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https://truetone.com/1-spot/ Shouldn't be too big or heavy. I have one extra in the rack case.

This came from our @GisserD:

This VHS video was sold decades ago (ancient, pre-internetic). I suppose it was one of the most copied educational videos of that time. I think there was a score included, or sometimes a faint copy of it. Jaco plays Jerry's bass, but which brand it is, that I have forgotten.

pickups - vol - vol - tone stack - out I suppose the only battery powered ("active") part is the tone stack. The pots and pickups are possibly plain hi-Z (high impedance, "passive"). Changing the tone stack is just de- and soldering few wires (in, out, battery terminals) if the tone pots are already fitted to the stack. This takes maybe an hour including all assembly work. Simple job. I do not think that your tech have to change pots, if they are functional. Very common (and mediocre) carbon track Alpha and similar pots cost practically nothing, so if he wants to change them, it's up to him. The reason would be nice to understand, though.

By the way, which metals have been used in basses, and by whom? Kramer/Travis Bean/Hoxey/Aluminati...: Al necks alusonic: Al bodies Ogre: Mg bodies and necks (but no basses) Gittler: steel body and neck Anything else? Ti?

I'm in need for some playing skills...

In that case you could have V-V-T-T or V-Blend-T-T. Because there are already four pots in a row, use 500k. VVTT: 2 x (pickup - V - T) - out Just solder both sets to output. VBlendTT: 2 x (pickup - tone) - blend - vol - out Blend pot: Bourns 500k MN This may look a bit peculiar, but the order has to be this to keep the blend and two tones functional. Keep the wires long enough. Helps with the assembly.

A parametric eq pedal, maybe? Artec is very cheap and functional. I am wondering - although you have tried this and that - if something else is affecting this issue. Is the room you play at very boomy, or is your amp in a place, where it produces the unwanted sound, like in a corner?

Have you been thinking of a tone bypass (i.e. A/P) switch? There's no need to change the pots, except the one you replace with a switch pot.

Wait a minute, I'll need to check the photo of him and the bass! https://www.stretta-music.com/dragonetti-six-waltzes-nr-122681.html Yes, sure he used a three string bass. I just wanted to upgrade that irritating "Jaco only...". That's so lame! Electric bass is so new an instrument, it's still evolving. Fender wasn't the only or the first inventor. His idea of a cheap mass produced instrument just happened to be in a right place at a right time. Functional, yes. Popular, yes. Standard, not. Remember Leo was developing his own creations through his whole life.

This is something I wrote long ago: Double basses and basses have this ancestor called viola da gamba. We know that gambas and double basses have had 1 - 9 strings as well as frets. Yes, several centuries ago! Players have used bow and certainly different kinds of plectra. What is new here? Is four strings actually a step backwards, or just a simplification of this incredible instrument? Standard it certainly isn't. Even the one string washtub bass has been used with success. It is not the instrument, but the player. Technology does not make music, we do. [Dragonetti needed just one, so please buy an Atlansia Solitaire. The fretless one.]

Thanks and congratulations! After making nearly 1200 charts you would be nearly 120 years old if you transcribed them with my speed... Hope you can reach 2000!

One box that can be considered as an effect is a looper. While training, you can use a looper to check how your playing really sounds against your belief while playing. It is really helpful tool to train for example legato playing: are there long, tied notes, or does it still sound like staccato playing? You don't have to buy a studio to hear yourself play. Try one, you may love it... or hate it after hearing the outcome.

There's no such rule! In the music school I attended a long ago people had 4, 5, and 6 string basses. Including teachers. If I was you, learning major and minor scales (all 4), chords (major, minor, dim, ±5, 6, 7, m7, maj7, mmaj7, ±5, dim7) and you already know quite a lot. Learning these through the fretboard gives you pretty good tools to play many songs. There are two books that might be worth checking (try amazon): Standing in the shadows of Motown. Bass line encyclopedia. The first one includes some tough stuff like What's going on. The second has a good selection of different playing styles.

[Pretty long time ago] "I hate that wooden box on top of my piano" (which I sold to get my Quantum 5 SPi). I learned to play in time playing with LPs, CCs, and CDs. And radio, too. It was more fun and natural.

Those filters are of great interest. Keep us updated.

A (very) little bit of reverb makes good for distorted (and fuzzistored?) sound. For me a little bit works fine (listen to Duffy's Mercy), and anything more is already a special effect. My favourite unit is IE Nimbus, because of its filters.

Your (feasible) options are ser/par, or ser/single. The latter has bigger difference in volume. If you use pots with switches, you do not need extra holes.

What do you mean by active pickups? Are they battery powered (EMG or similar), or do you have a battery powered preamp (tone stack) in the bass? I think the answer is the latter. You want vol-blend-tone, or vol-vol-tone, modification is possible and pretty simple. It is up to you to decide, if you want the flexibility and complexity of the battery powered part.

36", oil finish, unlined fretless, glow-in-the-dark side dots, Delano, SS RW 40-100 set, light in weight... second from left.

The standard? A P bass is so simple and cheap to manufacture, that a moving pickup would throw the costs to another level. Besides there are many users happy with its sound. As you have already seen, there's no standard with pickup positions, even the basic P is available with reverse pickup. Rick Turner made basses with turning pickups.