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Set of Fender 7150M, which is to say 45–65–85–105, cut to fit my Squier P with top loading bridge I tried these for 30 minutes and decided they weren't for me. I did have time to notice that they sounded a lot more characterful (and felt a lot less stiff) downtuned a semitone to Eb Standard. Lots of mids, and a very mellow response to touch. Be warned: at normal tuning, these are stiff, high tension strings! Down a semitone they're perfectly comfortable.

G+L L-1000 is passive tho perhaps a bit knobby? Humbucker in the P spot. Their Kiloton is humbucker in the Stingray spot, J width neck, and available in the much cheaper Tribute range

The Roto Bass are a tiny bit stiffer than the Boomers, especially the E. They make a much thicker and more narrow sound than the Boomers. So they do help fatten up the PJ sound. It's easier to play cleanly with them, but harder to play expressively. I'll be going back to the Boomers, I think.

Managed to flog my TRBX for me, and for that I think the sun shines out of their E string. Also ten quid cheaper than Strings Direct for GHS Boomers.

Is this what this ⚠️ sign is about? Thought perhaps it meant I'd done something wrong?

.....and I'm really happy. Instead of turning the bass into a mud machine, the knob now just gently takes off the gleam, leaving the meat of the tone in place – exactly what I hoped for

Bass has to visit the tech for a couple of other things, so I'm having the .047 cap swapped for a .022. If I don't like the tone knob's effect any better, then no loss

The 'heavy' set of Boomers is 50-70-95-115, and their tension chart is of the opinion that all four strings would be viable for BEAD: D 50 – 28.9 lbs A 70 – 31.5 lbs E 95 – 36.1 lbs B 115 – 27.6 lbs

Sorry that was supposed to be humour at my own expense — clearly that failed to come over. Sorry again 🙏

@Bassassin Since this Matt Freeman of mine is an Ibanez Blazer wannabe, I can't resist asking you what pots and cap are in them

I found this explanation of the cap: When you put a 0.047µF cap on a 250k pot, it will make a low-pass filter with a "knee" right around 300Hz. Take that same circuit and throw on a 0.022µF cap on there, and the cutoff frequency moves to approximately 850Hz (give or take a few). When you turn the Tone knob down, you are lowering the volume of all frequencies above that cutoff. I can now understand why Dimarzio recommend a lower value than .047 for the Model P. I think I would find the tone control more useful if I changed mine. And I found this comment on pots: The 250 kohm pots will load a little more to ground, making the circuit have a tad lower resonant peak, and therefore a more even tone across the spectrum, a little "warmer" overall. The 500 kohm pots will load less to ground, so that the resonant peak is a little higher, a little brighter tone. But on bass it is so subtle, that a slight bump of the tone knob will do more than the value of the pots will.

Peer pressure. People see everyone else saying "zombie thread!" and so dutifully take the opportunity to be the person that says it when one comes along. Ditto "the search function is your friend" (despite the fact that the search function is, like most forums' search functions, annoying 💩 ) And ditto all the other ancient jokes, "Andy's sold a bass ahahahaha" etc

I'm ignorant enough to be deserving of a much more patronising answer than that. Brighter all the time? Or simply less darkening when turning the tone? I'm about to change from Fender nickel-plated strings to Pro Steels, which I'm expecting to make a big difference to the brightness, amongst other things. Relative to that, would a change of pot and/or cap make only a minor difference? I'm going to be interested to see what's left of the Pro Steels tonal balance when the tone knob is turned right down. ATM, I don't find that setting much use.

The reason I got a guitar was no one wanted me to get a bass and when I was 13, I hadn't yet acquired the habit of tending to do the opposite of what everyone wants 😔 Since the desire for a bass was totally instinctive, I had no chance of explaining why I wanted one, I didn't really understand it myself, so I just got rolled over. A guitar was good for impressing people when I was 15, but I had already plateau-ed and within a couple of years was impressing no one. Can't help but wonder what my bass playing would have been like at sixteen, if I had had three years of practice under my belt. [/SELFPITYINGWHINE]

I was thinking, how come Andy's forgotten that he's already posted on this thread? .... and then discovered – to my total surprise – that I was the thread's OP.... 🤦 😖

My Squier P came fitted with ki0gon loom, which I believe means 250k pots and a 047uF cap. I had a Dimarzio Model P pickup fitted. Dimarzio suggest a 500k for the Vol, 250k for the Tone and a 033uF cap. If I swapped the Vol and/or the cap over to Dimarzio's suggestion, what differences would I hear? For what it's worth, I keep the Vol on 10 all the time, occasionally take the Tone down to 7, and only use rounds (changed more often than really necessary )

1'06" to 1'39", from 1999 ps Why those 30 seconds of interview have stayed with me the 22 years since I saw that, I've never idea. What's so memorable about someone saying "It's on the Greatest Hits, track 13"?

(1) "He'd be down at every gig with Claire," recalls Keenan. "When Claire was DJing and wanted to go to the bar or to toilet or whatever, Andy would take over for a bit and all he ever played was Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Gary Glitter." "You could always tell when I'd taken over," Eldritch confirms "because on came the Glitter." (2) 'The punk and post punk scenes of Leeds and Wakefield had long been closely connected. Wakefield punks were regulars at The F Club gigs and those of Leeds were often over for the punk and Bowie night at Raffles nightclub on the Bullring in Wakey. Eldritch for his part went over for the Gary Glitter show Keenan put on at The Unity Hall in Wakefield.' (3) 'This first classic line-up was heavy with pseudonyms. Matthews' reference to Treasure Island – Ben Gunn – lacked the outright hilarity of Pearman's mash-up of Socialism and Glam Rock – Gary Marx. Taylor's choice was a Philip K Richard-referencing declaration of his own literary sensibility and speed consumption – Andrew Eldritch. Arguably the drummer had the best name of all: Doktor Avalanche, allegedly named after a Swiss football referee.'

People should talk more about the influence on Slade on Noel G, its not like he's ever tried to deny it (ditto Gary Glitter on Andrew Eldritch, btw)

😷 How about a nice Kiloton 5 instead?

Would the laws of pickup design allow a 5 string split pickup to be built which had the B string on the D-G part instead of the E-A part? Would look very odd, I know that....

My vote went purely because I don't like maple and tort together. Also I bet that delicate blue will half the time look simply washed out

I wonder if there are a bunch of women somewhere talking about expensive purchases, and one is saying, I just wait until he buys another sodding bass — he's so worried I'll flip that he doesn't notice the new etc etc