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The explosion of open mic nights has certainly helped venues to mount cheap entertainment at the expense of bands.

Now that’s a looker!!!

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything — Bauhaus

Thanks, this is all really useful advice...

I agree 100% It is also high time to show off another beauty, my refinished pre-LX Euro 5 with P5 and J, just like the ones you have now @Sean only that mine are X series. The preamp is a John East deluxe.

Thanks Chester!

I think these are lovely. People rave about that vintage tone from these old Musicmaster basses. Have a guess what's under the pickup cover on most of these. Ta daa!

Just had a very good straightforward transition, my Ditto Looper pedal winging it's way to sunny Kent. Quick comms and payment, deal with confidence folks!

There's an interesting article on the subject here. The resonant peak is also linked to the frequency that the 2nd order low pass filter takes effect and cuts treble, so presumably if you wanted to retain treble you wouldn't want to drop the resonant peak too far. It does make me wonder what the difference in effect of cable length would be between an active and a passive bass, as the pickups are isolated from the cable in the active bass but not the passive one. While the capacitance of the cable would be the same, there would be no interplay between that and the pickups on the active bass, but presumably it would directly affect the resonant peak on the passive bass.

You know it. Bwahaha!

Just got a Ditto pedal from Jules, he was quick to reply and very helpful indeed, couldn't be more pleased with the sale.

It's quite a bit different due to the pickups and LHZ obviously. The DCs are atomic but the PJ config that’s in there now is what I wanted, it breathes better and has more articulation rather than what you get from two hot double coils with a old-style dimed TonePump. The balance and feel of the bass has changed with it losing nearly a pound in weight. It’s gone from body-heavy to neutral. It’s dropped from 4.45 to 4.05 kg give or take a few grams. I managed to get the action and intonation 95% there when I roughed it so that was a bonus and I’ve set it up so that it’s very low, quite a bit lower than before. The new bridge is dream to adjust. Would I recommend swapping to a new-style bridge? Only if you’ve got an older Spector that could do with losing a pound. This one didn’t need it doing but it’s a nice mod and I learned a lot. Would I recommend DCs to PJ? It’s very subjective but it is a big difference, it makes it a very different instrument. For a start there’s about half the amount of pickup in there.

***cough*** I have a Rockbass Streamer LX5 in the for sale section…. ***cough*** 😁

Fellow owners of musical instruments, more like.

Oh was that the one with the black back panel? I did wonder why that was there

I've used both 'GAK' and 'BAX' for all sorts of stuff. I don't feel confident to try and use them again... If they return to trading...