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In the playability (nuances etc.) or the sound? I may be talking about two different things in one sentence here.

Let's put it this way: if you are good enough, you can use mandolin frets. They are not that easy or comfortable to play. If you or he thinks the fret width is the key to a far better sound, please go ahead. This is like flatwounds are the ultimate, because James J. used them. You probably get my point, do you?

Zappa, XTC, X-men or X-files theme... something xylophonic, or simply xylitol... ZZTop and Pia Zadora may be too easy listening.

The original Precision's name was referring to the frets, not anything else. Actual construction was meant to be cheap. Nothing bad in it, P is used a lot and could be compared to a hammer. Functional and robust.

String spacing may be an issue, it was for me.

It is not so complicated to make a silent room. Friend of mine built a very nice music room, but nearly killed himself because there was no functional ventilation. Build a labyrinth to the vent. There should be lots of ideas in the net: https://cundallconversations.com/2015/02/20/cold-air-mining/ I would change it so, that the "input" is between the second and third red arrow in the back and the "output" is before the last blue arrow in the front. Then it is easier to build into a wall as a thin but wide construction element. Every inner part is covered with wool which does not contain glass!

There seems to be some evil force that tries to turn this fruitful discussion from tonewoods to tastewoods. But hey, I feel wood!

Please open up your thoughts, this gets interesting.

Very much so. Turn the pots for some time to get the best results. But do not keep the pot axles downwards if you do not want less friction. The contact cleaner can dissolve the axle grease.

If you change from carbon track to carbon track, there should be no difference. I suppose JE is using - probably, I am not 100 % sure - cermet or conductive plastic pots. They produce less noise. Is there something in the East's signal path to make the sound slightly "better"? Anything affecting loudness curve or similar?

Most of the metals have very little effect on the field, if the cover is thin. There are very few materials that change the magnetic field a lot like mu-metal and soft (annealed) iron. But they are pretty rare, too. Of course thickness plays a role, because it starts to affect the distance after certain point. You probably would not do a cover that's 10 mm thick.

Is every piece of equipment in the same phase (230 VAC)? Sure a cold solder joint is possible, although they can be complicated to find. How about loose cables, screws or broken PCBAs?

I have an old double coil Q-tuner in my no-adjustments-plain-output bass and it works well. I would not say it is like piezo. An ordinary pickup with limited top end. It looks good and I like the sound very much but magic it is not.

By the way, older rechargeable NiMH battery capacity is only around 200 mAh, and a modern LiPo battery may have up to 600 mAh.

And what is the bass and the preamp? An ordinary 9 V battery capacity is around 500 mAh. A typical preamp consumes 0.3 - 1 mA. This gives 500 - 1500 hours of use. If the cable is constantly connected to your bass, the battery will be dead within 20 - 60 days. Let's make an educated guess: You play 3 hours every day. The battery will last 150 - 500 days i.e. 5 - 16 months. Does not sound very expensive, does it? Please disconnect the cable after playing.

That Kazimir looks like Batman's hit. It only lacks the text WHACK!

I've seen an article about impulse response bass (in noTreble, maybe?) but have not seen it for sale. Does it exist, have no idea.

...just like alusonic. Some aluminium neck manufacturers: Burke, Wandré, Travis Bean, Kramer, Hartke (by Vaccaro), EGC, Baguley, Bastin, Aluminati...

Pots just need a more powerful iron, like 60 W, and at least a wide tip shape to transfer the heat. Bourns makes the blend pot, type MN. It's available in 250 k and 500 k.

Once I tried to mix a bartolini J and a Status J. Nearly functional: the Status was a parallel humbucking and only half of the coil was in phase with the bartolini. Status sounded good in the bridge and bartolini in the neck, so the solution was to put a pickup selector switch. One on or the other but not both.

Well, there is a need for a power source, here it is a super capacitor. It could be recharged in few seconds, here the charging current is probably limited by the electronics. That could be the reason for such a long charge time, 1 minute. The basic idea of the MiSi pickup is functional: a basic magnet-coil pickup and a MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical System) acceleration sensor. Guessing/ If this is a two band system, the MEMS takes care of the low end, and the low wound coil handles the high end. \guessinG I had an idea of combining a piezo (hi) and a MEMS (lo), but haven't finalized it. I did the MEMS part a bit over 20 years ago. Real low end driver, down to DC. But piezos take quite some design time, their features change if any parameter (thickness, shape, diameter, glue...) is changed.

Right amount of basses is one more. I have fretted and fretless, and a double bass. Suits me. If you think that the custom Sandberg is your ultimate solution, consider: - string spacing - pickups + electronics - body shape and weight - neck profile - strings After these you should think about the woods and colours. I wish you have played Sandbergs before. A jump into total darkness may be complicated.

If the remover has to stay in place, butter works well, too.

...played by Darryl Jones. I had to check, as I did not recall Sting played any bass, but there was that Bourbon on double bass. The studio album is just fine but the double live 'Bring on the night' is really good! To me it's the best Sting stuff ever. There the Bourbon was played by Jones and Stig - sorry, too much Top Gear - Sting played 'I burn for you'. Double bass, again.

If your bass has two hi-Z pickups and any kinds of pots to use the pickups together (vol - vol, or blend - vol), there is no buffer and while using pots, you are affecting the response. Put a Noll Mixpot under the hood, and you have a buffered mixing.