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Here Comes Sickness - Mudhoney

I'm still sticking to the realization that no one picking technique/method will do everything I need it to optimally, so still swapping between using several different finger picking/plucking techniques, a Dunlop Tortex .60mm pick, and a Wedgie 3.1mm Soft rubber pick, depending, and mainly from a tone perspective. Mainly I use my fingers though, and I suppose mainly regular traditional 2 finger plucking technique, even if not by much, I really do normally incorporate quite a a bit of Flamenco guitar style index and/or middle finger flicking technique, classical guitar style thumb + index + middle finger picking, and double thumbing, and it does happen I incorporate the ring finger too.

Also it's no Unicode but in ASCII 11000111000011010 = Ç Whatever that is supposed to mean? First letter in designers first or last name, maybe? And by the way that letter is pronounced "SH" for what it is worth, similar to the German ẞ letter, also known as Double S.

Floating thumb works for all basses without any mods needed, and is completely free.

Sound piece of advice.

Fingertips - They Might Be Giants

I am glad it eventually all worked out for OP. That said I have never had any problems with returning products to Thomann or getting my money back.

Then perhaps you would care to explain to me why it is that passively mixing two passive pickups using an MN tapered pot would give you just the same result as if they were mixed individually actively, cause I don't think anyone actually did explain how that can possibly happen? Other than claiming it is so because I am too stupid to know why, which I don't really think is a valid explanation.

Well, at least that puts me in the same boat as EMG's engineers. I can live with that. I guess we all can't be geniuses like you.

So connecting two passive magnetic pickups to a passive MN taper blend pot gives the same result as if mixing the separate respective isolated outputs from each pickup (being connected to each their own jack output socket on the bass) on an outboard active mixer?

Just absolutely astonishing!

Amazing! Love it! I've only heard a bit of her music before, back when Anthony Jackson played the bass, but I've really liked everything I've heard with her so far. But I like me some trumpet, great addition, and wonderfully played. Also you can really tell Hiromi puts her entire being 100% into the music when she plays, but really all the musicians in that video are pretty amazing. Thanks for sharing!

America Drinks & Goes Home - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

My Way - Frank Sinatra (composed by Jacques Revaux with lyrics by Gilles Thibaut and Claude François)

Your very first reply in this thread, and adding laughing reaction to factual correct posts actually trying to be helpful to OP! : We'll see who laughs when EMG confirms what I have been saying all the time. But of course i don't know what I am talking about, while you do, even if they do, which they will.

Or how about buying them a new car?

I don't think he'll appreciate having to pay double shipping and import fee. Also what is this nonsense, since when are you expected to put out the money and going through the effort of ordering yourself, just because you are advising people, if this is in fact expected, then sure, I will with all certainty stop helping people out all together on this forum.

The GZR is not EMG's first all passive bass pickup, and logic dictates that it if works for pickups with a passive volume and tone setup it will work for any other pickup with the same setup, EMG produced or not, also the text basically says is works for passive pickups (implicating all passive pickups, not just EMG produced). As I've pointed out several times by now already in this thread this isn't any different from a jack output for each pickup and an outboard active mixer, it's just onboard and much much smaller. One thing OP should be aware of though is that it will sound different than when blending the 2 pickups passively as the signals won't cancel out and interact with each other in that same way as when mixing them passively, which might or might not be a desired effect.

Nonsense... Looks like you don't know what you are talking about, or rather you do a good job to make it look like you know what you are talking about, except it is all actually factual nonsense. This isn't any different from having a separate jack output from each of your pickups respectively and mixing them in parallel on an outboard active mixer. And no matter how you mix two passive pickups passively they will interact with each other and cancel out parts of the signals they reproduce respectively, an issue using an active mixer fixes. Please stop pretending you know better and give people bad advice will you. Like as if you know better than EMG's engineers.

By far most phones have a software based HPF build in, cutting off the low end of what is recorded. You need a special recording app to bypass that. Further more you will also need an external microphone that is build to be able pick up and handle the lows frequencies that a bass produces properly, which the build in microphone of your phone won't do either. You are probably right about your phone also having a software based noise reduction function build in as well, that a proper app made with the purpose of recording music live should be able to bypass as well though. Can't really help you with suggestion of the proper app and external microphone to use though, not really that well versed in smart phones, but I am sure someone on the forum will know and be able to help you out.

How about you taking your own advice. And stop smugly laughing, like as if you knew better, of people who do actually read up on it before answering. And no a higher resistance pot won't fix the insertion loss that happens with all passive pickup mixing either. I don't see any X version mentioned in the OP either. Yes, the EMG ABC is for passive pickups. Just like I said. And why the resistance of the pot isn't higher is because this basically is a miniature active mixer, which is the whole point with it in the first place.

Of course them being out of phase makes it even worse, but what OP describes is perfectly in line with how passive pickups normally works when mixed passively. And to OP, yes the EMG ABC should fix this, basically functioning as if you had a separate jack output for each pickup and actively mixing them in parallel on an outboard mixer. Does require power from a 9V battery though, but I think it is listed to last up to a 1000 hours of actively plugged in use, so not like you will end up having to change battery every other week. The EMG ABC is made specifically for passive pickups to avoid the natural signal loss and mutual interference you get when mixing two passive pickups passively. So yes, it'll work perfectly.