Cuzzie

When you get it, it will be worth it

Don’t get my wrong I have to critically appraise studies and data as well. if we take it to the nth degree you are talking about cultivating a number of trees from cuttings from the same 2 different types of trees and then growing them in the same controlled conditions, fell them and process them the same before assembly side by side the same etc. You get the drift.....!

Depends if you had an isolated power supply and load of other things as well, quality of patch cables etc. can be done

Hope it works for you buddy, maybe with Q strip first. Other option is to run the Qstrip and pedals just into the power amp of the amplifier through send/return and ignore its pre-amp, maybe as an exercise in seeing which component gives you what. The. When all else fails get a Tech21 DP3x pedal!

My other top tip for noting settings is take a photo on your phone! you can even time link it to a quick and dirty phone recording or computer recording as you have a focusrite and you have the settings for the tone

Great job that 👊🏾

Haüssel jazz pick ups are not only very good, they are quite hot and have a heap of mids. The closest I have heard a neck solo’d Jazz pick up sound like a P bass pick up

Let us now how you go, of course the other option is to really roll the tone off your bass, you will get the drive, may just attenuate the fuzz, and could give an almost ‘tube’ type tone

Had the B3k and the VMT and they are fizzy, Q Strip being a pre-amp to all intensive purposes will hammer the signal signal up and increase what fizz you have. Are you stacking the B3K and the VMT as always on? You do have a lot of signal push there, what was normally unity gain, may now be too much. Other option is that if you like your tone with the Q strip, place that up front to tone shape and then distort

Blow up mattress to store them on?

@b7l4sInteresting thought that is......... All postulation, but... maybe most necks being maple a block/blank is made, cut and awaits rod insertion before gluing a top on. Maybe you have a whole heap of fingerboard blanks in pre cut strips, but have the maple in blocks if you get my drift. Of course there are 1 piece necks that don’t need a fingerboard, but then a stripe need cutting out, rod inserted and strip glued in. may just be easier to machine a load of necks to accept a board, stick a board on (mainly not maple as it is mainly being used for the necks) and hey presto. I could of course be talking codswallop

I can cover that one, they are not, just different...

Zoom, just one look and my heart goes boom

Yes it is an organic material, There will be cross over in their properties, depending on grain, growth circumstances, how long it has dried for, any curing etc. Age of wood, cellular structure, however actually there will be a ‘sound’ within each species. The luthier rightly cannot predict what the exact sound will be, but I bet he knows when he combines woods what the ball park will be. Like I said, despite hearing a difference in the woods no matter which way round one is supposed to be, there was an audible difference, and everything said points to tonal differences between woods be it minor or major, maybe someone will get the P number to 0.05 and get us statistically significant result....

Just strap them to the bed and take the bed to the gig makes more sense

This has been hashed to death with people in either camp. Will it get lost in the mix? depends how the band is set up sonically and the instruments - the band could be 1 guitar and a load of Kazoo’s, so yes a difference could potentially be heard. Is it a 1 piece maple, is it a maple with a maple top? The maple/maple still sounds different to maple and (insert here) fingerboard. The myth was they don’t sound different, they clearly do by yours and his admission - hence there is no myth. Whether that makes a difference to you or not, feel aside is your shout. I do agree with a bit of what he said

Well I heard the neck fingerboard difference, and he actually said there was a difference, so it can matter!!!

Saw that yesterday Good luck to the chap and his family

Sounds a plan Batman

Yes for the VS4 - mine was a very light and great bass

@dannybuoy don’t disagree with you but I don’t agree with the massive chasm in the mids, they are there and you can shift them with the button, but I do agree with it’s place being in a band. There is not a hole and it dormant sound all scooped and honky like a Stingay, but the focus certainly is more towards lower and upper end, but you can get a very very good clean sound on it. You can certainly get a more old school ‘tube’ type vibe if you either roll the tone off, or indeed using my jazz with flatwounds it gives a very pleasing sound along those lines.

Pop both together, it’s a no brainer, this is me sonic spark and DP3x and covers a whole heap of territory...

Lehle Basswitch DI will give you a bucket tonne of options