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In your shoes, I would start off with the battery out, and get to know it all just passive. Then I could see just how much / how little tonal variety the active adds. Some people think it simply makes it louder, since the treble and bass controls are cut-only, but there are plenty of half-deaf people opining about basses on the internet.... The guy on TB who supplied those demos of the inner coils – I thought that individually they sounded great, but a bit undercooked when combined. I wonder if your doing the outers will give you something the other way – when soloed, a pair of sounds that are a bit extreme to be useful, but the blended tone being good and characterful?

It's my own fault for having bumped this thread, but since I started it I bought Squier Matt Freeman with a 42mm Modern C neck. I've had it set up just how I want it, and have replaced the pickup, nut and strings, and so have £600 of P-bed I'm getting on with lying in. Which means this news of a 40mm / 22mm / 25mm Squier P is simultaneously delightful and something I need to ignore, at least for the time being. So thank you very much, but no thank you for the offer *tries not to sulk*

The standard nut for the SB-2 and Kiloton is the 1½" / 38mm, and the Tributes follow suit The standard nut for the LB-100 and SB-1 is 1⅝" / 41mm, and the Tribute LB-100 follows suit For reasons lost in the mists of time the Tribute L-2000 is 1¾" / 44.5mm tho on the US version it too has the usual 1⅝" as standard. Off the top of my head I can no longer remember which of the Tributes get the 12" radius. The Kiloton Tribute I think is one. I believe that for a while 12" was standard for the US models. What dates that was, I've no idea. The thicknesses for the standard US necks ('medium C') are 0.820" at the 1st fret and 0.940" at the 12th (except the 1½" nut is only 0.920 at the 12th) The necks of CLF Research L-1000 / L-2000 are 1⅝" nut, 0.800" / 0.900" ('slim C') I've never found any numbers for the Tribute thicknesses, but have read people saying that the LB-100 Tribute is thicker than the US's medium C Is *anyone* still awake? I am sorry Imagine what it's like, having all this rattling around in my head.....

The BB split is not in the standard P position – it's a little closer to the neck. And since this thread I've put a Dimarzio in a Squier Matt Freeman...

Bass Direct have just listed a Squier Mike Dirnt, giving it as 42mm Thick C - I guess they're copying the same info GAK are copying? In their photo, that nut does look a lot more like 40mm than 42mm... It's only 7 lb 1 oz! and only £250!! I'm having great trouble not buying it..... 😅

Randomly messing around with my multi effects unit and chanced on the discovery that the way to get some real character out of the 424's neck pickup is to play it through.... *peers at tiny screen* ....a mid-60s Fender Twin Reverb. Huh. So if any bassists have one of those lying around....

I've just noticed that the necks of the CLF Research L-1000 and L-2000, the two models that have that non-pointy headstock, have a different neck profile as well: 1⅝" nut, as is standard for the L-2000, but a little bit more shallow (0.5mm thinner at 1st fret, 1mm thinner at 12th fret) So as far as I can see, it's the whole neck, not just the headstock, that is only available on the two CLF Research models. BTW, the standard neck for the Kiloton is 1½", but 1⅝" and 1¾" can be opted for on the USA built basses (for about £50, iirc)

When I was recently looking at the current MIJ Precisions (if you want to do the same, tell the Fender site that you're in Japan) I noticed that the "Traditional" range of Ps (a 50s, a 60s and a 70s) all have nut widths a couple of mm less than what was standard in the 50s 60s and 70s. Is that the case with your MIJ 50s – it the neck a bit slimmer than on, say, the MIM Vintera?

Some time after joining BC and TB, I went to listen all these revered bassists (Jaco, Geddy, Thingy, Wotsit) and immediately realised that a defining feature of a Highly Acclaimed Bassist is playing music which would I would find insufferable even without their eye-catching contributions. Then I put the Sister Sledge back on.

I would much rather be told three times than no times at all, so everything's peachy

If you've already got the wherewithal to make an old Mustang to hand, and by adding a label you can multiply the price.... This is why you get fake Casios: someone making dirt cheap digital watches changes the design of the outer layer and now has something worth a couple of dollars instead of a few pence. Like most theft, the crime is opportunistic, someone greeting temptation with open arms.

You have already told me this, that's why I used the word 'impersonation' – I know that no element is correct, but most are close enough, and the overall effect is vaguely convincing. It amuses me that I'm using a P to impersonate a Japanese P bass, and a Dimarzio to impersonate a Dimarzio-copy 🙃

I bought one of these .... to pop into my Matt Freeman .... so I could do an okay Ibanez Blazer impersonation ....

I've spent my whole life performing and listening to music and I've only recently come to terms with the fact that the music I perform and the music I listen to have as good as no overlap. I used to feel guilty about it, but it now seems to make sense.

Sorry, yes, classified ads on TalkBass. So individually they need taking with a pinch of salt, but I hoped the range would show that looking for a light one would be worth your while

I went through some old adverts for EBMM SS. The first five I came across which gave their weight were 6 lbs 7, 7 lbs 1, 7.5 lbs, 7 lbs 13 and - nonsensically - 7 lbs 14.

You didn't imagine it, but it's on the TalkBass effects forum. Here's the post: But quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Just think how much better the history of music would have been if every outbreak of experimental curiosity had been more thoroughly stamped out

Would trying to use that in a live situation make feedback a huge problem? But could record great music for making an entrance onto a smoke-filled stage. From the comments:

Thanks for the bump, I guess?

I wasn't too sure if by light you meant light by modern standards or just light compared with Stringrays of yore

Sweetwater in the States give the weight of every instrument they have in stock. Which for EBMM isn't very many. For what it's worth, here they are, since there's a clear trend: Special 4H – 8 lbs 13 oz (Eclipse Sparkle) Special 4HH – 8 lbs 10 oz (Amethyst Sparkle) Special 4HH – 8 lbs 13 oz (Amethyst Sparkle) Special 5H – 8 lbs 6 oz (Speed Blue) Special 5H – 8 lbs 5 oz (Pacific Blue) Special 5H – 8 lbs 6 oz (Pacific Blue) Special 5H – 8 lbs 7 oz (Pacific Blue)