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A basic question: is red positive? Are you sure?

Dealing with settings is easiest with a table. The Spectra settings were available years ago, and I found a comprehensive table from Germany. I think I still have it somewhere. I have three HGs. Love the product, but tweaking was a true pain in the beginning.

Try the code at CTS' pages. 20k is very common value.

There doesn't seem to be a problem, but just one, deliberately done. You are after a solution where you need scissors a decent piano wire cutting tool (Knipex or similar). Then you buy a box of certain brand strings you want to use. Measure, cut to length, put the strings back to their packages and start using them. Solved.

I would not remove the pot in the first place. Measuring it can happen while it is still in the board. Pots are electromechanical parts, that can be usually fixed. There's no pic from the solder side, but there seems to be very little tin in the board. If there's a need to fix the pot, open it and check through all parts, and use some decent lube to the track.

True, but your basses have only a single pickup. Do the mixing with an outboard unit, and you sure have quite a lot of wires going both directions. Practical? Flexible? One pickup systems are naturally far easier to handle.

The difference is certainly worth that extra. Delano, Glockenklang, Sadowsky et al. are simple active tone stacks with passive vol and blend. Vol - vol is as bad for your tone as is the blend - vol, but it may suit your habits of tweaking the sound. Electrically they are alike. Noll has Mixpot that is active mixer (blend). I had it in my Modulus Quantum before the bartolini TBT (and vol pot), and it was really an upgrade to the sound. Naturally your taste may vary.

I have written this many times before, but repetitio... Signal path of a bass: pickups - blend - vol - tone stack - output Usually blend and vol are basic hi-Z (high impedance) pots. They affect frequency response by limiting it. In other words, they act like tone pots, but not as much as passive tone. Audere, EMG, John East, and Noll produce few preamps with active mixing and vol. That prevents frequency response limitations. Tone stack is about personal preference. It can be a passive pot+cap or a multiband parametric eq. Outboard eq has one advantage: lots of power. While the bass has (usually) one or two batteries, an outboard unit has mains. Therefore the solutions can consume far more energy. On the other hand a two pickup system should have a complicated cabling if you wanted to use bass' own adjustments and outboard unit's power together. Modern preamps are already relatively low power, and high performance. If you want to invest a bit more to something that can be transferred to another bass, try John East.

Although my collection over the years has been quite thin, it has taught me quite a lot about what I like. String spacing and scale length are the most obvious, weight comes next. My Modulus 5 SPi had very good sound but tight spacing, and I sold it. I think many of the instruments have had could be under my bed - and I should climb there now - but if they were not played, why not let go? I do have few for different bands and styles, but I think I can manage practically every style. Even sold my double bass but I have a good quality EUB. Jazz and classical is doable with it. Yes, I like, or rather love instruments, but the music is the main goal. Nowadays the music is even more important, and this has given me some peace from instrument hunting a.k.a. GAS.

...or the user. I have seen quite a few cables twisted to their limits. Or coiled to their limits. User faults.

The overhead is there for a reason. When the cable ages, some of the copper may be cut by twisting and bad coiling. 2 x 2.5 mm2 should be enough for most applications.

Usually blend is the input for pickups. Then the signal goes to vol.

I love this "too sterile" thing. It tells nothing about the bass sound, but I think there has to be some reason to this "too expensive, has to be bad" talk. Find an older Modulus Sonic Hammer. It has bartolini, and I suppose the sound cannot be "sterile"...

Dolce & Gabbana strings? I thought they were a fashion brand. (Coat, where's my coat?)

From chord learning perspective I could suggest two songs: - All the things you are - After the love has gone (EW&F) There are most of the chords you will ever need, and most of the chords that exist. This may be partly a joke, but please check these two.

pickups - blend - vol - tone stack - output This is a very common signal path of a bass. I suppose yours has a battery powered tone stack (the most common) and everything else is "passive". You may connect the tone to the vol. You can connect a 250k or 500k logarithmic pot and a suitable cap to the vol pot. There you go. I think you are able to find out the way to connect the cap to the pot. Could you explain me one thing: Why do you want the tone before the existing tone circuitry? Is there some particular reason for that? If you take a look at the signal path, you should also understand, that the extra impedance after the pickups BUT before the tone stack, will lower the signal, and cut some of the highs. After the tone stack, the reduction is smaller (because the tone stack has very high input impedance, far more than 500k).

ADSR curve = attack, decay, sustain, release A unit that controls attack and release: Harley Benton noise gate NG-100. Cheap as chips, very functional. A unit that can be programmed a lot: Panda Audio Future Impact (or simply, FI).

I am machining parts to a headless 5 from aluminium (6082) and steel. The ideas are stolen from Status and some US parts. Pictures maybe later, if the whole set will become reality. Several parts are waiting for anodizing (external company).

Check your vitamin B intake. Yes it's a family, B1-B52's or whatever. You do not need Bepanthen, but try a thick oily grease instead. And that B intake.

Do agree, thank you very much for your support.