Hellzero

The luthier seems to still be active, here is his website: https://www.richardvanderhoevenguitarsandbasses.nl/ And his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RvanderHoevenGuitars/

If you don't ground the pickup cavities, then what you did there is totally useless as the sensed electronic parasites won't be grounded and will pass in the signal through the pickups. Furthermore, your own body will still act as the more powerful antenna around and you'll still have your free taxi radio turned on... Simply solder a wire from the pickup cavities to the copper of the preamp cavities and everything will become dead silent, especially your Vigier with the amazing Benedetti single coil pickups (that I know very well as my Leduc basses are equipped with Benedetti-Leduc single coil pickups with a third hum-cancelling "pickup" à la Alembic).

Calling @RonC who owned a Leader bass...

By the way, did you ground all the cavities after shielding them with copper?

Not a bass, but totally related to it, it's my JBC SL 2300 soldering station bought around 35 years ago, used a lot since then on thousands of items, almost every day in the beginning and at least once a week since a few years. It was costing a lot back then, the price of a new good quality bass... I'm going to change the tip for the first time after around 35 years as soon as I receive the official one ordered.

The reading with active pickups is quite useless especially if they weren't powered when doing it... With active pickups, the pots are generally 25 kOhms. If Seymour Duncan is saying 100 kOhms, they must have a reason so following what the designers have established is always the best idea.

@Ruarl Try the LaBella Super Steps or the F Bass or the Rotosound Piano String Design or the Kalium or the Galli EC and the likes with the exposed cores. Newtone is also making some and is always a pleasure to deal with.

Because Google didn't study Latin @ezbass. 😉

This was my Sei Flamboyant 6, excellent bass, for sure, but I traded it for I don't remember what, ask @binky_bass... Hoc non debevo vendere.

This was my Sei Flamboyant 6, excellent bass, for sure, but I traded it for I don't remember what, ask @binky_bass...

Richter in Germany also have a twin buffer preamp in their range. https://www.richter-ee.de/mixer.html EBS had a terrific buffered preamp too, but it's not made anymore.

All the above is the reason why I stopped attending "rock" concert something like 2 decades ago: deaf "sound engineers" are a real pain in the āss. And the funny thing is that I was always standing near the mixing desk, because this is were the sound was the least bad... 🤮 We go mainly to jazz (where the sound engineers know what the mediums are for) or classical concerts where the sound is ALWAYS good. Ok, classical concerts are (most of the time) unamplified, but the musicians placement is a science too and is sound engineering in itself.

You named it before @itu: Bartolini...

After a too large lunch.

I would say simply dead strings coupled to a heavy attack with the bridge pickup full on and a tad bit of neck pickup, tone full on, through the all flat KRK speakers, recorded with a phone.