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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.

1 hour ago, Hellzero said:

He used a 3 strings double bass, just like any player of the same period, definitely not a 1 string double bass. 😉

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.

38 minutes ago, Jeff Elkins said:

...Actually, right at 9.8 lbs on my travel scale... 

Actually amazingly light considering the size of this beauty.

£5500 and 55.00 lbs. But looks good.

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.

25 minutes ago, DocTrucker said:

Is it worth thinking about switches to change the wiring of each pickup, or is that only really useful/distinguishable for the most acutwly trained ear?

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.

11 hours ago, Dazed said:

Often thought about that but I’ve not seen a system that I like that much. If they worked that well it would have become the standard.

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.

Oh dear, I can see the headlights going towards woods. The woods of Tone...

How about a moving pickup?

- one of the first Alembics (Jefferson Airplane and...)

- Gibson Grabber

- Westone Rail

- Spalt vViper

Then you have all possible options available. Problem solved.

The cheapest option is to buy good ones in the first place. Keep the length under 10 ft / 3 m. They are easy to coil and keep in good shape for years to come.

Just like @BigRedX said, Neutriks and silicone cable. I still have my first self made cable up and running. Made in the late 80's or early 90's. Do the maths: yearly cost is minimal.

Try Thomann.de.

Was it Larrivee (Eloustic?) that made hollow body basses in the 80's or 90's? There were no openings, but the body was really light. Maybe made from glass fibre?

Use talcum powder and the strings become nearly frictionless. 2 octave slides are a breeze (if not usable).

I won't tell you. You don't know, you cannot torture me.

Not everybody is the same, but... It is nice to buy a pedal and expect to get an instant super sound from it, while it should be tested thoroughly. Yes, you can turn every knob to 11, but have you ever done it? Learning curve can be very steep even with simple units.

I have tried a few, and my holy grail was a X-over. With it I can keep the lows clean, and distort (or flange, or...) everything from 400 Hz upwards. Four hundred suits me, your choice may be something else.

Even pretty bad OD/dist/fuzzes sound decent, when they do not mush the lower register. I think Rolls has a cheap unit for trials.

I wouldn't be surprised that the tones are also 500k. Besides if the originals were 250k, you may get a hint of highest end with them.

A = audio = log pot

B = linear

Except these may be the other way around, as there's no standard with naming, and conventions vary a lot.