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I have a Legend 6 (I think) with Bartolini soapbars which was rewired from some kind of Tone Pump to passive VVTT by a previous owner -- it sounds pretty good to me with everything wide open, (although I'm not 100% sure it's totally correct: the tone controls don't do much and it buzzes when both volumes are at 0, for some reason). I have been thinking along similar lines to yourself, either a new preamp or get a new pre-wired VVTT loom, but there's no real need if I'm being honest, I rarely touch the controls on any of my basses and it works just fine as is.

I think you'll struggle to find much in your price range that has active pickups, rather than an active preamp. A Sadowsky Metro Express (the sub-£700 models) + some aftermarket active EMGs, maybe? If noise is your main concern why aren't passive humbuckers with an active preamp an option?

No takers, now shredded

The Cort looks nice but you're better sticking with the used market imo, that £1k bass swiftly becomes a <£600 bass whereas the MTD will likely hold its value even if you don't take to it.

I picked up a KZ6 this week, still getting used to it but it does have a real nice B string. The preamp is... fine? I'm still dialing it in. Can't say I've noticed the asymmetric neck, but I'm very taken with the playability -- it's definitly the most "articulate" bass I've played, very responsive to your technique.

IME that sound is more about the string hitting the frets, you could try angling your existing pick stroke so it moves towards the bass body, rather than parallel to it?

So there's two different 1/2" models, neither of which is 1/2"?

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This is very specific to my own back issue, but switching to a classical position when sitting was a big help for me, I think it helped keep my back straighter.

A proper conversion neck would take this into account and move the nut out an inch, and move the frets accordingly, surely?

Looks like Novax do (or did, not sure if that's current) an aftermarket fanned fret neck with a 35" E: http://www.novaxguitars.com/parts-accessories/necks-bass.html Headstock looks dreadful though

I'm not sure there's any off the shelf neck that does this, but it should be possible. If the scale is calculated correctly I don't see why you'd have to move the bridge. I thought Warmoth used to make something along these lines for guitar but I can't see it now

Last bump before I shred these

P-Nut...[cigarette drag] now there's a name I've not heard in a long time (also be careful googling him, there's a prominent Urban Dictionary definition on the first page 😬)

I resemble this accusation 😬

Iron Maiden. Originally couldn't get over the vocal style but have since learned not to take myself so seriously.

Having rather fallen off the musical wagon in recent years, I've decided my 2023 resolution is to work through and apply Gary Willis' Fingerboard Harmony, hopefully without getting distracted after the first chapter as I have in the past. Anyone else going to try and make some new practice habits this year? Post them so we can hold each other accountable/comiserate when life gets in the way.

This would be 10x nicer if they didn't leave the wildly mismatched neck laminates showing, imho. Wait, is that even a through neck?

I think the subdivisions are a bit rushed, maybe? When she starts playing straight 8ths it seems less pronounced. During the verse the 1 is in the right place but the others get a little ahead.

2 in, 0 out for a score of +2

Probably the Spector Legend 6 that has been through several previous BC owners.

IIRC Nothing-era Meshuggah would tune their 8 string guitars to low F, with the bass in the same octave. Edit: which @thodrik already mentioned 🙄

I didn't do the mod, but I believe this was a Wilkinson 4+1, similar to this one one Reverb. The string tree has a screw (or an allen bolt, I forget) that holds the D string in place. It was a bit of a pain to string up tbh because the bridge tuner didn't have that much room to wind the string on, so you had to hold the string as tightly as possible with pliers, screw it down, and hope you had enough turns left at the bridge to bring it up to pitch, although once it was up to pitch it worked well enough. If you wanted it to be tidy you had to cut the string right after the string tree, too. It did look very cool, but I could never get a decent sound out of the B string on that particular bass unfortunately (I'm pretty sure there weren't any real Fender parts on it, despite what the headstock says).