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Small clone does it for me. Cheap and cheerful, but does its job (2 bars of music per gig) admirably!

There’s the potential for phase inversion when combining the same signal going through different effects chains too, does the LS2 have a phase invert button to correct this?

Hotrox.co.uk have them for about a fiver each, or you could give ki0gon on here a bell, he makes solderless wiring looms that’ll just drop straight in.

CTS pots are more expensive to buy, but will probably outlast your playing career. There’s a lot of cork-sniffing about ‘orange drop’ caps or ‘tropical fish’ caps etc... but any capacitor if 0.047uf will do. Small tantalum ones will have a code of 473 printed on it somewhere, a polyester box cap will have .047 printed on it. The bead ones have the advantage of being smaller (so they fit into the cavity much easier) and have longer legs, so they’re easier to bend into whatever shape you want.

Unconnected. Try it without the red wire, just put some insulation tape over the end. have you got a multimeter to check the DC resistance of the pickups with the red connected to ground or hot?

I’d put money on the unshielded wire being ground.

I ran a VT1 eq for years, and have lost count of the number of gigs and studio sessions where it proved invaluable. ☹️

Which make of pickup are they? Usually single coils (most Jazz bass pups) only have 2 wires, you might have an extra wire for noise cancelling or something similar?

I run a small PA amp for power with a valve pre and I love it. I’ve had the amp for about 20 years and it’s never missed a beat.

I run a valve pre (SVP PRO) into a Laney Solid State (weighty old toroidal transformer) and love it. It weighs less and costs less to maintain than an all-valve affair.

Try this: Ignore the yellow wire disappearing off the top of the diagram, that’s for the second pickup (that you haven’t got).

Aw man, such a shame. Great guy to chat to; really helpful and knowledgeable.

Another one of mine: 2 piece hard ash body and Squier neck.

At rehearsal now and loving them; tight, punchy and lovely mid-tension (drop tuned a tone on each string though). I think they might be a bit too high tension at concert, but for what I’m using them for they’re brilliant. Tons of top end too with the right amp setting.

Agreed, this line is awesome, ‘arry at his best!

This. Best. Preamp. Ever.

That Black and maple Jazz is lovely! 😍

3 Bitsa Jazzes, all 4 strings. 2 fretted (one set up forD, G, C, F tuning) 1 fretless.

Incompetence, inflated prices and a patronising manner. I sometimes pop in to see what it would be like to be a rail commuter.

New jazz body for my existing fretless neck and upgraded pickups from a Squier VM jazz. Plays beautifully and is lovely and punchy where it counts.

I’m expecting a set of these in my usual gauge (45 to 105) over the next couple of days. They’re to go on my Jazz bass that’s tuned d,g,c,f for my metal band. I’ll let you know how I get on...

I looked at one of those, but it doesn't have a line in for playing along to th'iPad.

Short scale Hohner bass with a P pickup and a chipboard body. I don’t miss it.

Nelson? Jesus.