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  2. Dood
    A good trick is to trace out the current schematic (using the same symbols in the diagrams above). It's good practice anyway, but sometimes it helps to visualise where issues are!
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    Absolutely. The wiring you're describing is not stock and has been messed about with - especially as it doesn't work properly. If you desire the ability to switch the pickups from parallel to series, it can easily be done with the inclusion of a DPDT switch and you'll be able to have volume controls that work properly too. I've used this config on a PJ bass before - interestingly, a bass that had been suggested to have influenced the Boxer range in the first place, but I can't find any authenticity to that story. The series setting will sound a little louder and have more prominent mids in most cases (but not all, depending on the pickups of course - and make sure the phase is correct!!) So, if you are looking for truly stock, then use the diagram above, but if you're after more options, obviously, seek out a new schematic to follow
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    Comparing the diagram to the image of the harness, it's looking good. You can see what pins the pickups would have been connected to (absent) and the other shielded cables go to the expected components. You'll be looking at 250K Audio Taper pots for the two volumes and the TBX can be bought still if the one you have doesn't work. To be honest, there's nothing really unusual about the harness at all. It's a pretty standard set up, as you'd find in say, a standard jazz bass. Save for the inclusion of the TBX tone control. Finally, the P coils will be wired in series and will hum-buck. The switch configuration means that when it's in the central position the P coils and the J coil will be in parallel to each other which is exactly the same on my Power Jazz basses as well as... well.. countless other 2 pickup basses with one three way switch. (Gibson Les Pauls too etc etc) Good luck! They are great basses! I'm not actually a fan of VVT ha ha, I'd rewire it with a master volume, but of course that would leave you with a DFA control (I appreciate that might not translate, so here's Lee Sklar's Producer Control to explain) ha ha!
  5. Dood
    I also just found this old advert for a PJ555 harness too so you can see the components
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  7. Dood started following Commercially available 'narrow' (possibly tall and/or deep) cabs. and Restoration of a Fender Boxer (Jazz Bass Special) '85 MIJ
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    I’ve three Power Jazz (PJ-755) basses (which are electrically different) but the manual covers some information you may or may not find interesting about the 555 too. https://www.fmicassets.com/Damroot/Original/10001/OM_leg_bass_Power_Jazz_Bass_Japan_1987.pdf
  9. Dood
    Totally! Skimpy top and turbo aircon already delivered! Watch the likes roll in.
  10. Dood
    ooops sorry, I did just read the above too… oh Lordy….
  11. Dood
    GR Bass 2x12 slim springs to mind.
  12. Dood
    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 bRiLLiAnT mate!! #TalentAndYearsOfExperienceNotNeeded 🤣
  13. Dood
    Ok, I’m game. I’ll pick a product that’s suitable and we’ll have a lil play 😊
  14. Dood
    Yes, There’s a balance to be had and, delivering enough differing styles and techniques that clearly demonstrate what an instrument is capable of is completely achievable without making it all about oneself, unless of course, that is entirely the intention 😁. That said, you could argue that I have shot myself in the foot by intentionally under playing as it is now expected that videos should be a massive w@nkfest 😂🤣 for likes 👍, thus making me look less of a capable player.
  15. Dood
    I meant to quote your post in my reply above.
  16. Dood
    Absolutely! I've been researching AI modelled review writing to test it. I can spot the language modelling too, I agree with your summing up of it. If you know what you are doing, some well written prompts can point it in the right direction, even feeding it with years of well written human copy would get you closer - but they all (at the moment) miss the nuances and technical experience that someone who has obsessively been following bass for over thirty five years has.
  17. Dood
    Bass Gear Magazine used to be both but it moved to online. It also doesn't use a 'magazine reader' app, so all the usual search and linking 'stuff' works rather than having to sign in all the time. Whether or not the magazine will go physical again, I don't know, but since January lots of work has taken place on the magazine in a major refresh, which is brilliant.
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