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Type 85 from Countryman is literally indestructible. Found one years ago used and yes, the cover had dings and dongs, but works as planned. It is now something like +30 years old.

Stuart Hamm and that sonata from his first solo record:

Try these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Adjustable-Reusable-Cable-Straps/dp/B083K8M8Y1/ref=mp_s_a_1_2_sspa?crid=GCZJU48Z38UD&keywords=velcro+cable+ties&qid=1692017009&sprefix=velcro+%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9zZWFyY2hfYXRm&psc=1 The amount seems pretty big in the first phase, but after you have met your bandmates, found strange cable heaps, abd talked to your neighbours, the package is used very quickly.

If you have a CNC machine and some wood, would you be able to make a good instrument? Find some suitable wood, cut it the right way, and then prepare it to the machine. Ta da, we have a blank! Rob makes super instruments, he is able to produce, or should I say, manufacture high end stuff. If prices seem high, we could play like Jonas or Chris, and ask for an endorsement. If it suits Rob, problem solved.

One band that my friend has been seeing since they started has a music teacher as a singer. Friend told me that she was a chore when they started two years ago, and now she's the star! If you get someone who can sing, the charisma will follow.

The system has to be close to the hum, i.e. pickups. Was it Vigier that has a dummy coil in the Excess control plate? And Alembic has that dummy coil visible in between the actual pickups. Find more info using words: "hum removal dummy coil".

I've seen humbucking systems that are built to the pickguard to reduce single coil hum. Still the instrument acts and sounds like a single coil.

But a Y-cable with resistors, wouldn't that still be the simplest? Of course, the tinkering needed, why not build a tiny box with three connectors and Rs.

The result doesn't have to be degradation, but somewhat changed behaviour of certain fx, especially the family of OD/dist/fuzz. Buffers usually have super low output impedance. A hi-Z output (once more: this is not about signal voltage levels) bass may drive the pedal in a different way, and this results a different sound.

But no sir, he decided to make instruments for all customers. Retro guys loved those bolt-on cheapos...

If the field is really magnetic over electric, your chances to shield anything are low. But if only the g-word is affected, start from checking the placement of the amp, and then the instrument. Maybe you have to tilt the amp to its side, but be creative. (When I was working with electronic compasses, a customer was asking to shield the circuitry from electric fields, because train drive affected the compass' performance... If it is unclear to someone: electric field always produces magnetic field, too. Magnetic fields are possible without electric fields, like with permanent magnets.)

...except Washburn was a neck through. Hoping to see more, including those P/J/MM graphite necks.

Remove the original plate with pots and save it as it is. The set costs so little, and then you have an original backup just in case. Another hi-Z version is to have vol - blend - tone - out Use Bourns 500k MN as the blend pot, and a switch pot for that series option. Lo-Z options are numerous; John East was already mentioned. It's probably The Preamp, although tastes vary. You want to go to extremes: use switches (rotary is also an option) to choose pickups, tone etc. Might work best in studio environment, where sounds can be chosen and returned in fractions of a second.

Sure there are. But an OD/dist/fuzz happens to be so simple, that pricewise a fuĺly digital fx is really expensive. Take a look: http://pedalparts.co.uk/docs/FuzzFace-OBP.pdf

A digital OD? Give me a break.

Those were the days, my friend.

Songs are OK, I think that reading the crowd is of importance. If you are able to jump from song pairs to another ones, when the crowd needs those, you'll be stars.

Series I and II Passions have Schaller bridges (and tuners), and Arpege Vigier's own design bridge. Kahler bridge and the optional vibrato came later.

What I forgot is the mixing. If you are about to make a fine system, do not use simple pot to mix coils/pickups. Study Noll Mixpot, and understand its performance compared to a blend pot. Otherwise you are having a tone pot (yes!), named as blend or vol in your system.

Tobias has had similar system: one double coil pickup, 2 B&T adjustments for coils. Status Paramatrix has even more adjustments. Theoretical: As each pickup is in different position relative to each other, the responses are different, just like in Jazz bass. Do they cancel something out together, most likely. Of course you can have multi coil pickup (or a piezo bridge) and adjust every coil separately. Do you get significant advantage over a simple system, hardly. The main idea is to support pickups, and it is up to you to use hi-Z ("passive") tone pot, or some lo-Z, battery powered circuitry (treble, B&T, B&M&T, semi parametric, B&T tilt, filter...).

Mad Inter offers Blackwood Tek, which is roughly hard, dyed pinus radiata. Sounds good, works well, but colours all things the dust touches. https://www.madinter.com/en/blackwood-tek-en.html

Ti is very soft, Al would benefit from anodizing (more slippery, slightly harder surface). Brass and steel would be my favourites: pretty easy to machine, hard enough to withstand strings, decent price, some colours are possible... How about this one? https://hipshotproducts.com/products/5-string-a-style-bass-bridge

Roughly: Hi-Z pedal can be used everywhere. Lo-Z after any battery powered unit starting from the bass. Placement, just like @BigRedX said, do trials.

We need that string database, it would be really useful. (I would have used the word databass, but it's a Peavey combo amp.)