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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!

This is a rough approximation. A 9 V battery contains around 600 mAh, depending on the discharge rate. A chorus pedal consumes maybe up to 50 mA. Maths: 600 mAh / 50 mA = 12 h Any time the pedal is connected, it consumes more or less energy. You can do a simple calculation, how many batteries a simple One Spot or similar unit costs.

I don't know about others, but in my hands a double bass does not sound like an electric, and the other way around. The same with a fretless. Sometimes I feel like fretted and fretless sound the same, but after recording them, the truth is always revealed.

I have had a terrible gas,and when I run to the shop, they have sold the last one few minutes ago. Won £1k!

Take a picture of the electronics, and share it here. It may reveal something.

Status had impressive necks in CF (tinted, too), there are few companies selling (anodized) aluminium necks. 3D-printed instruments are on their way to customers, so what fancy would your wooden necks represent? Just asking and trying to understand. Special fretboards?

Looks really good. This has to be early Series II (pickup polepieces visible). What's the serial?

Short comment on the serial/parallel/single switching: serial is obvious. But if you need a boost, choose single. If slightly different sound, parallel is your friend. I might make an educated guess that two options is a lot, and three just too much.

I would divide this into two: boxes that reproduce directly what's put in, and those with adjustments. DI box can be passive, transformer based, or Phantom/battery operated with or without output transformer (like Countryman Type 85). Which is better is a bit of semantics. I might say that a battery operated is surely a match, especially if your signal is sometimes of very high impedance, like piezo. If you want to include some signal tweaking, then a unit like SansAmp, or nearly any preamp with DI out could be your choice. If money is not an object buy a Jule Monique. Otherwise visit Thomann.de and check which unit is sold in numbers.

Daily issues: - unergonomic long - and even some short - scale basses - long life roundwounds - several sounds from a single instrument (Jamerson to King) - bass fx that do not lose low end (X-over units) - energy efficient amps exist in high power and small form factor, but cabinets on the other hand... bubbling under: - wide freq range pickups - wide freq range cabinets (true FRFR, not PA stuff)

The bass I did metal parts to, has an oak fretboard. Felt very nice.

As you have played many of the tracks, have put them to paper? Any chance you have a library of bass scores?

174 Hz F3 285 Hz close to D4 396 Hz close to G4 417 Hz close to Ab4 432 Hz close to A4 528 Hz close to C5 639 Hz between Eb5 and F5 741 Hz Gb5 852 Hz between Ab5 and A5 963 Hz close to B5 By the way, there are many frequencies that are 111 Hz apart from each other. But scales are not linear... Anything related to health: there's no connection to health that I remember from acoustics lectures, but that kind of scale might cause you some headache.

I can sing, walk, and even play bass. But two or more things together is a no go. M. King can do both, but he's originally a drummer.

What I have heard is that he loved Rotosound, and he used roundwounds, too. Which ones, I have no better understanding. But some comments have pointed out that he hit the strings very hard, because his first strings were flats.

If you want to make the bass a close copy of Louis Johnson's, put flats on.