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Not when I play it - i’ll Get someone good to demo - May even sound better than a fake Ray

You may be right, whoever is thinking of doing that could just be a mad scientist genius

Headstock looks like someone who has a gluten allergy just went to the bakery

Exactly, which bell piece would ever consider doing that, only some absolute muppet. Its a bit like someone having a fetish for brown basses

Not really - no less controversial than saying turdburst and tort look amazing or lashings of gold hardware on a bass make it look luxurious.

Pointy headstock was better

Good work Tech21, good info from you. Thanks

So to close the loop, big thanks to @itu for patiently helping me to get the diagram right, I wired it series parallel in the end, here is the schematic for the interested.... And a massive 👏🏿 To @mybass for sculpting a cracking piece of wood into a gorgeous bass, I feel privileged to have popped together. Awesome Gotoh resolite GB 350 tuners, Atelier Z pick ups, TI flats. Sounds very very nice

If you don’t mind waiting you pick up Fender parts second hand from various countries where they have been manufactured, mighty Mite are good, Allparts are good, status so great necks for Stingrays or fender pockets, depends whether you want the ease of an all in one kit, or just shop around. Then there is the cool part of electronics but that’s a whole other story

If it’s the same (and I haven’t seen another DG pre amp on my travels) it’s a nice piece of kit

Yep, I know the tone capsule well, it was more in relation to the comment there is no control of the mids, whereas actually this seems to nicely control the mids more than a traditional bass/mid/treble would

Is it not the DG tone capsule?

Aye, those tunes I think are off those albums

Ok They have been around since 1980, you would have heard their music at some point on your travels, for me the best albums were early 90s If you fancy check Out of Time, Automatic for the People and Monster

@Bluewine @FinnDave have you both honestly never heard of REM? Janes Addiction were awesome and pretty big, but possibly a little more niche.

@krispn you’re not talking sense are you......

Rug and antlers

Cheers fella - I am a regular follower of your wall poster pictures with the occasional bass thrown in!

Are those rugs from Castle Black or Jason and the Argonauts?

If I was up north east, it would probably be clumsy me popping in for a play and my jaw dropping on it, it’s such a good looking beast

Nice work son - you need to play some wear into that, the finish is looking too pristine

That’s fighting talk, it’s already been decreed Helix can’t do synth

And that was exactly my point. Depending on the synth of course, But it will struggle with fast lines surely - any type of envelope, or opening and embellishment of the note would require space, so if you try a fast line on that kind of synth, it will sound pants on any synth