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You own it. Do whatever it takes to make it the instrument you actually want.

I think the Vigier Passion pickup positions are perfect and I'd love to hear what a pair of MFDs sound like in those positions. However, since you're paying for it, what is it you want to get out of this bass?

The idea of Elixirs is that the entre string is coated after being wound, which stops your biocrud getting into the winds, thereby eliminating the need to to clean with meths. Wipe down with a dry cloth, if needed, but don't use any kind of solvent on a coating like that, would seem to be the obvious course of action.

Meh-tallica?

My experience differs. When we were kids, a mate of mine could play all kinds of widdly-widdly stuff, very technically accomplished, exceptional coordination. He couldn't create to save his life, however. He had absolutely no creative gift, everything he wrote was mediocre and, when he tried to solo, is was just a mish-mash of licks of the players whose material he had learned through reading tabs. He had no musical voice of his own. That well was dry. I used to know a clarinet player in an orchestra for whom the idea of writing or improvising something of their own was an entirely alien concept which did not compute. Being a coordinated player does not correspond to being an interesting creative spirit and vice-versa. That this lad has taken the time to learn so much of other people's material and try to pass it off as his own suggests that he is not well endowed with a creative brain. At the risk of a generalisation, you'd expect creative people to spend their time... well... creating, rather than learning other people's material forensically.

How about the hits of your favourite Swedes and Morrissette done in an east African style... ... Alanis ABBAba

Few things in life are as aggressive as the G&L MFD. The G&L will get you a lot closer to the sound you're looking for than the DJ.

Shame he put holes for the polepieces in the top. You could have a lot of fun putting all kinds of different pickups in a cover like that. I'd love to hear what a pair of G&L MFDs would sound like in my Passion II

Loosen the neck bolts a smidge and move the neck a bit towards the treble side, get the strings centred on the fretboard.

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Replace it. Save yourself time and energy.

It's grand, he has set it up beautfully to do a "penny drops and I've ruined my career but now I'm digging up" video where he cries a little, finally acknowledges what he did wrong, outlines the mental struggles he has gone through which we don't understand and promises he's on the path to redemption to make everyone, who called him out for being a c**t, feel guilty. They're all the rage, these days. It's really society's fault, don't you know 🤣

No, man, dig up!

Always exquisite work!

Have you changed the string?

Alternatively... Fernanodopeth

Can you provide some pictures how you put the strings on?

Not a million miles away from the Lace Helix

If you bought it from China I would say there's a reasonable chance it's not quite the genuine article.

A quick scan through the classifieds reveals...

First thing would be to specify exactly which bass model you have, so the specs could be understood. From your description, it sounds like your passive mode is just bypassing the entire pre-amp circuit, in which case it would be far simpler to replace the electronics as a whole to one designed with an integrated passive tone control, such as a Sadowsky, East, etc. There are plenty of options out there.

How have you set the relief?