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Mine had a pearloid cover to match the scratchplate.. Another BCer has it now..

Exactly my first thoughts. I'd fill them up with dead skin pretty quickly...

Conversely, my SB-2 Tribute is only about 8lb...

Very true. And the persistent magnetic fields of said inactive parts of the circuit will still affect the strings, too. That'll also make it sound less like a single coil.

Fixed that for you! 😉

There's a demo of this vs. a CV Squire on Andertons' site. I'd have to change the tort 'guard, though...

I got the right one, then... 😃 The MFD pickups do seem to give the SB-2 an unfair advantage, regardless of any level-matching from elsewhere in the signal path.

DI alone would probably be good enough for "Tonal Analysis". People generally adjust amp (or instrument) EQ to compensate, not rely on the core tone of the bass itself. (Personally, I'd probably try DI recording and playback through headphones, then try it out with an amp)

To give the B string more definition(?) Just a guess...

Sloppy fingering? Your words are meaningless to me...

All this now makes me wonder... Do they use Low Pass Filters to suppress noise above, say 16kHz. Nothing up there but hiss and electrical noise.

Excellent. If the grain is a good as the body in the photo, just stain the front face instead and paint the back & sides. Or stain it all over.

Ah, forgive the vagaries of my memory!

I had a QSC PLX1202 power amp. It had dip-switches for an HPF ( on/off, 35Hz/50Hz -3dB 24dB/ octave roll-off) This afforded me the opportunity to experiment. The 35Hz setting helped a lot. Cleared out a lot of "congestion" from the sound, and audibly decreased the stress in the sound from the cabinet, while also tangibly increasing headroom. I was reluctant to use the 50Hz setting, as it's below the fundamental of even "E" (about 41Hz). Turned out it was even better, despite supposedly being above the lowest frequency the cab could supposedly output (but no dB reference point was given!)

Sims would take the fingerboard off, drill it for LED dots, rout the board or neck for the wiring- using the truss rod channel isn't a great idea, and then look at the existing power or adding another battery somewhere in the body to run it all..

That's an awful lot of money for a Jazz. It'd need to be amazing to compete with the other basses available for that sort of money.

I have one. My most recent bass purchase. It's excellent. The 2x vol control layout is unusual, but persevere with it. There's plenty of tones in there. I find mine suits me better than my Yamaha Attitude 10th Anniversary.

I had something like this issue with my ill- fated Status Streamline. Does your headless 5 have 5 grub-screws for clamping non double ball- end strings? If so, do you use them? If you don't use them, fashion a brass "weight" and use the grub screws to secure it in place. Failing that, get a small G-clamp and attach it somewhere above the nut Otherwise, maybe a (bass)FatFinger could be made to work. Probably not heavy enough, though.

The Ampeg sounds Soooo good (I'd forgotten how good) Top end is really sweet, and the lower frequencies warm and full but defined and not bloated. The Korg is running from a tuner out, so isn't in the signal path at all. It just sits there doing away with the need for Christmas lights.

Are we there now?!

Definitely this.

Not strictly a head, and certainly not a cab, but I hauled this down out of the loft with the Christmas decorations.. In the rack; Korg DTR 1000 Ampeg SVP-PRO (mk1, black face) Peavey MAX Bass pre-amp. In the back.. my old 10m Whirlwind cable that I thought I'd lost.. and a 4-way extension lead fixed to a 1u panel. Best of all. It all still works 😃 Currently have a line out from the SVP driving a Korg Pandora to drive headphones. Sounds really good with my G&L SB-2 Tribute.

The body of the bass is convex at the front, right? I should imagine that the scratchplate is made from flat(ish) material, and that bending it to conform to shape has bowed it?

Can't fault it. Jazz (ish) neck, remarkably versatile. Andertons have them at £350 at the mo'

Yep. Same here. I've done the bands and gigging piece. There were some truly memorable moments, but the whole thing left me increasingly weary (and wary) of the music biz and other people to the point that it's not worth the trouble. I still enjoy playing. I'm still improving. I don't need to gig and I've no desire to do so.