GreeneKing

Alan's Sterling was mine and I agree, a unique and great smell. I had a Ric 4003 and I miss the smell more than the bass

I suppose that I was being slightly antagonistic. All power to those who are happy with whatever they play

Or find a 2nd hand Lakland BG, a better substitute for the real thing Peter

I do know exactly what you mean Dood Evidently, the circuit picks up the 'waves' other ccts miss and er, enhances them. Clever passive stuff. Magic? Now Villex pups, there's a thought.

Now that's strange. I've got it.

I've replied to your Sterling post Alan. Yours may be better in terms of noise issues, living amonst over a dozen flats means that I have a huge No of neighbours to annoy A quick pic: The volume is on a black knob topped by the chrome tone one and paired with the chrome Villex control. Peter

You can follow fashion. Or. You can create it It's not just Fenders that hold their price nowadays, plus there's Fenders that don't , and then there's other Fenders that do. The average punter can't tell the difference between a Fender and a Lakland anyway, except the Lakky might sound better Peter

[quote]I don't understand why anyone would pay this much for a Fender when you can buy a Lakland, which has a far better build quality, better playability and is a more flexible and better sounding bass, for less money.[/quote] +1

I have just fitted a Villex booster to my Lakland Skyline Bob Glaub. Whilst doing this I replaced the separate 250K pots with a stacked 500K unit in order to keep the tone control. There's no way I'd just get rid of the tone control that can now turn my BG into a Ric. The side effect of changing to a 500K pot for tone is that the range of treble is enhanced, and the cut position retains it's original tone. The stacked pot has one audio pot for volume and one linear one for tone. The added treble enhances the bass in itself. I've just had the chance to play the BG with the volume cranked up and I've spent over 30 minutes just unable to put it down and in tonal heaven. The booster is a completely passive unit (no power required) and has 4 positions, off, +3db boost with peak at 3.5 kHz, +5db boost peaking at just under 3 kHz and +7db boost peaking at about 2 kHz. This is pure P bass heaven but with added balls. Boost position 3 has to be my favourite but each of the three boost positions is very useful indeed and I would suggest that with the no boost bypass option every passive P bass should have one. Brilliant! Well recommended, and it looks really neat. Mind you on a Black/black/maple P bass it couldn't fail to look good. Peter

Well overwhelmed with the technical help I carried on and fitted the stacked 500K pots and fitted the Villex Passive Rotary Booster as supplied by Tigran. Well here's some feedback. I finished at midnight and now I'm knackered No, seriously. This is a bit drawn out so pull up a chair, open a beer etc. I'm using an EBS Microbass II into a Roland Cube 30 with a set of Beyer headphones connected to the MB together with a Peterson strobe tuner . I has a real problem a couple of days ago with a constant noise from the headphones, like interference. I 1st tried re-locating the Microbass and then ran it on battery power and only sorted the problem by changing to a cheaper set of Sennheiser headphones. Yesterday although the bass was working it sounded muddy and had a strange sort of feedback when strings were allowed to 'ring' slightly. The gain and volume on the amp were turned down really low too. The Villex booster was working but the problems were distracting from its effect. When the volume was wound up fully on the bass there was some distortion too. Exasperated I plugged the bass straight into the amp and [b][size=6]Wow[/size][/b] I would say that changing to the 500K pots has enhanced the range of tones available without the Villex in play no end, great. No problems at all with the volume control and the Beyer headphones work perfectly straight from the amp. Using the Villex produes a more subtle effect than I expected but that's no bad thing in that it enhances the bass in a series of stages that I would compare to having 4 different sets of pickups fitted. The Lakland P is a great bass and it's now even more P bass punchy and the tone pot gives more treble available so clanky Ric is a can do trick. Very pleased, and with a black knob topped off with a chrome one to match the Villex one it all looks very neat too. Oh and I've now got a Microbass I need to sort out. I suspect the receipt's dissapeared during my move Peter

Yo I had a parcel in the post today with Tigran's booster and a 'ganged' or stacked pot so that I can have tone, volume and the booster in the two holes. 1st, the vol and tone pots on the Lakland (Bob Glaub P) are 250K. The stacked pots are 500k. This is the number written on da top. Do I need a new stacked pot that matches the old pots? On the stacked pot there is no capacitor but there is on my tone pot, between an end terminal and pot ground. Is the configuration of the pots standard? The r/h on all 4 is grounded (except for the tone pot - double checked), and the l/h on the stacked pots is commoned. If I set out to replicate the connections I'll need to break this common 'short' and add the tone pot cap. Will this be okay? Does any of this make any sense? I'll try a photo. I haven't even go to the booster unit yet but that seems quite straightforward. Ideally I was just hoping to replicate the connections from the two pots to the stacked ones but the 500k and commoned terminals have got me an ickle bit stressed. Here's the pots. Can't get a decent photo of the stacked one - too much glare. Peter.

They may be called Bass Collection but I doubt the basses will have the same qualities of the Japanese made basses. Peter

Orkney's? They're avin a laugh Peter

Looks great but preferred the white Maybe try a Nordstrand 1st and then the pre 2nd? Peter

Black on black with maple. Way to go. My BG is sex on a stick IMHO for the same reason. Sounds damn good too. Darkstar? Hmm... That could be perfect.

I now have my new SB320 in translucent green. I'll post a photo later but its like new. I had to adjust the neck relief and put on new strings and I lemon oiled the fretboard as per usual and now its superb. My old SB320 in dark natural is in equally as good nick with the exception of a little discolouration on the gold hardware. I paid £180 for it and will let it go (in more playable condition) for the same. If anyone is interested let me know. Great bass, really good value. I'll maybe put in the for sale section some time.

[quote]why oh why did I volunteer to be a mod?[/quote]