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My pb50 has a rails pup. Has a fuller lowend and tighter highs than the stock SC, and more punch and output than then stock pup. Neck is lovely, and has an unusual quilted maple headstock, very classy for an inexpensive bass. Tips the scales at only 8.1lbs. Best of all - no SC noise.

The thin black would be ground. The 3 wires: the metallic colour wire you need to twist together with either the red or white for standard P bass wiring. One of them (red or white) will be the live wire, but impossible to know without a multimeter. The two wires you do twist together needs to be wrapped in electrical tape or similar so its shielded, and doesn't touch any other wiring.

GHS Precision and Pyramid's are very, very similar, both high tension and thumpy. Surprised if you liked GHS, then you didn't like Pyramid's.

Don't you have a new yammie or something. What's that all about?

Just get a sire z7 and run it passive as Dirnt always runs his G3 humbucker plus single.

Made in korea, ply body. Aria were made in Japan (matsumoko) till 1987. Korea and recently china thereafter.

Good to see the dot markers only go upto 15th fret. Guess they thought there's no point after that!

Welcome to the club. Now you've learnt the basics you can use them time and time again. When learning set ups most people are afraid of truss rod adjustments, though if you're careful it's pretty simple. I learnt how to do set ups on YouTube 15+ years ago. Been doing them (basic set ups) ever since. Personally I think every bassist should learn how to do basic set ups, there's loads of good tutorials on YouTube, and it's really not that difficult. You only need a few basic tools.

Just turn it up to 11.

Huh?

I heard he once walked on water.

Also depends on people's opinions on things. Some people have higher standards, and applying those without the context of the price point seems meaningless.

This applies to any mass produced instrument.

2016 made in China or Indonesia.

No Sh!t