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Yes, I do. Put in a new battery and found a poor connection, resoldered it and bingo! I have a working bass. While I have the ear of the master, is it beyond the wit of man to make a hole and put a different pup into an active bass? Do they need to be specific pups for active circuitry? This is an OLP Musicman and I like everything about it except for the sound. I'm a pbass kind of guy and the only pick up here is too far back for me. Happy to not have the bridge pup at all and blank it under a homemade plate, or leave it in unconnected.

I also take a small repair kit for the most common 'fails'. This includes cocktail sticks, screwdriver, spanner, soldering iron, drum key, gaffa and insulation tapes. Takes very little room and can live in the car

This thread motivated me to dig out and ressurect my OLP 5. After a bit of fun with soldering iron and pliers I got it fired up. It provided some useful insight. I don't know my 5ths well enough going down (as it were) certainly not as well as going up. Put another way I'm fine with 'what is a fifth of...' but less well versed in 'what is ... a fifth of'. I assumed all would be easier as the hardest part of bass is often horizontal movement. However I quickly discovered what you gain in remaining in one position, you lose in open strings. Obviously the open strings are there still there but they don't flow as well. The other thing you have is wider fretboard and or narrow string spacing. Which might be fine for you, but is a consideration. In my case the thing I missed most was the rounded punch of a pick up in the P Bass position, but that has nothing to do with the number of strings!

I spend longer agonising over which two basses to take and which will be A and which B than our singer takes doing her hair and makeup.

Come here @Lozz196 I want give you big kiss 😘 Problemo solvo as Del Boy might say. There's a horn in the other cab which is fine so until I decide to get it sorted (which I probably won't unless I sell it) it is fine, and I am a happy camper. Not being the world's biggest fan of a tweeter in the first place I won't miss it.

I think I can turn the horn off, I'll take a look. Thanks Lozz

Awesome thanks mate. Don't know what yours was like but this is a kind of pressure cooker shhhh in time with the bottom notes.

Unfortunately I'm hearing something untoward from the extension cab. Could be something vibrating somewhere, but sounds horribly like the speaker not handling bottom end very well. Not going to despair yet. I've played it with the Elf and I don't recall any issues. Might just be something in the room. I'll move it when I get a chance and try it again.

Found an assortment of problems. Two cables trapped between pots and scratchplate, both severed to varying degrees. Two different connectors on pots bent together and shorting. Tested continuity everywhere and now all is well but the sound is extremely quiet and fuzzy. I'm going to get a new battery just in case.

Can't stand these hard Lionels, my bums going numb sat here.

Stop scratching boy, people will think you have fleas. Sorry sir, its this jumper me mum knitted, making me right Lionel it is.

Ooh, scuse me, you might want to open the window. Had a jalfreizi last night and I just cut a nasty Lionel.

Stay with your senses, I can't afford it yet. Leave your senses the moment I say the word.

Space between d and g does look a lot wider (even allowing for string thickness) than the rest

Hang on I may have found it! Red wire trapped under the pot. It comes from battery

Yes, definitely bass. It's active BTW. Battery checked.

Item: One bass guitar. Problem : No noise comes out. Available tools : multimeter, screwdrivers, pliers, axe, soldering iron. Done so far: had a look inside for unattached wiring. Success so far: nil.

Yeah, I hear you, I wonder if justification might be a better word.

I am thinking of getting my 5 er down from the loft. I used to play 5s almost exclusively (see also fretless) but decided I hadn't come close to knowing what I was doing on a 4 yet, so parked the 5s. Just this morning I'm learning a line and spending quite a lot of time working out when to play one part up around fifth and seventh, then the easiest way to get back to first and third for the low F. On a 5 this would all be played in the same position. You do know if you get one you'll get two don't you? I mean if you're gigging and your bass stops working then you need a back up right?

That's a tasty set up. I might have to run the rm through a BF 15 or two, see how it goes.

My idiot band mates say its orange, but it's clearly a shade of salmon pink.

Thank you! My first ever musician crush.

Some access holes leave little space for a normal Allen key, with a right angle you come hard up against a string having barely turned the nut, this just looks better and more user friendly.