Hellzero

I have a blocked eBay dodgy sellers list, but from when it was still a place to buy things, not a dump...

Check my mémoire, the photos and explanations are in it. The Bigsby-Fender headstock came from an Austrian design of 1820.

It's been explained so many times: you're acting as an antenna and when touching the strings you ground yourself removing the buzz. Just like @Jean-Luc Pickguard says, making a complete shielding of ALL cavities star grounded including the bridge will solve this issue, which is quite common with Fender type basses and slugs inside the cavities. 🤪 It's not only a matter of bridge earthed... 😉

You didn't take the price of the oven into account, the time it takes to take the strings off and on, the time you'll spend cleaning that oven from the non healthy residues including the burnt silk and the useless local warming, which is nowadays priceless. Didn't you notice that your strings are marked at the frets location when you do such "rescue" leading to intonation and false harmonics issues: It's just the usual cheapskate maths you've done here. If your strings are dead (to your taste), change them, recycle the old ones and save time, money and the planet. Won't make friends, I know.

Do the maths, I think this is cheaper and better for your health (all this heated gunk in the oven is just disgusting): https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_valuestrings_bassguitar_medium.htm That said I preferred the tone before the "ovening".

Serial number filed off says: run away!

Following with the usual greatest interest.

Crossed messages.

And I doubt they could ship worldwide as they are based in Russia, but maybe Russia is worldwide according to Putin's idea of the world...

And saying he was recycling others idea is not knowing what he's done for the musicians at this time as he was always listening to their input. A true genius, indeed, always going ahead. He even turned his cheapskate habits into clever designs, not flaws.

As I mentioned it a lot of times, some 22 years ago, I wrote a very complete mémoire about the electric guitars and basses from their origin to 1965. You can read it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MH6uXdr4PAOTlt9h-vh1aVaeeYCTSfPj/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=108217044156770833021&rtpof=true&sd=true Leo Fender wasn't a businessman, but a radio repairer at the time he started his activities, but when he got bigger he hired some real salesmen and businessmen in his team. His strength was listening to the needs of musicians back in the day and he had the idea that an instrument should be fixed very quickly hence the removable neck allowing for the quickest repair ever as all you had to do is change the neck or the body and your instrument was ready to use immediately.

And Jack Bruce (Cream), Alain Caron (Uzeb, Mike Stern, ...), Steve DiGiorgio (Death, ...), Mark Egan (Pat Metheny, Claude Nougaro's Nougayork, ...), Percy Jones (Brand X, Tunnels, Brian Eno ...), Bakithi Kumalo (Paul Simon's Graceland), Sting (The Police), Bernard Paganotti (Magma, Francis Cabrel, ...), Jaco Pastorius (Joni Mitchell, Weather Report, ...) and Bill Wyman (The Rolling Stones). And many more.

Delirious, as it's what I said since the beginning and even explained why. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Hi @michele, Should you consider a GP12SMX Series 6 preamp, one just appeared in France: https://www.zikinf.com/annonces/annonce-2210949?ek=cPiYNOSg

@Pirellithecat, your question has its answer in my numerous replies and as I said if you want to keep your signal path totally passive, put an MN taper blend and everything will work perfectly, still using the original GZR pots. The EMG ABC and the Bartolini AGDB are not per se exactly the same things, they both are buffer preamps for sure, but the ABC includes the 25 KOhms MN taper blend abd everything is totally solder less when you have to buy it separately for the AGDB and solder everything. Your EMG GZR tone pot is a passive model, so you'll need to buy an EMG active tone pot that EMG is selling, of course, but the total amount of the ABC and the active pot will be the same as buying a new set of pickups...

I truly think you have absolutely no electronics knowledge at all, but feel the urge to comment everything without even understanding a single thing.

I truly think you have absolutely no electronics knowledge at all, but feel the urge to comment everything without even understanding a single thing.

I truly think you have absolutely no electronics knowledge at all, but feel the urge to comment everything without even understanding a single thing.

By the way @tauzero a dual buffer like the Bartolini you mentioned won't solve the insertion loss, it turns the output in low impedance and can enable an adjustable gain (this very model), fixed gain or even unity gain, simply put buffering the signal. What is solving the insertion loss is a blend control with MN taper and strangely as the Bartolini buffer is a low impedance circuitry all pots are ... 25 KOhms. What's an MN taper blend pot:

This is exactly it @Gwilym, and it's what I'm saying since the beginning of this thread, but some people with absolutely no knowledge in electronics weren't able to understand it. Glad that EMG mentioned it too in their ABC manual, but it's strange that this Alex guy didn't do it. And in the OP case, a simple MN taper balance pot of 250 or 500 KOhms will solve this typical insertion loss issue keeping all the signal a totally passive path. Some people here owe me some apologies.

Won't trust EMG anymore, this denotes a total absence of knowledge of the signal path and only the will to sell. They should have said: It's OK, but as the balance will be the first in the signal chain, don't forget to put a volume and tone with a 25 KOhms value and a 100 nF capacitor as they will come after the ABC in the signal chain, if you want to be able to use them correctly.

Good luck @fretmeister, you're talking to Mister I Know Everything And You Are All Idiots aka @Baloney Balderdash. I'll stop here as he's just telling utter bullshìt and I'm really tired talking to these kinds of persons, especially those who refuse simple solutions as there's always one.

Self reminder: stop helping people. @Baloney Balderdash, looks like you don't know what an MN type balance control is. There's a simple solution @Pirellithecat and you can stay passive all the way. If you put your 250 KOhms volume and tone control after the EMG ABC, it will almost have no action, especially the tone control, as you'll get out of the balance in low impedance and then enter your volume and tone control intended to work with a signal in high impedance : a nice impedance mismatching will result with a very poor sound... But do it the way you want, it's your money after all.

The EMG Geezer Butler are PASSIVE pickups and the EMG ABC(X), meaning Active Balance Control (2 x 25 KOhms) is intended for ACTIVE pickups, so it won't work here. What you need is an MN type balance control in 250 KOhms or 500 KOhms to avoid that insertion loss. Guys, read before answering...