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It's been years since I'd listened to the Almighty, your mention prompted me to do so, excellent stuff 🤘

This was so cool. Still love that era of metal, friends of Pantera in the the NOLA scene, Crowbar, CoC etc.

Just been admiring some ACGSs online, looking forward to seeing some examples in person 😀

Very nice. I'd seen this out there on the interwebs and thought it looked very distinctive and tastefully put together. I just wasn't in need of another jazz! Glad it found a new home 😀

The proverbial gentleman from Ashton-under-Lyne on Gumtree (previously discussed here on BC) was selling a rather fetching G&L Tribute series L-2000 in Tobacco burst within the last couple of weeks. It may have sold or the listing may have expired. Not sure if you're looking for Fullerton made or whether you'd consider a Tribute? If so might be worth searching and seeing if gets relisted? Great sound from Killerfridge's video too. Makes me want an L series!

I believe it's a "gravure" maple top, i.e. printed to look like maple! I still think it's pretty...

I'm sure you're close on having a large stock of rod magnets versus different sizes of bar magnets. Wilde is a small operation and still very competitive on price.

Got 7 myself, Clearly that's the threshold number for being part of the SR inner circle!! I'll need a new house first 🤔😄

So far my impressions are very positive, the P-46 in particular. I feel less able to comment on the characteristics of the J-45 pickup itself - in the SR890 I get the sense it's there to complement the P pickup, and running both is "the" sound of the instrument IMO. There was some work involved with adjusting pickup heights to get a similar volume output, but I think that's partly the inherent imbalance in PJ sets exacerbated in this case by the placement of the J pickup so close to the bridge. I know some peoples eyes swim with the 5 + 5 pole piece arrangement on the P-46 pickup and the 9 pieces on the J-45, but I actually like it, it's a bit unconventional and makes them distinctive. It has no adverse effect on the ability of the pickup to sense individual strings - I'm sure BL had a clear rationale for this design choice. I wonder if Bill, Becky or Shannon discussed this anywhere. I'll also add that an initial concern I had when doing the pickup swap was whether the pickup routs on the SR890 would be too small - it turned out fine, the P-46 + J-45 are a snug fit but they're in there okay. But I would flag this as a consideration for anyone doing a pickup swap on a Soundgear of this vintage.

Hope this is not a thread hijack, but I thought I'd give a bit of commentary on my '94 SR890. Photo shamelessly stolen from the seller: I've always liked Ibanez stuff, and I've been on a bit of a mission to own styles of basses that are new to me, so the venerable Soundgear was on my list. This one had been for sale for months, and it was one of those situations where I looked at loads of different SRs, budget, high end, old, new, then came back every few weeks, and um'd and ah'd over it! Finally decided to take a punt a few months ago. I was initially underwhelmed with the sound, it had lower output than I would expect from an active bass, noisy preamp, lacking low end, and I had an issue where the volume of the A string was significantly lower than the others. I fiddled with it, checked the nut and saddle, changed the pickup heights, changed the strings, etc, but to no avail, so I could only assume there was an internal problem with the pickup. On checking the electronics I found green corrosion, so that was the final straw, I was doing a pickup swap! I settled on a Wilde (Bill Lawrence) PJ set (P-46 and J-45 pickups). I'd been previously impressed with Wilde guitar pickups so this was a good opportunity to try the bass offerings. Bill Lawrence's designs seem to share a "hi-fi" family sound which I felt would suit a contemporary bass (well, it's a 1994 model, so might be stretching the definition of "contemporary" there 😆). To keep a lid on costs I decided to pair them with an Artec SE3P-A preamp. (Had cost been no object I'd probably have gone with the obvious choice - EMGs) Long story short, I got the bits and pieces in but the preamp was a tight squeeze - I knew when ordering that it would be borderline. I lived with it for a while but didn't find the EQ options to be particularly useful - I tend to be a "set it and forget it" person when it comes to preamp settings - so that plus the tight fit led me to decide to go passive. I'm very glad I did - it's like a taking a veil off everything and the P-46 in particular is a monster. But I now have the issue of what to do with one of the holes I have it wired volume volume master tone. I may try a low cut like on a G&L. Or just a dummy pot! I also made a weird judgement in choosing this bass as the one I'd try with TI flats (I was going through a flats phase). I came to the conclusion that this was not a good combo and popped D'Addario rounds back on. At last I was moving towards the SR sound I had in my head! One peculiarity IMO is that the J pickup is very close to the bridge. I don't consider it to be a usable tone by itself, less low end than 60s jazz spacing, but it definitely adds some good overtones to the P pickup. There remains some setup to do. I had the neck shimmed but I still feel string height could be lower. A bass like this should be pretty effortless to play IMO. So we might be looking at a proper fret level and more shimming at some point. I'm clearly well into the sunk cost due to fiddling fallacy here, but I'm convinced there's a great bass waiting to get out!

Lots of interesting tidbits in here... I'm looking forward to seeing your L-1000 and Z7 in particular.. oh and that awesome Greco!! Also looking forward to hearing a Lace Alumatone and some Entwistle neos in the wild! At the moment I'll be bringing - Paulman P - a nice copy of a 1960 Precision, formerly of our very own For Sale forum (edit: has a Monty's P pickup) G&L JB (the silver heavy flake one) Fender Player Jazz Might also bring my '94 Ibanez Soundgear, although it's currently half way through a pickup swap with a Wilde (Bill Lawrence) PJ set and needs some additional setup. Might be an opportunity for curious ears to hear those pickups in action.