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  1. Baloney Balderdash
    Will the inside of a 5 string J pickup usually fit into a 4 string J neck pickup cover? I am asking because I am not entirely happy with the stock J pickups of my 5 string Ibanez Mikro Bass, and both the stock bridge and neck J pickups/pickup cavities are the length of a standard 4 string neck pickup, but with the screw mounting ears on both being located where they would normally be on a regular 4 string bridge J pickup. So I figure if the inside of a regular 5 string J pickup, that is the actual pickup, would fit into the existing stock pickup covers I wouldn't have to worry about neither having to mod the new pickup covers or having to do additional routing to make the new pickups fit into the existing pickup cavities.
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    So what you are basically saying is that you sacrificed music for money? Did your wife (I assume), and apologize if I am getting too personal here, force you to make this sacrifice in the name of "love"? (Really I am not being personal, just kidding playing the Devil's advocate /👹)
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    So what you are basically saying is that you sacrificed tone for money?
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    I keep hearing these horror stories about soundmen apparently only taking up the responsibility of being in charge of the sound cause they love to and have made it their screwed up life mission to ruin everyone's live music experiences as much as possible. And my faith in humanity by now is sufficiently low enough to actually believe this to be true, but that said I only have had good experiences with all the soundmen I've ever encountered when playing live.
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    If he is serious about and love his job, and not just do it as a sour chore because no one else wanted to, he ought to appreciate you telling/showing him. Really it would be as much about taking interest in and showing appreciation and respect for his job, as it would be about you and your sound.
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    Carefully push the spring of the jack socket that is supposed to connect to the tip of the jack plug inwards so that it will grip the jack plug tighter, sounds like the tip spring of the socket might have been pushed a bit outwards and become sloppy over time, this should fix it, if I understand your issue right. Edit!!: Just noticed the last part of your post, and yes, this type of jack socket along with the barrel type ones tend to eventually fail, even higher quality ones, replace it with a regular simple one of proper quality, like a Switchcraft, much more reliable, and if they fail, which they are not really prone to like those other types of jack sockets, it is usually a simple easy fix.
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    Entirely depends on the bass in question. If it sounds great acoustically, unplugged, I would say new pickups with a tone profile that fits your personal preferences better than the stock ones would probably be your best bet, perhaps new pickups plus new preamp, but I'd go for the pickups first, as that part of the foundation of what makes the basis of the amplified tone of your bass, and if you don't like the basic tone of the stock pickups it is doubtful that swapping the preamp will fix that. Personally I only have great experiences with swapping stock pickups on my basses for something more to my liking, can potentially make a huge difference and take a decent sounding instrument to a great sounding one (that is of course again depending on the specific bass, and that you swap for pickups with a tone profile that actually nails what you are looking for).
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    I love the look of these basses, and have only heard great stuff about them. Would wish Yamaha made a short scale version with a reverse orientation P in it, if so I would be 100% certain to buy it as soon as I got the money for it, but I suppose that is likely to remain but a wish unfortunately. They ought to make a short scale BB really though, with how popular short scale basses has become in recent years I am sure it would sell great, and in that light I think it is odd that Yamaha offers no current production short scale basses at all, seems to me that they are missing out big time on getting a share of that market. I am pretty certain a short scale Yamaha in just about any form would be a hit and sell great.
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    Yeah, I very much doubt anyone would be fooled to thinking it was an original Fender by someone putting a dymo label on the headstock saying so.
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    I think I have come to the conclusion that no one pick or picking technique is going to make it as a one size fits all solution, but a combination of these will, for me at least: - Dunlop Max Grip Nylon .60mm: tip or round corner, depending - Dunlop Tortex .60mm: tip - Wedgie Soft 3.1mm rubber pick: tip - Various finger picking techniques: traditional 2 and 3 finger plucking technique, classical guitar finger picking technique, flamenco style index and/or middle finger flicking technique, double thumbing technique, depending
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    So I was about as wrong as I could possibly be, except I guess for the fact that I actually guessed that bass number one was not a P Bass but some kind of humbucker. But yeah, just proved to me that it's incredible hard to determine which bass is actually used in the context of a full mix, and difference in tone is barely detectable, as long as the pickup in question is at approximately in the same ballpark, not even necessarily dead on, position. That said I actually liked the tone of #2 bass the least out of all of them, so maybe time for me to reconsider my preference of P pickups, even if I guess it likely really just being a matter of that specific pickup in that specific bass. And in any case, as I said, the differences is actually really really subtle and just barely detectable.
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    And I am afraid you are projecting, judging from the general vibe I pick up from you previous two comments in this thread. My day has been splendid and I've slept great, thank you. Luckily there is still hours left for yours to hopefully get better, so lighten up a bit my friend.
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    The shack side? I wouldn't know, I tend to use the entire bed for that. Also you do know that you don't have to read all the tags of topics, right? They are exclusively there to make searching on specific topics more effective, and not really intended for reading.
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    A large quantity of Thorn Apples, from the Night Shade family! Scopolamine is one hell of a drug! 🧙‍♀️👽🤢👹💀
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    And you my friend is guilty of defamation! And that's an actual fact, unlike your accusations. Where on Earth did you come to such a conclusion from what he wrote? Just, wouh! Also why should he put his real name on the headstock?
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    "No inflation, no gin No inflation, no gin" As Bob Gnarly famously once sang.
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    Why on Earth do I read so many car analogies when reading posts on bass forums? They are nothing alike and personally I couldn't give a flying shack about cars, and don't know what the shack half of these analogies are even on about.
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    Noodles! Pot noodles!
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    Have you actually tried it and done a proper effort to use it for serious jamming/improvising? Cause sounds very much like the effect of alcohol and not hashish your are describing there to me.
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    I'd say it's worth enlightening people if they genuinely doesn't know, hard to tell if they do or not, but personally I'd prefer being corrected in my misconceptions, being taught something new, and becoming more knowledgeable. Knowledge is definitely worth it as far as I am concerned, and one ought to appreciate and not get offended by being taught something new, at least if it is done in a respectful and non patronizing manner. Also I think it actually is valid to care about using the right terminology, as using the wrong terminology even if being aware of the correct one might mislead other people who are not aware into thinking it is factual information. And as it happens to be I actually was once of the misconception that Class D meant digital, and I am glad someone bothered to tell me that that wasn't the case, and Class D amps indeed very much is analog technology, which got me to look it up and read up on it.
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    No such thing as a digital poweramp, simply not possible. I am sure you mean Class D, which is very much analog.
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    Hashish is amazing for free improvisation, boosts your creativity and helps you to much easier get into a state of flow/"the zone". Considerably less so if you need to stick strictly to some predetermined form, in fact in that case it would often make your playing worse.
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    I don't understand this, is that to be interpreted as the role of the bass player in a band context is 100% to play Pacman? And on that note and on topic, can you play Pacman on the Dwarf?
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