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No, get a bit of brass sheet and make a surround up for the bridge pickup, assuming it's just a flat rectangular plate with holes in it.

How much disconnecting did you do to get the body stripped? Just pickups, or jack socket and battery clip too?

There is a clean air zone in Birmingham - GuitarGuitar is outside it, PMT is just inside it, Fair Deal is squarely inside it. If you're in a non-compliant car, that's £8.

But why bother saying so?

You win the award for pointless post of the day.

It's the 5GHz one, WS-50 - https://lekatodeal.com/en-uk/products/lekato-5-8ghz-wireless-guitar-system-ws-50

Is it early (banjo tuners) or later (conventional tuners)? I bought some years ago, can't remember where it was from but I suspect it was Large Sound who no longer sell them. Someone on Talkbass recommends the Kala U-Bass tuners - search for "ashbory bass tuners" on TB, the tuners themselves can be found at https://kalabrand.com/collections/u-bass-parts

Also self-taught, with a smattering of musical theory from violin lessons, and another one who moved from guitar to bass. I've picked up more theory since then and I don't think I developed any bad habits.

Just as a minor point, I think you're understating the output of a bass. I've found it's in the order of 100-200mV. I suspect the interface between preamp and power amp is generally line level (not sure if that's 1V or slightly more) so the first stage gain would have to be more like 5 or 10 times.

GR Bass AT500 or AT800 Cube.

Just searching for 7660 on PedalPCB I found quite a few references, many mentioning the 7660SCPAZ. I've found the meanings of the suffix letters after the S - C is temperature range (0-70 deg C), PA is package (8-pin DIP), Z is Pb-free. So it's just the S that matters as long as it's an 8-pin DIP. Ah, just found this: "Use your digital multimeter to make sure you have a connection between pin 1 and pin 8 on your charge pump IC. If that is connected and you are hearing a whine you likely have bad chips and can fix your problem by replacing them with something from another source." Can't post a link to it (it's verboten, don't know whether by BC or PedalPCB) but if you search for 7660 it's a topic called "Problem IC Sunflower Fuzz". So maybe you have a duff 7660. I haven't really used mine so don't know if I have the same issue.

Just checked and pins 1 and 8 are connected so it should be running at 35kHz.

Also https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/dst/icl7660s-icl7660a-datasheet - under Features, bullet point 4 - "Boost Pin (Pin 1) for Higher Switching Frequency" and the table on page 3 also includes that Mine's also a 7660S. Will stick the meter on it tomorrow and see what pin 1 is at.

TC7660S operates at 10kHz unless pin 1 is connected to +V in which case it operates at 45kHz. https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/TC7660S

Reidmar? I've never owned one but have played through one and it was very hi-fi.

Has it been pushed down too hard so it's rubbing on the base?

Which uses a TC7660H, presumably to generate the dual rails. Has it got a TC7660 in it rather than a TC7660H? The H is high frequency (120kHz) versus 10kHz for the non-H version.

I'd love to see a multiscale one.

One guitarist uses head and cab, the other uses pedalboard amp feeding the PA.

Yes, that's M6.

Not grizzly beer?

This one's dedicated to Boris Johnson! At first, I was afraid, I was petrified Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side...

I liked the coffee joke, I'd love a sticker please. No, I didn't do the subsonic filter - that's an option they provide.

A couple of kits assembled and working. HPF/LPF - https://schalltechnik04.de/en/instructions/vong-filterung - kits from https://www.musikding.de/VONG-Filterung-filter-kit 12dB/octave rolloff, variable frequency. Really must prettify this somewhat. At least the enclosure was pre-drilled so it doesn't look like the holes were made with a hammer and blunt chisel. Subsonic filter - https://guitar-electronics.eu/en_US/c/SUBSONIC-FILTER/84 24dB/octave rolloff below 27Hz (see the PCB for details).

I'm in the "sounds bloody awful" camp.