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One thing we haven't covered well is the plywood vs. wood in speaker cabinets. Baltic birch is one very good material in plywood and cabinets: stable and stiff. Last time I saw a wood cabinet, was my friend's Mesa/Boogie g-word amp. Is any bass amp company using wood?

Some bassic sounds, like slower two octave scale up and down. It's downright boring, but something that could be repeated everywhere might tell more about the effects than those funny slap fiestas.

Non-loading preamps are EMG BTS/BTC, John East, and Audere. You can buy a separate mixer from Noll, called Mixpot. Practically all others have high-impedance (passive) mixing. Usually only the tone tweaking circuitry is low impedance (active). Bourns has very functional blend pots, 250k / 500k MN, but as their type implies, they are high impedance.

SS is a bit like dough to work. Some steels are OK but may rust because of the sweat. Brass is nice, aluminium pretty easy, too.

3 way takes some time to adjust (pickup heights), but then it is quick to use. Balance pots can be found from Bourns. Models: 250k and 500k MN.

Magnetic field is not very "sharp" within a bass pickup context. Bigger issue is if the balance between strings is not even. It is not a bad thing to have pickup poles right under the strings, but some tolerance is usually accepted before the sound is affected.

WHAT? Loudest was the G3. Satriani, Vai, Fripp, Sheehan. I had a Nokia phone with a loudness meter (kind of). The top levels were around 126 dB. Me and my friends left after maybe 25 minutes. It was a disaster.

I had a bartolini MBDE pickup in my Quantum 5. It was a three coil pickup, the third was a dummy coil for single coil sound.

You probably intentionally forget that the instrument consists of a body and a neck. Yes, the topic is about bodies, but the body needs the neck before it becomes an instrument. A long stick in a slab and you have a system of resonances. A trem makes things complicated. The strings are not connected to the body very well, because of the trem construction, especially with those floating ones. ...and is nearly the same as phenolic resin. Resin and some paper. Fretboard material.

Everybody's talking about the wood, but not about the shape. This is a bit strange as every shape has characteristic resonance. You can start studying this from the very basic acoustic books like Rossing's The science of sound.

Pots may be dry, so some deoxit could solve some popping. Is there an FX loop? A cable would give a hint, whether the loop is defective - and would need that deoxit, too.

I like all self made stuff here, be it a kit or a whole instrument. And I would say that there are at least few who can build everything from scratch. On the effects side there are also few very capable wizards I love to follow. Any project is a good project. Keep up the good work!

Graphic pedal units tend to be pretty rough. The difference between a g-word and a bass unit is small. If you need a cheap tool, consider Artec, they also have a parametric that might be an option here.

Exactly, dear @Stub Mandrel Actually I was thinking about ten pics, but...

The picture is cropped, so I suppose there is a bridge? That kind of a system moves the string so much that fine tuning would be next to impossible. Status, Steinberger and all others using double ball end strings have similar bridges. How about Phil Kubicki Ex-Factor:

I do admit that this neck and top wood looks fab but copying the pictures one by one again and again is somewhat disturbing. Everyone please take a minute and consider what to copy and why before putting a one liner after the original post. Thank you all.

It's the XLR out. You can see the transformer connected to the terminals in the schema. That's symmetric signal, i.e. DI out.

You should ask Flea, he certainly knows:

The late Greg Curbow used plywood in necks (rockwood), that strange Aussie has also plywood neck. Many double basses are plywood, wooden aeroplanes are mostly plywood. Guns... https://cwp.fi/en/

If I need to do a thread, my choice is steel over titanium. Ti is light in weight but it is not very good material in screws or gears. Steel (depending on a quality) is much better - and cheaper.

I bought parts to my luthier, because the shop happened to be few hundred meters from my place. The truss rod was dry like a desert. I put some thicker grease to the threads and it changed its behaviour totally. When the bass was ready, the setup couldn't have been easier. A dry thread can be extremely sticky, even some thin oil can help the situation.

...so your watch has to be an IWC GST? I bought a bag for my (wooden) foldable FX board from a sail maker. Robust zipper and good, water resistant textile.

Remember, that a unit's warranty can be far longer than a year or two, if the unit has been faulty since the production line. In this case it seems so. And that should be fixed free of charge, no customs or VAT, please.

If you want to make the system slightly more complicated to carry around, put the power and mixing outside the bass. Like Alembic has that power box. You can put 9 VDC riding to the same stereo audio cable and take it out with simple capacitors at both ends. This is common with video signals, too.