Woodinblack

If you had talked to Mr Hall, you would probably understand!

I'm guessing that is the plan!

That isn’t surprising. When something comes out and there is a rush to get it it is going to stay full price. When the market has settled it is going to reduce to a lower price (ignoring any inflation elements).

Everyone makes linear pots, they are the natural way to make pots, but the log pot was invented because they don’t work for audio because our hearing is not linear, so the log pot stops the pot only seeming to work in the last 20%

We have that in our set, goes down well. In fact we first played it before it was ready as there had been a fight earlier and it seemed appropriate!

Some tone controls are worse than others, but one of the problems of a passive instrument is the filter network that is implimented by your tone control is an RC network where the R is provided by your pickups, your volume control and the input of your amp (and your cable). Obviously that varies with the amp and the cable, so it is designed around one cable and amp combo. If yours is very different, it won't work the same.

I have recently got a bass cub but don't know if I can give much help as I don't have the other one for a comparison. I do have a RH450 and an Ashdown CTM-100 though if that helps. its quieter than both of those I like the bass cub, it is small enough to drag round to friends, it isn't loud enough to play with any of my drummers (who are loud and extra loud), but good enough to play with another guitarist. Great amp at home, although quite sterile (which isn't a bad thing). I have used the other socket for a microphone, which is handy if you have to do that. The line in seemed a bit noisy, not sure if that was the cable or what. It does work though, but it isn't something i use much. I am glad I got it but it is mostly an in house or round a mates sort of thing.

hahah - maybe. It looks like a handy thing to have - I have the B3 still, but that is very much a gig bag sort of size, so almost certainly will get one. however I can't at the moment as I am in a 'not allowed to buy myself anything before my birthday' month!

Sorry that is an overreaction because I have been having one of those weeks where I am getting a lot of people tell me I had asked questions I not (in a work context). See, I haven't had any specific problem with my hands, but as I am getting older, there are some stretches that hurt a bit and I am thinking, maybe I should look into doing something about it before I have a problem. It is indeed. But sometimes the only way you can find out what you do like is by it not being something you got. Like with pickups, as you said, the Maruszczyk I got and sold (what this thread was about) was a nice bass, but it managed to completely not move me. Maybe that was the pickups. I have just got a short scale Gretsch (4 string) which was a fraction of the cost, and I am loving that, but ultimately I am a 5 string player and it is a pain having a string missing. I did another thread about strings, and I ended up getting string from Newtone, which were the only company that I could find specific 5 string short scale strings.

That looks rather good.

The original question (ie, my question), wasn't even slightly like that, that would be a ridiculous question as clearly I have several 34" basses that I know work. It also wasn't 'do they work', because again that would also be a stupid question as I can see that people make them and people play them, so they obviously 'work'. The question was to get peoples opinion on how well they work (for them), and if the B string has any additional problems due to its length. At some point (probably far from 30"), the weight of string required becomes too much to overcome the thickness or stiffness of that string and it becomes impractical, so there is an absolute point where it is not possible, but also at some point, regardless of the construction of the bass and the neck construction, the sound of the string is so different to the sound of the others that it is not really practical to have to have that string. That was the question. To which the answer (as many people said and I found out myself) is that they can work very well, even if the one I had I didn't get on with (for reasons other than the 5th string). But as I am on the lookout for another, nothing against the scale.

I had that for 5 or 6 years. Reducing cafine in the afternoon helped but didn't make it go away. We lived in a small village at the time and it was worse because you could hear every church bell chime through the night just to remind you how you weren't sleeping and how little time had passed. I tried a load of things, a few things made it better, quite a few things made it worse, such as cafine, computers in the evening, all that sort of stuff. Those calm pills helped sometimes. In the end it just switched off one day and I have slept like a log since, it was around the time I gave up smoking, I have no idea if it was related or not but I was very grateful either way. Hope you find something that works for you

Now I look, jazz knobs are 34mm apart, so there is tons of room

I would wire them up so you had two volumes stacked and a separate tone (like a jazz but stacked). Or just two volumes.

Guessing one of these https://www.joyoeffectpedals.co.uk/joyo-zgp-guitar-effect-pedal-filter-isolated-output-power

2 pickup - gives a look of something different rather than just another slab bodied P

Check its all connected first

Can;t you just bolt that part back in where it came from? Mine is a bit weak at that point too, but I always use it on an extension lead anyway.

I am not a fan of the old telecaster style slab p basses (well, not even P basses in general), but that looks very nice - what is it?

I don't know, not a huge fan of the triangles, but ship it at a reasonable price for a machine produced US bass (which I know isn't going to happen) and I would buy it.

A great advance in engineering knowledge everywhere, and has been shown to everyone studying resonance since as the most dramatic effect, how a 40 mile an hour wind can take out a bridge (and kill a dog). I think the most amazing thing though, is not that it happened, but they were actually filming it at the time. I know they had a problem with the bridge anyway due to the vibration, but considering how few things were being filmed back in 1940 compared to now, the fact the filmed it was so lucky. If they hadn't, noone would know about the bridge today, it would just be another in the list of bridge collapses.

Wish I had thought of that

No, the original pickup went all the way round, then they changed it to be a bit like a normal pickup but kept the style so put a cover over the top. I don't mind that so much as you can take it off. I meant on the one with the triangle pickups, that had a nice bridge and the edges of the bass were rounded, I think they had done it well, even if maybe the triangle pickups aren't to my taste. I can see the point of the triangular pickups if it had the triangle inlays, but seems odd with dots (and I must say, I am not a fan of a ric with dots).

All that time I didn’t realise the P had such a wide bridge when I posted in the other thread about swapping it, thought it was just the usual 19 that is too wide for me, obviously 20 is going to be bad. i will see what my bridge options are to take it closer to the good side of 19!