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When the pickups are 50/50, how audible is it that the bridge is not just a standard single coil? Or, put the other way round, is the benefit mostly found when soloing the bridge pickup?

I came across this on an old TB thread - the owner had put it together themself. "the E/A coils are located in 60's Jazz positions, and the D/G coils are moved neck-ward from there."

I've remembered the dark metallic green that was in the back of my mind - Dingwall posted on TB sometime last year.

The purple looks great, but I would to see it alongside the actual shade of the fretboard, to check they're happy with each other. The green would be even better if it were a slightly deeper, more husky shade. The blue is nice but if it had a tiny bit more grey to it (farrowandballstyle) .... yum Edit: our posts crossed in the mail.

Five weeks ago, thinking, very misguidedly, that my SB-1 would be arriving soon, I put my TRBX away, and have played only my 424 since. Today, noticing that the SB-1 is clearly having a good old kip somewhere in the international postal system, I got the TRBX out. Five minutes later it was packaged up again. I 🖤 you, BB, even with your totally shot RS66s. Mwah mwah mwah 🥰

FTFY 😬

Last summer it took me a while before I realised that the bass options link on the USA basses page actually take you to the guitar options.... 🙄

On the fairly rubbish G&L site, the listing for the Tribute LB-100 is missing its specs, but I'm pretty sure that the nut is 1⅝" (as is the factory standard for the USA LB-100) If you wanted a 1½" nut on a Tribute with a split pickup then theres the SB-2 which has a split P pickup almost in the traditional spot and a J pickup very close to the bridge. The quirk of that instrument is that it has 2 vols and no tone knob. But the SBs have the much more lively MFD pickups, whereas as the two you are looking at have traditional Fender style pickups. That's definitely an LB-100 he's playing in that video rather than the extremely similar SB-1 - the pickguard is shaped differently just by the neck - but there's no knowing if he's swapped the pickup..... G&L Tribute Series Basses

A nicer photo of one. Again, an x.

Someone posted a photo of their 2025x on TB and it took me a moment before I realised that it had a maple fretboard. So I did a google search for a 2024 with a maple fretboard, and came across this, posted here on BC by @GreeneKingnine years ago. Mmmmm.

Looks - and this is no complaint - like the pan if you stop concentrating when making marmalade

I admire your subconscious's bold taste! Fantastic 😊

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack Dont click that either

That's very kind, but I wouldn't want to dilute the experience of its finally arriving .... and if it does indeed prove to have vanished (which, I'll grudgingly admit, isn't the likely outcome - yet) I'd rather not know what I've missed out on!

I think in my heart I've actually given up on the idea that I'll ever see this bass. Which, if I think about it, makes no sense, I know that. But I made the initial decision to get it or something similar back in early September, and got the order placed a couple of weeks later, and that now seems such long time ago. Normally when you buy something, you hand over money and get the goods in return. This is feeling like something nice that you hope for ...might happen... might not... oh, it didn't ...never mind, chin up.... I think the lockdown must have got to me 😅 But I seem to have given up for now, and am simply expecting a refund sometime around the 1st anniversary of my placing the order. I think I need a fresh set of Rotosound Swing Bass on my BB424 to cheer me up.

Since you wrote that I've seen a couple of demo videos of the Sims pickup - the controls don't seem to allow a choice of which single coil you get, let alone a reverse P. Booooo! 👎 (ps the demos also made me realise why some bass humbuckers are so huge - the sound of a Super Quad set to humbucker is very, um, un-insistent)

On the log in page there is a button for this, called something like "Forgotten Password"? Click it, input your email address, and you'll receive an email address containing a link allowing you to set a new password. Which is exactly what I did last night for exactly the same reason 😄

I wonder if like second violins, like rhythm guitarists, use heavier gauge strings? A couple of years ago I saw / heard a long-standing, very respected quartet. The first violin had been in the job many years, though wasn't the founder member. The second violin was new, and was clearly loving the job, really getting into leading the rest of the rhythm section looked delighted with her and her energy. As a result, the first violinist seemed a bit out on his own, twiddling away on the pretty tunes rather than leading the ensemble, and I was left wondering if in a couple of years time he might find himself facing some kind of coup....

I saw the Mission in 1988 and again in 1989 and the Sisters in 1990 and.... and I knew I had missed out on the real thing. If I ever listen to the Mission now, it's so I can ask myself what the hell I thought I was doing.

A google search found me someone opining that Alexander 'Sacha' Schneider of the Budapest String Quartet deserves that title:

If you think the phrase I mentioned is just guitar widdle and nothing to do expressive musicianship then ... then yeah MMVAF. At any rate, this is going down a youtubecommentudinous path, so I'll hush 😁

How do we feel about influential rhythm guitarists like, say, Malcolm Young and James Hetfield?

Within that "world of overdistorted rawk", my real admiration is for the guitarists who are able to exploit that sound to expand the expressive possibilities of tone and articulation. For, example, what's going on here in the phrase between 2'18" and 2'25" is quite beyond my understanding of how you get sounds out of an electric guitar, and he's still in total control, it's real mastery and musicianship.