FugaziBomb

Do you want to get back to trashing Talkbass? Carrots, tort, flats, yada yada yada

That's a pretty cool story it has attached to it. Really nice!

Haha, that case really is lux

That's awesome. I bet that neck feels amazing after nearly 60 years of playing. Was it originally black with the tort?

They should just have a sticky thread at the top of the home page warning zero-tolerance on humor posting. That place takes itself way too seriously

Let's see some pics of that 66 Jazz Bass!

The older things get, the more remarkable it becomes when they've managed to stay unspoiled. I'd agree that 20 years ago, a 78 P Bass wouldn't be held in much regard, but that was 20 years ago. Now it's nearly 50 years old and still has all it's original parts. Regardless of if it's a gem or not, it still seems a little sad to start pulling parts off of it now after it's stayed intact for so long. Changing the pickguard is especially egregious to me. There are plenty of brand new P Basses that can be done to. Ultimately, it's the OP's bass and he can do whatever he wants, but it'll just be one less instrument that stayed together and that's kinda sad to me.

I'd say leave it alone. late 70s P Basses have a vibe. Give yourself time to appreciate it before making major changes. Also, tort is getting played out. Black guard sunburst Fenders look classy (or 'smart' as you'd say on your side of the pond).

I had to split my preamp and power amp racks because the full rack was too heavy and too big to gig with in my own car. Here's how they link together. I run all the power out of the power conditioner at the top. I cut my own power cables for cable management and got the yellow and black locking cables to run juice to the power amps

I had the same theory - that maybe by designing a pickup with it's resonant peak either down deep into low-mid territory or up into the high mids, it creates the sonic effect of a "scooped" EQ to our brains. I wish I would have delved into the science of electric guitar earlier in my life as I'm finding a lot of what I took as fact is really myth.

I read somewhere recently that no pickups have a mid scoop - and to the contrary, all pickups by the nature of their design have a resonant peak somewhere along the frequency spectrum. I thought that was kind of interesting because I've always attributed Seymour Duncan's Quarter Pounders as having a somewhat "scooped" sound over typical pickups (my comparison being solo'd Jazz Bass pickups).

This thing is killer

This reminds me of something that happened to me. Behold this Washburn Bantam XB-100 POS Edition: Years before the application of all of the stickers and various modding nonsense (which culminated in just ripping all the wiring out and soldering the pickups right to output jack), I decided to put a nicer set of pickups in it. I swapped the stock Asian Sweatshop Specials for a nice set of Seymour Duncan SPB-2 Hot P Bass pickups. You know what they sounded a lot like?: the original cheap pickups that came in the damn thing. It was an early lesson that different ≠ better.

The only rig I really have: