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This is something I couldn't work out from the OP – are you wanting to move in that direction?

I was wondering if replacing the series/parallel switch with a 4-way rotary switch giving series/parallel/inners/outers would be feasible or appealing... ....until I looked at the photo again and saw how close that switch is to the treble knob

By having a push/pull on the Treble knob to swap between outers/inners? Could you also have a push/pull on the Bass knob to swap between combining the two pickups in parallel/series? That would give you 12 pickup options....I think 🤯 Would being able to put the outers in series be worthwhile?

If there's such a thing as a 2024M rather than a 2024Mx, there's no sign of it on the internet. So if you did swap the necks.....

My ill fated SB-1 has them. Technically the property of Parcelforce by now, I think..... Mine were ordered for me by Rocket Music, naturally. Greg might be up for selling and sending you a couple. Unless he's blacklisted the UK. (If I were him, I would have)

BTW, if you decide that those knobs have a little too much mojo, G&L now do that style again, they're called CLF Research knobs, can be ordered direct from them iirc

Different tone woods for bass - low mids - high mids *nods*

If you do a Google Image Search for natural finish rosewood fretboard American standard Ps, there are results from 1999 and 2000

Do you have to turn down the treble and bass a bit to get a "normal" sound? I know they're cut-only, and am wondering how the pickups are seeming on this first day, before you've got used to them. What kind of options do you have before you have the K mod added? Series and parallel?

Apologies for missing the point terribly, but what's going on here, please?

I've a theory that a more interesting neck pickup would sod up the tonal balance it creates with the bridge pickup, and I definitely dont want that to happen. Effectively I'm using the two pickups to make a one sound instrument and that's fine by me. The combination of strings and pickups as they are seemingly allows me to get a wide range of tone and dynamics from varying my touch, like on a piano. My P with a Dimarzio Model P pickup, on the other hand, makes a fantastic characterful sound, but one that isn't so flexible: it needs playing in a certain way to sing out, and if I try to vary my touch and play more expressively, the tone doesn't follow me, it just falls away. I like having the choice.

If you've separate voices moving in different directions, choosing sharps or flats can make their individual lines easier to understand from each pov. So you might end up with C# and Db being written simultaneously.... If we then return the Gb and Ab to that first chord and see where they might want to go.... I've no idea what that's like as music, but your pedant will have no cause for complaint

The lyrics of this song are basically a riff on a poem written by Heine in the early 19th nineteenth century and set to music by Schumann as the last song of his Dichterliebe: The bad old songs, The bad and bitter dreams, Let us now bury them. Fetch me a large coffin. I have much to put in it, Though what, I won’t yet say; The coffin must be even larger Than the vat at Heidelberg. And fetch a bier Made of firm thick timber: And it must be even longer Than the bridge at Mainz. And fetch for me twelve giants; They must be even stronger Than Saint Christopher the Strong In Cologne Cathedral on the Rhine. They shall bear the coffin away, And sink it deep into the sea; For such a large coffin Deserves a large grave. Do you know why the coffin Must be so large and heavy? I’d like to bury there my love And my sorrow too.

That sounds likely to me - I find on its own the neck pickup of my 424 very soft toned and biteless

Please may we have a report on how different the neck pickup is sounding now? Both on its own and combined with the bridge?

I was just reading up on Stuart Pearce's fondness for The Stranglers. He said he liked their air of menace — and I think that's what the difference between the original and this version: in the original the chorus shifts to quite a sunny tone. Here, that menacing quality runs through, no matter what.

GAK's MIJ BB-VI with non-reversed pickup is now down to £449.

"This Song sounds so Stranglers it’s hard to believe that it’s actually a cover brought in by album producer Louie, who once produced a band called The Disciples of Spess who had a tune called, This Song Will Get Me Over You which still lurks on Spotify." I'm not sure when that track dates from. This I know is from 1987, also a good song

Thank you for the nice long write up