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Doctor J

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  1. I'd go for string-tree functionality over adhering to aesthetic tradition any day. On the 54 style I built, there was never a doubt I would use a 3-string tree to have continuity over the break angle across all the strings. The only people who would notice are a moniority of bassists and they're the ones you wouldn't want to be stuck in a lift with 😉

     

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  2. Do they have a red wire going to each pickup? If so, they're active.

     

    It's possible the preamp in the pickup took a shit and died, I've seen it enough times in EMGs.

     

    MECs tend to have a gold logo for active and silver logo for passive, or at least they used to. I suspect they're active ones in that bass, so you'll need a like for like replacement. The Warwick serial number decoder is usually very good at giving you the specifics of your instrument and Hans Peter is excellent for replying to questions.

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  3. I believe it was 1966 when Jaco first recoiled in horror, pointing at his bass -four stringed, naturally - and shouted "BAD VIBES, MAAAAAAAN!" as he struggled with the emotion of tone-sucking shonkiness of his original, rare and future vintage, but not yet, Jazz bass. He tried to kill the crappy bridge with a butter knife, as legend has it, but slipped on a stray banana skin, missed, and inadvertently invented the first electric fretless bass and Jazz Fusion, all on a rainy Wednesday.

  4. Reverb has been fine for me. Have used it several times and never failed yet. Like ebay, amazon and others, it's just a means for you to engage with a mix of independent private and commercial sellers. I never had any trouble, studying feedback and past sales always pays off. To this day, the worst packed thing I ever bought was from here, the hardcase with a single strip of brown packing tape around it, bass inside, no other packaging material at all. I still love this place, though 🙂

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