therealting

Hold on, I have something you’re going to want to see

That’s true - I think I got my wires crossed there!

It’s hard to tell from those photos... but I can take a punt for that money.

It looks more like the but has become unseated, but I could be mistaken. I think the chip is at the heel.

Ah I didn’t realise he ended up returning his. I figured for £200, what the hell.

Saw this on eBay a few minutes ago and decided that for the price I had to give it a go. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F274363671473

I actually saw that yesterday! Going to look into it. Splitting isn’t straightforward as there is some voltage being carried somewhere. May be doable, I haven’t looked into it deeply.

I think it’s going to difficult to get one bass that does it all convincingly well enough to fool a dedicated player of each type of instrument. I guess the closest you could get would be theoretically have pickup coils selectable at each of the different 70s and 60s Jazz Bridge pickups, Musicman single and double pickup instruments, single and split coils P bass, J neck, EB neck etc... then you need the different pot values to associate it with the different types of pickup, and the different types of preamp for the different active sounds. Most of us just get several, or get a couple that do the key sounds well enough.

I had a beautiful one made by Bravewood, got stolen at the end of 2018 along with a Dingwall, a Godin and a Sadowsky. Really hope to get it back one day.

Yes, he does the P Retro. I have one somewhere.

You and me both!

I use an OC20 for playing octaves one the bass strings of my Godin guitars, but would also like to try using my GR33 for pads.

To send GK signal to two devices.

I love my Godins with synth pickups, my one annoyance is that the splitter is so expensive... £200 before import duty and taxes?!

It’s crossed my mind! Or do the Stu Hamm Urge thing and have a JPJ setup!

Another popular current option is to take a Variax with a Strat-compatible body, and put a neck you like on it. Again I don’t know what the body fit is like. Personally I think you’re better off having two basses, one a Variax.

You’d have to gut both basses and transplant it over. Warmoth actually used to make guitar bodies designed for this, and there were loads of guitarists doing this back in the day. It’s quite the operation to do otherwise. I’ve actually owned a Strat that had been modified as a Variax transplant.

It sounds very similar to the setup Sadowsky had with their Japanese partners.

I think the P pickup position is going to give you the P tone to some degree unless you go for something like a single coil pickup. If you’re willing to route the body, as it seems like you are, I’d toy with doing the Billy Sheehan / Callowhill LeFave mod with the humbucker right by the neck, to dial in some low end fundamental... or the Lee Sklar mod with the second P pickup by the bridge.

There’s also the Harley Benton Shorty at half the money (30”). https://m.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hbp90bk_shortscale_ebass.htm

Ooh! Super J pickup! Must be an NYC Standard?

Do you have ground connections to your bridge and also to make contact with the shielding?

So you are looking for something less lively, less loud? Less P like? More vintage P like?

Ah, and body / neck / tuner weight of course!

Revelation.