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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.

What are the jack sockets? They look like an improvment on the old style switchcraft ones I'm using in terms of space. Are you finding them reliable? I love how clean your builds are - humbling!

Another vote for Wunjo - they've always had at least 1 bongo when I've been in there.

I looked it up on the Wal site and they say:

Looks great - I love a transformer based Ring Mod - lovely thick sound.

I’ve a Delano mm blade type with a dimarzio split p in a bass and they work really well together - the Delano is bright modern and full range, the split p thick like molasses. In this bass part of the equation is that there are two buffered preamps in there allowing me to set the relative volumes. I think it’s more of a suggestion - they are indicating complimentary pickups. Which seems fair as they do everything from alnico to blade. If you know what you want then no reason not to try it out. I think it’s fair to say that the pickups are a significant part of the sound - a modern neodymium really doesn’t sound much like a 70’s wind alnico which in turn doesn’t sound much like a mudbucker. Though of course placement has a big part too.

I kind of agree, but build diaries seems to be more about wood and tasty pictures - this is like the tech aspects before a build? (I hope!)

This is totally a thing - pots with higher values allow more of the top end to pass through - could be a way forward, though you are then breaking the holy P trinity of alnico 5, .1uf cap and 250K pots. Maybe try a 500K? In the end it's about what you want to hear.