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Boss SY-1 has similar feature. It tracks surprisingly well, although I feel that it makes a calculation and follows after a short delay, like after the Attack (ADSR, anyone?). But if there's any signal coming in, the note stays there for ages.

That body colour is nice, but I will not hunt that one because of the not dark fretboard. I have played a nice Pensa-Suhr, and that I would buy, but it has disappeared completely.

I saw the gig where Clarke, Wooten and Miller were playing together. To me the whole set sounded lame, because it felt like a set of showoffs, but no songs/music. There Miller was probably the best while backing up his two colleagues. When he started to thumb, the feel was lost just like with the two others. I have seen Clarke soloing with his band and it was a really good show, likewise when Wooten was playing with Bela Fleck.

Smörgås? I may be Danish. Could it be Rutgerssån(g)?

If you want B/T/tone, and blend/vol, your wish not to have stacked pots is rough. However if you leave T away, put the output jack to side or back (consider Strat style plate, like in Ritters have), you could have 4 pots in the front. Or if the T has switch and works as a tone, too, that would do. I think John East had one option, where all adjustments were divided to separate pots, but I couldn't find it now. His preamps are highest end, and are designed in a very interesting way. John used to design mixing consoles, and it can be seen in his creations.

A preamp may have some or many of the following features: - active mixing (instead of two vol, or blend) - bass -middle - treble - semiparametric eq - filter - tilt eq - individual adjustments for two pickups or coils On top of that there may be: - ser/par/single switching for pickups or coils - pickup selector - passive, or rather, hi-Z switch - hi-Z tone During the years some effects have been built to basses, like fuzz, and comp. Even a headphone amp. List the feats you want, and we can try to recommend something suitable to your bass.

@spyder: two more to reach 5.

Use a name tag Björn Svensson. Tape the bass with a SAAB or Volvo or Bahco logo, and the amp with an SSAB. SSAB is a metal company, as far as I know. If I remember right the bass string core comes from Sandvik.

...or disco lights.

I can see tin, and components, but the iron has been cold on the table.

I think - although not my idea - that a good sideman is far more important than a flashy soloist. It may even be so that a flashy soloist can be a lame sideman. Such a player may not be the best bandmate.

In Japan people do pronounce R very close to L, which they do not even have in their kanji, hiragana, or katakana. Therefore the seller looks a lot like a Japanese person. I have heard that they have learned English with their own writing, where intonation is important. Many speak English, but if your intonation fails, some do not understand you.

Before changing pickups, have you adjusted them? Measure current heights from the body to the pickup face. Write numbers down and draw a simple "bridge, neck, pickups, heights" chart. Press G and E down from the highest fret and adjust the pickup height to the max before the strings touch the pickup. Now you can start to tighten the screws. Half amount of turns to the bridge pickup. If this doesn't help at all, buy a new set: Delano, bartolini, Lollar...