Mr. Foxen

Actives seem to do really loud pops if the socket is not happy. Might be a new socket, just a decent stereo jack socket should sort you.

Some southern rock band dude was playing a white SG bass through ChiSeerkind's 70s Ampeg, one of the best bass sounds I've heard, just so right in every way.

You have to find a way of getting the bridge or something metal in contact with it connected to your common earth. Might be able to do the Fender style earth strip from bridge of bridge pickup hole, think of a cunning way to make it look right. Depending on colour, a straight narrow strip of copper foil will do it, if you have one of those stripey through necks, it could blend really well. Or if its black colour it black, it will be in the dusty under pickups and strings bit anyway.

Fender's are likely to appreciate in value eventually. Also, a lot of people can't see past the name on the headstock, even if you can, they will still judge you as a player by it.

measure the outside, the thickness of the board is probably 18mm, also have to deduct the driver and the port. If you are thinking of modelling for a new speaker, bear in mind you'll have to change the port length, or maybe make a new one.

I love dirt cheap basses. Have managed to spend 6x the amount I paid the bass on new bits before though.

4 string basses are extended, real basses are 3 string:

[quote name='Sibob' post='602862' date='Sep 19 2009, 12:52 PM'][i][I'm gonna have to start putting this answer in my signature lol][/i] I currently tune Drop C Standard for my band FSOF and use string gauges 45-105, with similar tension and action to standard tuning. It's as much (if not more) to do with the core thickness, thicker core, more tension! Try giving Malcolm at Newtone Strings a call, tell him your preferred gauge (what you find comfortable), the tuning you wish to use, and he'll sort you out a tension that works best! Oh and they cost no more than a set of Elite/Rotos Si[/quote] I did find Newtones die fairly quickly (especially nickels) but the old meths bath sorts them rought out.

Big up Bristol Massiv! ...of Doom.

Get some lemon oil on that fingerboard. There was a chap selling a bass banjo locally, could chase up, see where it went. Was made out of a drum.

[url="http://bristol.gumtree.com/bristol/25/45546925.html"]Gumtree[/url] So tempted.

Whatever wood you make it from it still sounds liek a bass, wood has a small effect to the sound produced, but a fairly large effect on the ssound of a bass, since the spectrum of sounds from different basses is very much more narrow that the spectrum of possible sounds. Also consider if the body is vibrating, the pickup is also, and its the movement of the string in relation to the pickup that makes the sound, if the string is still and the pickup moves, sound will be made (like microphonic feedback).

Buy expensive strings and schuck them in a tub of meths between changes.

[quote name='henry norton' post='598560' date='Sep 14 2009, 07:24 PM']I meant does the Model 1 sound better than the original Squier pickup????[/quote] Loads better, Squier one is definitely a mudbucker, this seems to have sensible output and loads more top and definition. Think this is going to stay as my siple single pickup bass.

[quote name='henry norton' post='598372' date='Sep 14 2009, 04:34 PM']If it's any consolation my EB-0 came [i]new[/i] with the entire pickup 'offset' by nearly 4mm and that still sounds fine. It's probably a feature you wouldn't find on an Alembic but a little offset doesn't seem to do any harm. Has it made much difference to the sound?[/quote] Doesn't appear to make much, I but I don't do bends and such. Bit of narrowing at the bridge when I score something adjustable will sort it.

This program AP tuner I use to tune at my pc has a frequency analysis function, fairly interesting to see a breakdown of the harmonic content of your bass output.

[quote name='trent900' post='597855' date='Sep 13 2009, 11:37 PM']I'm pretty sure that's just plain contra! I'd love to hear some playing using an F# string. I can't imagine what on earth it's used for, lower than that horrible sounding bottom A on a piano. My only delvings into 'sub contra', and only by a smidgeon, is detuning the B string to Bb for some songs. It does throw my fretting out a bit though having to think about Bb E A D G tuning. What styles of music are using these mentally low notes?[/quote] Doom Actually, doom rarely has the sophistication for low F#, don't actually know where that is useful. Can't really generate Doom SPLs with that sort of lows.