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The more screwing the better.....could you get my coat while you're at Johnny?

[quote name='bremen' post='331799' date='Nov 18 2008, 08:55 PM']Because if it was because they were single-coil the noise wouldn't be dependent on the setting of the bass's volume controls. I may be wrong but the way I read Geek's post it was only a problem when they weren't fully on.[/quote] The hum made by jazz bass, single coil pups is only audible when one or the other pups is at higher volume than the other, when both are at the same volume...no matter what that volume is, no hum is heard. Conversely, when the front pup is at a volume higher than the rear pup...or vice versa...hum can be heard.

[quote name='bremen' post='331759' date='Nov 18 2008, 08:21 PM']This is probably due to lack of screening. If it was due to the lack of humbucking in the pickups it'd get louder as the volume was turned up. As it is, the volume controls show a high impedance to the amp when turned down, allowing capacitive (ie through the air and the wood of the body) coupling. It's the same sort of effect as using a non-screened cable between bass and amp. Fully lining the cavity with copper tape, and grounding this tape to the metal plate, should fix it. Ground loops are not an issue when there are no heavy currents flowing. They are hugely significant in power amps and systems where multiple mains-powered devices are interconncted, but it really doesn't matter how the ground connections are arranged within a passive bass, so long as the connections are all there. The metal plate of the Jazz should be fine as a ground return (so long as the pot bodies are connected to the ground wires of the pickups and the bridge).[/quote] Still think it's just the fact that they're single coil pups ....what do you mean when you say 'If it was due to the lack of humbucking in the pickups it'd get louder as the volume was turned up' ? Do you mean when he turns the amps gain or output up? If so, he hasn't said that this doesn't happen. Most of the time the most obvious answer is the correct one.

There's always some hum with J bass pups when they are'nt either both on full or at least both controls are around the same point...something to do with them being single coil?????

Nice bass...but that mark aint going no-where....should have bought mines

Thanks, but no thanks.

I take it he's selling it because he's unemployed? He must be out of work to have found the time to take all those pics Anyway, does nothing for me i'm afraid

I've been on the lookout for one of these for a while but i'm almost out on my arse from my job for being a nutter, so i think i'll give it a miss.

There's another of these on Ishibashi...without the angled headstock...they're asking approx £500...wouldn't be surprised is this went for around that.

Your paying £170 more for the Lakland, made in Korea, and it's an active bass...hardly comparable to a Highway 1, made in the US, which can be had for under £500 and are passive Still think that H1's are really good basses for the money.

I use Kent Armstrong in both by P and my J....sound good to me and very reasonably priced.