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I would agree with that, as it's fact, but someone else was using Conservation of Energy as if the tones subtracted were added elsewhere to come to zero sum. At least, that his how I understood their point.

When Ibanez came out with the Ergonomic Headless (EHB), at first I was apprehensive, because I assumed there would be quirks with the locking mechanism for the strings. So far I've only had one hiccup with that, when I tried to remove a string & then put it back, the thing couldn't be tuned up to pitch w/o snapping loose. Replacing with a new set solved that issue. flared neck-end means I can hang it: fits in a padded bag designed for guitars: here's the locking mechanism internals, you screw that brass rod up into the channel & it holds the string: This bass has ruined me to everything else, because it is The Most Comfortable instrument I've ever owned. It's also very low-Mass, just over 3 kg..

BTW, if you do go looking for wire, get SJOOW, it has the nice jacket on there that will help it last forever: designed for use on power-tools

It's dead simple for me, because I can buy the wire online from Home Depot & then drive over to their store (5 miles) & pick it up. They sell by the foot & it's under a buck/foot. The only thing I have to wait for is the Neutrik connectors & TBH I 'could' get those today if I was willing to pay a high retail price to get them locally.

I'm not backpedaling, if that's what you're implying. I will go back & add a disclaimer to my first comment. The signal coming out of the pickups IS affected by the wood, but the 'tone' isn't 'coming from the wood'. My assertion is that the wood is not Adding, but in fact Subtracting. If you mounted the strings to a Titanium structure, there'd be virtually no loss of frequencies. However, some might call that Sterile sounding. If you mounted the strings to Styrofoam, there'd be loads of losses. Woods are just the varieties in between, & some woods lessen mids (for instance).

I concur on making your own SpeakON cables, but with the caveat to ALWAYS use genuine Neutrik connectors & you should also buy a #1 PosiDriv bit for your screwdriver, because that's what they're designed for. Don't take my word for it, ask the Design Engineer, @agedhorse.

Constructive Interference on the string/wire is based on the harmonics, which is going to be affected by the scale (or where it's being fretted) & the location of the pickup. Resonance in a solid-body stringed-instrument actually removes vibration energy from the string, so unless there's an anti-Resonant frequency, I don't think there will be any Constructive Interference from the wood. So you're implying you have experience & haven't just read about it, but I would think your experience just confirms what Physics tells us, which is that the stiffness of the wood does affect the timbre. Why don't you enlighten is with observations from your experience.

No need for the sighing, I wasn't implying that anyone commented there would be a volume increase & I'm not sure why anyone would think it.

I'm out having a day before the weekend, but I thought maybe some misunderstood my musings, I accepted the fact that the woods make a difference in the sound a long time ago, but my assertion is that it doesn't happen as an addition, which is what people think about 'tone' Capacitors, as well.

Re: Conservation of Energy Is there really though? I mean, it's losing energy immediately after being plucked. How can we discern a standing wave that increases amplitude of frequency X from just the attenuation of adjacent frequency Y?

You seem to enjoy tearing folks down over a disability, you did it to me before. The person with Asperger's was probably thinking logically & not with emotion. Wait, you don't believe in the laws of Physics?

I'm not afraid to cry, & on that day I did. The last of the original Ramones. Soon after Marky would publish his book, which I assume he had just been waiting for Tommy to pass before publishing it. Although, there was nothing scathing in there about Tommy, but plenty that would make people think twice about being a fan of Johnny, which Tommy may have defended. Anyway, I took a break from the interwebz for a month & just so happens I decided to return on the anniversary of Joey's death, which marked the beginning of the end for all the original members. R.I.P.: Jeff Hyman Douglas Colvin John Cummings Thomas Erdelyi

I'm sorry, were you not able to turn the dial? 😀

Just realized it's 01:00 in the U.K., I guess it's a good thing the forum slows down this late, so I can get back to enjoy prime-time television. Maybe tomorrow I can roll out the 'new less obnoxious me'.

It's relatively easy to tack a wire onto a pot w/o a higher Wattage iron. Clean the spot on the pot with some flux, now put a dot of solder on it. Tin the wire you intend to attach, put a tiny bit of flux on it & just stick it to the dot you made on the pot, Voila! The opposite is a problem however, trying to remove a big blob of solder from a pot with a low-Wattage iron is time-consuming & I'd recommend wicking and/or a de-soldering pump.

Agreed, it's subtractive BEFORE it gets to the pickup coils, because the vibration of the instrument affects how the string vibrates & thus affects the output at the coils. I'm just trying to bust this myth that wood imparts tones, it's the opposite. Me too, I was little blunt, but having read your comments on the previous pages I see that your experience backs up the same Physics I'm talking about. My experiences are the same, a good stiff neck can make a 'meh' bass become a fabulous bass, if the old neck was a flimsy dud.

Have you even read back what I've posted thus far? It seems like we agree, to me, but you want to pretend like I'm pointing a finger specifically at you.

Most of time it's not direct experience, it's "I read" or "I heard". If it was truly experience that would back up the laws of Physics. So much for being less obnoxious, but I am admittedly a work in progress & that's honest how I 'feel' about it.

What bothers me about these sorts of discussions is that I feel like 80% of the Public haven't taken a Physics class, or they just were not paying attention.

It comes from the pickup coils, the wood just attenuates certain tones from the timbre.

Sorry, that was uncalled for, I guess I thought if I didn't quote you directly that would be OK somehow. I recently took a month away from the internet, because I'm an obnoxious so & so, hopefully I can reign in my inner Kwai Chang Caine to curb that habit:

If you were to build it from something more stiff & the same Density, you'd have less loss. If you build it from something with more Density but less stiffness, you'd have more loss. Was he flawlessly logical? It's just that SO many people think Density is the defining thing, it's just a by-product.

and there we go with the Density bull again It's not the Density, it's the Hardness & Stiffness of the system. The Harder the Hardware & the Stiffer the woods, the less tones get attenuated from the timbre.

Stingray pickups are wired in Parallel. The PFR (Passive Full-Range) pickups in the SRX are wired in series, so you can why a series/parallel option would be sweet. It bums me out that Ibanez doesn't do parallel/series options instead of just dropping a preamp into almost everything.

Carol Kaye still uses one with flats, a pick, & a foam mute: A lot of pros would tell you that you can make an aggressive-sounding bass sound mellow, but you can't make a mellow one sound aggressive.