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I owned a SRX2 for years, & a SRX700 for a weekend. I really wanted to love the SRX700 for the Ash body & neck-through design, but I couldn't work out if it was the Ash body, the neck-through design, or the AlNiCo magnets that made it sound subdued in comparison to the SRX2 & my BTB300 with the same pickups. You see, the SRX2 has Ceramic magnets, & yes it does make a difference. It was probably a combination of all those things, because I've since come to understand that Ash will scoop the sound a little, I like MIDs, & the neck-through design softens the attack somehow. My SRX2 had loads of bottom, which is why I no longer own it. I really wanted to install a series/parallel switch for each pickup, but they only have two conductors available to the consumer. the 700 was also a full POUND heavier than the SRX2 but the BTB300 was nearly 10 lbs.:

The 500K Ohm A/C taper blend pots on Ibanez have 10% of Resistance at the center position. I switched my SR eXtreme (SRX) from Volume/Blend to Volume/Volume & TBH I could not hear a difference from the A/C taper pot that I removed. My guess is Ibanez use A/C taper to stop the inherent scoop that happens when both pickups are connected directly in parallel.

Several months ago I was having a 'discussion' with a couple of folks about their East preamps & they insist that even in the Passive setting their Bartolini pickups sounded better than with the stock Ibanez controls also set to Passive. At first I thought maybe the East pre uses active mixing, which would sound better than Passive, but apparently there's still an output signal with the battery removed, so it can't be that. So, how in the world is John East designing them so that they somehow make the pickups sound better even when Passive? I did read that the East pre has two separate paths for the signal in Passive vs. Active, but I'm wondering what values of Resistance he's using in there, maybe it's a 1 MegOhm M/N taper blend. The Ibanez is a 500K Ohm A/C taper blend.

Woods of a certain species can vary obviously, but they are still going to have the inherent properties of that species. All calico cats aren't going to look exactly the same, but they will still be very similar.

The tones in the timbre aren't coming from the wood, they're coming from the coils in the pickups. The wood just shapes which tones are attenuated. I repeat wood does not & cannot ADD anything, the components in a passive system are subtractive, except for the actual pickups. (even the pickups can have a scooped sound if they're designed that way) Disclaimer: some seem to be misconstruing my comment here Wood definitely impacts the overall timbre, but not in an additional manner.

I'd rather have ONE bass that can do it ALL, but at the moment I have two. Usually I've VERY quick to sell one I'm not using, but in this particular case there's nothing inherently wrong with the extra one, which was my #1 bass for years. I've butted heads with many over their justification for having So Many basses & there's no point, they will find justification for their hoarding.

I couldn't even express my disdain for another forum by PM, w/o dropping a space between each letter.

Most of them are, but IME there's more risk of getting a dud with the Standard series than a Premium, & they've been putting chintzy machine-heads on the Standard Soundgears since 2012. I wish that one of us had told you about the difference in size of the Nordstrand vs. Bartolinis so you could have ordered custom-sized ones, it's only a $20 USD upcharge, IIRC. Change the strings on the bass immediately. Those Nordstrands should sound FAR better than the Bartolinis, unless you don't enjoy the high-end zing the Big-Singles have. They're also more responsive & have something I can't even describe other than Grunt, but Nordstrand calls it Character.

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When I worked in BKK I could walk through there on my way home from work, if I chose to, but that was usually only on Friday nights. Some mornings then will still be S.C. patrons partying on Sukhumvit Road, one block South. There were vendors set up to feed them & booze them until foot traffic got too heavy. AFAIK that's all been 'cleaned up' now & the police force them to sod-off earlier now.

Thai hostels don't allow visitors of the opposite sex, so that cuts back on some traffic. However, it's A-OK to shag the other guests, LOL!

Recently someone linked to my profile here on another forum. That's when I realized that my birthday was Right There for all to see, so I removed it from my profile. Is everyone aware of this?

It was an irony that McCartney told MJ to get into licensing, that's where they money is. Paul wouldn't take MJ's calls when he was trying to tell him he'd bought the entire Beatles catalog, LMAO! The prices for licensing are probably too high.

Michael Jackson's estate owns the rights, no?

I have the 1500 & it's The Most Comfortable instrument I've ever owned. The string lock is a brass 'bullet':

RJD started a thing with the 'horns', but 66% of the people who use it aren't even doing it correctly:

We started it, Malcom McLaren copied it. The Punk look in the U.K. was taken directly from characters in the U.S, such as Richard Hell: McLaren wanted to copy The Ramones! However, I agree with John Lydon, in in that Pop-Punk has sod-all to do with Punk. They were off their trolley when they thought up that sub-genre!

Never tried a Helix, but The Only pedal I've owned & kept was The Drop. I like it fine, the least latency in comparison to EHX's Pitch-Fork. However, I do wish I'd gone the Full-Monty & purchased the Whammy-DT: https://www.digitech.com/whammy-pitch/Whammy+DT.html

My opinions are strong & apparently offensive, so a resounding YES!

until you try a 4004:

If the dims above are correct the gap will less than 3.5mm per end, so you won't need to worry. I've seen long skinny MK1 out there in the wild, however.