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I must confess that I wasn't impressed with the Burns Bison I picked up, I checked it out after the Gibson G-3 I bought, and I found it rather lacking in output, it seemed far too polite sounding. Perhaps playing it after a Gibson G-3 wasn't the best comparison, but I was playing it through a nice Phil Jones amp (the Six Pack if memory serves) and I was just thoroughly underwhelmed by it on any of its settings. Just my 2p.

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Je ne regret rien, I'm pleased to say. I've only been playing a few years, and it's been all the way up in terms of gear quality so far, so I don't miss any of my sold basses. Except maybe the Takamine acoustic owing to its beautiful front, back and sides in vivid quilted maple, but even then I wouldn't move mountains to get it back because I never found much of a use for an acoustic.

Of course it can be done. Damn near anything can be done on a bass - for a price. I wouldn't imagine it would be cheap though, fingerboard replacement is fairly major surgery. I take it Yamaha do not offer the combination of woods you're looking for?

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Once again a smooth transaction with Shaun, paid promptly, didn't mind waiting a day while I (unsuccessfully) hunted around for a pesky allen key. Deal with confidence.

First gig was October 4th 2008, aged 32, at The Tunnels in Aberdeen. We were performing at a birthday party with a hastily cobbled together ska covers band. There was drums, bass, guitar 1, guitar 2, vocals/trombone/melodica and vocals/alto sax. I was on bass (playing a Squier Bronco - I figured the short scale would make things easier ), Rich (Ou7shined on here) was playing a guitar and my wife was vocals/sax. We had 3 rehearsals together (one of which was the afternoon of the gig) and then just ploughed through it. It was pretty raw, but seeing as we were on last I think the majority of punters were well oiled by then. Plenty of dancing going on. I had some scrawled tab on a music stand hidden off to the side on a music stand behind one of the PA speakers. I was bricking it. We went down pretty well I thought to my amazed self. The whole thing was videoed (by videoed I mean by a digicam perched somewhere on the sound desk - not proper cinematography) for posterity, and we even got paid. Then we got a wee bit tipsy. I got the bug and by January I had joined my first band.

The "system" part of it is only for EMG pickups - the volume/blend pots are the wrong values for passive pickups. What you need is the BTC Control on its own, you take care of volume and blend or pickup selecting yourself and feed the results to the BTC Control. The BTC System is a BTC Control bundled with the volume/blend bit. Don't waste money on a BTC System for passive pickups, just get a BTC Control. BTC Control: [url="http://www.emginc.com/products/index/104/146/4"]http://www.emginc.com/products/index/104/146/4[/url]

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I use a forstner bit in a drill press for this kind of job. The way a forstner bit works you'd probably get away without having to plug the holes if your aim is good with the drill press. I've done this for a couple of Squier basses with the small shaft 'orrible enclosed tuners to fit full size open back types. +1 for having scrap wood underneath to avoid splintering when the bit breaks through the other side.

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[quote name='derrenleepoole' post='659567' date='Nov 19 2009, 07:50 PM']This is the crux of the problem: Basically, the instructions are printed out in black and white, no biggy but just odd. The are a total of 4 wires from the humbucker pickup, 2 for each side I'm guessing, and the ground from the bridge. The preamp only has 3 wires to connect - 1 to the bridge ground, 1 to the hot wire of the pickup and 1 to the ground of the pickup (as the instructions call it). Now I've never owned a bass with a humbucker before, but I have successfully installed an Audere into a jazz bass. I guessing I need to wire the humbucker in a specific way, but this is were I'm coming unstuck and need the help.[/quote] In that case then you need to join the ends of the two coils on the OLP pickup. In the original OLP wiring, one hot will have gone to one volume pot and the other hot will have gone to the second volume pot. You need to take the hot of the south coil and wire that to the ground of the north coil. Then use the ground of the south coil and the hot from the north coil as your two pickup wires to the preamp.

I have an EMG-BQC with a couple of EMG-HB pickups (like a 35P but in a guitar humbucker size/shape enclosure) in my Epiphone Les Paul bass. It's a very modern tone, I get what CK is saying about the harshness, I'd prefer to call it precise. The BQC gives a good range of tones, not too much warmth in there, I can get it to sound a bit like a Precision for instance, but it's a super hi-fi, SACD, DVD-A Precision, if you know what I mean. I guess that's just the EMG sound. I quite like it, FWIW.

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Bought a pair of bass humbuckers from me recently, paid promptly, good comms, a smooth transaction all round

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Took delivery yesterday of a phaser pedal, well packed, posted promptly, can't ask for more than that. Nice one.

Saddles: [url="http://www.axesrus.com/axehardware.htm#Saddles"]http://www.axesrus.com/axehardware.htm#Saddles[/url] (look for "£2.30 EACH CHROME BASS SADDLES A OR B") For a new bridge, a Gotoh 201 would be less hassle than a Badass, no need to cut saddles. If you play as hard as you suggest, saddle cutting would be an absolute necessity on a Badass

[quote name='henry norton' post='656182' date='Nov 16 2009, 06:08 PM']My custom made fretless neck's had it - one too many mosh pits and careless drops - and I'm wondering whether I should defret the original maple neck, maybe even machine off a quarter inch and replace with a nice plain ebony fretless board. Thing is it's a JV precision, valuable in some peoples eyes but I figure I've already devalued it enough by adding a Jazz pickup in the early nineties. What does Basschat think???[/quote] I wouldn't do it - there are plenty replacement necks which will fit right in there without you molesting a perfectly good neck of some historical note.

I guess users of 18V (or more) gear will have to remove and test each battery individually?