bloke_zero

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.

I have them quite a long way from the strings as I prefer the tone. The standard is depress each string at last fret and measure the distance from the pickup. Fender standard is 1/8inch, I have my 3-4mm. That gets you the slant as you're measuring the string depressed so it follows the fingerboard.

On the aguilar site they say: https://www.aguilaramp.com/pickup-series/obp-preamps/ So I think the OBP is just the PRE but you've got the OBP-3SK kit which includes the pots?

I guess it's hard to sell to marketing "what, fewer options!? How do we sell that?" I'll throw EBMM Cutlass into the mix, very P though and discontinued last year.

I played an oak blast cult bass like this: https://www.blastcult.co.uk/product/blast-cult-magic-13-electric-bass-4/ Really loved it, particulaly the slightly open grain feel to the oak neck. I think the one I played was one piece neck rather than with a fingerboard. Very tight sounding and feeling.

Nice, I've experimented with going .06 and that was very different - didn't make it muddy because the peak or bump is at the cutoff point so accentuated the mids, but it really cut into the tone making it very dubby and woody feeling.

That was also my first thought.