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I am back so, after having double checked 2 times that the connections were fine, I decided to go to my luthier to let him inspect the bass. He was puzzled and could not understand what was going on. The connections were perfect and as per the official Di Marzio wirings diagram. So he started assuming the pickups (or the electronics) could be faulty and perhaps it was the case to return them back to the seller. Just for curiosuty I asked him to change the configuration of the pickups and invert on purpose the phase, and see what would happen. Guess what? it was indeed a phase problem, even if the connections were correct! therefore, he said the coil within one of the pickups was probably winded not correctly... I am quite annoyed because I had to spend €30 to do something I could easily do at home myself. Di Marzio should reimburse me for that

Hi guys, I am the lucky owner of a new set of a Model J black set (DP247+DP248). I am customizing a MIJ jazz bass, upgrading several components (I will post pics and info later on once I am sure everything is done well ) I have installed them following the official instructions, using the "parallel configuration" (https://d2emr0qhzqfj88.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/diagrams/DiMarzio Area J Wiring Diagram_0.pdf) However I have a couple of doubts: 1) for simplicity's sake, I connected the ground cable (coming from the copper tab under the bridge) directly to the first volume pot (third contact, together with the blackearth cable), instead of soldering it to the jack contact. Is this OK or is it a mistake? in theory all the earth contacts should be at the same potential and it should not make any difference whether a connection is made at a point A or B... 2) once the connection phase was completed, I tested everything. the sound comes out well without any problems. However, I am not convinced by the way the sound comes out from the parallel between the two pots: if I set them to "max" individually, everything goes smoothly. But if I turn them both on, the output level drops drastically (I'd say, by ear, more than half the volume of a single pickup). Moreover, the mixing is not balanced and uniform, the bridge pickup can be heard less than the neck one and it starts to be heard only when the pot is at 90%, first the sound remains practically unchanged and then it suddenly grows. Is this normal on a passive bass? Do you have any tips and/or advice on this? Thanks, cheers!

thanks. Unfortunately almost none of the online music stores provides info about the internal bag dimensions, which is essential to understand how the instrument would fit in the bag... I don't know why they don't think about such a key info. I have read some reviews of customer using either short scale bags for their medium-scale (which fits super tight, almost not able to close the zip) or long scale guitars (same fitting issue). On the other side, if you use normal scale bags, there's way too much room inside and the bass is not really well protected, bouncing left and right in the bag while walking with it.

Do you guys know if there's any additional guitar gigbag which could fit a 32'' medium scale bass?

Based on other people's review, the Rockbass should be much lower quality, above all the ones made in the last few years, with respect to the Streamers and the original Corvettes. In theory the Streamers should all be of very high quality, both in terms of woods and electronics. But to justify such a price, the quality must be really high!

Hi Guys, I bumped by chance into one of these little gems and it aroused my curiosity... Has anyone played one or has any idea of how it sounds? is it as good as its bigger 34'' brother? I checked on the Warwick custom shop website, they told me a new one would cost around €5000!!! How much do you think it might be worth it second hand? My budget would be max €1000... Cheers