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bloke_zero

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  1. Awesome! Looks HEAVY (in concept I mean not weight). Will you be exhaustively documenting your findings with high quality audio?! Pretty please? 🤞
  2. The other thing I like is the chamfered edge of the pickup where the screw goes in - makes it comfortable to put your thumb - a tiny detail but I like it! G&L MFD very different sound from the P sound to my ears.
  3. I have one of these in black. Really a lovely bass - sounds great, feels great and plays well! Congratulations!
  4. I’ve been using this. It’s lead free but tastes like butter, I mean it melts like lead. I tried other ones and they were really hard to make work, I think it’s about the formulation. I do have some lead but I mainly use this now for pcb work.
  5. As a one line review I completely concur!
  6. I don't know if you've seen these: Table with pickup positions
  7. Mmm, cool - I love those tranformer based designs - feels like the metal gets into the sound somehow.
  8. Interesting - how does it sound on bass? BTW I'm enjoying browsing your site via google translate: https://www-disssa-de.translate.goog/reviews/preamps/ampeg-scr-di/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui Thanks!
  9. Sorry to hear you've moved on - I have a split p and wired in parallel it sounds pretty much exactly what you want - running it parallel tames the bottom end a bit and I'd characterise it as a deep with a solid fundamental wired that way (not the factory way which is series?) and much less boomy. People compare it to a soapbar humbucker or p90 kind of sound wired that way. Different from the P, thicker and stronger (which is not always better!).
  10. I really like the look of the white blond one. Almost looks like a 3 piece body - bold choice by the finisher!
  11. Cool - my gut feeling is option 1, but there is something very pleasing visually about option 2, but it's got to be about the sound right? My next build will be a double P in 1 of those two configuations so i look forward egarly to your findings. Just moving the pickups a cm or so really changes the tone, let alone reversing them! What will the controls be? I was thinking the ultimate would be 60's jazz bass style with stacked volume and tone for each pickup, but you already have 3 post and a switch there...
  12. They are great necks - really well made. I slotted one into a Warmoth body recently (standard P neck pocket size) with no fit issues. It has a real fascination as a bass now - something really solid feeling about the tone that was very different from the roasted maple neck I tried in there. I'd describe it as big and solid - everything a p neck should be! As noted it might benefit from some expert fettling from a luthier, but I think you'd expect that from almost any supplier selling at under £4-500. If you want a differnt radius I think you'd have to go custom.
  13. Relic isn't my thing, but these guys (who have taken over USACG who made beautiful necks) do great work - in the US and $385 for just the body: https://www.mjtagedfinishes.com/bass-bodies-and-necks They'll sell you a whole kit if you call them up - they've been doing relic tele bodies for years and really know what they are doing. The pre-finish craftmanship is top notch too!
  14. Their guitar necks are beautiful!
  15. Necks are hard in the UK - there is no one like Warmoth, or USACG that I've found where you can configure everything on the web and have them send it to you. Next time I build something I am going to try these guys: https://guitarandbassbuilds.com/collections/to-order-guitar-necks-1/products/custom-shop-jazz-bass-neck I'd have thought they could accomodate an additional fret - it's just a slightly longer fingerboard right? I asked about a custom body rout and they were into it. I have a 21 fret USAGC that I love, but was really pretty expensive after import duties and VAT! Worth it though. I love that neck...
  16. bloke_zero

    SOLD

    Has it been refinished?
  17. bloke_zero

    SOLD

    Wow thats in good shape!
  18. Bing! https://schalltechnik04.de/en/instructions/omnilooper Has 3 sends, LP HP and full range with the filter frequency of each channel adjustable. Adds in phase as well which is a must for some effects (lovetone meatball for example) that flip the phase. It's a very dense build so not for the faint hearted! I'd recommend buying the case from him as well as drilling to the required tolerances seems non-trivial to me!
  19. I think this is the answer - I’ve had some really good results with copper tape with the conductive glue and just soldering a wire to ground. As long as you use the right grounding strategy your golden - this is a good guide in case your not sure! https://www.fralinpickups.com/2018/11/12/understanding-guitar-grounding/
  20. I didn't like to say anything as you had already committed, but I was afraid of that - I have had exactly the same thoughts about hum cancelling nordstrand pickups before. I have a bassculture.de 51 splitcoil and I don't think it suffers from that problem - it has plenty of character - but it is hum free. Not a lot of information out there about it! I assume it's a version of the standard split p pickup but with 4 pole pieces and packaged like the original.
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