Woodinblack

Agreed, I know there is the sense that if it gets you a nice bass, and I can see that, but for me, the P pickup is actually pretty good, the J just adds a bit of bite to it (which it doesn't really need) and if I was going to spend a load I would probably go for lighter machineheads, just to help with the balance, or maybe even a pickguard as the one it has isn't that appealing!

What kind of crazy talk is that!

Would think the aguilars probably cost more than the TMB35!

Oh get you, how posh is that

Most of my basses are on the wall. Some upstairs, some downstairs. The ones downstairs have a veto on whether they were 'ugly' or not - my blonde telecaster was never allowed downstairs (as it was 'unfinished'), and some others were not asthetic enough to be there, so they are upstairs.

And maybe a 3rd and 4th - I have had a cough for 3 years now. Still waiting for some opinion on what I can do about it, I would have thought for tinnitus you would have to go somewhere a bit more specialist before they listened.

Yeh, I met a guy at a gig that was telling me all the guitars he had, when I asked him what he played he said he never played them, although sometimes just lent them to people to play (he was at the time talking about an EDS-1275 custom shop). He just loved them and put them on the wall.

the 1M is really just because you have a preamp. With the output of a preamp going through a capacitor, when you switch the preamp out of the circuit, the voltage can increase on the output of the capacitor. When you put it inline again that charge goes out through the socket. The 1M resistor keeps it down when it is out of circuit.

Ah ok, sorry - I was being dumb! Well, yes its a compromise, sometimes you will have two coils, sometimes you have one. So I guess its whatever sounds better!

Without being too negative, there really isn't much they can do

So we are probably never going to agree. No, they were pretty busy in the first place. Ie, when you said that led zep was on and JPJ is what people would describe as busy. Maybe he lacked confidence? Well, I think zep and rush worked out just fine.

ok, that works. If the bottom pickups hot gets switched from the blend to the top pickups 'ground', the ground is removed from the top pickup and the top pickup hot goes to the output of the blend. Yes, you are wrong. The higher the capacitance the lower the resistance at a given frequency Xc = 1 / 2πfc where Xc is the equivilent impedance, f is the frequency in hertz, and C is the capacitance in farads. so for a 250nF capacitor, at 5khz @5kHz - 1 / 2π 5000 * 0.00000025 = 127Ω @2kHz - 1 / 2π 2000 * 0.00000025 = 318Ω for a 500nF capacitor @5kHz - 1 / 2π 5000 * 0.00000050 = 63Ω @2kHz - 1 / 2π 2000 * 0.00000050 = 159Ω So dumbing it down a bit you can say equivilent impedance is like resistance, and in this context it is used shorting to ground, so for any given frequency, the lower the resistance the more you are shorting to ground. And because these values are very low compared to your pickups / vpolume / pan / amp input impedance etc, you are going to hear very little when you turn your tone down. I think you are an order of magnitude out in your values - I would personally be using a 22nF, not a 220nF etc, although I think the TMB35 has 47nf. The Fender American Vintage 62 uses a 100nF which is quite high. Handy calculator here if you dont want to do the above - https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/tools/capacitor-impedance-calculator/ You take two signals and litterally add them together, unlike parallel where you take 2 signals and average them. I found O level physics was particulalry useless at this sort of stuff, it was all springs and inclines. I can't remember if we touched anythign like that until I did 1st year electronic principles at college.

Pretty rare. Normally when I see a band in a pub the solo goes off and the bottom drops out of the sound. But some bass players will take up the slack. I have heard fewer cases of the latter sound bad than the former. My experience is the opposite.

This is litterally geddy lees reason for playing more notes the way he does. Would rather listen to a geddy lee over a root and fifths guy every day. And yes, if you go and see a three piece, the guitar goes for a solo and the bottom drops out of the song unless the bass picks it up.

No, I never noticed a difference in that, which is why I never bothered with that after doing it once (or wondered why they put the S1 switch on the P bass - works nicely on the jazz) Depends on how you wire them - if you leave the blend inputs in place before the switch it will blend between series and the back pickup or act as an additional volume. But if you switch the blend out as well it would be fine. Just more wiring there. Certainly worth shielding in that case with the back pickup being a bit of a noise magnet. note, it doesn't turn it to one big humbucker, it turns it into two individual stacked pickups, a humbucker actually reduces hum (obviously) due to the wiring and magnet polarity, two series pickups (unless they are wired that way) don't cancel the hum, they add it. Still a good thing to do, just be careful of quite a noisy original setup (however, maybe it is just mine that is noisy?) Not sure what you mean - 250s will clip off the top end, that is their purpose in a bass. 500s would clip more off. I am not sure what the resistor thing would give you, except if you wired two resistors to the hot output of both pickups, you are shorting out part of the top pickup (which maybe would be ok as I believe the P is louder than the J), but the 500 would make it mudier. But as you said you ordered '250s' ie, multiple. Try the 250, if it is too bright put another 250 in parallel with it (which is then 500).

I think I got the idea wrong - did you mean parallel series on the two pickups, in which case the blend wouldn't work right, or did you just mean on the p? I know the series / parallel well enough, I have it on a few basses.

There is space by the P pickup, the area under the metal control is very narrow, so no room for anything else there. Why would the series / parallel be tricky? There is quite a lot of room there if you are going to put it on the top pots. I must admit I would be a bit wary of extra noise that you will get with series from the jazz pickup, but maybe with your shielding it might help a bit.

Only a few years ago

Yes, it isn't most obviously I couldn't find it for a bit. At the end of every row is a checkbox. If you click on one of the checkboxes, you get a floating box at the bottom with a 'with <n> <bin icon>' letting you delete all the ones you selected

What not being able to edit posts? What is stopping you edit posts?

Are you sure? I did a free trial (outside the US) and I just had an advert for a free trial in my facebook feed, which when I clicked on 'why am I seeing this advert' said because I was 18+ and primarily located in the united kingdom.

I would fix it myself, although I it would probably be worth contacting the company and seeing what they said, maybe they will provide a discount to not send it back which would cover getting a new socket.

Frankly, unless you are at an audition, if your goal is to impress people on a bass, you have picked the wrong instrument!

Honestly never noticed a correlation between 'busyness' and confidence, I think it is more down to style. You get guys like Geddy Lee, John Entwhistle and Chris Squire who you could class as 'busy', I don't know Geddy Lee and John Entwhistle but can certainly say first hand Chris Squire was not someone obviously lacking confidence! I also don't think it is the bass either, pretty well all basses can make all sounds if you try hard enough. Jamersons P bass had next to no definition but he wasn't a root and fifths sort of guy I think it is just a style and how you want to play. If you want to do a few notes and just beef up the bottom end, fine, do that. If you want to do the solos, fine do that, but I think that reading a reason other than your style into it is probably wrong. In your case, maybe you are playing more notes because of a lack of confidence, only you know that, but you can't assume that is true for all. For me, if bass was about playing root and fifths or just filling in the low end, I don't think I would bother.

Normally I would put most of the replacing electronics as a bit snake oilish from a sound point of view, but in this case, maybe not, certainly not from a piece of mind. I replaced the pot with an alpha pot, bit of a contrast. This was the wiring straight out of the bass when I took it out to see why the tone had stopped working And the alpha pot by comparison Certainly can see where they didn't spend the money! True thats a point. For me a bridge works or it doesn't. I can appreciate the quality of a well made bridge but it is pretty rare I have heard a difference between one bridge and another unless the first was broken. And never on a bass. There is always Newtone