Beedster

No more PUPs Mick just an active tone circuit, currently passive 👍

This one came with a passive tone circuit but that’s still a helpful observation thanks 🙏

Hi folks, I want to install a J-Retro into my Enfield. The bass has the 2xQuad PUPs as well as neck LEDs, both circuits powered from the battery in the rear cavity (photo below). While I doubt it's entirely beyond my electrical skills to wire the J-Retro to the existing battery, I'm wondering whether running three discrete circuits from the same battery is going to run it down very quickly and whether I should install the J-Retro as usual with it's own battery in the control cavity? The only downside of the latter is that the magnetic retaining system for the rear cavity in the photo above makes changing batteries tool free, quick and easy whereas changing the battery installed with the J-Retro is a PITA. Thoughts/advice most welcome 👍

Horrible

That is a rather elegant solution, well done. Reminded me of Drillium, when before the arrival of composite components in the late 80's, pro cyclists used to drill out various components to save weight, most frequently the cranks. And occasionally they failed catastrophically as the result, but apparently it's a fashion that has returned courtesy of the hipster/fixie community

Even a heavy Mustang is still on the light side by comparison with most Fenders I'd have thought?

Madness, does he not understand the bass sales process?

Well I’d like to hear one of those 👍

… in fact I’d quite like to hear a Precision with a Mustang PUP…

I think there’s some elusive mojo in the Mustang PUP, very lazy sounding compared to it’s Precision equivalent, a little Mediterranean in attitude?

Mustangs sound glorious

ABBA's basslines are quite extraordinary, and quite prog in their own way, certainly equal to many prog players in terms of skill and creativity

Welcome @Wellsyboy, I'd recommend that you simply listen to the music you like and pay attention to the bass parts. The likes of Jaco, genius though he was, are not a great starting point for a study of bass, there's are some amazing bass parts hidden in some otherwise quite ordinary songs. Good luck 👍

Been less Jazzy round here a while, hope it reverts soon 👍

WTF 😀

So, metal polish ordered, next job is to identify which of the screws is rattling, which I suspect is going to go hand in hand with replacing the old, ugly and rusty flat-head screws with some nice, new and shiny cross head equivalents 👍

Yep, we hear with our eyes and our emotions more than we realise. I get it with strings a lot, swear I can hear a nasty overtone but in reality my brain’s focussing on and unconsciously amplifying a very small part of the overall sounds making me irritable and causing a viscous circle 👍

As above really, I’m messing with some bitsas, can I use a hand-held such as this? https://www.toolstation.com/dewalt-dcw604nt-xj-18v-xr-brushless-14-router/p75238?store=E1&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed&mkwid=_dm&pcrid=&pkw=&pmt=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5o7-x9nj_AIVh7btCh130AV3EAQYASABEgLCiPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds