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Actually, it is very helpful to learn two beat first. When it is functional, it is time to take a step forward and learn four beat. Check youtube, as there has to be lots of examples. If the chord theory is clear, playing will be very easy. In short two beat is playing half notes (just play 1 and 5 in one bar), and four beat is like playing quarters 1 1 5 3 in one bar. After these two, walking bass is much easier. Just play the seventh chord notes - one exception is that usually maj7 is played as 6. Try to play the notes ascending and descending, because when you go up, you have to come down sooner or later. Mike Richmond's book "Modern Walking Bass Technique" has many of the "tricks" used while playing walking bass lines. Recommended reading.

With model MN, you need a multimeter. Start with the top of the pot. 1) Number the lugs like in the picture below. 2) Turn the pot axle to the middle position. 3) Connect the test probes to the lugs 1 & 2 or 2 & 3, you should see 500k or 0 k. Ground is on the 500 k side. If the 500 k side is 2 & 3, then the top ground is #3 and bottom pot ground is #1. Outputs are #2s.

Very rough estimation is that nickel RWs have flatter response (more middle), and SSs sound a bit like smiley eq curve.

At one point I wanted to be Louis Crandell, but I had no nerve to grab the line... A former GF of mine, a teacher, told me that one of her pupils wanted to be famous, a satellite!

DC7 is able to push continuous 600 mA and maximum of 660 mA / output. That is 7 x 600 mA x 9 VDC = 37.8 W (continuous) 7 x 660 mA x 9 VDC = 41.5 W (maximum) Your digital FX units are very power hungry, to say the least. Their input power figures are very high, although it may be so that the numbers relate to their short time maximum consumption: C4: 165 mA SDrum: 500 mA JamMan: 900 mA HX: 3 000 mA (3 A!) In total this is 4565 mA = 41 W (@ 9 VDC), which is about the same as the DC7 is able to push out. It is no wonder your power is hot. If you have a 40 watt lamp at hand, put it on and feel the heat. No, please do not burn your fingers.

Fake books are usually feasible. For reading, I recommend Standing in the shadows of Motown, because it includes the book and the CDs. Very good stories, songs and transcriptions.

Wow! What kind of a process you have?

I am very sorry. If single coil g-word pickups are mechanically similar (including magnets), the DCR may be the factor that describes the many differences somewhat. Other than that, no one can reduce sound quality parameter matrix to a single number or word: "How did the band sound?" "56.3!" (Here the number 56.3 equals the word "round".) A new variable frequency professional LCR-meter seems to cost around £10k. Ouch. But an ebay unit "ET4501" and its variations (ET4502, ET4510) seem nearly affordable. Interesting.

I had one. A fun unit, it was definitely not a transparent one, my use pushed it closer to an effect. Turn the knobs liberally from end to end, and find your thing.

If you want to use no strings, please sing. If a stringed electric bass is a must, Atlansia Solitaire is available as fretless and fretted. I see the fifth string good for me, as many of the singers (4 + 1 + 1) in the bands (3) I play tend to transpose many of the songs. I can go a second, or a third down, and still play in the area, where others do not play (piano, g-word etc.). Am I doing right things with wrong instruments, or should I always play with unsuitable instruments and create something funny instead of functional? Do you think the camera is the reason for a good picture? Tom Kennedy is simply an excellent musician, no matter which tool he uses.

http://www.matweb.com/search/DataSheet.aspx?MatGUID=4f19a42be94546b686bbf43f79c51b7d&ckck=1 Steel is different, usually resilient compared to Al. Different materials, different sets of properties. Anodized surface does not affect the base material.

Impedance, you should try to read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_impedance When a (bass, or g-word) pickup has different physical measurements, the electrical parametres may already change. When the distances to strings is different, the output is different. It is possible to find similar pickups, but just looking at any single figure does not give you trusty answers.

OK, this will be the theoretical part... The wire is one part. It can be thick, thin, twisted... usually it is lacquered copper. The amount in the coil is related to the pickup's resistance (R). A short amount of wire equals low resistance and so on. When the amount of wire is low, in theory the frequency response is wider and output lower. This depends on few other parameters, too, but is a very rough generalization. If the output is very low, the signal level can be amplified with an opamp (operational amplifier + a power source, like a battery; EMG), or the voltage can be raised by a transformer (Alumitone). The coil has impedance (Z) and it changes over the frequency range. At 0 Hz, or DC, the Z is R. A pickup is practically a low pass filter. Most of the pickups have limited response, and the output starts to go down after few kilohertz. Coiling a pickup: yes, there are (stories of) magical hands, or machines, or makers, but the basic idea is to put some amount of a wire to a coil. There are also multi-coil pickups, please check https://www.herrickpickups.com/ Now we get to the basic principle: when the string (a conductive wire) is moving (vibrating) in a magnetic field, it produces small electric (AC) signal, which can be amplified in an... well, you know the rest. The power of the magnetic field, and the parametres of the coil affect the output - and the sound. Magnetic material is actually a bit on a sidetrack. What is meaningful is the magnetic field (1 Tesla = 10 000 Gauss). Now it is so that the materials differ not only with each other but also within one "species". Because of this, a very weak neodymium could be weaker than a very strong ceramic. Neodymium is considered the strongest (i.e. the power/weight is the best so far) following by AlNiCo, Sm-Co, and ceramic. Now we have the parts (wire, frame, magnet). The next step is to put them together. The ready set may be single, or multicoil, stacked, or a parallel humbucker... The sound comes out from a complete construction, where we have lots of parametres, but not a single will guarantee the end result. A practical approach If you are really into pickups, an LCR-meter would be very helpful. While I was working in a broadcasting company very long time ago, I had a chance to use a high end LCR-meter and measure my former Modulus Graphite Quantum's bartolinis. Very interesting, although expected results, by the way. Prices of the meters are really high, though. There are single frequency units, but one f does not tell much about the overall response. As an example, this second hand Agilent costs over £1k and has only 6 static frequencies: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Agilent-Keysight-4263B-LCR-Meter-100Hz-to-100kHz-RPG/253214470569?hash=item3af4c231a9:g:81AAAOSw6KVZhUTA

Funny how I expected to see a NAD Amp 1 in here. I think I have to go and take a good sleep.

Anodizing is the best way to get the colour to the Al. But, as the base material itself is soft, the hard coating will be detached if the material is hit. The soft aluminum is not able to support the hard surface. Some aluminum qualities also corrode especially by acids, like sweat. Aluminum oxide is very hard, by the way. If the colouring is done in a proper way and you treat the unit decently, it may look good for ages. Paints tend to wear quite quickly. The base treatment is demanding, and most of the painted aluminum looks bad sooner or later. Anodizing is simply the best choice.

When the steel is frozen a lot (the basic home freezer does not mean much here), it shrinks a bit. This video is about hot and cold (liquid nitrogen, -160 degree centigrade) and a shrink fit:

The first question is: what are you after with this modification/project? More (or less) of something or simply different sound? What is driving you to this?

Adjust the gain so, that the input is not distorting. Check it with low volume level. This way you amplify the signal, not the noise! Gain is just an adjustment. It has to do with good and good quality signal level. If it has to be at 3 o'clock, be it so.

I have it. I tried some five (or seven?) OD/dist/fuzz pedals side by side and that 'tweaker was the best. I also have a Spruce effects Old growth fuzz modded for bass. Not cheap ones, but when I listened to them, I took the one (two!) that was for me. Amptweaker has lots of switches to tweak the sound. It works with hi- and lo-Z ("active and passive") basses, which is a bit uncommon. OGF works better with a hi-Z ("passive") instrument.

Sorry for the slow answer: the unit pushes 9 VAC! I would not even try that one.

Tried that 112 but was not my cup of tea. I heard the box too well. Some damping material would have probably helped. My 2 x 12" alusonic has some colorization from the aluminum box, too, but not as bad.

910248. bartolini preamp and pickups, with rotating switches (single/par/ser). Mixpot.

@mar_to_the_t: I had one, too. The cut of the body revealed the bass. I can say it felt good. 1991 model.

Certainly! By the way, is there a 90's Quantum 5 in the background? With a cocacola (yes, a joke) top?