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Neck dive? Yes; your head would drop squarely into your hands to begin the disappointment.

Vocals wise I’m not too fussy as I’m mostly just shouting at approximate pitch. Cab wise I like an RE20 or an SM57 if I’m DI’ed as well.

Me too. Dead handy for popping in and out of the bass case.

Most engineers that I know will favour a Precision style bass, simply because of the quick turnaround times between acts at festivals etc; it’s a sound that works and doesn’t require too much monkey business to get it to sound good in the mix.

I've used George L's for years. I've had them for so long I can't remember why I switched, but recently a guitarist friend of mine used a cheap "6 for £10" patch cable to jumper channels on his amp and everything went dark. I leant him a George L one I had spare and hey presto, great tone returns. Solderless cables of this calibre are an absolute MUST if your pedals are mounted on a board and there's minimal movement between the pedals.

Very easily - wire both ‘hot’ wires from the pickups to the output lug of the output socket and both ‘ground’ wires to the ground lug. This will give the classic ‘both pickups in parallel’ Jazz bass sound.

Went for the Wilkinson. I’ve had really good results from their other stuff. Thanks for the routing advice too. 👌🏻

Ok, pickup’s arrived. Just one more thing... does anyone know where I can source a routing template for a MM pickup? I had one a couple of years ago and lost it when we moved house last year. 😖

Billy Bragg’s entire back catalogue!

I’ve had 2! Got made redundant years ago and had to sell it, then bought another as soon as I found one. Magnificent piece of kit. Thanks Dave.

Moondance.

RHCP can stay then, having only 2 remaining original members. I like Frusciante’s playing but much prefer Hillel’s. Yes, the early albums were a bit stinky poo, but at least it sounded like they meant what they were found.

Grrrr, must resist...!

The feel of the neck is paramount, you’ll spend all of your playing time holding it, so it better be a good ‘un. Next for me is strings, then pickups and body wood in equal measure.

Best: Dave Hall VT2 Eq pedal. Had one before but sold it; I’d forgotten how good they are. Ernie Ball cobalt flats get an honourable mention too. Worst: nothing really, I’ve managed to resist impulse purchases this year.

I’ve used a modded crybaby (same model as yours) on bass before and it was pretty good. Make sure that you don’t just increase the input and output caps, but double the value of the capacitor that tunes the wah sweep to lower it by an octave as well. On the board it’s labelled as C2 and it’s a 0.01uf, change it to around 0.068uf and you’ll not go too far wrong.

Fixed. Great band.

I’m hoping to achieve a Stingray sound(ish) in addition to the lovely Jazz sound I already have from my fretless.

and not in a good way!

Ordered one of these just to dip a toe in the water...

Fixed. 😉

Mmmm, that’s what I was afraid of. might be time for another bass. 😉

Anyone got any experience of putting a MM style pup in the bridge position of a Jazz bass? I’m toying with fitting one to my fretless Jazz but still want the option of it sounding like a Jazz when I need it to. Tge only contender so far is the Wilkinson WJM, but am prepared to explore other units. Obviously there’ll be some routing required, as it’s a bigger pickup...

Quickly. That went quickly. Please remember the suffix on adverbs.

I was looking at the ‘mids module’ on John’s site just the other day. I hope he’s not discontinued it.