now, that's a cheapo body. Dots on the neck aren't right and it looks like J width nut to me. Fakedy Fake from Faketown.

I have an Arpege 4 and a Passion II, haven't played a Passion IV yet. I'd love the Arpege electronics with the Passion pickup placement. If you like fatter, warmer tones, go with the Arpege. If you like growl, go with the Passion.

The Arpege IV doesn't have ROMs Electronic Pickup brand name : Vigier Type of pickup : Single, twin coil in line Switch : Balance Controls : Volume Balance Equalizer for bass pickup: Bass Medium Treble Equalizer for treble pickup: Bass Medium Treble https://www.vigierguitars.com/catalog/index.php?id_product=42789&controller=product&id_lang=1

The P is a humbucker, you shouldn't be getting a big level of noise at all. Wire the pickup straight to the jack. See if there's still buzz. If it's clean, add in each pot at a time. Questions: is the new shielding connected to ground? Do you have dimmer switch lighting? Have the terminals of the pickups had the solder touched up?

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A badly cut nut is the obvious culprit. How much of a gap is there between the bottom of the string and the top of the first fret? Are the other strings the same height off the first fret and showing the same problem? Have you tried a different string?

It's a scarf joint, very commonly used in tilt-back headstock designs. The headstock likely came under some forward pressure which overstressed the joint.

I believe the placement is the same but the Sterling has ceramic magnets as opposed to the alnicos in the Stingray

Piezo pickup,I would think.

For almost every Precision with a Jazz neck, there is one of these unloved puppies looking for a home.

Just move on. If the singer attended the audition for the new bassist, she was in on it, too. This was going to happen sooner or later and was not purely a musical decision, it would seem. They've done you a favour in not wasting any more of your time. Cut your losses and put it (and them) behind you. Your life is richer with these people out of it.

The prices have little to do with tone or a perception of tonewood.

To be honest, I'm lost at this stage. If the tonewood thing isn't that a wood has a recogniseable tone though audio alone, then I don't know what it is. But, sure, I'll sleep soundly either way.

Nothing to do with tonal superiority, just addressing the perception that different woods have recognisable tonal characteristics.

Happy to provide audio samples for anyone who wants to call out the wood types in a blind listening test 🙂