Woodinblack

It has to be reverse wound and reverse polarity. That way energy created by string vibration is added, and static noise in the environment is cancelled out

Obviously wire colours are dependant on your pickup manufacturer - there is no standard and they all do change which colour is which so check which wires are which before you start. The words are right. Obviously if you have an On-On-On switch you can have a humbucker / series / single which has a bit more use.

I must admit I have never had a bass and wished the strings were longer. But then the only reason I wished they were shorter was playing, I wouldn't naturally get a bass that has a 35" scale, and am gravitating to shorter scales anyway. The BTB looks nice, but I have always liked the look of them, but the scale and spacing always made them non viable for me. The EHB has a pretty wide spacing for me but at least it is adjustable so I can get it down to 17mm so not so bad. Honestly though, it isnt the string length or spacing that makes the EHB1505, its just very nice to play, has a great neck, weighs nothing and sounds really great.

I haven't had to do it, but you know, its a glass tube with electrons bouncing between metal plates, its always fairly amazing that it works in the first place!

The SBL accelerator course I found very good, stripping stuff back to the basics (very basics). But I generally put music on random and play whatever comes up.

The BTBs always had much wider string spacing (and crazy long scale) for the freakishly large handed amoungst us. Also a couple of custom wide spaced string were done. Luckily not something the do a lot. No, they have really made a great bass (with maybe some early production issues). I don't think that dingwall is their market, if you want something with that sort of scale dingwall is where you probably need to go for the much longer and wider necks.

That is often what people do when they are older. Leave the harsher climes of somewhere like Santa Ana California to go somewhere mild like Wales. Oh hang on... Still, I guess the amount of days you can't breath outside due to forrest fires are a lot lower in Wales.

Because the mods didn't have enough time to go through all posts checking whether something is legit. I think so too, it doesn't appear that currently ric are putting the same level of interest in

I read that as 'with one hand and the headless in another' - I was impressed! Never had that.

It is quite impressive that it is 7 years since my first squier bass VI and they still haven't fixed that!

You can use any strings, you just pass them through the hole and clamp them. Do you mean hang like this?

Yep, it probably would, although I really need tto get round to putting it on the synth. Basicaly I have a number of sound effects and stuff that I trigger when playing. What I should be doing is triggering them from the midi keyboard but I found a lack of decent software to do it, so I use a jamman looper that just triggers sound effects So it probably would do it.

I actualy use an A/B, A goes to the smoothhound, B goes to a jack in case of trouble. The synth goes to the PA. Can the looper do a single shot of a stored sample?

Get a set of rough gloves to play with?

I guess it depends on what you are expecting. I have had 2 bass VIs and not really modified them - apart from strings, the first had to have labella strings on it, but at the time there was very little else, now there is a lot more choice. If you look at the bass VI forums it will make you think that you have to change everything and put staytrems etc on it and do hundreds of £ of changes, but honestly they are not bad out of the box with a bit of a setup. I would recommend (like with all these things), don't worry about what other people say you *have* to change, play it and see how you get on. if there is something you don't like, then look into what needs changing then.

Yeh, still not for me as I need the sample player, the SY2000 and an actual synth pedalboard. And the vocal processor, although I guess that could go elsewhere

Ah, good point, get a good amplifier then you will be able to tell the difference. ok, then yes, for you it wouldn't be any use. For me it would be less use as it is too big for my pedalboard! Same could be said for the D and G strings, let alone the B

If you don't hear much of a difference between that synth sound and a straight bass, you need to put some serious effort into sorting out your amplifier!

THey do a EHB1000 too!

Oh I thought I would have a look what I had on the ipad to do diagrams, as I keep thinking it would be handy, so I did it for this diagram as a test!

Yes, the aerodyne necks are fairly thin. Not totally keen on the sound of it though, which is why I sold mine recently

No I would imagine not. I am not against ibanez doing this, it seems sensible and it looks good, but why I said I would have to try it is what are those pickups like? If they are like the nords or something then that is great. if they are like the barts, then I am never going to like it and there is no choice but to move the whole bass on. I think it looks better than the nords in the 1506, but I know what those sound like, so I would order them without worrying about them. Hopefully that way of doing things could become standard. Yes, and in the case of the combustions, the bart rules apply, not something I could live with!

Sounds like a good plan, although if you don't like the pickups there is nothing you can do about it, I doubt there are any replacements for those. I think I would have to hear it first as its number puts it in the bart pickup bracket, and I wouldn't want anything like the barts.

Height adjustable, no, that is a lot higher tech, it is a piece of wood with double sided tape that is 6mm high. By default that is about the hight of the pickups when it comes, gap obviously depends on your string height

The original shows red lines which confused me (as they wouldn't make sense) then I realised they may just be showing the internal connections of the switch. If there are jumpers there it wouldn't work