Kiwi

He'd never get a deal these days, the music is far too intelligent. It's a sad endictment of how the music industry is more about industry than music.

Its Tony Goggle!

In principle - yes and I would argue strongly that they should share the magic that they had as a band (despite John Bonham's death). But as much as I loved seeing them on the live DVD I know they were disappointed with their own playing. So pragmatically...it may be that what they had has gone already.

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1361133116' post='1981674'] If you want to call it F, you'll have to play it in Eb minor instead. [/quote] This is how I learned it. Cracking tune though. Here's a clip of me muddling through it at a sound check at the top of the Gherkin in London, through an awesome Akai Deep Impact. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGgHyhgZfy8[/media]

Victor Wooten has done a cover of this one.

Sounds surreal Michael

Noice...tight playing and your bass sounds the beans.

Lee doesn't play upright...what on earth are they doing?!

La Bella make many of their strings in batches. I had to wait 4 months for a 6 string set with the exposed core. So there may be times when a certain kind of string isn't available anywhere because everyone's run out but La Bella haven't received enough orders yet to make another batch.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1360961137' post='1979237'] If they were out of polarity, would it not just be a case of reversing the wiring on the series switch the reverse the polarity on each Jazz pickup? I get what you're saying, i can test it and all before i start, but the only way i'm really going to see if it will work is if i try, is it not? [/quote] You'll get phase cancellation effects in certain settings. What kinds of effects will depend on the polarity of the humbucker coils.

Why Status in particular and what is it that you are hoping they will deliver?

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1360957865' post='1979149'] Both jazz pickups are going to be wired to a single volume pot, which means both pickups will always be at the same level. The pot will be a pull pot for switching the jazz pickups to series. From the volume pot, the signal will go into the preamp. The MM will have its own volume pot, which won't be a pull pot, but the MM pickup will be wired in series constantly. The signal will go from the volume pot to the preamp. [/quote] Both the jazz coils and the wiring for the coils in the MM humbucker are in parallel in the original instruments. If you want series, that's up to you but as I mentioned above, you'll have to reset your input gain on the amp/effects board every time you switch between parallel and series. It will drive soundmen NUTS. You also won't get the characteristic MM sound if the coils in the humbucker are in series. You will need to be clear about the effects of polarity when you mix the humbucker and the single coils. The jazz scoop comes from the single coils being reverse wound and reverse polarity in comparison to one another. I have no idea what will happen when you mix them with the humbucker.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1360955586' post='1979090'] I think you'll find that it's [i][b]Father[/b][/i] Jack... [/quote] See that bit I wrote above about details? http://www.youdopia.com/2010/07/27/punctuation-its-the-difference-between-helping-your-uncle-jack-off-a-horse-and/

FWIW - both my spectors have coil switching soapbars by Andy at Wizard. They switch between single coil and parallel humbucking settings and the preamp has an input buffer. That means the output of any coil selection remains the same volume. Even though the two middle coils aren't close together, they still manage a good enough impression of a stingray to sit comfortably in the mix of a Chic cover. So for the purpose of playing live, close enough is good enough. The outer coils sound a bit like a Tobias with a little more jazz bass bite. For recording, I wouldn't even bother with coil switching, I'd just bring two basses.

Its also worth being clear that the coils can be physically accommodated too. It might be worth checking the single coil bridge pickup and MM humbucker don't overlap one another if you haven't done that already. [quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1360956334' post='1979107'] Ok, what i was going to do was have the single volume pot for the jazz pickups, and one for the MM pickup. Then have a series/parallel pull pot for the jazz pickups. How much would a custom set cost? [/quote] He made me some replacement single coils for my Celinder for 75 quid each. So not much different to the prices from big name manufacturers. If you have a pickup blend between the single coils, you'll still have to consider what happens when mixing one single coil and MM humbucker. If you won't be mixing jazz and MM outputs, a switch would be a simpler solution with a master volume.

Even with volumes, you'll be selecting different coils because you'll be mixing single coil and humbucking pickups. If you get jazz pickups that are stacked humbuckers (the second coil is a humcancelling dummy) you'll be selecting between different humbuckers in terms of voltage but still get the single coil sound. Polarity is still something to be careful about though when selecting a single coil and humbucker. Aaron Armstrong will be able to make you a custom set of J/M/J pickups and advise on how to blend them.

Ah'a - I see wh't you did there. Have to admit, I'm suffering from punctuation blindness at the moment. The project I've just finished included spending 4 months editing a 25,000 word document I'd written down to 16,000 words and I've really stopped giving a sh*t about details.

I'd suggest talking to someone like Aaron Armstrong about the impact of polarity in different coil combinations too. Having lots of coils makes life very complicated unless the coil switching options are restricted to a few options that work well.

"Lets eat, Grandma." vs "Lets eat Grandma." A comma can mean the difference between life and death. "Lets help Uncle Jack off a horse." vs "Lets help Uncle jack off a horse." Poor capitalisation can lead to a sticky end also.