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Even the VM2 has this, and it uses the same body style, same bridge pickup, same everything. I don't know why they don't do it for the standard VM either. One possible reason that occurs to me now that I've done it: The P pickup in the VM5 is extremely powerful and cuts through just about anything, so Sandberg may be worried that users would complain about a perceived volume drop when using both pickups and splitting the humbucker. On the TM basses, I assume the neck pickup might be a little weaker, and therefor balances better with both the full humbucker and the split one. I haven't done any proper analysis yet though - I'm not sure if there is an actual volume drop between the P/humbucker combo and the P/split combo. It might also be that it's just a perceived volume drop because a lot of the midrange gets scooped out in that center position. Most likely it's a combination of both.

Modded my VM5 with a split coil switch for a bit more of a P/J tone. Works pretty nicely, I must say. It switches between full humbucker and front coil.

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Ahhh nice. Yeah, I really prefer the V body shape as well (or P, if we're talking Fenders). The Martin Mendez is close to my ideal J bass with the specs, body shape and scale length, but the pickup positioning is just a bit too wonky for me.

Lovely! What is that TT with the V body?

That's exactly what I did too. I had the added requirement of 35" scale, which is basically just non-existant on the used market, so after a year of searching I finally bit the bullet and ordered a brand new one. By far the most expensive bass or guitar I've ever bought, but I have every intention of holding on to this for many years.

Got a message from my contact at the Tampereen Musiikki guitar store that they shipped my new Sandberg a couple of days ago, so now I will be furiously clicking the refresh button on the tracking page until it arrives (shipped from Finland to Norway, so I probably won't see it until at least the end of next week). 35" VM5 in Virgin White with a rosewood board. Not a superlight, but still only weighing in at 3.7kg (8.15 lbs). Should be a good one.

True. And many artists don't even have access to these project files - They just entered a studio, played their instruments, and then got a final mix at the end of it. And the project files for any song that's older than 10-20 years old will probably be very hard to locate at this point. They might have the stems, but probably not the project itself. But it's not like any streaming service will have the manpower to manually inspect the projects files of every song they're hosting on their platform, so that wasn't really a serious suggestion anyway.

The problem is that no streaming service can guarantee that, unless they demand to see the DAW project that was used when producing the song. There's no algorhithm or manual process they can employ that will eliminate all AI music and not also flag a bunch of real music as AI.

If the previous owner has used the discount, you can't use it. One discount per physical unit.

I'm just sitting here hoping this will tank the used price of the HX line. I'm GASing for a Stomp XL as a backup/grab&go unit.

Always worked for me, not sure why it wouldn't for you. That's the intended design, at least

When the update starts, you're forced to make a backup Did you reload that backup after the update was done? That's how you're supposed to get your settings back after every update.