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FWIW, it's quite the same I thought about the stock pickup of a Vintera II '60s P. I got one of those '62 Original, and had been quite happy with it for a while. One day, I was keen to give the stock one another try, and put the stock pickup back into the bass and strung her with TI JF344 (I must admit, I don't like TIs, but they were exactly what gave this bass the sound I am after). There have been no changes since. It may be worth to set the stock pickup a little bit lower, just like Fender recommends for "vintage" pickups.

It is the phrase "clean only (no gain)" I was talking about. I haven't read the edited post of @Quatschmacher when I wrote about marketing bollocks. Mea culpa. If the pedal is built after B-15N like Nathan states on his web-site, there should be a gain control. I can't imagine him not knowing that B-15N has got a potentiometer between the two gain stages in its preamp, which is a gain control also known as volume control (not to confuse with master volume control). If the guess of @Quatschmacher (and partially of mine) is correct, there will only be some kind of master volume control labeled Volume. It would mean that there is some voltage divider between the gain stages, which doesn't allow the second gain stage being overdriven, provided that the input signal is sort of average. But it wouldn't make that much sense, in my humble opinion. I have no experience with this pedal as I haven't got any. I simulated those circuits quite a lot to make one based on 12AX7 which would have frequency responses similar to original ones of Ampeg Heritage B-15 (there are two preamps: one from 1964 and another from 1968 (B-15N)). I'm sorry if my posting were annoying and/or confusing.

This is what I was speaking about: "He does state that it’s clean only (no gain)." Your quote is no non-sense.

Gain control is not necessarily supposed to overdrive the following gain stage (even in a guitar amp). It only controls the amplitude of the signal arriving at the input of the following gain stage. As there is no schematic of this pedal available, I can only guess about the meaning of "clean only". It may be a voltage divider between the gain stages instead of the volume control potentiometer, the latter being the volume control of the output buffer. But even if is the case, nobody can guarantee that it cannot be overdriven with the help of some booster. So the statement is more likely to be some marketing bollocks If you've got an oscilloscope, you might like to open the pedal and find out which gain stage is being overdriven when you play your P-bass.

FWIW, on the web, Nathan says the pedal is built after B-15N, so the Volume control placed between the first and the second gain stage actually is the gain control.

They've also bled you white, the bastards.

Daphne Blue?

That's interesting. I've never thought about it this way. What I meant earlier is rather to have basses strung with flats and rounds. It'd be a perfect excuse to buy one more bass

You're gonna get very creative inventing one every time he buys something.

Why not rounds AND flats?

Exactly what would strings without Pino's name on their packaging do, I suppose. Obviously, I haven't tried them yet and, probably, won't do it even when they're available as I'm pretty happy with the usual Cobalt flats, but having read as much as it's been revealed until now, I reckon, those strings will sound like EB Cobalt flats and feel more like La Bella except for lower tension. Maybe like D and G from a set of TI Jazz flats without being nickel plated. Quite a lot to look forward to.

The “Group” flats are quite different from Cobalt ones. The first ones become less zingy when broken in, just like the most of flats do. The Cobalt ones remain pretty bright and zingy even when broken in. Love the latter equally on fretted and fretless.

Every time I read this name I must think of Danny Sapko.

He also has some La Bella flats: