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I have written a few times about signal path. Please find it if in need.

The system that consists of many switches and maybe even ser/par option might be usable, if you make it happen with a rotary switch. Otherwise there will be many options, where the sound is off, or switches are excluded from the line. That would mean that you'd need to learn to walk in the switch jungle.

I would start from feasible sounds: what is functional, what is not. After the options are charted, someone familiar with electronics finds the parts you need and puts them together. Otherwise there will be non-usable situations, and you may cut the sound in a band context just by accident.

Torx or Assy. Or a slightly filed hex.

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?

I think that the dirty electricity is the reason I have to vacuum weekly! Maybe my cats are producing that dirty electricity by wandering round my flat?

But as the heading was about gilt OFC cables, I need to remind you all, ladies and genitals, about the must-have Cable Cooker:

www.thecablecooker.com/

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.

14 hours ago, thodrik said:

Generally the list of bass related items I really want to try relates to amps and cabs though. Mesa 400+...

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.

On 26/04/2023 at 21:11, paul_5 said:

Wow! You can afford sherry AND new strings?!?

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

Sell, and the bass will never come back. The new owner will smile for years.

5 hours ago, crazycloud said:

Physics. Hoffman's Iron Law states that the three parameters that affect speaker performance in a cabinet...

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?

22 hours ago, Grahambythesea said:

Wouldn’t gin work as well, but may be more expensive than buying a new set.

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

17 hours ago, BassBeast said:

BUT, something with a max of 9v power supply. The Bongo’s 18v is too hot for my needs.

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.