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Looks great - are they double bass pickups? Sorry I know nothing, but it looks like quality work.

If you do want to get into the physics then there is a lot to be said for a little bit of tin bent into an L. Especially on an old bass where the wood has aged nicely. If there is any such thing as tone wood then something with such a direct connection to the body feels like a good thing, especially if you're not concerned with sustain. I did just do an A/B with 2 early 70's P basses - one with a baddass II (similar to the kickass) and one with the standard Fender, but the 14 year difference in the string age probably (defintely) outweighs the bridge! Baddass is the 2nd bass - https://www.dropbox.com/s/m7lerfbz466x5iw/PvsP.aif?dl=0

Here it is after a hose down:

Cool - excited to try it out!

There is a P-bass in the studio next door. It's 1973, been refinished sort of bland and has 14 year old strings on it. Dead spots galore - but sounds great. It consistently beats visiting basses except a '65 era bitsa. As a project I tried to build a modern bitsa that replicated the thing - allparts rosewood and maple neck, nitro alder body, badass 2 bridge, roundwounds, pickups miles away from the strings (5 or 6mm), bespoke 70's style handwound pickup. It was not even close - it turned out well, a solid, even strong sounding p-bass, but maybe missing the growl and without the same mid character. So far so dissapointing! So anyway, the other day I was watching Pulp Fiction and drinking beer with my wife and spotted a bass come up for sale here, in bits from the excellent Mr @Turbineclimber (who provided a wealth of detail and hooked me up with some '74 pickups): I asked my wife, as it seemed like a good opportunity, and she, having a fondness for Travolta and maybe also a few beers down was feeling mellow and agreed, after a sigh. A couple of days later I managed to assemble the thing, it was dubbed the Travolta. First thing to do was to try it head to head with the studio bass. I'm still shocked by just how different they sound. I know, the strings (GHS Boomers on the Travolta, 14 year old Rotosound stainless steels on the other), maybe the bridge!? Any way - you be the judge - the travolta comes first and alternates with the p-next-door. Excuse my playing - both played with no foam, finger at the pick-up position, straight in on through a clean pre amp, 1 then the other, cut together and roughly normalised): https://www.dropbox.com/s/m7lerfbz466x5iw/PvsP.aif?dl=0 (Travolta is on the left - yeah I'm changing the cooker knobs!)

All the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put jaco together again...

Yeah - my dad was the same when I wanted to buy stonewashed jeans in the 80's - he felt strongly that you should buy a pair of boot cut levi's and wash sparingly over a decade before you got the same effect. Now I'm older I agree with him - not so much at the time. Boot cut? FFS! It was all about the skinny back then.

The Warman are very full range and modern sounding - I have a P-pickup and it was very hi-fi sounding.

Spoke is great - feels like it's easier to get small adjustments too.

I don't think it's wanky - can you use it as a selling point? Not wanting to be flippant but planting a tree or 2 might make you almost carbon neutral. Though I'm sure any kind of cerification is pretty onerous - I always look to see if something is fairly traded and sustainable by preference.

I love the plethora of control options on these! Nice bass - love the matching headstock.

I think this is the way to go - you can massively compress and then blend back in the uncompressed signal - gives you liveliness *and* punch. Some compressors have a blend knob. Blend - also good with overdrive!

I wonder how the binding will weather over the years?

Yes - I think this is pretty key - I measured a great sounding 74 p-bass and the pickups were really low as well - more than the current Fender reccomended amount - more like 4.5mm instead of 2.8mm

https://www.montysguitars.com/collections/bass-pickups/products/retro-wind-p-bass-pickup Based on 70's pickup with a bit more bottom end (a mate may have a set to sell if you're interested). I really like the EMG Geezer Butler for 70's tone though.

Closest thing I can think of is these guys - https://guitarandbassbuilds.com/collections/to-order-guitar-necks-1/products/custom-shop-p-bass-neck Probably not though as they would make it.

20 years ago I spent a lot of time building a moog like modular synth. The guy who's modules I built for it had done some work with Bob Moog and seemed like a good fit, but more modern. So it was cleaner, much more transparent and more stable. All these years later I'm not sure that is better! I have an old SH-101 which is cheap, noisy and dirty - I often prefer that sound for bass.

Thanks - always good to see the numbers!

The only difference is conductive glue. WIthout conductive glue you manually have to connect all the strips together with e.g. wire and solder to get the faraday cage effect. That said, I haven't tried it so maybe it's sufficient?!

Geezer Butler? EMG - I love that - feels like it has a great clean mid tone not the scooped thing. Is that what you mean?

I've a MC 4 HE/S (the blade version of the MM which I think is similar?) and I have it wired with 3 way switch - love being able to go the single coil voice - clear and crisp. I mainly use that and parallel.