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My pb50 has a rails pup. Has a fuller lowend and tighter highs than the stock SC, and more punch and output than then stock pup.

Neck is lovely, and has an unusual quilted maple headstock, very classy for an inexpensive bass. Tips the scales at only 8.1lbs. Best of all - no SC noise.

The thin black would be ground. The 3 wires: the metallic colour wire you need to twist together with either the red or white for standard P bass wiring. One of them (red or white) will be the live wire, but impossible to know without a multimeter. The two wires you do twist together needs to be wrapped in electrical tape or similar so its shielded, and doesn't touch any other wiring.

2 hours ago, Rodders said:

I used to use GHS but then moved to La Bella 760FM and 760M. I'd definately recommend them. 

Tried other brands, Pyramid were really smooth but not quite the right tone, others were too bright even after break in. 

GHS Precision and Pyramid's are very, very similar, both high tension and thumpy. Surprised if you liked GHS, then you didn't like Pyramid's.

31 minutes ago, Munurmunuh said:

That combination of bass and strings is one of those sounds that's very striking at first, and then gets wearing. I had similar experiences both with a G&L pickup and La Bellas and a Dimarzio and Chromes. In both cases, a couple of weeks was enough!

Don't you have a new yammie or something. What's that all about?

Just get a sire z7 and run it passive as Dirnt always runs his G3 humbucker plus single.

Made in korea, ply body.

Aria were made in Japan (matsumoko) till 1987. Korea and recently china thereafter.

3 hours ago, pineweasel said:

 

Good to see the dot markers only go upto 15th fret. Guess they thought there's no point after that!

Welcome to the club. Now you've learnt the basics you can use them time and time again. When learning set ups most people are afraid of truss rod adjustments, though if you're careful it's pretty simple.

I learnt how to do set ups on YouTube 15+ years ago. Been doing them (basic set ups) ever since. Personally I think every bassist should learn how to do basic set ups, there's loads of good tutorials on YouTube, and it's really not that difficult. You only need a few basic tools. 

16 minutes ago, sPiKi said:

Might be a good fit for me in a classic rock covers band I've joined.

Just turn it up to 11.

10 minutes ago, Munurmunuh said:

 

Who chipped the icing off your birthday cake?

Huh?

I heard he once walked on water.

49 minutes ago, horrorshowbass said:

This is true

Sounds like a bit of a lucky dip quality wise

Also depends on people's opinions on things. Some people have higher standards, and applying those without the context of the price point seems meaningless.

1 hour ago, neepheid said:

 

Reviews say a lot.  The one you get might be good or bad, "better" than an Affinity or "worse".

This applies to any mass produced instrument.

2016 made in China or Indonesia.

43 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

I really should stop spamming posts about the same two basses, each time I've made a slight visual modification to it, but just this last time, my Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass, and it's most recent incarnation:

No Sh!t

28 minutes ago, bremen said:

I was looking for a pickup that could give as much pure low end as heard on some of his recordings.

You've got it wrong then. As mentioned earlier a capacitor with a higher value, above the standard 0.047 will allow more pure low end through your signal, and less higher end. The opposite is true if you use a lower value, like a guitar cap of 0.022.

Pickups depending on how they're wound may do this, but a capacitor change to a higger value will definitely add more lower end, as well as increasing height to the E string pickup, and eq.

Traded

Wow, I thought it would be narrower then that.

Anyone with a squier mini know the string spacing of the saddles please?

1 hour ago, BassApprentice said:

Nice work! Where did you source your gold scratchplates? 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dopro-Modern-Style-Aluminium-Precision-Pickguard/dp/B09BN8MJRK?th=1

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Looks like HB got a job lot on jazz knobs - they are on everything - P/PJ/Jazz/mustang. Also noted the neck nut widths, all 38mm (jazz) on P/PJ/Jazz, must have a job lot on those too.

Like the truss rod wheel, though it should be within the neck, not the body, as now customising the pickguard (without a cut out) is gonna be problematic, having to remove the pickguard each time a truss rod adjustment is required. Not too bad for a jazz, but a real pain for P or PJ's.

Like the natural PJ, shame it's not in stand alone P version.

Where did the Gotoh tuners all go???

7 minutes ago, Muzz said:

So I tweaked my back (on the roof, too, doing a spot of DIY, tho not the full Rod Hull, thankfully) last weekend, and I've had a back-focused kinda week, so I decided to weigh all my basses. Tragically, my favourite gigging bass, the BB414, is (as I'd suspected/feared) the heaviest of the lot. What surprised me was by how much - after a bit of restringing/fettling, I gigged a Shuker that was nearly 2lbs lighter.

 

I'm now trying to think of simple ways to lighten it (I've already done the tuners, there's not much else easy to do), I may even explore more radical solutions...

So, what is the weight?

I'd describe the tension as being medium, not as high as chrome's, fender or ghs precision, but not as light as TI's.