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My Squier Vintage Modified Modified was modified by replacing the bridge pickup with an MM pickup, which has a 3-way toggle switch for switching series, parallel, and single coil. I wasn't entirely clear on how this was accomplished with a DPDT switch, so went in search of wiring diagrams, and that just puzzled me some more. 4-wire MM pickups are all going to be similar so I found a wiring diagram for a Nordstrand MM4. The switches are DPDT on-on-on ones (this is specified in a PDF on Nordstrand's website). Series and parallel are easily worked out. Parallel (the bottom contacts are made): ground-green-white live-black-red Series (the top contacts are made): red-white green-ground black-live But how does single coil work? On-on-on toggles connect both throws to their individual poles AIUI (unless I'm mistaken in my belief) so the resulting connections on the bridge pickup are ground-green-white live-black-red-white-green-ground because of that diagonal connection of the white lead. So that seems to short out both coils. I must be missing something because it works on the Squier, which is wired up to that pattern (albeit with the colours in a different order but still with a red-green coil and a black-white coil). Can anyone enlighten me?

So, further to this experiment - using a splitter to current share didn't work. However, I used one of these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/365214653909 with the output set to 9V (move the jumper from 12V to 9V). Works with variable voltage USB-C supplies. Connected it to the power bank. Using a 5.5/2.1 DC plug, connected + to the power outer and - to the power inner (important, that bit), checked I was getting 9V and the right polarity, then connected this to a daisy chain, using a 5.5/2.1 to 5.5/2.5 right-angle adaptor to connect it to the Stomp and also connected up an EHX C9 organ synth and a Line 6 G50 receiver. It all worked, which was nice. So, in conclusion: the AliExpress power supply works for the average low or mid powered pedal but just about runs out of puff for the extremely thirsty ones. The USB decoy board set to 9V works for high drain devices and can be used for multiple devices by daisy chaining as long as they don't need isolated supplies.

Just tried to listen to the Peggy Seeger original. Managed 51 seconds. The phrasing on the Elvis version is weird.

No hit on the serial number. Not sure if that's significant or not. If it was really valuable, wouldn't the seller have managed to do more of a description than three generated sentences?

It's the infamous German seller. He tends to inflate prices by a factor of ten.

Not really, JJ's bass tone doesn't stop me listening to the Stranglers.

I have a couple of examples of 5-string headed J basses here. The Squier has stock tuners, the top horn is at fret 12, and it's on the verge of neck dive. The Sei has a slightly lighter body, lightweight tuners, a slightly slimmed down headstock, and is nicely balanced. Given the level of minimalism you are aiming at with the body, you'd probably need to stretch the top horn to fret 10 or so.

That doesn't seem to have bothered U2 or Level 42.

While a Precision is ideal for use as a mallet to drive in tent pegs, the slightly more sophisticated Jazz is better used as a mallet with which to strike chisels to cut out holes in Precisions to accommodate a Jazz pickup in the bridge position.

The way you were looking at the ceiling, I wondered if you were channelling the Duke of Gloucester and were about to ask if it was insulated.

Seeing as I had ten bearings and used five on the Space, I had another five left over so I put them on the Hohner B2AV. Another improvement, this time on a licensed Steinberger bridge, so B2s and Jacks can be made better too.

And I did do it to the Cort Space. An absolute revelation, the tuning action is now wonderfully smooth. I used F4-10M bearings (4mm I/D, 10mm O/D, 4mm depth) from Ebay at £8 for ten. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/387669381702?var=654905178691 - item has ended now but search for "thrust ball bearing f4-10m" including the description. Searching for "miniature thrust ball bearing" will also work but need some digging through.

I said it was a sample, maybe should have been more explicit. And you're just going to have to start saving...

To be sung by a choir of frog unicorns.

No change to the description: Treat the music monster in you to the Conklin Groove Tools GT7 Electric Bass Guitar that slays with its killer looks and electrifying tones. With a neck made of stable maple and purpleheart, this Conklin 7 string guitar has a deep cutaway body shape that makes playing easy. For electrifying note sustenance the headstock of this Conklin bass guitar is cleverly angled to increase nut tension. An amplified electronic sound emanates from this Conklin bass guitar, caused by the Bartolini active pickups with volume. So you if you wish to soothe with mellow rhythms or booming rock, the Conklin Groove Tools GT7 Electric Bass Guitar is appropriately designed. This bass is in excellent condition and everything works perfectly as it should.

The Ebay weird and wonderful sub-forum used to regularly feature 70s Precisions which had had J pickups installed in the bridge position, which were invariably met by screams of approbation from the Fender fanbois who failed to appreciate that in the 80s a 70s P bass was not a collectors' item but something to be modified if you wanted to, with the possibility of improving the sound available.

My GR Bass AT212? My Antoniotsai bass? BRX's 6-string shortie? BRX's singer?

But are they being bought to hang on the wall? If you play down the Tickled Trout on a Saturday, what's the maximum value of a bass that you'll take to play there? If you buy a £15k Precision, assuming you're in the weekend warrior category, are you likely to play it at the average gig?

? I don't think the dragon affects the tone.

I was following our keyboard player and drummer, both of whom know it (the drummer used to be the sound engineer there). I don't think I'll have a problem finding it again.

My Squier came with a defret and a MM pickup in the bridge position, which was something I was looking for. I paid slightly less for it than I would have for an unmodified VM, which seems reasonable. I may change the MM pickup, and I'll probably change the tuners to Hipshots as it's got a touch of the neck dives.

Surely a Zon is more nerdy. Jazz basses are almost as common as muck (Precisions are commoner).

10 gigs on their tour in April, so ten identically named bands sharing a website and each with a set of four identically named members who all look like each of the other nine members who share their name? Probably simpler just to move one band of four members around.

It's defective - it's got a headstock. Turn your name badge in immediately.