Cuzzie

I forgot you knew exactly what I did and what my gear is, you must remind of your stuff again, not sure I’ve seen it....... Of course you could be honing your craft and sound or perpetuating errors we’ll never know

Yep, having different EQ’s/set ups even for the same bass at the push of a button, instead of twiddling dials to find the ‘sweet spot’ can take an immense amount of time.....

Who me......😇🤪

If we all chip in a fiver, he will defo afford it!

Or enlarge the cavity, pop the stomp inside the bass, then things can be tweaked on the fly with no dead time between songs

Or slice it very thinly someone may have to feed me, jacket is a little twee

With some fava beans.....

Thwarted at every stage If you organise the courier, i’ll Stash it for you

Get the scalpel out and pop it on Ice They keep for a while, what else would you do on a Bank holiday

@dannybuoy Didn’t you know passive basses are a backward step into pre-historic territory

Plenty of other disposable ones

Useless to others

Hence the point of my comments what’s the cavity size, what’s the current wiring schematics - that info you can get whether you own the bass or not by searching on line Then the answer is obvious

What’s the back cavity

Pickguard

Nice work

Leave it looks great Now get ageing that wood like I told ya!

I have just acquired a jag body I have just stripped and am going to refinish and am going through various possibilities of either popping in original type electronics, or doing something different. one thing I have thought of is popping a tonestyler tele plate in the normal control bit. https://store.stellartone.com/group.asp?grp=107 Various iterations here, then on the lower horn I was thinking of wiring a blend knob for if both are selected. Then the upper horn control panel I may fit a Kill switch. It will of course need a different pick guard. i dunno just an idea....

There is no doubt neck fingerboard makes a massive difference, that is what you press the string against to get the sound you then transmit - basic common. Sense denotes that

Not sure I could describe such a massive band as Fleetwood Mac as a ‘guilty pleasure’ , if you had said Jedward...

I do That neck is absolutely to die for, only thing better is the Brew @Wolverinebass makes

What you are suggesting here is that there is then a difference in tonewoods, but they may have picked the best of one wood against the worst of another to accentuate the difference - but this means that there is still a difference does it not? Or did warmoth do something like if we wanted to answer the question who in the country are better athletes Northerners or southerners. For the North we pick Jessica Ennis Hill, for the South we pick Boris Johnson - see Northerners are better athletes.....

@BigRedXAll I seem to read are constant rebuttals as to why the methodology is poor, and hence the results are insignificant. Have you any samples/evidence to the contrary of what is being suggested no matter how good or bad the methodology is? Or are we just stuck in a loop firing opinions over no man’s land with one camp saying tonewoods make a difference and the others saying, yes there is a slight difference but it doesn’t make enough of a difference?

@LewisK1975 Lewis dear chap - I have a home made bitsa just up the M4 I can bequeath to you for a small sum - in years to come, it may not lose its value torrentially and should not disintegrate

@AndyTravis is right about ball park. @Grangur is right in what he is saying. There is always going to be a counter argument for anything. Some manufacturers bit 2 pieces of wood that fit together in quality and grain to get the best instrument - Some Hammer together your grans wardrobe. Solid body colours they are less picky about matching grains etc as it’s being covered over, so a natural finish is the one to look at as they will have been the most carefully selected. @BigRedX with all these minor differences listed, how much do they stack up and multiply to detract from the inherent tone and resonance of the wood? Is it logarithmic, cumulative, does the slope fall off the curve? At what point do these variables over take and become the major differentiating factor over and above other things - statistically significant sample size proving of course.....