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  1. Baloney Balderdash
    What you describe is exactly what happens when the hot wire/circuit is touching the ground/shield somewhere. Look again.
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    Mary Bell - Stina Nordenstam
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    Perhaps the Gemini Pickups Mountain Lightning J pickup? https://www.geminipickups.co.uk/bass/jazz-bass/mountain-lightning
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    That is all fine and dandy, but you forget to tell them about the 3rd one! I feel obliged to let you all know then that the 3rd one in particular will elevate your bass playing into outer alternate sub space, and leave you flabbergasted with transcendent and meta crispy interdimensional swag. Please record yourself doing a double backflip, and send the video to me, then I will reveal The 3rd Secret™ to you! (for a minor fee)
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    This! Galopping is really hard both with 2 finger plucking and using a pick, it is however really easy when utilizing 3 fingers, that is index, middle and ring finger. Try practice that. For me personally I found it really hard with 2 finger plucking technique, and even harder using a pick (and mind I am rather proficient with pick playing), but came easy, almost naturally, when using 3 fingers.
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    Drive after reverb and delay after reverb can sound freaking damn astonishing, it depends on the application and context though. And personally I prefer chorus and other modulation before drive. But you disagree with my taste, while your taste is the universal truth? What the f***...
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    And yet you go right on and claim they sound universally better that way. Again... It's like you only read the last 4 words of my post. As I already said it entirely depends on personal taste and specific application/context. Drive after reverb and delay after reverb can sound freaking damn astonishing, it depends on the application and context though. And personally I prefer chorus and other modulation before drive.
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    That's a matter of taste and specific application/context, it isn't a universal law.
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    Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney
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    Past the Moon - Feathers
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    A Simple Way to Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work - Tortoise
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    Yeah, if they absolute insists on being original, at least they should have done it properly. A bridge shaped like this would have been more original:
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    On paper at least it is superior to the HX Stomp, it got a better more powerful CPU, and as far as I recall also a better higher resolution A/D converter.
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    Piss Up a Rope - Ween
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    I am not familar with the specific pickups, but from what you say it sounds like they might have become de-magnetized some, however it should be relatively cheap and easy to either re-magnetize (Alnico pole piece magnets) them or simply replace the magnets (Ceramic bar magnets under the pickups).
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    This amazing Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young cover:
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    The Ripper is an immensely cool looking (and especially in black finish) and sounding bass though. In my opinion it looks considerably better than a WAL.
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    Any old Fender P Bass with a banana bend neck, with a relief of a couple of cm or so, and bridge suspension wires as strings, set with an action of about 2 cm or so as well, will do. Also don't forget to only use a hooked index finger to pluck the strings.
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    Nothing But Heart - Low
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    As PaulThePlug said, it would approximately have the same effect as a 250kOhm Volume and 250kOhm Tone pot in parallel (which would equal just about 125kOhm). Which is that the lower resistance the more treble is bleeded to ground, taking the very top end off the pickup's response. Wire the pickup directly to the output jack socket, as I like to do, and you get the full top end response of the pickup(s). Want a darker less shill tone from a pickup add lower resistance pots, less attenuated top end add higher resistance pots, or entirely leave them out for practically no attenuation.
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    While I predominantly use the traditional index + middle finger plucking technique, I often use only the index or middle finger, and I occasionally pluck with my thumb too, or add the ring finger, so I pluck with 3 fingers, only way I can galop, or utilize flamenco guitar style index and/or middle and/or ring -finger flicking technique, for fast single or multiple string(s) strumming parts, that would otherwise have required a pick. I do occasionally also actually use a pick though, but again here I prefer a relatively thin flexible one, and don't get along well with thick stiff picks.
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    You don't have to be with every woman on earth to know when you found the one. That doesn't however mean that you don't need any other friends.
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    You got a very iconic smile! Anyway, nice bass. Thanks for sharing. And, yes, I prefer low action and relatively thin low tension strings too, I more so stroke the strings, with the outmost tip of my fingers/nails, in a slightly inward light slapping motion, than really plucking, striking or pulling the strings, to me that gives a better tone, richer and clearer, but actually also more punchy and snappy, the attack is emphasized, but in a rich bell like way, rather than a dead thump-ish way, than if I had digged in, and it also gives me a much wider dynamic range at my disposal. I don't really need a ramp though, my fingers never dig in too deep, unless I deliberately want them to, and I use floating thumb technique, so no need for a place to rest my thumb either.
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