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Is there an old Neutrik Silent Plug involved? There were few issues with them in the early days. Other than that the cable may be lost because of misuse (speaker cable), or too much and hard bending.

Ear is not so sensitive to the distortion in the low frequency area. This way the tube compression makes the unit seem (hearm?) louder, although the "more" is produced in the area of distorted output. The same amount of distortion in a solid state amp sounds worse because of the harmonics that are different. They just sound bad. You can find lots of info about this with a little bit of searching. Remember: Watt is not the same as loudness (expressed in decibels, dB), although they are faintly connected.

Definitely not. It is not so uncommon that headphone amps have some intentional tone colouring. Line out is by definition very honest to the source.

Phones is an output with powerful enough amp to drive headphones. Line output is designed to drive an amp input, and its level may be adjustable, or not. It has not power to drive headphones. Maybe you will hear something but the level is really low. You would need an extra amp between the unit and the headphones.

So you could buy 12 Countrymans (Type 85) for the price of one Behringer! (The right price is £18.30)

Contact tce. When I have had issues (only few), I have received very good, if not excellent, customer service from the manufacturers.

HG mini has three knobs instead of one, and has been the other HG I have. After finding Spectra presets from some German page, I have used those presets as a base to my slightly tweaked settings.

I, too, have had a few instruments. The band I am playing the most (and have been since 1990's) has seen fours, fives, and fretlesses. Even two double basses. Last three, four years I have been thinking that I have found my sound. Well, a month ago we decided to play standards. I suggested that I could play few songs with my old EUB. Now they just want THAT, and asked me to leave my electric bass at home: "That's The Sound." OK, fine, I think it is about playing style and certainly the sound is different. I am still a bit unsure whether I can play all the stuff only with upright (from Motown to RATM), but at least my bandmates have found "my sound".

Lutes, gambas, and some double basses have been fretted. The frets are some kind of fabric. Do some search, and tell us, too.

Quickly and quickly... if the 3-pos. switch is in between the pickups, the change can be done while switching the right hand position from frets to fretless and vice versa. While I mentioned the left and right hand necks (and @PaulThePlugused the right word, "reverse"). check this Jonas Hellborg's Wal: http://walbasshistory.blogspot.com/2014/07/wal-double-neck-basses.html I wish you will share the pics, when your monster is ready.

Is the body's shape from the mountains, or has it something to do with Jeff's solo progress?

What is that you are actually looking for? What is your "3 way speaker"? Peak wattage tells very little about the elements, the tuning or the suitability to bass use. Please be a bit more specific, and you sure get decent answers.

First of all, the price is on the low side. Expect to use cheapo units. Check harley bentons or diy kits at T-shop. A double neck is one big and heavy unit. If you want to try to reduce the distance of the necks, you may try left and right hand necks (if the tuners are in line). If you can position them closer, the body size can be smaller and lighter. A chambered body would help, too. A three position switch may be useful for changing sides.

One thing that I have found is that I only use two bands, the low and the high. I have omitted the whole band, or "clean". It creates more issues than helps with my sound. Comb filtering etc. If you need a comp, please try a multi-band comp after the X-over, or at the end of the chain. tce Spectra, or HG are functional examples.

Shouldn't the ring be fit to your thumb? I can see no benefit having those parts anywhere else than in the thumb and index/middle finger?

I have a IE Xero in front of it. For fun it's - yes, fun. Tracks incredibly well.

Dear @Bunion, Has that dark fretless been yours since new? When was yours made? I have seen pretty similar one with whiter stains in my earlier life. Kool, unlined fretless. That Wal of yours is simply fabulous.

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Yes. Sadowsky is no good because it is light. I think the weight thing is so popular, because people haven't any other tools to discuss about the reasons some instrument feels or sounds good. How about the wood structure, shapes of the instrument, components... these already include details that are not possible to reduce to one simple number, like weight.

Pens have springs that are pretty functional with pickups and their screws. If the foam is black, there may be quite a lot of carbon in it. I might use some other colour.

The voltage looks high in the P48 systems, but the power is very small. There are usually only few milliamperes of current in the system. You can have that P48 attached to a dynamic microphone - no issues in the mixer, no issues in the microphone.

It is good to be pedant. I would also start with no resistor parallel to the pot, so 1 Mohm is the first trial and option.

Yes. You can make trial of this impedance change by using let's say a megaohm vol pot and putting different resistors (1 M, 500k, 200k and so on) in parallel with it. This way the pickup sees the vol as a 1 Mohm pot or less. You have here an LR-circuit. The pickup represents L (inductance) and the pot is a Resistor. Naturally the impedance will change, this is very bassic electronics.

Once more the bass signal chain: pickups - blend - vol - tone stack - output If all parts of the chain here are working without a power supply (usually a battery), this circuit is high impedance, a.k.a. passive. If any part of the signal chain has a power supply, the system output impedance becomes low, a.k.a. active. Low impedance output is easier than hi-Z to any amp input. If anyone has had issues with piezos (very high impedance), understands this. You know the thin sound that lacks bass. A quality preamp might help. If your amp has issues with the poor bass response, a preamp (or pickups, or active blend or...) may help. The output impedance can be tweaked with the circuitry somewhat, but the main point is that low impedance lets the whole frequency band out. Every component, and especially high impedance component in the signal chain affect the pickup response, usually by reducing it. This means that replacing any passive component with a lo-Z one will widen the response. Even the blend and volume pots, which are usually left alone while only the tone stack is replaced. If you still read this, take a look at the signal chain: both pots are right after the pickups - and reduce the freq response! As all things have two sides, many effects behave differently if the signal is hi-Z, or lo-Z. I have tried far too many OD/fuzz/dist pedals, as well as compressors, to find out that some pedals just work and sound better with different signal types. Make lots of trials and find this out by yourself.