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A fracture is a break. It's already there.

Eric Clapton, Layla. And the awful acoustic version.

That's what one of the guitarists has as a second wireless for use with his acoustic (plugged the receiver straight into the PA). My one reservation is that UHF might get RF interference. I used the WS-70s at a gig for the first time on Saturday (I had used them at an open mic before that) with no issues.

Yes, I've mounted it with double sided tape. It also comes with shims to get it close to the strings. The cavity is 30mm deep, give or take a mm. https://www.roland.com/uk/products/gk-kit-bg3/ which can be used with https://www.roland.com/uk/products/gr-55/

And killed off the slower, weaker brain cells, leaving only the fit, healthy ones.

<raises hand hesitantly>

The Roland hex pickups can be adjusted in width to cater for different string spacings (albeit a little crudely as it's just varying the gap between the two halves) and can accommodate 4, 5, or 6 strings. I have two, both on 6 string basses. Sei Flamboyant with built-in kit: Sei pickup and controls (toggle switch does pickups/Roland/both, puchbuttons do patch up/down) Handmade (not by my hand) 6-string with GK3B externally mounted

Is there any reason that subs weigh a ton? Is a genuinely lightweight sub possible?

Inspired by Daisy Rock.

Must re-read them some time. Of Course I Still Love You. Funny, It Worked Last Time... Incidentally, the publication dates of the Culture novels are given in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series

A pair of 8s is what I use with the rock band, with three vocals going through it and sometimes one of the guitars. Power amps are quite lightweight nowadays and an active crossover could be DIY so I just need a sub that weighs < 10kg and I can go to two tops and a sub.

Just Read The Instructions?

I was wondering if it was one of the Culture ships.

"When you said use a belt, I thought you meant a belt sander. How was I to know you meant rub it on a belt buckle?"

There's a chap who comes to an open mic I attend who plays a Roland V-Accordion, so there's all sorts of sounds coming out of it.

As necro threads go, this one has to take the prize - not only 14 years old, but also the OP has since died.

It will probably follow Bartolini's own wiring diagram, somewhere on https://bartolini.net/wiring-diagrams/. The battery negative needs to go to one of the ring and sleeve, the ground needs to go to the other. There is a convention (not always adhered to) of which goes to which but it only matters if you're using wirelesses which charge via the jack plug (Boss WL-20 IIRC). Also, check you haven't got a solder bridge somewhere or a wisp of wire bridging the two. A multimeter would help.

Both pickups solo are fine. I think the issue is that one of the two split coils has been wired incorrectly, so the strings going over the blue bit in the picture are passing over two sections of pickup in phase, while the strings going over the red bit are going over the sections of pickup which are out of phase. Imagine a dual-P bass where one of the segments of pickup has been wired the wrong way round.

I defretted a Squier Affinity Strat that I got for very little as the neck was somewhat bowed (Crack Converters staff don't understand truss rods). Must go back over it, the filling I did is pretty horrible.

The first bass I shimmed was a Hayman 40/40 that I put together from parts (my first bass). Piece of card. Worked, no issues between putting it together and selling it a few years later. I stuck with through-necks for a good many years so shims were irrelevant. Recently I've been through a bout of it. Bought a HB Dullahan guitar which had a high action, needed a shim. I splashed out on a Stew Mac one because of all the talk of ski jumps. Then I bought an Aliexpress acrylic bass which needed a shim. I got a set of the Ebay ones that one should avoid and for some reason one of them worked. Then I bought a cheap Chinese fan-fret headless bass which needed a shim and I (having worked out that neither of the remaining wooden shims from Ebay were tapered) bought a set of the brass shims and used one of those over the rearmost screw. Spot on. My probably unfounded worry about card is that it might compress, hence using something a bit more solid. I've got another three of the brass shims of varying thicknesses so I'm set up for a while. At £4 for the set of four I'm happy.

I used mine at a 3 hour rehearsal and a 2.5 hour open mic night without a recharge. Next time I use it will be a gig tomorrow so I decided it would be prudent to charge up.

Very nice. I'd be terrified of having something like that as I'm sure I'd manage to chip it.

The pickups are this form (from https://bartolini.net/product-category/bass-pickups/bass-soapbars/originalsplits/) Checking with a magnet, they are both the same, as shown. So it's not the magnets that are wrong, it's the internal wiring.

Assuming that it uses a 9-12V power supply, what about using a powerbank with a USB-C output with adaptable voltage and a voltage-setting dongle to give 9V or 12V? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295636499200 - looks like this is preset to 12V, as were the ones I got. To change voltage, you have to unsolder the link on the 12V pads and move it to another. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314997325531 is an example of a power bank with variable voltage output. Could be velcroed to the light bar (for example).

It wasn't the entire pickup out of phase. The B, E, and A strings are out of phase, the D and G strings aren't. I'd described this in the Repairs and Technical section, forgot I hadn't described the symptoms here. The MK1 pickups are rather like potted up Precision pickups, one magnet and coil covering 3 strings and the other covering 2, so I think that somehow in the manufacturing process the coils on one pickup had been wired incorrectly. I also needed to wire the pickups up with 4-core wire to allow me to switch between serial and parallel, so I needed to order that, and order mini toggle switches, then the first mini toggle switches were too short threaded to use with the 6mm thick front. Just waiting for the other toggle switches to come.