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Relative things: take a look at the price of a recorder, then find the price of a top end cello bow.

But... the picture of the whole bass?

Pickups are designed with some output in mind. If you want a buffer and some tone tweaking with the little help of a battery, it is up to you. True, EMGs need the battery because the buffer circuitry is molded beside the coil(s), but the pickup output can be doped with nearly any preamp. Find your favourite or leave everything out, it is up to your preference.

Start with a pic of your creation. Maybe two... What are your tools, have you burnt the vol pot? Is it log taper?

It has a body of a short scale, and ergonomics of a long scale. First position looks like hard to reach.

The basic idea is simple: you have two necks with similar screw holes and you make a change. That's it. Along came tolerances. It may be so that you need to shim the other neck to get the angle right. This is simple. Few plastic sheets, sized 1 cm x 4 cm x 1-2 mm or so. Neck pocket may be loose or tight. Your choice: the pocket or the neck heel needs some sanding. If the screw holes do not fit, consider using DIN 7965 slotted inserts after filling the holes of the neck, and drilling new ones that fit. The slotted end goes in first: Sure you have to change strings and check the fine tuning and string height, but that takes less than half an hour. You need a tuner and few tools.

Ain't no mountain I wish Disco inferno Get lucky (our space version) A night in Tunisia Moanin'/So what mixmash All the things you are (check Peruchin's version!) confession: I like playing Love boat theme

Axstar, BX1, Hondo/Kramer, Warwick's headless (and the name was Nobby Meidel?), Rail bass, Riverhead... are these all from the 80's?

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1) you can use a 1 or 2 battery solution. You could consider a parallel 9 V solution for longer operation. 2) whichever blend pot (with MN taper) should work. Some may be more or less aggressive, so some trial is in need. Try Bourns 250k MN. 3) grounding, well EMGs do not require bridge grounding. Others are needed.

I have to say that the 400+ was wonderful! The weight wasn't. A Mo'Bass or a MiniMo are high on my list but also pretty rare, that is high priced. Maybe some day.

- Auerswald (any) - Pensa-Suhr (another) - Rickenbacker 4005 - basslab - Linc Luthier - Ritter (acoustic) - Versoul Swan 4 or 5 (acoustic) - Overwater C - any old 5/4 sized high end double bass, 5 or 4 with an extender - something decent with a Lightwave pickup

Interstellar Overdrive. Pre: 12AX7 / ECC83 (C+C = double triode) Power: 2 x EL84 (around 5 W; eq not working with the internal power amp) Schema stolen from TB.

Well, maybe it was a pint and some youtube video, but anyway.

Exactly. Plasma elements were an interesting trial, but efficiency... The only way the performance could be enhanced, would be very different technology. Planar elements are big and lightweight - and lack low end. There doesn't seem to be solutions available that could replace this age old coil-magnet thing. Neodymium magnets were one very positive enhancement, but the efficiency is still in the ballpark of single numbers, like 1 - 2 %.

I would love to write a hypothetical story about a man living in the '50s, and his name could be Feo, so back in the days... ...but today there are balance pots readily available contrary to the ancient times. Just buy a Bourns 250k MN, or 500k MN. If you put one point (jack ground, or the closest pot cover) as the centre point, you can connect every ground wire to that one particular (star) ground. In the schema the wires are chained from one point to another. Star is a better way to handle certain issues: do some search, if needed. When you rewire the set, pickups go first to the blend: pickups - blend - vol - tone - output This is the signal path! You certainly want to put vol closest to your hands to the bass' top: wires have to be long enough.

That switch cannot be so special. Read the codes from it and find a new one. What do you mean by a noisy switch? Snaps? Is this bass from Ibanez?

I prefer a sip of sherry and a new set of strings.

2 x 9 V may be chosen for simpler electronics. Two sided power is very easy to execute. If you use only a single battery, you need to divide the 9 V to 2 x 4.5 V. The level of the output signal is dependent on the choices electronics designer has made. It can be lower than those hi-Z counterparts, i.e. those without batteries. By the way, Status has produced a preamp with 4 x 9 V batteries = 36 volt circuitry. I think it was made for Jonas Hellborg.

I'd be interested in the manufacturing country. If it is the big C, no. If Japan or even S. Korea, then maybe. European luthiers are so numerous that you can get a custom neck from the east side for a very attractive price, even from local guys. Why should I choose Asian?

Are you sure the batteries were changed? If only few act weirdly, the very first checkpoint is batteries. The next would be the cables around the same batteries.

If you want to try something we have already done: - boiling - washing machine - ultrasonic - acids - solvents - nearly anything imaginable After some trials to save anything (except the time wasted), the best option is to go to your local store and by new sets.

A) Most of the amps that have two channels, mean that the preamp has two sets of adjustments to a single power amp. A stereo power amp is really rare, as is a bi-amp. B) I do not get your point. If impedance is low or very low, your amp needs to be able to push lots of current through the power amp. Sometimes higher impedance is easier to the power amp, and the speaker may be actually (but usually only slightly) louder than its lower impedance sibling. Do not mix loudness (dB) and power (W)! C) Speaker size and the lowest reproducible frequency? They are only faintly related, otherwise a hifi speaker couldn't go to 20 Hz. But power handling is another story. Still, a 4 x 10" may be able to go down to 60 Hz only, and everyone's happy: 31.5 Hz B sounds great!