Stub Mandrel

The two pickups have magnets and a coil. The magents can have north on top or south on top. Rotating obviously doesn't affect this. They could be wound clockwise or anti-clockwise, again rotation doesn't affect this. Humbucking 101 in case anyone isn't up to speed: The 'hum cancelling' effect of a humbucker is normally achieved by either reversing the magnets of one pickup and connecting its coil the other way around. This means the two (magnetically induced) signals from the strings will be in-phase and add up, while any electromagnetic fields causing hum in the coils will be out of phase cancel out. As well as often having subtly different windings or pole piece spacings paired pickups (like on a Jazz bass) are normally set up like this to give a humbucking effect. If the pups are mis-wired you won't get any humbucking effect (stand near an amp with a transformer in it and don't play, just wind the pups in and out and see if the hum reduces or increases with both pups on full ) and the sound will be weak. Where it can go pear shaped is when people decide to mod an instrument without realising this and use two identical PUPS (e.g. two bridge pickups). Wired one way these will 'humbuck' but will sound weak, wired the other they will sound stronger together but hum will get worse with both of them dialled. Thinking about it, if the bass has had its pups changed, is it possible this is what has been done?

Is anyone seriously going to buy a bass called Lionel? Is that Bart, Blair or Barrymore?

The Yammy BB is outstanding for the money, no question, so not surprised you're finding it a hard bass to compete with. The PJ EMG GBs do sound awesome - I'd love to hear what they sound like in action. Any clips of you playing? @burno70 & @Frank Blank - come on boys, let's get some pics up that we can drool over (again!) Why not put the Geezer Butler PUPs in the Yamaha BadBoy?

I figured that out next... 🙂

I did once take smug pleasure in telling a guitarist his g-string was out of tune 🙂

I thought 'This guy seems to think he's Sting' ... and then I saw the last photo 🙂

Beware the KKKKK...

Last rehearsal I found myself tunerless! Shock horror... I had to ask the guitarist for an A then use harmonics! Retro eh? 🤣

I'll bring mine along, FWIW 🙂

Slightly OT but I know someone who had an SVT, stored it sideways and a transformer came off its mounts and dropped through £%&&£% worth of expensive valves...

I don't suppose you are headed to the Midlands Bass Bash?

Allow me to correct that.

Tell people it's a GoPro recording for your next live DVD.

The loud one isn't a Deluxe is it, they are active...

Snark for me, mainly because it tracks so quickly and follows notes up and down. Works well with anything including violin, ukes and mandos as well as bass. I have a 'Guitarman' one and if you drop the string it doesn't react until you mute and pluck the string again. I did have a Fender one which was very good too 9and silly cheap) but lost it.

And ikt has a rude name. We're all suckers for a rude name!

Don't worry, it's got wonky tuners...

Some people would kill for that level of relicing...

Obviously not an issue if you do that, but more of an issue for new players, perhaps?

Rehearsal tonight, took a fretty because I want to be sure I can play all songs fretted or fretless. We did wherever I lay my hat and it took me three goes to get it right, having frets put me right off!

^ +1

Had a 'living room' practice tonight, but with a middle sized rig turned low. Got some great sounds. Funny how an amp at low volume in a small room can sound totally different to cranked in a big room, same cab, same bass, same eq. but much more bottom end. Possibly because the cab has PA type speakers in it (Mackenzie twin-cone).

Equally, if you can, just make it deeper uniformly. Just small adjustment, test and repeat.

My Soundcloud is here. Most of the stuff is from late 80s to 1996, except Sonic Attack which was me pratting around doing a 1-take on a cassette recorder around 1984. Some of it is just random stuff. The Grizzlies are my current band, I've put a couple of our rehearsals up. 2 Moon Junction and Head in a Helix are the two originals bands I was in and are proper studio demos. Drastic Action was the first band, a covers band in South Wales and are just rehearsals on my ghetto blaster. Other stuff is me with and without my brother, Hangin' Round and Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes are just me and I'm fairly proud of them. The Reluctants is some random folk stuff I recorded friends doing and added some overdubs - it actually got played on Radio Frome! (Only because my mate is a DJ).

Is it good for metal?