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Lekato WS-50 - use it all the time, for rehearsals, open mic nights, and gigs. Have also bought a Lekato WS-90 recently which is a bit bigger, has a longer battery life (the WS-50 isn't bad at 4+ hours) and can be switched to any of four channels.

I have a 1-Spot powering an HX Stomp from the rightmost power outlet, other outlets being used for a MIDI switch, HPF/LPF, and Harley-Benton wireless. Just used a 2.1 to 2.5 non-reversing lead (chopped the end off a 2.1-2.1 and put on a 2.5).

Both pickups fit exactly into the recesses designed for them and the nut looks fine, so it's just inspired by He Who Must Not Be Named, not one of his production models.

It gets posted in the Weird and Wonderful section and people point and laugh. Alternatively, it gets put into production as per prototype with a horrible chunky neck, which is what happened in this case.

Well, that's further bafflement. There's heatshrink over the end of the outer insulation on the pickup leads, which I thought might contain the ends of each pickup winding, like on the BH2 pickups. No such luck. Slit the heatshrink and it just covers where the cable screen is run into a separate sleeve. No access to the internal coils. So I need at least one replacement MK1.

What @BassBunny said. The white is from the pickup and would be the hot wire so should go to the centre of the middle pot. I think the red wire goes to the centre terminal of the end (tone) pot, as long as that's not where the earth is connected to. The way the jack socket is wired up seems a little odd to me, but I'm not familiar with the conventions of VVT wiring - it will work as the two volumes and the tone are all in parallel but it seems odd to run a wire from the furthest possible point (neck volume) to the jack socket.

That's hilarious. Ha ha ha.

Who is this author Flemming?

Not paint, but I do sometimes see a lovely piece of wood that I think would make a nice bass.

There's a couple of specialist bass places: https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/ https://bassbros.co.uk/

Another vote for the Tecamp Puma 900.

It says "PROTOTYPE" on the back of the headstock. I suppose if you've go the prototype right, there won't be any changes.

How good do you think it would be if it was metal printed? Just wondering as a friend of mine does (I think) have access to a 3D metal printer...

I thought it was fixed, it's a bit strange what's up with it. Still, I can fill in other parts of the Cort Space versus Ibanez EHB1265MS comparison. Headstocks both use clamping screws, meaning double ball ends aren't used. Necks have very similar profiles - see picture above. EHB uses Bart BH2 pickups as standard (mine has Aguilar DCBs) and standard Ibanez 3-band preamp with stacked treble/bass, sweepable mids with stacked control and active/passive toggle switch Space uses Bart MK-1 pickups and standard Cort 3-band preamp with separate treble, mid, and bass, and active/passive switch with push-pull on the volume control EHB has a scalloped body to allow access to the tuners. Saddle height is adjusted by hex head screws on each side of the saddle. Intonation is adjusted by releasing a clamp screw on the bridge saddle and adjusting the position with a screw on the tuner. Space has a recess for the tuners which makes access slightly easier. Saddle height is adjusted by hex head grub screws on each side of the saddle insert. Intonation is adjusted by sliding the bridge saddle after releasing the grub screw just behind the insert, then tightening the grub screw up again. I'll do some sound samples when the pickups are sorted.

The basses I most like to play are my Seis and the Antoniotsai. That's not to say that I hate cheap basses, I just far prefer the necks on the costly ones, so it would have to be an expensive one for me.

Not even properly proofread. "Fiilters", "email of call us".

This has now taken a sharp left turn into the Twilight Zone. All was working fine yesterday (or I thought it was). Today, both pickups work fine individually, but when blended, the G and D strings are fine but the A, E, and B strings all sound thin and nasal. Bartolini MK-2 pickups - are they split like P pickups, and is there a tap point which might somehow have gone wrong? It's as if half the split on one pickup was in one phase and the other half in the other.

Wiring fixed, a couple of terminals on the blend pot had shorted out. It's quite possible that they weren't in contact before and the 140 mile journey along the goat tracks that pass for a motorway system in England had got them moving very slightly.

My new to me Cort Space proved to have some issue as with the blend control in the middle, the sound was quiet, thin, and nasal, whereas at either end the full goodness of one pickup or the other could be heard. I thought that it was a pickup wired out of phase, so I opened it up. Knobs held on with hex grub screws, one Allen key and it's off. Not quite enough wiggle room to pull out just the blend, so also unleashed the volume control. Both pots had a pair of shakeproof washers on. I examined the wiring and it seemed fine, but the terminals of the dual gang pot were very close together and seemed to be touching. I separated them and retested, and all was now well. I added a little insulating tape to try and prevent a recurrence. I reassembled it, tightening up the jack socket nut as I did so, and retested. Silence. I noticed I'd broken an earth wire to the volume pot, so resoldered that and tested again. Silence. And then I noticed that when I'd tightened up the jack socket nut, I'd turned the jack socket, and it had ended up with the tip contact pressed firmly against the body of the rightmost EQ pot. Loosened jack socket nut off, turned it so it wasn't in contact, and retightened. I now got the correct type of noise, so buttoned everything back up again.

Being very under the weather over the last few days, I've only just felt up to starting on the comparison. I'd only given the Cort a very quick play through an amp when I bought it to make sure it made a noise. When I finally plugged it in and started playing it with the blend in the centre position, it was really thin and nasal and low volume. Moving to either the bridge or neck pickup resulted in a vastly improved tone. Having once owned a Burns, the sound reminded me of the Wild Dog setting - out of phase pickups. So I will have to delve in and reverse one pickup's connections to the blend control. That's one for Repairs and Technical. Meanwhile, the other thing I wanted to compare was the neck profiles. They seem very similar, and I got the bendy ruler thing out (on the left in the picture) to try and draw them. They are very similar - the shoulders on the Cort are very slightly wider than the Ibanez. I took the profile midway between the 6th and 7th frets as that's where the frets on the Ibanez would be perpendicular to the strings. Excuse my writing, it's hereditary as my mother was a GP. One other test remains to be completed - the EHB reaches at least the minimum standards of cat comfort, the Space has yet to be tested. I shall attack the wiring on the Cort shortly.

Has the mains plug for the amp been checked? If there's been a cross-connection of live or neutral with earth, it can cause this.

Except for those of us who think that the ideal number of P basses for us to own is zero.

I suppose I'll be able to sell it as "the rare black model" if necessary.

I'm not sure where I got this from, but on my home-made Stomp MIDI switcher, sending CC 72 with a value of 64 is preset up, and CC 72 with a value of 0 is preset down.

Just picked one up, not sure if that will turn out to be a good or a bad move.