Baloney Balderdash

I think at least it will be worth trying out.

Powder Blue - Ween

I am pretty sure that toggle switch was not a strictly speaking a tone toggle but rather a three position coil toggle allowing for switching between having either only a single coil of the humbucker pickup working, or the two coils either in parallel or in series, so how do you have the pickup wired now? If I had been you I probably would have let that coil toggle switch be and instead having replaced the volume pot for a tone pot.

I Don't Want To Be The One - Coil

Strings is a very personal thing, depends entirely on personal preferences, as well as what kind of music you play. Personally I would string it with a set of D'Addario EXL220BT balanced tension: gauge .095 - .070 - .055 - .040. Or even better a custom wound roundwound nickel-plated hex steel core Diamond series set of Newtone bass strings, gauge: .095 - .072 - .055 - .040 : https://newtonestrings.com/shop/custom-bass-string-configurator/ But you'll get a different answer from each different person you ask.

😱 On, a more serious note, do you then feel this way about not getting to play drums on a regular basis?

Judging alone from the demo posted in the OP, I got to be honest and say that I think it sounds horrible (and not in a good way).

I have setup my home practice bass setup right next to where my computer, where I spend most of my average day, is, so that all I need to do whenever I feel like playing or get an idea that needs tested is turn my chair, plug in my studio headphones and the power plug, and then pick up my bass, and on an average I tend to play 10 to 30 minutes, 4 to 5 times on an average day, sometimes a bit less, sometimes a bit more. However this has resulted in me suffering from abstinences whenever I for some reason am not able to play when I feel like it. Does anyone else suffer from psychological withdrawal symptoms/abstinences if not, for whatever reason, getting to play bass on a regular basis?

A new song from Chelsea Wolfe's upcoming album "She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She" :

I like how it looked before much better, to be honest. But then again I am a big fan of matte black open pore/grain finishes. Important thing is you like how it looks.

Two! : And who can not do so after watching and listening to this:

That looks beautiful!

To be fair the Joe Dart I came out before inflation suddenly skyrocketed and ran off with all of us and the cost of practically everything.

Trace Elliot amps aren't inherently scooped at all, not unless you engage the pre-shape switch (which admittedly though is what many associate with the classic Trace sound. But it definitely isn't to me). Personally I love the way the old Trace Elliot amp sounds without that switch engaged, very punchy, and full but clear tone. And I am one of those people who hates scooped mids. With the pre-shape button engaged though it sounds like a wet fart. But absolutely glorious tone, if you just leave the pre-shape switch alone.

I wrote a song about this: No Legs Blues I woke up this morning Without any legs I tried to get up But without any luck Oh, I got the no legs blues So bad I can't walk Also:

This one actually looks and sounds great, very unlike his other Music Man "signature" basses. Not 2000$+ great, but I wouldn't mind having one for free (though I would swap out that ugly gimmicky oversized volume knob. But I do like the concept of just one knob).

It's Oh So Quiet - Björk

Well, if you use shielded wiring for everything, including the wires from the pickups themself, that is wire where the ground wire runs as a braided shield all along the insulated hot wire, there will be no need to shield anything else than the pickup cavities, otherwise, that is using regular wire, additional shielding will have an effect.

Bow Tie Daddy - The Mothers of Invention

Isn't slave labour supposed to be free?

I have no idea what model it is, but Cort guitars and basses are known to be amazing value for the money, and generally of high quality. And neck/midle single coil pickup and bridge humbucker does make a lot of sense. I do however suspect that the bridge MM pickup might have been added later by an owner (it looks very different design wise/aesthetically from the neck/middle pickup), which however doesn't automatically make it bad. You say it's for sale locally, so how about trying it out, and if it plays and sounds great (however not on that amp in that picture, as that with most certainty will make every bass, no matter how great that bass otherwise might be, sound like crap), have no obvious flaws (old strings and a bad setup is not a flaw and can be easily remedied), and is otherwise reasonably priced, buy it.

I strongly question the scientific validity of that blog. This for example proves absolutely nothing: So where in the blog is the statistical data to support that, and more specifically data where that has also actually been proven to be the actual cause? If this was true it would look bad for wooden furniture, and we wouldn't have 100's of years wooden furniture pretty much holding the same shape in which they were made, wooden tables without bend plates and legs, or wooden chairs without bend seats and legs. Even less is a piece of cardboard going to course something like that. Calling something research doesn't automatically make it scientifically valid, or even just at least real research.

I've posted this video before, but just discussing this topic on Discord with some WoW friends, I had to post it again. Great video, awesome song, amazing band:

That's a fact! He lives on the alien military bass on the dark side of the Moon!